South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 90, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 31 March 1918 — Page 26

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MORI: PREMATURE HICKEYISM AS BANKED ON THE DISTRICT DISLOYAL VOTE. THAT m'etir.ff of republican county chairmen which fjmniarily elected Mr. Andrew Jackson Hlckey tu congress, recently, by on; to rive thousand majority, tTVs as a reniindr. There seems to be a sort of fatal prematurity to all of Mr. Hickey's political activities. When hf wu hrtt placed in nomination for that otHc3 hero, four jers ago. he rushed forward and accepted the nomination without waiting for the conventiou to otc upon it. To years apo he had his picture and i write-up in the Woodman magazine, calling him " unrcssinan." without waiting for the election. And d-pite all the.e hurriedly cccepted nominations, and advance election, he hasn't gotten to congress yet. Is history planning to repeat its-rlf ? It Is pretty nearly the same old line of Ilickey "dope;' cock-surednes3 pawing the air. We wonder where these county chairmen i,ain their certain knowledge? Talking with republicans, wc suppose, with whom the "wish is father of th? thought" and. of course, when a republican wishes, in the estimate of his "divine rights' super's,'' ism, it forthwith becomes dovetailed into the divin plans. What ha? made Mr. Ilickey so all-fired strong; in tho 11th district, all of a eudden, we wonder, as to be able to roll up such a magnificent majority, right off tho bat without waiting for the count. The present outlook is. quit; conceded all over the district, that Con gressman Carnhart will be the democratic candidate to again oppose Mr. Hicke and what has he dond during the past two years, too so increase Mr. Hickey's popularity over him? Ts it because he has stood by the president in the conduct of the war; and, because it was a democratic president who recommended that war be declared? TIae the -epuMican county chairmen ' taken a poll of the disloyal vote in the 12th district, and adding it to their candidate's vote of two years ago, found it huflicient to pir him over by from one to live thousand? Doubtful, indeed. If they ran count that vote in addition to the Ilickey vote of 1916, for he had the disloyal vote then, sarn as he will ha i it this year, only. vp half believe, it will oe less than it was before war was declared. A lot cf pro-Germans of 1016 have se?n a new light since that time, and are now quite divorced from the German-American alliance which gave tho republicans such handsome support that year swearing th'lr allegiance to America, now net only first, but lat and always. Such as these are now convinced that 1'it s't Wilson was right, and that the republicans were worse than demagogues, and consequently they wiU trie to see that the president's hands are upheld hi the conduct of the war, rather than take any chances upon throwing in his way, politico-copperhead embarrassments. And anyhow, counting on that disloyal vote, is nothing t. Mr. Hickey's credit, sure as he is of getting it. The strunzer he counts on it, ?.nd hids for it. making the war administration the "goat," as he already is doir.-i, the less he will get of the loyal vote. So let the republican chairmen, and their -onressiona? candidate pp'CetM. Congressman I'arnhart doon't want that dls :al ote anjhow. Against Ilickey. we doult if lie" 1 1 m.vd it.

WHERE ATHLETES FAIL. Almost anybody would have said, off-hand, that the most desirable recruits for an army would be professional athletes. Warfare requires strength and endurance. The first thing that has to be done with tho ordinary recruit is to develop his neglected physique. The men already developed, and accustomed to great i.odily effort, is naturally .manned superior to th nou c lacking such development or training. fb't this, it appears, is a popular fallacy. A Gla--'ow physician, who has had extensive experience at tin front, is quoted as ray inj that professional football p!aers who correspond to our professional baseba.ll players, and in a Hay to our college football players are not wanted in the trenches, for the remarkable reason that they haen't mote than one-third as much ndurance as the ordinary recruit taken from the farm, factory or desk. The trouble is. h" explains, that the athletes have en o er-specializcd and too highly trained. Their musi les mis'.it stand the strain, but their nerves can't .-land it. The ordinary "dub." who would be passod i contemptuously in any athletic gathering, is a better all-round man for tho rough-and-tumble of tho : bluing game. That is not because of his natural endowment, f ojr.-e. but in'spite of it. His superiority comes from the all-round training that is given him. Starting with '.;ttle in the way of bodily strength and skill, the army discipline builds him up symmetrically, mind, muscles and nerves. The trained athlete, with his lop-sided development, cannot be remade. It's a powerful argument for the ornparutively mild physical training of every boy and youth, which has s often been urged by educators, instead of the ruoro;:. intensive training of athletic stars, to the neWt of the average individual.

FATED FAILURE. So anotlu-r cr at effort . f Trussianism to master the world hi.- failed. H cry such effort has. been doomed to failure from the beginning, and will be so rioo v.ed to the end. Tor the free part of mankind uid r.ecr permit tho domination of one universal tyranny. What was possible in the time of ancient Home is r.o lender possible. The vorld is too big. too intelligent, too much in K e with liberty. Napoleon failed. Germany, more ruthless than Naroleon und incomparably mere tyrannical than Itomc. If actuated by logic or common sense, could never have expected success. Entering upon the conflict as a great national adventure, a romance to the plain people and a freebooting expedition to the ruling class, Germany is little by little discovering the immutable truth. i"hc is lighting arainst fate. And fate, working through the (rt-e and t -nllgh .ened portion of mankind, will win. as fate alwaj.s dos. This last "victory" of German arms, which was intended to end the war anil riet the shackles on all the enemies Germany has rai-ed up agair.-t herself, has proved ir.dttd a l'yrrh.c victory- Another such icWry. an-i Germany will h.undone. The failure to ac unpli-h her objevt shou'd e the inot eifeotixe lesson yet taught the German r.atton.

IF GERMANY WON. 'It is incalculable." tays Lord Reading. British hish commissioner to the United States, "what the result would be if we were to fail. We cannot fail. If we did, humanity ouM stagger and be crushed; but I do not for one moment contemplate a possible failure." Neither does any American of sound intelligence and patriotic heart. Despite heavy blows and occasional disasters-, the big factors that are sure to prove decisive sooner or later f.re to our advantage. And not the leat of these !actor3 is the calm conviction that our cause is so righteous and our success so vital to the future of the whole human race that God Himself is inevitably and demonstrably on our t-ide. Nevertheless it is a good thing for every thinking man and woman to sit down quietly for a few minutes now and then, and think out, as clearly as possible, what the precise effect of German success would be, for us nationally and individually, and for the woild. Picture the overthrow of the many things that we hold true and good and beautiful. Picture the destruction of the finest ideals of civilization. Picture a worldwide reign of force, of brutality, of cruelty, of oppression. Picture an era of the most sordid and se'.üsh materialism. Picture a world under the domination of German militarism, cr a world divided into two armed camps, wholly under the sway of the same militarism that has brought about this catastrophe. Picture taxes and indemnities heavier than any wo hae ever imagined. Picture personal freedom and liberal ideas curtail?d. Picture the looming menace to the existence of our own nation, hitherto safe and inviolable in its isolated strength. Picture the overthrow of moral standards, the dawning thought that maybe, after all, might does make right, and honor and faith and kindness and the other generous virtue:, are illusions, unfitted for a practical world. Picture the utter shame and humilation of the best pail of mankind. Think all thit out as far as possible, and as clearly as possible. Just Imagine, for a little while, that it might all happen. And then turn again to the task cf winning the war. not in a panic fear, but in a calm determination to make sure that no such fate shall ever overwhelm the humun race.

'JTHINK! Yes, Think- It is a time to think. These ore among the most serious of days in all the world's history. Christianity is being crucified as was Christ. Christianity and. all that Christianity holds dear civilization, democracy, humanity, and the right even of a free soul's communion with its God, are either doomed, or not, according as thinking Christian men, civilized men, and the humanists, arc able to overcome the onslaughts of the anti-Christ spirit in the Hun. Let this Easter morn break tri the Spirit of a New Resurrection. ...... CHRIST has risen! And with His resurrection came new hopes, new aspirations, and proof of the efficacy and indomitability of His divine love. Christ thought For forty days and forty nights He thought and He prayed. He looked down upon a sin-sick world not soldiers of humanity, democracy, civilization, fighting for freedom, and the rights of man as you may, but a world soaked in idolatry, greed, lust, hypocracy, poverty, tyranny, and inhumanity. There He settled upon an ideal. It was His to prove. Then He emerged triumphant, even unto battle. Next He was taken up onto a high mountain and there tempted of Satan, but He fought on; for His beliefs, for. His principles. At Gethsemane He thought and prayed again and then up the hill to Golgotha, He bore His cross alone. They crucified Him, but He arose again. Think! Shall He, after near two thousand years, be returned to His tomb?

THE AUTOCRATIC RAG MAN. Householders are sometimes puzzled and often annoyed during the spring house-cleaning season by the utter indifference of rag peddlers who can't be stopped long enough to come in and get that pile of old papers and rubbers and other junk. The rag pickers these itays rarely walk from door to door seeking trade. They sn on their wagons or is it automobiles? and haughtily look neither to right nor left while the frantic housewife waves and whittles in vain. Perhaps the answer is to he found in some of the facts brought to light recently at the New York conention of the National Waste Material Dealers. Conservative estimates gave the value of "junk" collected in 1917 as $1.000.000,000. Imagine! A single firm is reported to have done a business of $43,000,000 during the year. Important? Yes. The retiring president of the association, Mr. Derkirstein, is going to Washington to help the government in its war reclamation work. What are the thing that folks th"&w away that are of such great value? Mr. Perkinstein tells us that leather from old shoes may be ground up to make fertilizer, or it may be burned and certain useful chemicals extracted from the ashes. Itags and bottles have obvious uses. Sawdust is a constituent of fiber silk. Fats their usc3 are numerous and growing more important constantly. If the humble householder once realizes the value of that rag and junk barrel in the basement she ir he will see to it that articles are not thrown awp.y carelessly in the lirst place, that they are not burned up in the back yard bonfire, and that they pet to the proper place for reclamation when nothing more can be done with them in the private household. We might as well learn quickly the lesson taught by the autocrats of the waste barrel.

SHIPS FROM JAPAN. It is gratifying to learn that at last Japan and the United States have come to an understanding with regard to the utilization of Japanese ships for the Atlantic trade. Negotiations sre virtually completed for the transfer of ISO, 000 tons of shipping to our government, in exchange for every ton of deadweight ship capacity. We can well afford to send the steel to Japan on those terms; and Japan can afford to let us have the ships, because of the new construction it will allow her. It is said that (ne ton of steel plates will make three tons of shipping. Thus the Japanese ship-yards, now largely idle for !ack of material, will soon be able to replace the vessels transferred. It amounts to pressing those ship-yards into our service. We are to pay full value for the ships obtained. The quantity of shipping isn't much, measured by our total need, or by the current losses. The U-boats sink about that much tonnace every two weeks. But added to the Dutch ships we recently took over, it makes a welcome addition. And soon we ourselves shall be turning out ships at a rate that will make such gains of less consequence. More important, perhaps, than the mere addition of this tonnago is the new spirit of accommodation shown by Japan. The consummation of the deal is a welcome evidence that the two nations are going :o work in closer harmony and cooperation from now oa.

THE CHRONIC MOVER. New that moving time is upon us, let chronic mover ponder the fate of the champion family of their tribe the Grahams of Cleveland. O. Mr. and Mrs. William Graham were married Jan. 1-1, 1912. As the reader will readily compute, they havo thus been married a little more than five years. And in that period they have moved 20 times. Let us refrain from letting our imaginations conjuic up those 30 packings and unpackings of household furniture, with all the multifarious work and worry incident lo any domestic heira. Curtice it to say that the limit was reached at last. There was one moing too much. It was the :;0th moving that broke the moer's back. And on the strength of that record. Mrs. Graham, who blames her worser half for her family" nomadic record, has sued for divor-re. The moral should mt be lost on other men and women with the niovinj habit.

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J if they are not there already; a million before winter, and perhaps two million before another Easter morn. The very soul of the nation, its best life blood; those youths, upon whom for brain, brawn and bullion, the republic had staked its hopes, are being poured into France to stay the "mailed fist" and crush the "iron heel" of civilization's most barbarous enemy. You watch them march away from home. You see them leave. In army camp and cantonment they train and board ships to cross the billowy brine. Perhaps you would like to be one of them. Maybe you would be but for excess years or the lack of them; possibly but for iinpediments in your health. You know their mission. You appreciate their sacrifice. You are conscious of the dangers that confront them on both land and sea. They go to brave the Hun; that 20th century invader of all that is sacred to man, to woman, and to child; to stand between you, your wife, your sister, your daughter, your mother, your child and all the hideousness that human form is capable of enveloping. You may not be' able to accompany them, but you can think. You can wish them God speed; send after them your blessing, and if you think aright, as a right-minded, red-blooded, brave, principled human being should think, it will be more than a blessing of hollow words. i 3t THIS week South Bend launches her "War Chest" campaign; next week her third Liberty Loan drive. The War Savings and Thrift stamp sales, like the proverbial poor, are ever with us. Most immediate of all, however, is the "War Chest" demands. They can be fulfilled without detracting from one's obligations to the others in the least The "War Chest" calls for sacrifice; the Liberty Loan and War Savings call for investments. That is difference enough. For though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, if you sacrifice not, you are as "sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." And though you have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and (hink you have all knowledge; and, though you have all faith that you can remove mountains, and sacrifice not, you are a "slacker," and unworthy the confidence or respect of a free, mutually protective people. Indeed, though you buy all the Liberty bonds that are placed on the market, and rake in every War Savings and Thrift stamp that is offered for sale, investing your money even in so good a cause, the assurance of its return, with interest, still distinguishes it from sacrifice, and you are a "slacker," still. Sacrifice suffereth long, and is kind; sacrifice envieth not, vaunbeth not itself, is not puffed up, seeketh not its own, is not easily provoked. Sacrifice as here delineated, employs the Biblical conceptions of charity, but this type of sacrifice is not charity. It is sacrificing to discharge an obligation which you already owe; an extraordinary sacrifice due to the privilege of being respected as a member of a cooperatively protective society; and, not to discharge that obligation is not alone to be "uncharitable," and a "slacker," but it is to be a deliberate "deadbeat." "And now," according to the latest war version, "abideth faith, hope and sacrifice; these three, but the greatest of these is sacrifice."

An optimistic mind, a healthy body, and vitalized soul, are just as essential to the soldier fighting, as are the gun and shell at his command. Without these all, he is a coward, a weakling, and a missing link. You owe it to them for your own sake, but forget it in behalf of theirs; that their mental, moral and physical fitness for battle is maintained and that after the battle's over, won or lost, they who survive, wounded or whole, rhall have that mental, moral and physical fitness restored. You are no better than the Hun or the Vandal, if you arj not worse, who in the security ol your homes, protected by distance and the sacrifice of boys like these, permit your greed to withhold this service.

CUCH is the work of the Red Cross, the War Y. M. C. A., the War Knights J of Columbus, and other allied war auxiliaries; angels of mercy, bearing messages of the New Resurrection. It is to finance these institutions, decidedly in the main, and once for all throughout the year, that the "War Chest" campaign has been instituted. It is your "War Chest" as much as anyones. It represents the cooperative spirit of the community filled in humanity's name. Are you for it or against it? Think! Think! Think! Let today be your Garden of Gethsemane. This way is the Mount of Olives; yonder Golgotha, toward which latter, sir, you tomorrow will be headed, bearing your cross alone, bound for your crucifixion or the crucifixion of all that you as a man, should and must, hold true and dear in all the world. It is your fate if the American boys in France, and their allied comrades fail you; fail you as Christ's disciples left Him to be "led as a lamb to the slaughter." And such will be their fate if you fail them; leaving you then to your own. Will you fail them; surrender them to the Hun as the Man of Sorrows was surrendered to the Golgothian mob? Think, man! Let your imagination marshal before your eyes tho. hundreds of thousands, yea, millions, of American boys fighting for you, and think! Think! Think!

MARTYR of Golgotha! He sacrificed all; all save eternity Hb for a principle. The half million, two million, five million American boys, gone or going to Europe; they, too, are offering themselves some of them already claimed, a sacrifice to much the same principles. Christianity, democracy, humanity! Without this Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man civilization cannot long endure. The Hun ?jid the Vandal of today is but a 20th century successor to the Hun and the V.rndal of centuries ago; that much the more dangerous from their devilish enlightenment Permitted to dominate, and civilization must roll back, like a wave of the sea, until dashed upon the rocks of yonder shore, it falls to pieces, absorbed in the mass of ugly deep. Those soldier boys of ours, of yours, of all the land, are gone; and going thence to stem the tide for us, for you, for all. Aside from the sinews of war; guns, and powder, and warmth, and modes of travel, all indispensable things for Liberty bonds and Thrift stamps to provide health, recreation and inspiration, and these repeated after the battling day, are quite as necessary.

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