South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 251, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 8 September 1918 — Page 22

bi'.uAT. sia-iL'rnrn s. ms. o N'LT K UND AT NCT'PAPER IN NORTHERN INDIANA. P INGLE Copies, Sun dar. lr Cnt: frith rrtsrrl? 50(7.77 BEND NEWS-TIMES SUNDAY EDITORIAL PAGE MallM In South Bend a second clo-Rs matter. -' evening daily ditioni, uc weekly or J per T"ar 1 vancs, delivered by carrier. S t-y r-!V.I Vho-.r- 'n-.r 1151; Be'J, 21 PO O.Tiee: K W. c-lfax a C. R. SUM in: RS. IvrMnt J. M PTTPHCNSON. XlanMTr. JOHN HENRY ZUVLK, Edit.

INTER-STATE FAIR WILL REMAIN CLEAN AND UNCLE SAM WILL BE NEXT IF WE GET MOTOR SCHOOL THAI" tin- st. .Jojili ( ouuty !ilr ;i--ociation num. uKfiii'-nt sU in no m-iw brok any i n tiltie tliat th' it administration may I willing to ouiiC'ii.iik . lijrin- fiir week, x far a omivrm thele jui i-iIm i ion over sprim: brook park, hold that institution up to it- ol I and v de-er ed mutatioti. Tin- rail- will Ih- U pt l-.iii. That mtoiiI maintained fu.ui the -tart ha- :i lo 1 to tin- brilliancy of its cinTr; proving c win lit t many lx al ontcntion., tltat a fair i.iit la- nat!- a -n e without bv atta hiiKMiU-. i ivinrniU r w t II tin- old da- Iirn AIm 1'rank, tin ii M iit of tin- a--o iation. iii-i-,tel tlia.1 there should (- no -inoiiU ) .uui k" on 1 1 14 - fair ground 1 u rin;; i!k: u k. ami tin in-i-t an of the that a lair mul.l not ! a -im without it. Tht naiiai:emciit. however. -IimhI l I Ik pic-ideitt, as It ha IhrtMiuli u - iiiu .M ai . and ax it. K Mandini: thlr.jr iilli I'l''l I'.omIih r, and ihr proof ha N'fii Kt t ;;ikh. 1Iio-- who would liai xiolaletl tliat K'hmI reputation this 3 ar uro mm Ii the .-am' mm as. vr' tht critic-, of I'rt 'l 1 rank. 'I heir idea of a su-tcv-f ill fair, mm a thru. i- not a mi re-- I u I fair at all. hut a -in res-fiil wt-k in th- pl-iin of their iieTariou.-. trade. Min h tnJit i- due to t -Maor heller and liU jiolhi' department for ihir aid to tin- fair inaiiaiU'iiu-n t in formrr ear, ami now that Ihi rat ha Ixvii Id out of the h.i. wi an- i-oiilid-i(t that Mayor Caix)ii'. lit -paiLiiK tit will il tiiui h Utter than it otherwi-a iniitht hatt: doiu although if tin fair management l wi-, which wr an- a--uri.il that it I, tin polim will hy no means 14- i -lu-i cl dr'H-nih-d upon. Thi fair mau amiiK-nt n-Mtcm Iho IrIUt tli'iiunt in South Ikiid and tlu Von tli IU ml city aduiini-l ration low to the lorr t U ini-nt-. That I- thi main ditlt rt iKx. With th fair inatiaut-nx'tit alert, no one need fear ili-orderlhic.-. or eontaet with t-arou-als, hy attendance. 'Jlaee tra'k S'Unhlin. to4, w ill Ix tahoocil as in former jear. 'I Ih h h k I r if any, will hae to In made outside the ground, and that l the eity's more tluin the fair a-oiation"- Jiffalr, It is for the moral ealihre of the city to look into and correct. The fair managt'nient is not the c-ityM guardian. Major C'axoii was elected for tliat j)iiipo-'. The city ouht to tu a In tter uuanlian for tin fair than the fair is to the city, hut then, things arc frepientl v sometimes" rccrsd. . Hut leond the fair li the motor training xhooI. for whieh South Hetnl Iiis made its hid to the federal no eminent, as a war actMty. Here Is another thin:; that will eall for au ad a net hoiw eleanin in Soutli lU-nd If Its hoiHs in this rc-crt are to In realieil. With the consent of our adier, the city administration may well take nolle that Indi. sun is alreaIy on the joh, ln-HJ tin our puhli- morals, und has lnen on the joh for scleral days. He Is indisMx-il to hrln 301111 men here for motor training, and r.uhj-t thrni to the wileof whohsale prostitution. JxH.t-lelns:, or Kamhlini; -harks, any more than he has con-ented to such suh-ji-tioii of his troop at Ikittle Cre'k, IndlanaHlls. Terre Haute. Iuis ill and other war cam lis. Since the major and chief of Hliix' plead that the rflle force luis done its lxst. and it has done so poorly; since in their effort to dmle treslonsl)l(y, they would shoulder It uMn th ity court. If they are slnivre thj stiii hae a rmeIy. The hawdhoiw injiinetlon law invoked would sfon render the Inmate homele-s. and llkewi-e there ur injunction provl.-ion in the prohibition law, atailable to elTvt the homiessiicss of Mind-tigers, do aftT the property owni'rs who reap a profit by way of rent- from these iecs: that Is the next -olution. With a ropr dtermination. and lcs txic ration, shown them about the city hall, tlicre hx act'iM'ics omld lie iiMtel out and tliat itli crmpara.tic cax. "You can foul some 01 the poopU all of the time, and all of the ixoph some of the time, hut jou can't fool all the eple all tJie time." .Mr. Mayor, and you are comJn;; m!ht cloj to the end of our rojn If ou think othcrwic. I nele Sam was alrealy somewhat Interested, lon Ix-fore we spoke. Clean up. not alone for the fair, but for the :: eminent motor training school, and not alone for the lair and the training school, but for the people of South llctid tlicm!clcs.

STRAIGHTENING HUMPS. A medical writer tMI of a slctir .rioe man w ho i'.iiiif to tho training Mmp - i o.inI --houl!or 1 that he look .1 like a liuiu li-l'n'k. The .-it nu drill -master could nit make him straiyhten up and throw baek hif houllor. F 1 1 -; v-;i 1 eercie did no apparent jrood. He s-enud permai;-ntly hvnt mit of all soldierly i fin hi in re. And thm. In- fet t went ;ad. too. They did mt nd thtt oiir,- fellow ta(k to the r.:rm as- a hopelej-s (.,,. Tin army sreoiia tool; hold f him ar.d i:ot to iirk in earnest. They ma..saed and twi-ted ar.d r'ad't! and hauled him until that stiT tpine .rew supple acain. They drilled into him stdf-c-n :idf rn a-, and t t lie oePeration of his own will. iM'on he f i ? i . I th it he could, hy a exeat ffort. htraichten oi:t lu 1 -a els in ted. In another wirk he could straight n it when .-tandir.-:. He if now walking v.ith uT'Ti-rlit earri.ii.-. . t'"v the ;xt time finre t.irly i'ohofd. Tl.e t rf ";i.ie taken thit hump o:'f his ack and tt; i.I- :t I .le cot his chest." He walks w ith rn rasy stride. v trr tl;- -ur-n nr,? l:ae al.-o r noated tii a r h m It;- ! t . That in the --rt .t t !; mc: the army i domi: ri-'nl aleni:. Th c.i- n.e: !-npit,j al rlre;,io one, '..'it there are fr.s of ' r : md. of .mm of the 5: me Central n it ire I p. 1 .t S rn n-. :iir.ir ry ir. in he tikes hr!d of rra: -h:--i ur avd walk w-.rh an civ, manly .-ride.

THANKS fO GSl.HSS UNDAVS. Or.- -il will le c)i k 1 hy th ol-?rv.ir.cp cf nutoU i;n-liy. That :h- wekly i! '( r,t of ur.inwed th.rr.r.k'S uj"':i 'er'1' wie te cottar- i:i th- .!;nt: y. The .1' .!;':'. ha - : !.. day of I' -v;.i 1" t 1 1 ' t r 1 1 i th.i; h 1 s,. :eht . ittiü. I- fe! .4t t r .1 m or lake or Wood d :r.ts . I .nd , e.;U iilit.tnO I.. 1 d t:i' v . . k :, period of . U - i i ..o ar.ee a::d ve il . ; . :

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Towels, hathlr.k' caps and other articles thy forgot wer- 1 "ju isitior.ed of ht and lio.-,-. Food u alwas expf'td and they depart-. 1 ;it the ml of a p-r-ft-r-t 1! iv with prof-station- of t,'oo. will and prorni-fs to cor:.c acin. One woman who has r'r-utly moifj to a farm within .'') niüs of .'"uth I'a-nd earn home from ehure:i a ferv Sunday- at;o to tmd two hit,' touriar ar in her ':.;ird and 1 unhidden Y'u.-st.s"- eomfortablv di-posd all oeer her c randa. Th-y knew -he n.id movd to farm .rnd ."emd to i.ljeve that hi k ii dintur.- sTrew in hr kiv-hn pard-n. .-omho-a- did e?itiie to feed them, but the meml' v of own family left tho talde hungry. lüame much of their misery on the ietim.- ilieni-.-dvfs, for not declarini; their rights and hain the thouahtle--. autoi-ts to starvation on the front poreli. Fen .-o they have- l.cen rnueh sinned against and may be allowed to rejoice in the Kas!e-s .Jas to com'-. The may f-njoy in peace and oniet the remaining Sundaysof the Gulden autumn. And perhaps hy tlie time the war is over and Sunday touring becomes permi-sible on eo more this weilnitrii criminal iMtiny vill be abandoned with othr relies of a sdti.-h ae.

THI: CASE OF SPAIN. Spain seems drifting intc the war. Resolute pers -veiaiKe in her policy of sejzin (Jerman ships in ret iliation for the -inking of her ow n Is ran hardly hae any othc-r result. The transition from painstaking nei trality to open belligerency may take many months-, 1 at it has benn. The rest may be left to time, and the pressing of the all ed ot'ten-iw, wliose succe-s is tho ' hief factor In s n win-: Spanish courage up to the tiekm point. It would be a jrreat triumph for the allies it" the ihief remaining Hurop-an neutral, and the only one apalde of consideralde military e.ertion, should enter the li-ts against flerrnany. If Spain oes in, sh.i jroes with her eyes wide open. Her decision would be another powerful arra itrni..ent of Prussian crime and perfidy and a convincing erdict a.- to the logical outcome fif the war. It would be Kood for Xpain. too. It would mean the dthnite. awakening of that backward country and it" alignment with the deinoci atic, coiistructix e. forces of the world. Heretofore th kinLT and the common people of Spain hae -empathized with the allies, while the conservative ela-ses tlie nobility and the business and professional interests have mostly sided with Germany. Defiance of Germany means breaking loose from the bonds of political and social reaction that have so Ion: -titled the development of the Spanish nation. The bond- mu-t be already loo.-enintr. to permit so fateful a step as the government has already taken. Active belligerency would complete the work, admitting Spain to full partner-hip with the free nations that are remaking the world.

IN TL:KMS OF MAN-POWER. Tliat this is to be the crucial winter of the war is doubted by no one. The initial successes of our army Lthe ret promise of a conclusion early next spring. Hut this promi.-e cannot be fulfilled without the assistance of every mar, woman and child behind the lines. Thrift is the kev note. Not niggardliness, but the constructive thrift which pioduecs to the utmost, ami wastes nothing of value. Just how to draw the line in self-denial, in the buy -:n of new things, u the ditbcult problem. Women, the buer.s of the family, face this problem a dozen times a wed.. I'ernard Ilarueh answers the uuestion in the current Ladies' Home Journal vcrv simplv. "Vou must think of iwrythiny; in terms of man-power. It is not iner ly that we must avoid consuming the materials that soldier- Use. like leather and wool. We must avoid unnecessarily tisiii' an thin:,' which consumes man power to make, it." Nearly -m.(uj" men, ?as Mr. llaruch. are enirasjed in prouin,' hothouse flowers. If we will do without hothouse flowers for the period of the war. tho.-e men can Ki"ow food, or po into factories. This serves nurely as an example of the industries which are purveyors to luxury. Doin without flowers may not seem desirable. No." doint; without shoes to match one's gtwn. Hut it is :n:initrly more desirable that we should speedily win tho war than that we should feed our artistic emotion-. lb-fore huyin any article ask this rjuestion: "Will my owninc this h.:lp to win the war?' If vou an do without it. or if a lare proportion of mau pow r ots into its manufacture, the ansv.t r is no.

THE KAISER'S LOOKS. According to a Swiss account. Kaiser Wilhelm appears 'Vteatly a;red " His hair is described as now-snow-white, and his shoulder.-, as stooped. "The emperor's eye?, are feverish, his gestureabrupt, and his face, which is severely lim -d and tanned, gives the general iniprfs.-ion of a man -ulferinir a preat sorrow." Wry good! If that i true, it is precisely as it should 1 e. How els,- -houbl a man lookriud act, v.lien he h as bcen the principal figure in the mo-t stup'.ndou- crime iri all history, and when at last Hternal Justice 1 . 1 e.or.nrlr: lt overtake bita. his f !loV-t onspir ators and !) T! ition that has lent sf.-'-lf to tlv-ir etil purpc-se-'. Tii-' kii-'-r ( '.in desrrv. s a sort of credit for break1: c lü'tb r the strain, if he is really dr,ir so. It show.tl.a he hi- .-njiie -licht ves'io of cono-i'-is.v left, and :- 1mm m after all With thi- ihcht reservation, how p. er. ma-nty of j:mkind are content to leave him to his fate, taking a certain -rim satisfaction m seeinp; h.im dram the cup of sorrow to the drees. He can never, him-lf. in this life at b'a-t. s aMYr a millionth put of the misery he- ha.- ! i UKht upon oth'i. If !o- show--, no s.' n 01 ::'-1 imr. we m'mht think t l.t t e v, 1- i.o Hod in hi-av a:

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From Babylon to Berlin

GERMANY has perpetrated upon Bellum, Serbia, Poland, Bolsheviki Russia, and has undertaken toward England, France, Italy and America, and the rest of the allied world, a repetition of what Nebuchadnezzar, then Nabonnedus and his son Belshazzar, did o Syrians, Phonecians, Canaan, Judea, Moab, Ammon, Assyria and Egypt, in the days of Babylon. A Prussian victory in this world war would set aside a period of history from Babylon to Berlin, the kaiser, cruel enough as was Nebuchadnezzar, having in store to follow him a crown prince, as degenerate and ornate as was Belshazzar "the worst, " and itching for n chance to play a similar part. Berlin is a twentieth century reincarnation of Babylonian ambitions. It would be the capital of the world' It has the 4,kultur ' of Chald&ea faded. For conscienceless devotion to might, and cypherical conceptions of right, the Teuton becomes the Chaldean's fitting successor. Frederick the Great was the Nabopolassar of Prussian militarism. What is happening in Europe today found inception in the brain of a degenerate progeny. The house of Hohenzollern impersonates that of the gods Nebo and Bel. The advancements of science, and of intellectual keenness, with voidness of soul, have only served to enhance the cruelties of the ancients, and imbue their atrocities with new terrors partly because in olden days the worst was always expected for the vanquished, while twenty centuries of Christian civilization have given excuse for anticipations of decency and humanity. Witness the political construction of the German court; the already established methods of distribution, and oppression of subject peoples. What the German guards did to the women and children of Belgium, in Flanders, in Poland; wherever they have gone as tempoj rary victors might as well have been done by the Babylonians as invaders of Canaan, Moab, Phonecia, etc., in the fifth century B. C. The massacres, the rape, the arson perpetrated by the hosts of Nebuchadnezzar, were no more atrocious nor barbarous than those of Kaiser Wilhelm, "the loon," and Crown Prince Frederick, "the pifflicated."

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A NTICIPATE, for imagination's sake and the forthcoming war registration and Liberty loan drive, the Hun finding his wanted "place in the sun," and the Hohenzollern dynasty established over all the peoples of the allies. Remaining neutral peoples might as well surrender too. It would mean a junker from Potsdam, princes from Berlin, dukes and grand dukes from Vienna -the Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg, kings in all the capitals of the world, with royal governors in every subdivided state, and lesser lords, mayhap, in regal control of counties. The rape of Belgium, the ravishing of Flanders, the abduction of Poland, would be but mere letters of introduction to the despoils, tions that might follow in the wrenchings of revenue and lascivious "kultur" mid gardens of love, under the chimes of a conquered peace. Each lesser lord would have his suite, his chamberlains, his royal guards, his courtiers, his concubines, all save the concubines of teutonic blood, and these the fairest of the subject races taken, if need be, by royal force. It was established royal custom in Babylonia that the royalty should never violate the chastity of the Chaldaean womanhood, but woe unto the maids of Phonecia, Canaan, Moab, Judea and the rest Himself gratified in revenue and lust, behold the higher court, the royal governor of the state, similarly but more elaborately in equipage and paramours, must needs be cared for with surplus added to pass along to king, and then to emperor with extravagance always increasing. The emperor must needs make money from throughout the realm, for richness grows as richness doth ascend; this and mistresses not less than three from each and every race of enforced homage to his highest throne. Between him and the royal governor stands the king, another equipage, another suite, another chamberlain, more royal guards, courtiers, and ladies in waiting for his fond caresses, drawn from every state and province that he rules. Count weil the taxes and the white slave trade that this presumes, the former drawn even to the very dregs to gild these shrines of lewdness and luxury, the white slaves drafted always, not from the fallen and debased, but from the fair sex's young and purest gold. "Think you the king cares for the smiles, or frowns, the willing or enforced caress of strumpets?" asked Belshazzar of the Gur. It was the way of Babylon Chaldea o'erspread the ancient world, and the way of Berlin embraces civilization quite a? clumsily.

D ABYLON represents the antagonistic principle. Its hand was ever against the rest of the world. There could be no peace between the outer. world and Babylon even from Genesis which knew her as Shinar. When Ninevah fell victim of its lust, Babylon rose to become a second Ninevah, only more so. She had a "kultur." It was the "kultur" of grossness, brutality, licentiousness, glossed over with an architecture and an art, scarcely more grotesque and barbarous than the architecture, art and statuary that surrounds Wilhelm Strasse. if ! i . . ii lit i r f i i 'T-iii ii

vuiganiy, coarseness, appeal to tne baser senses, leaKed trom every pore. Ariel, son or Levi, wnen ne visited oaoyion ana became Belshazzar's slave attendant at his court, shrank from its very walls, the images of the streets, and ornaments of the palace. He had gone thither pure, but his animal passions were not dead. The nomadism of a later age, the traveling world, and designs upon an international respect pending her dominance has held Berlin aloft from much of that, but the undercurrent is visible, and the influence of libertinism and vampirage half unmasked. Feasts of Belshazzar have been held in Berlin, different in degree, but not in kind. Gerard tells of them. Dr. Davis, though not admitted to the tables, speaks of their reputation at the would-be world capital. German propaganda has made us, in times past, sick from the reports of vice and promiscuity in Paris, but latter day information, now that the public eye is opened, develops that the vices of Paris were as virtues in Berlin. Paris at least drank of the wine that sparkles, enlivens, and is at times a stimulant to the wits though it 'stingeth like a serpent and biteth like an adder," but Berlin went her ever worse. Sodden with beer, the drink of the glutton; reduced to loggyness, a lazy sensuality, brutal and of intellect benumbed nothing could have been better calculated to resurrect the barbarian, and make the force of might, rather than a sense of right, the national ideal. The feasts of Berlin have ever degenerated toward their end into comparative literal wallowing in a hog-trough; wallowing in brewed slop. We have in America today a school of anti-prohibitionists which would abolish whisky, rum, and other kindred drinks, and save the beer and wines, with a pretended willingness to compromize on light beer and wines. Beer is the most dangerous drink that has ever been vouchsafed to man. It is the stimulant that has served Germany, as no other drink could have served her, in dulling the independent intelligence of the people of her land, and an easier prey to Potsdam's autocratic power, as they guzzled on and on. The same German propaganda that ultra-defiled France, when put in the hands of German-American brewers, has served to make younj: America believe that beer is not an intoxicant a flagrant German lie and made of it the beginning of the downward road. Few men have started t'ieir drinking on whisky, rum or even wine, but in Germany, and German propaganda in America has fed bad beer even unto the babes, however, this is only a side-light on the future of the world, a way in which Germany might indulge to

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TERROR and stupefaction! Whatever of intellectualism is permitted must be poisoned with a thirst for power a super-egoism, that conceives of self as the super-man and all things else ar vile. That was the way of Babylonia; it is the way of Berlin and Berlin like Babylon, if permitted would be the capital of the world. Until the days of the recent retreats, Berlin for four years past, has been regarding herself so already. Doubts may now be seeping into her stultified brain, but the Hun is by no means subdued. Wilhelm's "myself and God" is significant of Nebonnedus' god Nebo, and Belshazzar's god Bel. The goddess Ishtar is significant of Hohenzollern lust. But Babylon fell and the house of Hohenzollern will fall with the armies of Cyrus, the Persian, and Darius, the Mede, already pounding at her gates. The Rhine will run with the blood of the Hun as did the Euphrates and the Maarsares with the blood of the Chaldaean. . The ambitions of this modern Babylon will not be permitted to be realized. It is history only attempting to repeat; not repeating itself. History has failed in such attempts as this more than once. In fact, it is history's failure to repeat, that shows the hand of progress. Berlin must fail or heathendom reestablishes its superiority and, Christianity becomes a delusion and a snare, for heathendom is the religion of barbarism, which can know no other. Indeed, no; America, England, France, Italy, and their allies, will never tolerate a further rise of this hybrid menster; part man, part beast, yet to come to that hypochondriacal monomania, that troubled Nebuchadnezzar in his latter days. The methods of treatment of civilians, men, women and children, caught behind the German lines with each advance, are but prophecies of what might lie ahead should the Hun once overrun the world. Death, slavery, enforced concubinage, everywhere has marked the German trail. Imagine, if you can, this city in which you live, under the thumb of such a barbarous peace, presided over here by a lesser court, but paying homage as well to Indianapolis, to Washington, and then Berlin, not alone in money but in flesh and blood. T . - l . - .... I -v .... -v ,,-vittr,-ur urti i 1. 1 t r-. -. J tirNcnur . r 1 1 Isi irnip ( -i irull f lklirrhfMf critritl 14.' :T In itisi. tli. mil.

imagine lit" SyilCIH tippucu i j vuuifis.ii, )uui uiu iu live auu jis9s:i, nun jviui ion- ji uuiiiiiLi " .- "-vuihi. iiii.itress of a brutish, royal clown. This is what the allied world is fighting against, more than for the freedom of the seas; more than for commercial advantages or ommercial rights; more than for international law, save as that law is written in the language of humanity. It is a fight for democracy as against autocracy, less with respect to forms of government, than the possible expression of that popular will which will never stand for clique or clan enslaving all without its own. Labylon must stay fallen as Ninevah didn't and as Tyre and Sidon did not. The "great city,' the "beauty of the Chaldes' excellency," was made a quarry from which all the tribes in the vicinity derived their bricks with which to build their cities. She was "weighed in the balances and found wanting" in service to humanity, throughout all future age.