South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 368, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 3 January 1919 — Page 8

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JANUARY 3, 1919.

THE PILLARS OP HERCULES. The dtiuand of Spain for the return of Gibraltar ills up ancient mm rn morbus. That famous rock, hfl J by the FJritish tor more than two ctitur;, is one of two twin promontories that haw guarded the entrance of the Mediterranean einen I he dawn of history. The oth r, now called Ceut.i, stands lo miles distant, on th tip of the Moroccan I.eninhula. marking th apex of the African continent. The ancients called them the "Pillars of Hercules.' At eoidinK to th old myth, II rcules, the Greek demigod, had pushed them apart to make the wide, deep hannel through which the waters of the Mediterranean mingle witli those of the Atlantic. LiKe all myths, it douMIeys yl-.adoweil forth a truth. Geologists say J hat Africa and Europe uTe once Joined at this point l-y a roeky rilpe. To the old Greeks !.-, "pillars" marked the limits f the known woild. In Homer's time the ocean beyond them was a at,'iw- region of fable and terror. If the Iho-nicians the Hritons of antiquity were ever acustonied to venturing through them, they left little record of their adventures. Until shortly before the .'hristian era, therefore. Gibraltar marked the .Jump-Ing-off pi. ice f civilization. Now that little, strait is the world's preatest Rrateray of commerce and communication. And Great Uritain guards it, as die guards most of the world's import-mt s a gaten, dominating the strait from the fortified rock which has become in every civilized land a synonym of Invincible, strength. Spain asks for that rock, on the ground that It H geographically a part of the Spanish peninsula. Inas much as the accepted ieace platform is concerned with the racial rights rather than geographica! traditions, it is not likely th.it much attention will b? paid to the t ermest. Gibraltar is b.it a tiny place, only a couple of squaic miles in extent, and its inhabitants, though speaking a sort of Spanish, have not been predominantly Spanish for 200 years. The place is pretty thoroughly Anglicised. Moreover, tho world is pretty well persuaded tint Great f'ritain ha not abused her use of the famous "pillar." and can be trusted better than Spain can f it is to remain under any particular national guard -ianship. If Hritain should ghc up Gibraltar, the strait should if course be internationalized, as the lardanelles and

Uosporus are expected to be.

before the "Jitneys'' came; in fact, Is better than it wn3 bf fore they came. The competition has done that much for the cty if no more. There his been sonic shifting of route within a year or fo calculated to improve Kervic, but after yo i have waited at the main corner for a half hour or more, and still no car. always at the time when everybody want o pet home, that Improvement of service doesn't neem fo very ataggering. Naturally if there I a "Jitney" in sight they grab It; anything to escape a drenching, or being frozen. It is al". very nice for people who never use a street car to brig about the splendid service which they know nothing about, but some day the pojple who use the) cars, or would like to use them, ar goinr to be heard from even If they have to go to the Public Service commission to pet a hearing;. It is what they should have done long ago. The commission will not be fooled, take to talking about the city helping the traction interests, as our befuddled citizen? hip is sometimes want to do. It Is liable to mention something about the company, having been granted a monopoly of the streets in perpetuity, getting busy and doing something for the city Jun as it told the Indianapolis Interests.

War Visions and Phychology

Ily Garrett P. Sorviss

OCEAN OF PEACE WANTED. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of T. N. T., one of the high explosives much used during the war, have been dumped into the sea off the coast of New Jersey in accordance with an order of the railroad administration. This deadly stuff by the car load has been a standing menace ever sine the armistice was signed. Now some of it has been shipped abroad and the rest of it is disposed of in the simplest manner known to man. It 1? a great pity that every menace which war involves cannot be just as simply and easily eliminated. The world has no more desire to be torn to pieces b war than to be blown up by T. N. T. The sooner tht peace conference gets together and determines upon a policy wide enough and deep enough to swallow the disputes of the world as the sea swallowed up the explosives, the better for all concerned.

The teeming .subsoil cf humanity there was not in that battle som

The proposal to replace the wrecked French and Belgian cathedrals and other public buildings with similar structures removed from Germany finds no HUpport. The Trench and Belgians say Germany hasn't any architecture they want.

It's easy enough to agree roughly what the territorial limits of the European countries should be, but there'll be an awful series of howls when it comes to fixing the fringes.

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HELPING THE TRACTION OCTOPUS. That gentleman who, addressing the Chamber of t,'ommrrce luncheon .Monday, and as well, those who

listened to him. in his plea that South Hend "during j charges as will provide interest and dividends on l.ond

and stock representing- no rash investment, or any investment equivalent to cash. The Times is especlal'y

sTitrjrr oah nr.cisiox. (Indianapolis Timet.) The state public service commission, i:i ita decision on the Indianapolis street car case, written by Chairman K. I. Lewis, takes a modern and common-sensj view of a bad situation. The decision is very much of a victory for the nickel-paying public and a defeat fo.the speculating interests involved in the various street car companies. It is commendable that the commission injects no vindictive terms in the limitations it has seen fit to impose on the street car promoters. It has gone a little farther in its protection of the public against capitalized securities of questionable worth a little farther than any previous decision of the commission goes, and that is a most encouraging circumstance. The commission points out that the present preearious condition of the companies results . from improvident and greedy management, and rightly asserts that simple justice is served if those who have been bilking the property by insisting on handsome salaries and interest and dividends on securities which do not appear to represent a real investment, in this emergency, forego romo of their easy money. The commission says, in effect, that the promoters would inspire more confidence in the public, and establish a right to more sympathetic consideration, if they would show a disposition to refrain from milking the property of it? revenues in this crisis, rather than to continue to insist that the full burden of preserving the solvency of the concern be placed on the public. Having fought for more than five years for the recognition of the sound economic principle that the

public should not be required to pay such service

VJlv should ilj Mnutlilng to help" the poor "Hot; aiu' lli'iiihij" lm-s, miht do well to draw a lesson from wliit the PiiHi'- service corn miss ion has done to the J ii . 1 1. 1 1 1 . 1 1 ' 1 1 trat'.n interests. A li:uis itn of it will be found herewith under our caption "Other Kditors. i;tc." worthy of note because the undet lying condition..uc quite identical. It is h.uauso the local traction lord.T are tr nm to pay interest uii about half their outstanding bond, in which no actual investment L representeJ, that they hae run amuck and are no longer able to maintain quiptm nt. service, or pay interest, or much of an t hing cite. It isn't the. "jitney nu-V' at all that has put the "Hog and Hominy" traction service back on the "hog." It iJ the watered stocks and bonds that the company is askir.ghe traveling public to harbor and support that arc tloimc it. The ma'-nates suy they have never paid a dividend, but they do not need to, and certainly should rot, when for etry share of stock issued a bond goes with it of equal amount, provided a like amount of bonds is bought and paid 'fcr, interest then being paid on the entire bend ;mu That has been virtually the I'rt nried process of financing the local street railway seri e. that in result if not in actual method. The interest on half t"i',se bonds is therefore the equivalent ot a dividend, being paid as it is. on water; the thing whKh, a very properly pointed out by the Pubbc ervua- commission, public utilities need to get rid of. We have poor streit car service in SoJlh Bend be-' ca w th" management has seen fit to capitalize it; to make a specialty of it. The policy has beer, the least possible service for the money. Indiana, all over is considerably afflicted with that t-ort of service. No sUte in the I'niop has permitted it ns we hav? here, and of course, i: 1. a ditücult privilege io give up They com nier.c d squeezing the watered stocks und bonds in Michigan a decade ago. It involved some receiverships, i;Ut th" people of the various cities have prorlted Immcnoly, and it is a mighty poor stick ef a Michigan town that cannot boast of a better street car service thin the te-t of Indiana towns can boa.-t of. It Is the

.ime in Ohio. New York, Massachua etts, Wi-consir.

and a number of stated and thnk

fiam what the Public Serv ie.- o'mmi--io!. has done to The Indianapolis oiai any. iU.tl Indiana is coming to it.

gratified to find the principle accepted by the commission and made a part of its decision. In this particulai the decision h".s an importance other than locally. We must believe that this decision will establish a precedent in Indiana and. in some measure, reflects the policy of the state from now on, toward all public utilities. I" this proves to be the crte then the days of gambling and speculating in public utilities in Indiana are numbered and ultimately the public will come into its own. Having been out of agreement with the state public service commission in many of its decisions, and having experienced no reluctance in expressing that dissent, the Times Is glad to be able to express Its commendation of the commission's decision in this particular case. , the decision has these: Denies the company the right to charge six cents for fare; Effective Dec. 31, eliminates the charge of one cent for a transfer; Permits a live-cent fare until 100 dys after the ratification by the United States of the peace treaty; The security holders of the companies Involved must meet and readjust the affairs of the company, it being clearly indicated that they are 'xpected to squeeze out the water from these securities and get them down to where they approximate the physical value of the property; Service must be improved. All the evidence in this intricate case, including ihn reports of the three directors who. for a short time, undertook to represent the public, indicates service can te improved when the security holder come to the place where they are satisfied w ith a reasonable return on their real investment and that Is exactly what this decision proposes to force them to do. If it is asked by what authority the commission proposes to force the security holders to squeeze out the water in their stocks and bonds, the answer is, obviously, the commission has the power to fix the service charges. One hundred days after the LTnlted States ratifies the peace treaty, automatically the car companygoes back to the old schedule of fares. If at that time it comes In for relief the commission may be expected to stand on the provisions of the present decision and if the security holders have not done their pirt. the relief should be. and. we must believe, will be withheld. The commission has rendered a sound, progressive

has been so deeply ploughed by the great war that a host of ideas and fancies released from the depth? now hovers over the fields of thought, to be, perhaps, transformed for future generations into legends as grandiose as the events that brought them forth. Some of these inklings and glimmerings out of the unknowr and the unfamiliar are of the nature 'of portents; others hint at vast expansion of human knowledge In directions that have hitherto seemed definitely barred. Amog the portents aYe battlevisions, matching that which Constantino beheld in the aky, and which transformed the standard, nd with it the faith, of imperial Borne: or recalling the saintly phantasms by which, 800 years ago. the Crusad ers were spurre d to superefninent valor and sacrifice on the march to Jerusalem. One of the most notable things about these modern visions is the preliminary fact that they should have appeared, or have been believed to appear, in this scientific age at all. How strange to read, of clear-headed soldiers and officers from up-to-date schools and surroundings, armed with revolvers.

machine guns, and all the intensely materialistic and scientific apparatus of modern warfare, seeing St. George, St. Michael, or Joan of Arc leading and encouraging the exhausted English and French during the terrible struggle that stopped the first mighty rush of the German hordes toward Paris! The historian who leaves these things out of his narrative of the great war will do wrong wrong even to science for, however deceptive the apparitions may have been, it is the business of the cultivators of science to explain the deception, to show why it occurs and how and why the eye and the mind nre misled. Unless you do that you can never dissuade anybody from believing that he has seen a ghost. Moreover, these modern instance? of apparent supernaturalism, coming at a time when societies for psychical research flourish and when si.ch phenomena as telepathy are knocking at the door and claiming

the right to enter and be seriouslyinvestigated will not be thrown aside and forgotten. We shall see them reappearing in various departments of literature, as pegs on which t hang both fiction and philosophical speculation. A striking, but not inexplicable, fact is that so many simultaneously recognized the same 'apparitions. For instance, take a royO artilleryman's naive relation to ar Lngllsh nurse. Miss Campbell It was in a field hospital, after the English had held up the Germans In one of the fiercest struggles before the first battle of the Marne. Another wounded British soldier, who had been a Wesleyan minister had sent for the nurse because he hoped that she might have an English coin or medal bearing the figure of St. George, which he wished to compare with what he had peen in the battle. As he told his story the nurse betrayed incredulity whereupon the artilleryman on an adjoining cot broke in: "It's true, Sister: we all saw it. First, there was a sort of yellow mist risin' before the Germans as they come on to the top of the hill come on like a solid wall, they did no end to 'em. teI just give up. No more flghtin' the who'.e German race thinks I. The next minute comes this funny cloud of light, and when it clears off, there's a tall man with yellow hir. in golden armor, on a white horse, holdln up his sword.

! and his mouth open like as if he

was snyin: 'Come on, boys. T'll put the kybosh on the devils' sort of 'this Is my picnic' expression. Then, before you could say 'knife th Germans had turned, and we after 'en, ficrhtlnjr like ninety." Of course, plain common sense would beerin by inquiring whether

ellow-haired English otneer. riding

a white horse, whose khaki uniform, seen through the smok. and scintillant with medals and trappings, might have seemed the golden armor of St. George to the excited eyes of men who obeyed the electric impulse of his gesture. In such momentary Impressions when the brain is In a wdiitl, the fancies of the mind sometimes transform the reports of the eye, and make their possessor, for an instant, as mad as Don Quixote, when he mistook the brass basin that the barber had clipped on hl head, as he Jogged on his mulo through the Spanish minshine. for the golden helmet of Mambrino. And yet, somehow, such an explanation does not satisfy. It is too unsympathetic toward the creative imagination, which the most humbly endowed of us possess in a degree seldom realized, and which fills our lives with pictures that often affect us more powerfully than realities. The imaginative boy mounted on his rocking-horse is Napoleon crossing the Alps, and that fancied transformation becomes, for the moment, absolutely real to him Grown up, he will remember it like a fact when actual facts of his boyhood have faded. In a desperate battle the primal impulses maj break all bonds, and the imaginative man becomes as a boy again, may once more substitute illusions for facts. Another phasa of this subject, which there Is no space now to discuss, is represented by the question that has been asked: Did "psychologic force," concentrated by the united "will of victory" of an aroused world, play a part in the overthrow of imperial Germany, which psychology may some day scientifically account for?

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