South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 87, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 28 March 1918 — Page 8

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Entered at tbe SoutJi I'enJ p-!toST!ce a M"nl c'a mill. All VERT I MINI; HATES: Ask the ndTertl!nr department Foreijrn Adyertlüiff l'epra-nt;itv n : CONK, hOi;KNZr.N A WimM... fifth At. .New Ynrk City, and Adv. ISM. Chlrajr.. The Newa-Time endeavors to lu-ep lta advertising rolumr; free from fraudulent ml.represent't.on Any peran defrauded through patronape of any advertisement In thla piper will eonfer a faror ca the management br reportlos the UcU cocijdetelj MARCH 28, 1918. A BIGGER ARMY. The clearest les.-on of th ; bi (J-rman drive to the American peop'.s is the imperative rued of our monstrous war preparations. .'cj matter whether the drive; la stopped, or not, no matter whether or not th.3 G.-rman.s may seem to exhaust themselves in this uipreme effort, it is not s.tfe to assume that we ca.i win without dolus all in our power. The narrow tscipo the. allies had from a great catastrophe lx a suilieient warning. Huge as German lus.rs have been, the Herman iant still has a marvelous amount of strength left in him, and will take an indefinite amount of heatins. MaJ. Gen. Wood, in a statement to the senate militar committee, is said to have recommended an army of 4.000,000 to .".orio.iuin men. He believes that v.c should have 2,"0O.0fio men in France at the earliest possible moment a 1 elief which the president mi doubt, fully shares with him. Insofar as .Maj. Gen. Wend spoke in a spirit of patriotic advice is one thing; but insofar as he poke. in a spirit of criticism, resarulfss of past history arvl present circumstances, is f.rite another thins. The manner in which war administration critics have appropriated his word.?, and sought to turn them to political advantage, is still quite another thing. We can all aref with Mai. Gen. Wood that we ned the things that he has recommended, without construing them in the senrf that "God said let there be light and there was light." and that therefore the war administration ought to be able to say the word of the army, etc., and that all that it Fays should come to pass out of a clear sky. Perhaps T. I'oo-evelt. in his infallible, all-knowing, and all-powerful godship. akin to that of the kaiser in suptT-egoism, might do stich a thing, hut it is too much to expect of mere humans. Any diM'erence of polity that may bvelnp amor"? administration adei or rimy experts is likely to c ncern the size of the. forces we should proceed to train when this first big army has been raised aril sMit. It hardly seems w ie to count on less tnan an additional L'.'tOiMK'O to provide the necessary reinfote ments for the main expeditionary force. If r never have to send them across, all the better. Hut we should get then? read v. MALE KNITTERS. A Jt r.-ey City man rises up and vindicate-.? the claim of man to equality with woman in one of woman's own chosen finds. It is not true, declares Mr. Archival 1 Craig, that men don't, knit because they can't. Men are by nature as well adapted to the mastery rf the elv:sie knitting needb) as women are. And in proof: '1 hee.in to knit two months ;igo. ami now I can kr.it fas'- i- than my wife can. and have knitted more socks in that time than sh? has." f'.ut tor all that, the skillful Mr. Craig doesn't claim an special credit. Me has got more done, he says, -.imply because be lu'd more time for it. "I work eight hours at ray regular jol. and then quit. My wife works as long as there is w ork to do, and then knits." Mrs. .'raig's handicap is luioiis to any one who lias ev:r observed the normal c our;. of dome-tie activity. It's the old story, "woman's work is never done." It's remarkalle. as Mr. Craig .suggests, that they get as many socks knitted as they do. As for men. they are particularly culpal-le because, liiunc this unsuspected talent for knitting, they f-il to utilize it. It's pur1 laziness on their part. And it's due to a false philosophy of domestic life. It is an age-long custom for ni'n to think they ar? priv'Ieged to be idle except when they are earning money, and it is the principal evidence of the subjection of women that they are expected to occupy their Insure with a useful occupation." This is a. matter which many men of a reflective nature have noticed, though few of them will be grateful to Mr. Craig for blurting it out like that. To r?sjme: 'Men who love t h ir country and wh - belie vo in sex -quality should be ashamed to be Mlo when thl lri-ire occupation is of the grrates,: possible practical use to the nation." That will he about all from Mr. Craig. There are X lerty of men who love th. ir country, all riuht. Hut truth to tell, there are few who in their hearts h-v Eeve In sex e.juality. With which candid observation wr dismis this painful subiect. The 1'rer.ch are now divided over the policy cf reprisals again Germany for air raids. The French hopH'd, ty bom;irg a few Ccrmari cities, to stop the German bombing of Trench tities. Hut it doesn't work. The German ; le protect to their -:o err mnt. Hat the Gtrman gi:ial staff doesn't seem to care how many German civilian ar" killed. o long as it car have the llunnih satisfaction f murtirrn.g French women and children. Kvtv bod 's writing another verse fur the "Puttie' iUiiii. of the 1U public." Ami .t dot 't i.e. d ar.y mure ,!.. Th sauu. r. r- . pr -p. rlv appi.- d. might tun 0 n a io-w sor.g w ,rt by l rank vs 1 1 ! i trial master1 at e. und as on.plvtely aia; icl to the presvit vv.r tt wt tu the Civil war.

WHY NOT APPLY SOME OF THIS "PITILESS PUBLICITY" TO LOCAL WAR ACTIVITIES.

P ITILKSS 1TIILICITY!" It sounds wry IktoU I'cn jom liai it from the Hon. Hi Johnson, CaJifornlau. roaring for It UUv one of Iiis former running nuiteS moiiiitaiti lion; nlioing in tin Iialls of ongn-ss. "(ilc the truth to the American people?!" Wond-rfnlly eonsiderate1 of tlw AiiM-riran people Is Hie Hon. Henry Cahot lAlz( .Masiclum'tls; that they may liavo MniH'tliinp: that lie -all. the truth as lie limits tlxm to .see It. And w od .got I in fetwe'n them. trinin up i'ie middle; nil hall the Hon. Harrj' s. New of Indiana. He wants jou to knw all alxnit where tlu I;ul and the wounded eame frmi, whether yo'i ever heard f them In'fore or not hut please forget all alHMit the poisnetl htLriLs of Iiis "embalmed IhtT," whom he sent to the liopi(afs, and to their crates, back in 1H and S. "Pitiless puhlieity!" It all l-ends upon the n-e lhat (im he made of it; upon whose o is iH-ing Koretl;" the adiantage to which It can le put. The "pililess puhluit y" for which Sens. John, son, Iidge. Xew and fdhcrs f iheir ilk are 1m llowIng, is only preieniely in the Interests f th? American people. It isn't the truth hut lies that they would have the ieopl(. J, oar or wor.-c still, the truth uimureifully uarjved Into lies; misinformation, misinterpretation, sneers, Miarls and inniicnilo loin;r their work. It is the publicity that the split-tongue of the copperhead" would spit in the American fate: neer mind the advantage to the enemy, if it only helps their own personal or partisanicd causes. C i:sousim! Terrible iMi't it that jour n le Samuel should have -ertain interests and certain knowledge that lie does not eare to hate sown tf the winds? That the government of the Tinted States should maintain a censorship bureau: a department of public information, mid should sec (it to hold hacic ertain information, which in its judgment would be injurious to its cause, seems "perfectly awful'.'" Very well, gentlemen: a?ul by gentlemen we mean some wry heal gentlemen gentlemen engaged somewhat in loeal war activities, hut who applaud the demand for "pitiless publicity" that hails from Washington, and who lav awake nights to applaud the Capt. Ktayton's who come to grumble and crab Into our immediate cars. If it is "pitiles publicity" you want, why not practice what you preach? Hereafter, Mr. Liberty Loan committee, let your every move he recorded through the immediate presence of the reporters; not a publicity, or "handout" agent of your own (hosing-. Same with the War Savings committee, the Itol Cnxs committee: the state and County Council j of Defense! We might go on indefinitely. If the presumption in the case of the government is as the "pitiless publicity" advocates at Washington blatantly insinuate, that everything underneath must lie rotten Ik -a use it isn't made public, why isn't it true In your ease? Wliat rigid have these war agencies to an "ollicial bulletin," or a publicity agent a censor Jo go around to tell the iiew-sinilKTs what to print, and what not to print, any more tlian the federal government has? Are J. I). Oliver, head of the County Council of Defense ami of the Thrift Stamp movement, or It. M. Hutchinson, press agent for the latter; or IIcv. C. A. Lippincott. head of the local lied Cross, or his "press agent;" or Arthur D. Daker, chairman of the county Liberty Ioan committee, or Ins "publicity bureau," and so we might go on, any more competent to tell the newspaiers what to print, and what n t to print, than are Wood row Wilson. Newton D. Itaker, Josephus Daniels, or, if jou please, their "publicity agent," George Creel? Is the job of these Ieal gentlemen any bigger, secrecy to certain phases of it of any more Importance, or publicity in others of any greater value, incident to this world war, than Is that of the president, the secretary of war, or secretary ef the navy? Suppose, in order to bring it home to Mr. Average Citizen, what "pitiless publicity" 'means; Mr. Average Citien who thinks the government is a "slacker" liecaiisc it doesn't advertise all it knows; suppose we publish a list of South Dend "slackers;" cligiblcs who dodge the Hoys' Working reserve, neglect to enlist, not only their "mite," but their "might," in the "War Chest" fund, or who buy no War Savings certificates or Lilerty bonds? If it is "pitiless publicity," that you want, gentlemen, why j.ist say so. AVc thought everybody was cooperating to "help win the war," but if it is to he exploited now. and the sense that the government has Ik'Cii using, and must of necessity use, is to Ik capitalized for political plunder with the construction placed upon it that it is to "shield" rather than to "preserve;" well, let us have "plliles publicitj" all the way down the line. UVr TINKLING BU ASS." s- "Charity logins at home," saitl: an edd proverb, and, also saith the Galilean, the anniversary of Ihn- crucilixio.i is upon us; "Itcholdcst thou the mote that is in thy neighbor's eye an 1 regardest not the Ik-ihii that is thine own eye!" VI iat is giMHl for the war administration oMicial or of an auxiliary -nature. in South Hend, 1.3 even letter for it in Washington. This is not by way of complaint. It is by way of comparison. Despite local censorship we could, by Inking gnxioiisly critical. gite a lot of things "pitiless publi(it" and li.inivr local war work in u , number of ways. We might even demand the resignation of cei -tain gentlemen from our local exemption boards with a blame sight better grace than comes the partisan demand for the resignation of Sec'y Haket. or formerly. Sec'y DauicN. If icople will but lead their nowspa'vers go .n little lKiond the "headline" habit. and vvill us? their brains a little, they'll le able to guess what is going on suthciciilty well for prac tical purposes. There is the crux. Practically cicr.vthing that sens. Hi, Henry and flarv are wailing attorn; hsutliciency of aircraft, the desirability of nioi? troois in rraiuv, etc. and the reasons for this insullicicncy, and our inability to get the troops there, have gone through the otliimn- of the news. paicrs time and again not on the front page in type a mile high. but the story has been told. The Washington insistence upon "pitiless public itv" is nothing more nor less than merciless partisan demagog ucr attuned to the sixth stn. iK. human svcliology. It is intended lor cople who would rather he suspicious than informed; who buk the capacity to differentiate iK'tivccn a fundamental necessity and their f unn -hne; whose brain-pans are mainly be low their cars. "Pitiless Publicity !". Huh! Don't encourage us. i When a Gtrir. m air Meet raided Paris. S:e'y Pakt and Gen. HI:--" wore eondu-Med r y their landlord to wir.e cellar, where they r.-n:a"r.ed uetll danger Wv past. Yes. ar has its phasau. features. .Sote.ebo :y has invented : synthetit- gasoline. It works, but it .osts two or three times as much as ril ! irasohne. Stme old tory. Von can generally bank thitj there's -.jrmthmg w r ng with substitutes. Pr ta Maj. Gen. March's amy shake-up. we take it the military program :s. "Forward, March!"

THE MELTING POT

"Come Take Pot Luck With Us MAHKI'D DOWN! IJy tlarncs J. Montague. The king of Greece has been forced to accept a cut in News Item.

It was only a few short years ago That royal dignity ruled at par. And for wearing a crown a king dragged down As much as a moving picture star. Whenever a royal line ran out. You could hear the troubled premier moan: "It leaves me Hat when they croak like that. Now who the blazes will till the throne?" Hut now, when a Nihilist beans a king With a well-aimed bomb or a hand grenade. And the band plays "Taps" as the .scattered scraps, N In the royal family vault are laid. A dozen duly licensed kings. With wistful faces and hearts a-throh Pounced, retired, or canned or fired Are standing in line to get the job. And the fellow that lands doesn't bicker for terms, Or ask for a contract withe gobs of pelf. He will give 'em a reign that is safe and sane For fifty a week, and hoard himself. No longer a seat on a golden throne Is looked upon as a proud position. The kingly state isn't grand or great It is ruined by too much competition.

om: way to Girr kid of i:m. Why not impose on the people who are telling when the war is going to end the superfluous prophet tax?

PLAY SAFK. Milk Prices May Drop. Headline. Hut if you have a dollar you are fond of, don't bet that they will.

VAN I SI I KD. Where is the old-fashioned paragrapher that used to make fun of Josephus Daniels? i

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