South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 366, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 1 January 1919 — Page 6

Wednesday Morning, January 1, 1919.

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JANUARY 1, 1919.

THE NEW YEAR.

The amalgamated hats of the entire world are of to the Old Year. He did more things to this old earth, and did them faster, than any of his late lamented predecessors. He has also given us a champagne thirst for excitement and then taken our war away and left us with a beer pocketbook. Never did the world stand on tip-toe to meet a coming year as it did at last mid-night. The world sethes with possiblities. There may be a nice family peace in store, with major league to back it up, or there may be the biggest war yet. There is possible an international adjustment which will advance the brotherhood of man by generations, and there are equal possibilities for the most colossal display of greed the world has ever seen. At the beginning of last year who could have dreamed that this year would find America expecting her boys home? Yet here they are, coming by the thou sand, and the Old Year, blessed because it saw the end of the war, will have to share honors with the New with its promise of happy hearts united. The past four years have been devoted to breaking history. This year is to see the making of it. There is need for restraint, for patience, for the staying of unconstructive criticism. The world must he ahout its Father's business of healing, teaching, building up, and has no time for the violent or the merely faultfinding. Rich witn possibilities for the individual as for the nation, the New Year beckons us and we must follow. Our curiosity may be all awake, hut while we watch developments, we must do our share in bringing them to completion.

COURAGEOUS STATESMANSHIP AND ROYAL DEMOCRACY. It requires the courage of a courageous statesman, to do some of the things, and to say some of the things, that Pres't Wilson has done and said, in England; much moreso in England, than anything that be has said or done in France. By his acts and word, he has added much to the democratizing of British royalty, and no loubt sent conviction to more than one British heart, that at least he of America, despite the propaedeutics of his home critics, stands in deeds for all that his country, during the progress of the war, has put into words. A little while ago people looking hopefully and yet fearfully to the Versailles conference were asking whether the statesmen assembling there would have the courage to make a genuinely honest settlement of the war and such provision for future peace as would accord with the moral sense of mankind Pres't Wilson, in his speech at the formal dinner given him by King George, put the matter in a new light: 'We have used great words, all of us, we have used the words 'right' and 'justice' and "democracy. And now we are to prove whether or not we understood those words, and how far they are to be applied to the particular settlements which must conclude the war. And we must not only understand them, but we mut have the courage to act uptn their understanding. "Yet after I have uttered the word courage,' it comes to my mind that it would take more courage to resist the great moral tide now running in the world than to yield to it and obey it." There can be little question of the accuracy of this statement in the mind of anyone who has closely followed the "moral tide" of public opinion during these last few weeks. There is no more doubt as to what the great masses of people want, in all the alliec countries. They want peace, which will not be such u provocative of new wars as previous peace settlement have been. And they want such provision made for the future that the disturbance of the world's peace will be made virtually impossible. They will be brave men indeed who resist those demands. If there is any such diplomatic jugglery as prevailed at the congress of Vienna and other international conferences of unpleasant memory, what tdatesman will dare to lace his people when he returns? Woodrow Wilson, very evidently, is preparing himsel' to avoid just such an emergency; calculating to return home with a distinctively American and democratic consistent with his v.orils. Accordingly, nowhere in his travels has he done anvthinc to compromise his people, or the ideals that they have teen tid to represent. He has even quite out.emoeratiz A Benjamin Franklin, who so insisted upon displaying the simplicity of the colonists as a delegate to the conference of Versailles that ended the revolution. Republicans who have been inclined to criticise the expensiveness of the president's trip, and the considerable show that is attached to it mainly because he is a democrat - might do well to take notice that he hs made good that democracy, and at the SAME time advertised its respectability and orderliness after

GREED. It is said that greed has been responsible for every great disaster, from the flood to this last war. The building burns, and lives are destroyed, because the greedy owner would not pay for proper fire protection. The excursion boat turns turtle because too many tickets were sold. The eoncrete building of improper construction collapses, the dam on which somebody collected a little graft breaks down with the resuk that lives and property are destroyed; and so on through all the list of public catastrophes That this great war arose purely because of greed there is no question. That greed is the most dangerous element with which the peace conference will have to contend is unquestionably true. Fear of this most human of failings was at the root of the suggestion to sink the German warships. To pursue this course in reartl to them is to fly from a common foe. There is some method for this disposal which will operate fairly toward everybody. This is the thing to be sought. If it implies the yielding of a point here, the conceding of something there, so much the better, for the world will then be on the highroad to generosity and the dispassionate adjustment which must he the standard of human dealings if peace is to rule from now on. The disposal of the battleships may well be made a test case of the practicability of peaceful division or co - operative possession. That they should be sunk would be a confession of the superior power of waste and greed.

Von Bernstorff says he was opposed to the German policy which led to the break with America. But it is noticeable that he did not choose to stay here and become a good American. He preferred to go hack to Germany and take his place as one more bad German.

That league of nations is a big idea, but it isn't a new one. The Thirteen Colonies were a league to enforce peace, and the British can testify that it was successful right from the start.

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The Schwab Boom. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) "No one can question my patriotism," shouted a certain official recently: "I have a brother-in-law in the service." It was the great sacrifice. It was a forensic sockdolager. Betorts of this kind may not be uncommon in politics in the very near future. Personalities are sure to be indulged in. War records will be dragged out, and woe to him who has not served or against whom demerits have been piled up. Falstaff's bluntness to the woman's tailor may be paraphrased to 'Thou wert as valiant as the wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse," and clanking spurs will punctuate the irony of the statement. Thanks to the success of the national army, there can be no word to reproach against the man who was drafted. On the contrary he can thrill the thousands who were in the same boat with him, and who did their part in the great struggle. He can boast of his democracy and the fact that he was a part of the mass out of which came the victorious army of America. "What is his war record?" This will be a test. Whether in the camp, the field or at home, was the candidate a soldier or did he play a part that was instrumental in winning the war? At a meeting the other evening Charles M. Schwab was suggested as a candidate for the presidency. It was only an honorary boomlet. Those who made the suggestion probably had no serious purpose in view except to honor the big man who had accomplished so much. They didn't even ask his party affiliations and made their proposal on a purely non-partisan basis. Schwab is made of fine stuff. He has done wonders. The task of putting into service a merchant fieet, with nothing to go on at the start; or revolutionizing shipbuilding by fabricating, of building component parts in various sections of the country and assembling them at central points, has proved a miracle to system and management, and to Schwab belongs great credit. Whether he is of presidential timber is a question in the air. He is a business man. an organizer, but is he a statesman? Against him, however, there cannot be launched any charge of failure to do his full duty in the struggle in which his nation cast her lot. His war record is unsurpassed by any general in the field, and if this were the only conside ration he would make a formidable antagonist.

a manner that has distinguished it fcom boishevism. with all needed emphasis. If the ceremonial banquet given to Pres't Wilson in the royal banquet hall of Buckingham palace was such as would have appalled the democratic spirit of an Andrew Jackson or a Thomas Jefferson, just now so much admired by republican "copperheads'' for a purpose, there was another fide to it. Pres't Wilson seems to have evened things up pretty well with his

host. Treated as a king, he treated George as a

democrat It was observed with amazement that the president addressed the king simply as "sir." Not once in hi? formal speech acknowledging the king's welcome dH he refer to King George as "your majesty " He did not even use the formal substitute, "sire," often applied to royalty. It was nothing but "sir." the title of democratic equality that he would have used at an American iinner table. Moreover, the president carefully avoided the terms "royal" and "imperial." And King George was not offendeil. He seemed to like it immensely, stranger still, that brilliant assemblage of British guests nobles and civilians both liked it. when once they recovered frnm their surprise. There is no question that it made a hit with the British public. The British elections that have indorsed Lloyd George, in spite of his indorsement of those American locals which Pres't Wilson placed before the world to urge the adoption of which, the president is in Europe, - explains somewhat where the people cf England stand on the subject; also that King George evidently has his ear to the ground, and has learned even letter than some Americans, how to appreciate the trend of the popular mind. It was simply a common sense recognition of fact. Great Britain is in reality a democracy, about as much so as the United States. The king, in Pres't Wilson's words, simply "presides over the nation.'" He does not govern, in any sense. He is something like our vice president. The so-called British empire is a federation of democracies, bound together somewhat more loosely than our own states. Now that the old conventions are smashed, and a new precedent is established, the two countries ought to get along together nicely. If only the president had carried things to the extent of slapping the king on the back and calling him "George," and the king had retaliated by calling him "Woodrow" or "old scout" - the democratic entente would be complete, consummate and perfect.

THE MELTING POT "Come Take Pot Luck With Us"

I.ITTLi: BO By Willia Our teecher made us read SnowBound in Skool yesterday, it is potery & it Is awful long. Pa seit them old poets like Mister Shakespeer had moar time to rite than the poets now. They had a yeer to rite a poem, sed Pa. ; Jimmie Montygue had to rite his poems in about a hour, sum speed, sed Pa. Do you reemember that deer Snowbound, sed Ma. Do I? sed Pa. Well I shud say I do. I spoak it in skcol onst, sed Pa, & three gurls fell in luv with me. It broak up thare friendship. sed Pa. How dis-tressing. sed Ma. It was, at that, sed Pa. But I cuddent help it. I was so dashed dashing & all that sort of thing, sed Pa. Do you reemember any of Snowbound, sed Ma. All of it. sed Pa. it beegins O tho eold. cruel winter, O the long &: hard Winter, slowly tell the fleecy snowdrops over landsr.iip. crick & deepot, sed Pa. That isent in Snowbound, sed Ma It was wen I went to skool, fed Pa. That is in Hiwathy. sed Ma. I used to speek that myself. Maybe it is, sd Pa. How the yeers fools us, to be sure, seil Pa I wud almost have bet that was in Snowbound. But 1 reemember this part of it. sed Pa. Alas for him wich newer sees tho tellers sliding on thare skis, sed Pa. You are all the time filling up Bobbie's hed with nonsense , sed Mr Oo you want our littel son to grow

BBIE'S PA. m F. Kirk.

up Simpel, sed Ma. He will nevver be simpel with that bean on his shoulders. sed Pa. He has too much of my Scotch blood in him to be Simpel, sed Pa. But it Bobbie wants to speek a peece in skool I wish he wud reecite sumthing of mine, sed Pa. For instens, ted Ma. Well, sed Pa, for instens, the following poem, called Gloom in the Gloaming. It goes like this, sed Pa Thare is Gloom in the Gloaming tonite. Thare is Gloom that is blacker than Ink. If I ewer cud think wen I rite. I newer wud rite what I think. How truly touching, sed Ma. I thot you wud like it, sed Pa. I dashed it off the oth?r day wen I had a idle moment. I suppoas you was in jest the right mood, sed Mr. Precisely, sed Pa, you are beginning to understand yure husband after many yeers, sed Pa. I doan't want to resite that poom. I sed to Pa, the teacher wants us to reesite the works of the Masters. The Masters aint all ded. sed Pa. if the Influonzy dosent catch nv thare is one old Master sticking around yet, sed Pa. Doant try that Masrer stuff too much, sod Ma, now that us ladies has tho sakred right of the ballot, sod Ma. We will throw off the yoke of the Tyrant at home, sed Ma, as we throw off the Yoke of the Tyrant Over Thare. sed Ma, & Pa dident say a word.

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FOR THE SALVATION ARMY. To the Editor, South Bend News-Times. Sir: In reference to citailel building proposition in remembrance to sacrificial workers in France and centralizing South Bend branch of Salvation Army work as suggested in letter to The News-Times on the 20th inst. I beg you allow me to further state that there are needed several ladies and gentlemen who will volunteer to form an executive committee to regulate plans and financial arrangements for the project to be put successfully "over the top." The idea of the citadel is not only for place of worship, but to shelter men, to render help calls, and store to aid thrifty parents with large families to purchase articles, thus educating families not to be dependent upon charity only in case of absolute necessity, when theneedy are supplied gratis, which is the Salvation Army rule for the goo., of humanity. Any individual, man or woman, boy or girl, or friendly society desirous of starting the New Year by mailing subscription for the citadel building fund, will have same placer in bank treasury for that purpose and ready for use in the project, with acknowledgment of receipt. I will thank you, Mr. Editor, to present this matter to your readers, and have pleasure in wishing you a Happy, Prosperous New Year. Yours truly, Nehemiah Brookes, Capt.

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