South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 22, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 22 January 1919 — Page 8

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JANUARY. 22. 1919.

tl.at he should keep up a nasrtrlnp. snarling, snapping, "copporhf-adlike" attitude; the habit of politics and

partisan Idiocy rnderlniBr It Impc-jble to see anything .

pood In anything that America is doing, when not j done under his party label. That Is what this renewed j criticism about I'rcs't Wilson bcins in France amounts ! to. upholding congress In not doinff something that !

It doon't want to do, and wouldn't do if the president were here, but falling to act under pretend that it cannot do It because tho president Is away. Congress can pass all the reconstruction bills that It wants to, and if this wise critic knows anything, he knows that they will become laws without the president's signature, If he does not fijrn or veto them In 10 days. If he can't Men them in France he can't veto them, hence why doesn't the congress go ahead with its brilliancy and do all the legislating that It want3 to, but of course, there could be no room for that much pense in a head that assumes to have abHcrbed all th wisdom of the universe, and stored It so nicely and cynically, to be doled out In the whinneys of a "nag."

The Melting Pot COME! TAKE POTXTJCK WITH C8

THE HOME LETTERS. Th bo. in tho A rii i ii l n army of occupation aro already tired of their job. The defeated (lermans are r.ot interestinc; no defeated German ever is and there i none of the .stimulus of excitement or of victory unwmi to make army life tolerable. There is no way in which puoh a condition can b' u voided, of course eery effort will be made by otfi- . rs and relief i fcunizations to keep the men IntereMeil ami happy, but the home-folks are already refilling litters full of the soldier's weariness at inactivity, his longing to b- at home. However much sympathy may be felt fur the boy who must sta, it must not go into the answering letter." from home in any weakening terms. At no tim'i sinee our hos entired the service has the content of th home Utter- been so vital. There is a Mm- line between discontent and dishonor. In order that the ,,,y may s-tay on the safe side of the line and perform his dull duty well, the home letter must be interesting, o ust be cheerful, free from either m iwkMi sympathy which shall make him sorry for himself ami from detailed accounts of family distresses which may tempt him to desert. Parting wirh sons and husbands was agony when they went away to the danger of active service; but to every one of them the going was made easier by the tang of adventure. Now. to the, boy bored with static duty, home is a place of infinite variety, of freedom and opportunity. Just a word might tempt .him to come back to it before Iiis time. It will take a finer courage to withhold that word perhaps than it tool; to speak the one which sent the soldier on his way, but it must be withheld. I5ettr death than life without honor. lietter the almost intolerable boredom of barrack life than the truly intolerable stigma of desertion or insubordination. Kucli letters only should be written as well will help a hoy to hold on. and then the public should insist that these letters hae s-afe passage and prompt delivery. Good faith demands it.

A SECRETARY OP TRANSPORTATION. As lone as the railroads are under government control, they will necessarily lie under the direction of one man. Their operation as a unified system is a onman job. The ju is a mighty big one, too about as hie a; any of the executive positions in the president's cabinet. There is nui' li force, therefore, in the request made by b'g railmad men that the management of the railioaIs le raised to the dignity of :t cabinet position. Mr. McAdoo as dircetor-:;eneral of railroads, along; vith his sei-reta r ship of the treasury, had the advantage of bt ing already in the cabinet. The present incumbent has no such status. If would surely not be j'tn's-" to make him secretary of transportation if h measures up to the job. it would be neiCssaiy. in case such a position were created, to work out and define its relations to the interstate commerce commission. Perhaps the commission o ihl b mad.-, in lime, a board of appeal with final authority in ase o' dispute. In case the railroads are turned back to their owners in a con pie of years, there would still be plenty of tvi; work to whiih a secretary of transportation could devote himself directing the development of inland water routes, for example, and coordinating the watervvavs with the railroad svstem.

PEACE HATH HER HEROES. "There were 25 persons on the car, and with one possible exception all of those injured will recover," says a dispatch about an interurban trolley accident in an Ohio town. "The possible exception is Wilbert Lewis, motorman, who was .eriously burned about the face, shaulders and arms." Spreading rails, it seems, were to blame for the plunging f this heavy car 20 feet from a bridge over a creek. Pilings along the bridge caught the car before it went completely into the water, but the front art was submerged. "The motorman, who was both shocked and burned, revived when he fell into the icy water. He broke the glass door of the vestibule. With his fist and got out. He then walked along the side of the car, ripping screening from the windows. He pulled four passengers to safety through the windows before he lost consciousness again." Not all the stories of heroism come from the fields of France. If Wilbert Lewis die of burns, exposure, shock and almost superhuman strain, he will have lost his life for his fellowmen just as truly as the bovs in khaki have done.

Another victorious retreat Ludendorff has retired to a farm.

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REVIVAL OP COPPERHEADISM. ome of thee ultra-brUIsh sympathizers, and anxiously un-American, so suspicious of us some six weeks ago, because we were unwilling to admit that Pritai:: had done it all in the winning of the war. or that we were under obligations to surrender to her our eternal future, because we had permitted ourselves to interfere in Furop to the salvation ot. her scalp, should read well the accompanying reprint on "The Mistakes of Moses." from the Saturday livening Post, under our "Other llditors" loading. We mention it in pasing because there appears sti'.l in our midst, certain pea-headed gentlemen, who for political i tfect, continue to prate now as they did then about the president being out of ihe country, insinuating that the business of world reorganization is of less importance than the signing of some "pap"' reconstruction bills, wanted t-1 1' passed by the "pork" artists in congress. It is uuire a disgrace- with them, now as ever, to be Aimrican, or to bo pro-American. They belong to the s hooi of whom Kaiser Wilhelm ence spoke to - fnust" Davis, lie doulted our American nationalism, er national pride, becaiiso, as h said, he neir talked with an Ai.; :aan in Fr.rope who didn't seem to be ashamed that h was from America. "TlU'V spend half of their time.' said the kai.-cr, "seeding to toe.nect them-elw up with some l'uropean

i ir am esters back to one

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them." Of courc. for a man v. ho b'-llow d like a mail l ull f. r war for two .u. and then wlvn he -t it dodged everything like a r.iM;i. for (' ar th,t be might get ißtc it, from the mor.-.tn. that r. came, it is only natural l

tiij; mistakes or MOSES. (Saturday Kveiilng Post.) Years ago Hob Ingersoll had a lecture that delighted an enthusiastic following of agnostics. It was called rfonie Mistakes of Moses. But in his anxiety to discredit the lawgiver Pob overlooked a vital point. In spite ot all his mistakes Mosea brou ght back the law from Sinai, greatly to the moral profit of his people. And in tho face of that achievement no one except JJob and hi3 fellow knockers attached any special importance to the mistakes of Moses. With all his achievement Pres't "Wilson has a very senerous list of mistakes to his debit, but we do not believe that he went to France to hear the bands play him down the Champs-Elysees and the populace roar out a welcome. If he made a mistake in going he made a greater one in not telling the American people Just why he went, ilut if he brings back what we fought for many mistakes can be forgiven him. To anyone who could read between the lines of foreign press dispatches during late November and early December the compelling motive that took the president abroad was fairly clear. To anyone who talked with well-informed pro-American Americans returning from Europe at the same time the reason was crystal clear. Whether the president might not have exerted greater influence from America is another question. There are possible advantages and quite obvious embarrassments arising from his being In France. As the military censorship lifted after the armisticethe political censorship settled down like a fog bank bitvveen America and Europe and between Faris and the people of the allied countries. Americans were kept in total ignorance of what was really going on abroad. We walked around'in a soft blue haae of sentimentality, without the slightest notion that powerful reactionary' influences were at work trying to shape up in advance a peace that would be to their liking. The things for which we and the people of the allied countries had fought were in grave danger of being lost In the shuffle of secret diplomacy. Over here we were all so busy being pro-British, pro-French. pro-Italian and pro-l?elgian that we had small time for being pro-American where our national interests were Involved. Things had reached the point among our expatriates the CSth and lowest form of cootie and in certain home circles that to be pro-American was really bad form. These folk were tiptoeing round with linger on lip, whispering "Hush!" whenever anyone so far forgot his manners. By a reductlo ad absurdum it became unpatriotic to hint that any word or action of one of our allies could fall short of absolute perfection. In short, it was an orgy of soothing sirup. We need a good strong reaction to common sense. There is plenty of It about us among the allies. It Is time for us to recognize facts and to weigh them calmly and sanely. Among other things let us have done with this silly stuff about forgiving the entente nations their borrowings from us. They do not want it, and our mush-head talk about It Is humiliating to them as hard-headed business men. "Hesides. when we get through settling our bills abroad and we have paid our way liberally, even prodigally the balance in our favor will not ? so large as some of us think. All this sort of agitation simply tends to nullify the good impression that the work done by Hoover and the Ked Cross created. There is and there should be no limit to what individuals can give through the Red Crosn to alleviate actual want and suffering in Europe. That

is the proper way to express our sympathy and to ex-

UHU Olli UCil'. Much of our nonsense and hysteria is the direct result of censorship and the consequent withholding of the truth about conditions from the people. If tner ever was a time In the history of the world when there should be pitiless publicity and an uncensored press, an open peace table and the whole truth for the whole world, this is 'ho time. There must be no scrambling for spoils, no old-tashioned hog peace, with every nation crowding to get its feet in the trough and there will be no peace cf that sort if the men who did the lighting know- what is going on. The soldiers of the entente and of America laid down their lives for an ideal. And any peace that is not made in the open, the.t involves secret understandings and agreements, that distributes spoils and that is not guarded by a league of nations with teeth is simply the prelude to a new and unthlnkahly horrible war a war to be preceded for us. as for the others, by conscription, competitive aimaments, by everything that we fought to escape, b the sacrifice of everything that has made America the most worth-while country in the world. Unless a is more than likely such a peace is followed by a world uprising of the deceived and overburdened peo pl a blind plunge from the age-long deviltries ur king-made and politiean-made wars into the bloody cv e sses of anarchy and bolshevism. If there is the slightest danger that the peace conference may become a congress of Vienna the people of every nation should know the facts. Any secrecy In

i settling the affairs of the world wor.ld be the one great

Irretrievable mistake. With a fully informed public behind them, there is little doubt that the allied and I American leaders who are working for a just and i permanent peace will triumph over the reactionaries.

That there are very many peraons who are mighty hard to please Is being emphatically brought out by the state of the weather during the past few days. There are thousands of men and women who spend large sums of money in going south each year to get just the kind of weather conditions South Bend has been enjoying, but hardly an hour passe without wails of complaints being heard regarding the kind of weather we are having Just now. Those making the complaints seemed to be filled with the worry

that next summer.' along about the Fourth of July, the ground will be covered with about four feet of enow, and that everything is going to ruin Just because It happens to be rather springlike in January. "I Just know we will have to pay for this next summer," one otherwisely Intelligent young lady was heard to mourn as she looked out Into the pleasant sunshine outside her window. "Wouldn't this be fine if it were in May or June?" one city official lamented, referring to the warmth outside. "I just know that everything is going to suffer," declared another woman who appeared to think tbat In someway the Iord had gotten off the Job for a little while and was allowing humanity around South Bend an opportunity to enjoy itself. However, there is one man who hit the nail on the head. "I wonder if these persons who are kicking about this weather would feel happier if it was like it was a year ago?" he asked after listening to numerous complaints about the beautiful sunshine. It has even gotten Into the children, this habit of not being satisfled with the weather. "Won't it be awful, mamma, if the robins come out and then it turns cold?" one little tot asked her mother. Taking it all in all. the only one who have a real kick coming are the coal and Icemen, it was suggested by one citizen who seems to be Immensely enjoying the spring

like clarity of the atmosphere. If It isn't cold, the rivers and lakes don't freeze, and if they don't freeze, there won't be any ice. And if it isn't cold, there won't be so much coal needed, and if there isn't so much coal needed, the coal men won't Fell so much- C. J. C.

should grow cold in its patriotism, or for any other cause neglect to

turn over Its complete contribution. The need for ammunition and other direct war supplies has doubtless ceased to exist, but now, more than ever, there is need for these particular and social activities, which the government asked to carry on welfare werk among the soldiers. In view of this will you not find a way of bringing this matter again to the attention of the patriotic people In South Bend with whom you come In direct contact through your work, and urge upon them the need of fulfilling the obligations, already assumed, toward the War Chest? Gratitude for the complete victory won by allied armie?, may very properly take the place of the ainrehension formerly felt as a mo

tive for generosity. Very sincerely JOHN CAVANAUGH. C. S. C President. Mr. A. R. Erfkine, President Studebaker Corporation. South Bend, Ind.

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COMPLETE WAR CHEST PLiCDGIÄ. SAYS CAVANAUGH. Jan. 20, 1919. My Dear Mr. Erskine: Now that the war seems all but technically closed, there is some degree of a lessening of the popular interest in war activities, and some fear lest pledges formally made and accepted in behalf of the War Chest may now be forgotten or neglected. There should be no lack of understanding on the part of the public of the great need of redeeming all pledges made to the War Chest while the war was actually cn. The truth is, that in virtue of these pledges money has already been promised, and, indeed to some extent already ppent, by the great war and welfare agencies approved by the government, and represented In the War Chest collection. It will be not only an embarrassment for the committee having charge of the disbursement, but it will be an actual failure of the community, as well to make good its pledges, if any portion of the community

ONCEOVERS CHEER CP! YOU'RE NOT DEAD YET! You are po tired, fo fagged, when you get home from your place of employment every night that you imagine in, a few years you will be down and out. You go so far in your soliloquy that you see yourself in the poorhouse, and nothing left to proviJe for a sick wife and indigent children. Now, see here, Old Man, that Is no way to accomplish the reverse. You are allowing useless thoughts to sap your vigor and aggressiveness. You are becoming too timid and fearful to branch out for new business either for your employer or yourself. Afraid to ask for a better job for fear you cannot hold it. Nonsense stuff and nonsense, man. ' Any man who gives himself, body and soul, xo accomplishment is bound to get tired beastly tired at that. Those who do not come home tired have positions either not remunerative or they do Just enough work to keep the Job. You are a dead one if you don't really do things and get somewhere. Get plenty of sleep; exercife for good health; eat wholesome food at the proper times, and have confidence in yourself. You have many good years ahead of you.

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In checking over results of a demonstration of early and late plowing for corn in Washington county the agricultural agent found that land plowe'd two weeks earlier than the rest of the field produced 15 bushels more to the acre.

GET AFTER THAT COLD RIGHT NOW Got right after it with a bottle of Dr. King's Neir Discovery She never let a cough or cold or case ef grippe go until it grew dangerous. She just nipped it -when the began to iniffie or cough before it developed eriously. Men, women, and children of every ice have used thit preparation for fifty year as a prompt reliever. All agei are uiing it today because of its positive results. Generous eize bottles. COc and $1.20. Constipation Corrected Dr. King's New Life Pills tonight mean clear bowels, a clear head, clear thinking, a day well tegun in the morning, good digestion, clearing ekin. Mild in action but sure and comfortable. At drug stores everywhere. 25c.

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Our Silk Sale Will Interest Interurban Day Buyers Silks Special $1.69 yd. Our selling of plain and fancy Silks at St. 69 yard should attract many Interurban shoppers, as the assortment includes silks regularly worth from S2.oo to $3.50 yard.

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