South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 56, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 25 February 1918 — Page 4
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THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES SOUTH BEND KEVS-TIMESli; the nlll'd cause, unquestionably-, brt the nction hat! 1 ipan is apahle r,f such a service is absurd on the face Morning Evening Sunday. ot il- wiw he aiiic should ask Japan to stop in! THE MEL TING POT "Come Take Pot Luck VVih Us" NEWS-TIMES PRINTING CO.. Publishers. and reconstruct Rus.sia. Ard suppose- Japan were u 1 quixotic as to try it. What would Russia have to say G II. SL'Mlinns, I'rpsMf at J. iL STl-I'IITINSON. Maca?r I about it? 1 JOHN IIENKY ZCVEIt. IMltot.
Only AMnclatM Pr,,. Mornl-. I'ap.r a Northern Indi.ni : ,n"uenc" w,th ' -"naga. c hi-f proam Only r;r i.mploj lBC t;ir I nUrnatb't al Nw r-erlc n j moter of Japanese publicity in America, has often
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most radical democrats in the world are not likely to invite lfysoni in sovernmnt from the least democratic of all the allied countries. About the only rol" we i.eed epft Jaun to play in reorganizing Russia is to take what she wants i eastern Liberia and reorganize it for her own u", as ishe has done already with Korea.
THE "DRV" DRIVE. The bis "dry" offensive which started the tir.-t of
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rrau.lj throuKli patrouige of any ü-crtlMinit " tblt the yar goes ; mashing on. Thus far there has be-:i pJp'T v.iil toi.ft-r u laur ti.fc luauagiai.jat b reiMrtiliS l.in :ivpr:icc r..nmit-vt nf n'oonf onr stülp n mrk foi
wie u-derai pronioiuon amendment. Mississippi led the procession over the top on Jan. 8. Then followed in due order Virginia on Jan. II. Kentucky on Jan. 14. Soiith Carolina on Jan. 2.:. North Dakota on Jan. Maryland on Feb. K, and Montana on Feb 17. making seven states in all. They have been mostly "small states." Rut this happens to be a -natter in which population doesn't figure. A little stite counts as much as a big one. When of the 4 state legislatures have declared ir. favor of the amendment, the issue will be settled. And if we may judge from the pace set thus far.
jit's likely to be settled in a n incredibly short time.
Rarring an early peace which would tend to weaken some of the strömtest arguments for prohibition wo may see the Fnited States high and dry a year from now.
HE DID A VERY GOOD JOB. That Gcrniiiii agent. r alleged flciman agent. wh nd-d his career at th" end of a rop at the city jail Sunday, deserve, so far as we an see. but one criticism, viz: That of having desecrated the Habbath. Wc ihze that it is "shabby ;..-nleel" not t eulogize a dead man, and so with this ne reservation, we would pronounce his work well done. He had the sense to save him.self a let ot troubb ; that is, uuming thi't the evidence a;aint him v as sutticient. to make an iTnpre.-iiori upon our American ot!i lals, freiuently lather bard to impress v.ith eases of this character. Anyhow, he wt of tin wav. He will int have to be shot at sunri-e. nor will he need to take chances on 1 months in prh-on. As the story goes his sp ei.I r; r i e was to .tir ui antagonism toward Am'rica among the Hungarians and Auttrians. They liave appeared willing to let hin stir" and when he had stirred enough turned him i.ver to t lie police. F.vidontly he considered himself pretiy well caimht. He didn't care to face the nnisie. Whether h" was a real paid agent of the German or A u-t ria-1 1 Miliaria n governments, or was just a gratuitous pel former, seem still t be shrouded in mystery, l.ut perhaps that do-sri't nutter. He was engaged in nnti-Ameri.an propaganda. America would be very pleased to have it few more of his calibre end their iit;era ions in the same way.
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1 1 1 to be unie his prey. There ought to be more of surrendering : ; i 1 1 people to the poliee; not a consummation to be jumped at, until some real evidence i. secured, but with sin h evid.nce at hand, then mo.-t certainly. That h.s l.-n among th troubles locally with reference to entiappin; such people. We get in to. (m a hurry at times. There is such a tiling as gomir off "half-rocked" and a lot of possible good .rs have had to be dropped on that account. but rot thi one. The drop in thr; ease had a noose with i. i ; i e him Christian l-urfal. and Jod have mercy on ji.s so'al.
Now that Ir. (Jarri?ld has abolished the "heatles Monday." we hope the coal man will have a heart and do likewise.
The most widely discussed subject in the world today isn't war. It's food.
Other Editors Than Ours
CONVERTING AN OIUHCTOK. A hu.-k young man walked into the tdfice of one of the draft appe als boards an I announced that he didn'l hflicve in lighting it "hurt his conscience." The head if the hoard sized him lip and replied: "Vn;i don't want to hghl, eh'.' Wfll. don't tell me it's yntir ropseience. It's your nerve. You're- cowardly, that's all. Von know what the Huns have done to the women of Relgrim and France. You know what they'd do to o ;r mother and ;aste r if they got the epport unity. And still yu don't want to tight. I'm ashamed of o.i." l:v tlii- time the' husky o'ajector was re-d in the face, t. ducting from ore foot to th.' other, working his hand.' und trying to get a word in. The otticer went on: "There are' religious setts in the 1 "nited States who have waived avide their (reeds to pei mit their oung men to hgnt for freedom and decency and the -afe'v of their country and people, hectus" the y re alize that here's a cause so big and :u le and righteous that it sweeps away all p"tty. academic scruples. And et iiiii come m h- ic and s,iv it will hurt
i e af i on.- i n e to earr a ii:n and In-lp put j an end to the -a hole rotten busimv-s. Vou' j got lic.-vc to do that---hut not the rieht sort j of im", e " ; Fy tins time th ohj.-tor was ftothing ul th.e mouth., j jie !M.;de a lunge at the ottnial. v t 11 "lon"t you .1 i. u:e a eowird' Yffo;, gone loo f.u . I'll make j , i ;
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Tiin .ii:i:ic.x plan mi st win. (Chicago i;cnin I'ot.) l.loyd ;eerge yesterday staked the success of his own career, the life of his government, the security of the British empire upon an American plan. Not even the surrender of Russia is more important than this fae t to the American people. It was America that forced the issue at Versailles. It was America that oonvinceel France and Italy and Oreat Rritain of the necessity for complete unitication of strategy. "The Americans presented an unanswerable case. ' declared Flovd (Jeorge. "It was one of the ablest military documtiats ever submitted." We have said before in these columns that America's greatest contribution thus far to the allied cause is her leaelershi,) for the subordination of particularism and for the eooroination of ams and resources. That leadership was tirst exercised in the realm of idea?. It was made clear to our associates in the struggle that emphasis must not be placed upon national aims, but upon the one supreme world aim. and that every energy must be concentrated upon its achievement. From the realm of ideas we passed to that of material means. AVe urged with success the combination of resources in shipping, in food supplies, in munitions, in all else vital to successful warfare. The boards of joint administration in these matters wfe the answer of the Pari conference to our persuasion. And now comes the third achievement the natural sequence to what has preceded. Through the "irresistible power and logic" of our argument we have achieved the unitication tl allied strategy under a supreme war cou ncih In a brief sentence, America has constructively revolutionized the whole manner of conducting the war. And Americans will be tempted to boast of tlvs important work. It iej gratifying to national vanity to hear worels of praise such as were spoken by the British premier, fhe tribute to the knowledge and sagacity of our military representatives is most pleasing. Rut let us. v.-ho are but putting on our armor, refrain from boasting until the lay comes for putting it off. What we have achieved is not comparable with the responsibility w have assumed. In effect. l.loyd Georgo declares that th.e Versailles plan is the American plan. The American plan must win. And that means that we Americans cannot pause now to plume ourselves upon our wisdom. The immediate job is t". get behind 'the plan with every ounce of strength we possess. America mut make good in actual fighting what she has devised so well upon paper. Great Britain, France. Italy accept our program: they will -vage war our way. They will "go on or go under" with us. And America must go on!
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' necessary ami unite harmless, isn't a pleasant experii once. But operations, sometimes, are necessary to thi ,health of the patirnt and. in view of the competent j testimony, no" longer is the."' a doubt as to the advN- , ability and necessity for amputating the lijuer busi11 r.ess from society.
I The last legislature, very wisely, we believe, started ja ( nurse of treatment by which the liquor evil wouhl Iratt ottvial -,0 ,infn from our s, ial system, if there is no interj ruptiem te th.e cour- of treatment prescribed by the
legislature all the anxiety v. ill be over presently and the patient will be cenv alescing by summer. If. howeer. the treatnvnt is interrupted by th-3 supreme court the state will be forced to call in other
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the opportunity to place its approval on the national prohibitum measure. These two possibilities should awaken the people of Indiana to a very determined effort in behalf of such representation ir the next legislature as will place Indiana on the right sid of this liquor question.
The question has he-en a sore spot in our politics I
ijni:s to a si:i:i cataixm.i'f.. By James J. Montague. While still the ground is white with snow. While yet the blizzard howls ana rages, I like to think of how I'll grow The things elepicted on yrur pages. f bulbs and shoots and roots and seed I like to read, for ho'Jrs together. And plan to plant them if. indeed. We ever have a change of weather. The lithographs I love to see Of pease as bi as small potatoes, I love to think how proud I'll be When I raise seven-pound tomatoes. 1 feat upon the prints that show Titanic beets and thumping squashes, And carrots that appear to grow Fntil they're -larger than galoshes. Of course, I know it's not for me To raise these kitchen garden giants. Industrious as I may be Or skilled in all the srcdsrnan'ü science. In fact I know no mortal man Can make things grow in such profusion. But still I read and scheme and plan, For what is life without illusion?
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In-tant Hv.ion-e. i Svil the Day! Mr. Hoover never has to order i Perhaps when Brazil really gets the restaurants tivvce to cut dow i ' in the war there will be a shortage
their portions of anything.
of nut margarine in this country.
Not in the Market. No Place to (io. There r re still a few things that Farmers in Montana are doing the Duponts haven't bought, but their plowing at night. The must they are being held by the Mor- ' have or dered lightless evenings in guns and the Rockefellers. j the grocery stores out there.
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Monday, February 2ö, UMS. Jupiter in evil place 1ms tnueh power teda, according to the realing of astrologers, und the sun U strongly adverse. Jt is a day fairly lucky fur selling, but it threatens commercial conditions. Initiative should be avoided my berchants and manufacturers. The planet.? Indicate that large profits from war contracts are to be eliminated suddenly through .some great discovery that arouses public indignation. This discovery will reaedi close to persons in official life, the seers declare. In this connection there seems to be a sinister sign indicating that Canada will take umbrage at the Fnited states. Great Rritain is subject to the mi'st extraordinary planetary sway from this time on. it is declared by astrologers, and it may affect our nation for the government is to be shaken by internal reforms that reach parliament and the cabinet. This is not a lucky day to seek positions or to solicit inlluence. Washington. I). C, is subject t' a rule? of stars that still encourages shipping disputes and a legal scandal is Indicated. Colleges and universities come under a direction of the stars making for success, especially for foreign students and there is a sign read as significant where orientals are concerned. Trouble over new exactions in regard to living conditions arc presaged. Xew York. Washington and Boston v ill he centers of attempted reforms. The death eq a distinguished woman is prognosticated and it will be the first of several that will arrest public attention. An army officer from whom much was expected will be disqiialitied for service by an accident, it is foretold. Persons whoso birthdate it is may be anxious over their health and business affairs. The young will court and marry. Children born or. this day may be inclined to be haughty, exacting and extravagant. Girls ate likely to or beautiful.
The Mystery of Living Matter Bv Garrett I. Kcri-c.
"One evening a number of people started talking about rocks and mineral matters, 'and three-fourths of them said that all rocks and minerals have roots and grow, and that ill the coal, iron, copper and other harei substances have roots ami grow, and 1 said that they are all nature's gifts and they do not grow because anything on this earth that has no life cannot grow and then the argument started. I finally suggested to write to you. hoping you will reply. A. M. W.. Rockaway."
You carry me bne-k through the years to a country fireside where a little boy was listening open-mouthed to a grave discussion of the same epiestion by men w ho seemed to him as old anl wise as Solomon. One of them began bv saving that a big, gray, lichen-covered rock, with which the boy was weil acquainted. King on the bank of a shady creek, which was well acquainted with the boy, had grown since his grandfather's time, ami another of the men said Unit he had heard of such things. The boy was so much impressed that even the assurance of his father that a rock couldn't grow failed to satisfy hi? curiosity, and the next morning he visited the rock with feelings such as he had never before experiem-ed. Vague wonder lilleel his mind ami a shiver ran through him as he- laid his hand upon its mossy head and imagined that the rock felt alive! He would have been still more thrilled if someone had then told him. what he long afterward learned, that the old rock was a vagrant, an immigrant glacial boulder, that had traveled from the Adirondack hills bounding the faroff northern horizon. The suspicion that a hidden life
i lurks in things that seem outwardly i To be lifeless has always haunte d the
human mind, and even the advance of science has not made the distinction between the living and the non-living everywhere as sharp and
I (dear s could be w ished. Riologists I had a long chase before they found I the definition for the term "a liv-
. i inu' organism" that seemed una?sWI'irrilKAItTS AM) I.. Klüts, '-g, able . Growth atone is not a Voug woman, are you entuuruc- 5"'re t:it- neither i the power ing that young man friemd of yours' to move eir even the power of reit save and amount to something in 1 produ tion. character and patriotism, or are you ( The protoplasmic, cell is the recletting him foolishly spend hisjognized basis of living matter, and money in "show ing y ou a goeeF the complex substance called protime"". teid. found only in organic bodies. You ought to i'' in better business ' yf as far as we kvow. the peculiar than wheeeiing bonbons and theater possessietn of living things. Yet. tickets out ef Harry and Tom. whom ! i onsider the following authoritative you know to be scarcely self-so p- j statement : "Promorphology lias
shown that the reigning dogma of the fundamental difference of or-
shame it is that lha boys have' to c n nd minera 1 forms i fa Is", a ml
go to war." or are . ou knitting and that a crystallography of organic working for the cross-? j forms is possible the form of the There is so much in the pow er ot j crj or ,ir cell-aggregate elrffering the girls to make their friends of ! from lho , rvstal merely by its more
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the opposite sex mto desirable citizen.-. Who gives a hurrah, nowadays, for the man or boy who is not plan-
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government an. i to m ip w m uii- ta, ,oss.CS!s wnat we call life, but vur I it does show that there is. as. I.
or less viscous state of aggregation, its inherited peculiarities. an el its greater adaptability to tiie environ-
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THli convenience of our Paris ortice tor the above purpose is otYered by us to all interested in our soldiers in Prance. This oü'icc vvas nut ordiinally otaWishca t,-r
purpose. It is an organization mamuinea r; !':v cooperation of a number of the be-t siitcn in me:ica for the purpose of beinq: advised" -t ;he Uie.-i Paris fashions, in everything concerning irv o.: and women's wear. This orTice a!o purchased for :Iie-e meichah'--anv kind of merchandise for shipment u i:ie State--adding a small amount to cover cost uf purch.w. Recently the Shopping Service for SoId;ers v.. added and placed on exactly the same basi.-. It ithis service that wc are turning over to n:r customers entirely without profit to us solely as a convenience for American fathers, mothers, uncles, aun:-. sisters, brothers and friends of our soldiers.
, Nothing Helps Quite So Much in the Trenches Over There As a remembrance from someone some tobacco, some crriAy, some tinned meats, something to wear, or something to use. Our oltice in Paris will buv anvthint; that you mav wish to send. Come and see us and we will show you what can be ordered and about what it will cot. Inquire for Miss Hanley. Military Section Center Aisle 1st Floor
growth was ve -y rapid; now it is;
excessively slow.
Crystals not enly prow but repair wounds and replace missing parts as an animal or vegetable does. An animal or a plant grows until it attains an average- maximum size, peculiar to its species, and determined by a balance between gain and loss. This recalls t lie manner in which a glacier grows. The ice advances down the mountain side until it realties a level where the annual loss through melting equals the annual gain through the accession of snow on the imountain above. Every rock was once subject to a process of growth. It began, in many cases, on some ancient sea shore, or lake bottom, where sands and mud were heaped together: then through the course of ages t was subjected to physical and chemical feirces which solidilied it. After that upheavals and convulsions broke the original mass into fragments, and the rock that you see in the riehl. or en the hillside, is like an old person slowly wearing away. Roth grew once but neiw they grow no more. But if you visit the seashore you can. any day. see rocks, not now recognizable as such te you. in process of growth, wherever a sandy beach is forming, for. as sure as the world stands long enough, that beach will sometime become a rook. Since the incident that I have mentioned at the beginning I have found legends of growing rocks in many places. People sometimes assert that the rocks have been measured, and found to have increased in size during the life-time eif a living por.-on. The illuminating expression is sometimes used: "It has come up out of the ground since my father was a boy." The obvious explanation is either ignored, or net thought of. viz.. that the wearing down of the ground around the rock has necessarily brought more of it into view. This accounts for the
j hypothesis of "roots" that was set
forth in the discussion. But many people seem to resent a plain explanation of these things, for the human appetite for marvels is insatiable. However, as I have tried to show, there is enough mystery about life to puzzle the wis-st heads without invoking "rocks with roots."
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oased on the faet that wonderful appearances, which might have hen ' stars, were said to have been seen in the same part of the sky in theirtth and 10th centuries. Assuming that till.- obj'.ct made its appearanee once in every three centuries and a fraction. backward calculation showed that it ought to have been visible at the tim- of the birth of Chi ist.
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between the ages of .",0 to TA years have Hheumatism in some form or stage. The use of Truslerhs Rheumatic Tablets wiil relieve you of tint dread disease. Being purely e-jr-table they will not harm the most delicate. They are chocolate coated and easy to take you don't have to bother with bitter medicine or greasy, tmcssy salves. While other Rheumatic remedies ce!l for mu h more money, Trusie-r's is only :,Cr a box a full flays tr atmen:. Rvery box soli umler a guarantee. Ask your Iruggist. and if he will ne.t supply you. wnte.the TRFSRFi: RIAIF.BV COMPANY Huntington. Indiana.
Rvery man and hoy should put his education, his talents, his professional skill, his technical training at the serv i. e of Fn.cle- .-am as far as in his power, or he is a scl-
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for years. It is impossible te conclude that our political leaders wiil regret to see the question solved and removed for all time fron nur political campaigns. It is unwise n asume that the fight for prohibition
! has been won. There is at least one more campaign ! in which t Iiis troublesome question must be met. R S is a time when those w ho would see our social an! i political life emancipated from the Rule of Booze shouM be unusually active and determined that nothing Shall interfere with the success of this operation which ! is goinc to result in all of n. feeling better. I.et us I have the courage and the good sense to ilo nrntnntlv
Hi Le.aitif.1 dream. That "u!d be a great erU lhat vhich wr aJ1 feel sure must be i'one eventually.
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Too many voung men are encouraged in their attitude of indifference to Fnc'.e Sam's call by the good times they have with the girls. .hame g.ils. Rout them out of their indedence in the world's cause.
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.Mitchell, the Fnglish biologist says, no essential difference in structure I .'tween liv ing organisms anil inorganic bodies. "The real elistintion between living matter and inorganic matter is chemical." What science has not yet done is to make a thorough and decisive exploration of the chemical nature of the proteid. When chemists can make proteid they ean. perhaps, make living organisms. As far rr mere growth is concerned everything in nature mUht be called alive. The earth has grown, and is still growing. Its food consists of meteors. gass. elust. aiul
. iperi:aps uunu.i.'- ,1.11 in ir? i rmun
(or of f dectrh ity gathered in from space. There was a time when its
.-still. notwithstanding these results of an analysis of the legend, it has a poetic beauty which ir radiate s even the useless attempts to give it a scientific explanation and so in
terest will never be lacking for any
plausible showing eif a possible connection between the Magi's wonderful star and some uncommon apparition among the celestial bodies. There one incurrence of this kind w hich, by eing ingeniously associate. 1 with the star of Bethlehem, has attained a legendary fame scarcely second to that of trie Nj-
(Testament story. 1 refer to the n-.ar-
velous temjtfrarv' star that suddenly blazed out in the constellation Cassiopeia in the year l.'T. in the time of the celebrated Idani.sh astronomer Tyc ho Brahe. This was probably the nmst brilliant new object that eer appeared in the heavens. It far outshone the brightest stars and planets, and amazed all beholders. But in about 1") months it had disa ppe.ired. and no trace of it has ever sine been found. Tyeho cirefully recorded its space among the other stars, however, so that, if it should reappear. It would probably be recognized from its position. It was long aso suggested that the great "blaze star" f 1 7 might have been a reappearance of the jtar seen by the Magi, the idea being
On this sb-ndcr thread was hung the thoeiry of the identity eif Tycho's star with the star that guided the seekeis for the cradle of Christ. It iü interesting to recall that, in Coil a new star, only second in brilliance; to Tycho's. appeared in the constellation Perseus, nearly adjoining Cassiopeia, and this rather than Tyep.o's may hue been the object seen in the lth and 10th centuries, for it lias never entirely disappeared since its great outbreak in 1'eOR although it can now be seen only with t'!1 copes. B it a moment's consideration of the iu.'-ls must convince any one tha; even if one of the-e extraordina?y stars hd appeared in the time of the Magi's visit to Palestine, ; it would not hive fulblled for them the function of a guide to the manger cradle in Bethlehem. As seen from the latitude of the desert across which the Magi proceeded in their quest, either Tycho's t.ir, or the Perseus star. would have appeared in the northwest in the evenings of the spring e,f the year, and : if they came from Arabia it would, in a sense, have guided them in th" right direction. But w h " n they had ; reached Rethbhem the star would still have appeared away off in the northwestern fky. and could, by no possibility, when Herod ter.t them again in their quest, have gone "i efore theni until it came ar.d stood over where the young Child was." P is tetter to save the l-gend by reeognin g :t pontic "-haracter thin to bring it down in ruins by trying to give it a scientic foundation. i
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