South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 46, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 15 February 1919 — Page 4

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NATIONAL DESTINY. Those who talk about the desirability of America returning to her old "glorious isolation" might as well demand a return from the railroad to the stagecoach and the automobile to th ono-how ehay. ' Kate has made the United Stute a world power. IrrefcUtible events mere driving us toward full participation In the world's affair., and the war dragged us In. Once In. we can never expect to get out again. And what Nelf-reapectlnjr American, imbued with the characteiistlc energy and idealism of his country, wants to get out? The United States Is recognized today as the equal of the other bit powers, and mor than an equal. It is the literal truth that America dominates the peace conference. Our associate all yield to American leadership. It almost neema as If they insist on It. They do fo partly because of what America is now, but mostly because of what they know she will be. The United States is plainly destined to lead the world. It Is a high privilege. It makes every normal American feel a little taller and stronger. It gives the old Flax new beauty and meaning. It is a privilege which comes naturally as the reward of our national rast. And with the privilege comes the responsibility. We cannot dodge that. The nation that fails to use its power or does not use It in the service of mankind Inevitably loses it. Our finest political ideals are flowering in the newleague of nations. We cannot have the honor of it without its obligations. We cr.nnot write into its constitution the principles of unselfish service to weak and backward nations without proceeding to play our part in the practice of those principles. We cannot s.top colony-rrabMng without helping the other powers to manage the Internationalized territories. We cannot urge the international policing of the world without contributing to the policing army and navy. And so on through the li.it. To imagine that when the American delegation comes home from the. peace conference everything will be settled and the machinry net up will run of Itself thereafter Is to have learned nothing at all from this great war and to fail wholly in understanding the world we live in. I'iguratively .peaking, the war will never be over, ami our peace conference' delegates will never come home. The United States will remain at the head of the armies of civilization and at the head of the peace table, because It is our destiny, and we cannot evade it without playing the coward ami losing our national soul.

SUFFRAGE AN TIS' LAST STAND. The federal nuttruice amendment has lost again in the United 'tats M-nate. this time by only one vote. It requires a two-thirds majority. There, were 55 senators who voted ye? and 2 wh voted no. Accordingly, :3 senator are now busy explaining why each of them ast that losing volt, l.cry one of them, naturally, is held rfponsit'I.- by th snfTraisiK of his own ttate. This criticism nviy be expected to have considerable educational value. Some of the will probably chunge their votes next time. If not, ery likely the membership Chancen in the senate after March I will bring in enough suffrage recruits to p.us the amendment. This was the last Ptand of the aiitis. Public sentiment i now so v erwhelmingly In favor of equal surtrage that not een the argument of state rights can Mand In the way much bmger. The next congress i practically certain to yield; and in the light of the .vpeedy ratification of the prohibition amendment, it Is reasonable to expect that national suffrage will be accomplished within two or three years.

CONGRESS AND BOLSHEVISM. Speaking of th United States senate resolution to investigate Russian bolshevism, the New York World bar: "Nothing is more certain to breed bolnhevlsm than un mp!o ment, with Us atterdant hunger and suffering; yet hundreds of thousands of men are out of work in this country irtly because congress has broken down av a hgulatne Lody in the work of reconstruction. Ity its failure to pass a revenue bill it has left every industry in a stat of duul t and uncertainty. Uy its failure to devise mean of validating war contracts to the value of $1.500. 000,000. it is keeping hundreds of factories from resuming work on a peace basis. Iy its failure to take up Sec'y Lane's land program for returning soldiers it Is blocking a nconslruciion measure of the highest importance. Hy allowing three conferees. Sims. Ferris and Hauten, to hold up the waterpower bill it is preventing the development of economic measures of colossal proportions. And so the record runs. ' The whole country "misht be rushing into bo!helsm while congress sits und twiddles its thumbs and talks petty partisan nonsense." Tbis U a drastic arraignment, but a candid and im

partial critic muJt admit that there Is much provocation. The world will hardly be accused of partisanship In this matter; it Is a democratic newspaper condemning a democratic congress. Other critics may differ with the World In its despairing: verdict that nothing better is to be expected of the next congress, which ahlfu to republican -control. If that proves to be true, the pnbllc will have to agree that congress hat Indeed broken down. Possibly it is not yet necessary to give up hope. The present congress has tili a little time to redeem Itself, If It ?ta about its work in earnest. If it falls, the public, regardless of partisan affiliation, will entertain tome hope of the next congress. If it continues the long demonstration of incapacity observed during the past few months, respectable citizens may feel like calling for a bolahevist dictatorship.

The Melting Pot COME! TAKK POTLUCK wmi U8

THEY ARE THE KIDS. The rJoys and Girls Agricultural club of Pierce Co., Wash., has adopted the following motto or per haps it should be called a war-cry: "Thes- an- the kids That raised the food That fed the man That carried the gun That shot the Hun That tried to run Hack to Berlin." There are a great many thousands of such kids, organized into clubs that are scattered through all the states of the Union. And they are not yet done with their work, even if the war is about ended. Their activity may be said to have Just begun. They will be a real and permanent factor in American agriculture hereafter, partly through their yearly contribution to the country's crops, but far more through the training they get and the interest they acquire in the great science of food-production. These clubs are training up a generation of progressive farmers and helping to solve the land, food and population problems of the future.

Some people have been known to become intoxicated on chocolate sodas. Others show signs of abnormal exhilaration after partaking of hot bean soup. Babies have been known to act most suspiciously over their milk bottles. Where shall we draw the line?

Let the ex-kalser chop down trees while he may. One of these days the axe is going to be put to his family tree.

Other Editors Than Oars

TAIMXI-ISK CLAIMS. (Iiulianaitohs News.) The Japanese do not seem prepared to accept the mandatory system as applied to territory captured by them from Germany during the war. It is said that they will insist on absolute control of the Caroline and Marshall islands, and a)o that the terms of the treaties betw con J i pan and China be carried out. Against this latter policy the Chinese are protesting, and are proposing to make the terms of the treaties public though the original documents have been stolen from them. Gr-.'at Britain and France have accepted the mandatory principle. Kven the people of Australia, though not exactly contented, have acknowledged themselves bound by the i ction of the British government and the peace conference. What is good enough for them ought to 1 e quite good enough for Japan. The special interest of Japan in China and the Pacific islands is no greater than that of Great Britain in Africa and the near east, or than that of Australia in New Guinea. The question thus raised is somewhat difficult, but It Is believed that the conference will be able to handle it satisfactorily. The Japanese representatives may conclude that the friendship of the great occidental nations. Including Japan's ally. Great Britain, is worth holding. It Is 'quite certain that their supposed attitude is wholly Inconsistent with the principles on which any league of nations must be based. Nor should it be forgotten that China has rights, and that her interest is rather more direct than that of Japan. There i:re few secret treaties that have been treated with lespeet by the conference. The issue be

tween Italy and the new Jugo-Slav state will be settled by the conference without much regard to the secret treaty of London negotiated between Great Britain and France on one side and Italy on the other when tho latter power entered the war. The same rule should be applied in the case of Japan.

C. J. C. was sick yesterday, so he couldn't write anything for this column today Valentine's day la a day for malcing love. Yesterday wis Valentine's day. So Pres't Wilson observed the

occasion by presenting a complete

constitution for a league of nations, j which Is designed to promote brothI erly love throughout the world.

Quite appropriate, one would think. It is said 'that the next music craze will be Spanish. Years ago people were singing Indian songs, everything from "Red Wing" to "Navahjo." Then came ragtime, with the advent of "Dixie" songs. After that, Hawaii, with reference to ukeleles, had the limelight in popular songs, and then came the war. For a few months, now, we've had a rest, and now, say the writers, we'll sing about Spain and Spanish melodies. Wonder if the Spanish inlluenza had anything to do with it? Statisticians say that it will require 14J more barbers to care for the needs of South Bend when Studebakers bring in their new employes. These barbers will have to have 689 more towels every week, which will require the service of 37 nlre girls in local laundries. These irls will need 2,204 hairpins which will require 932.3 feet of wire. Figure it out. See how many more letters the fellow at the general delivery window will have to handle. Also, by figuring the Increase In doctors, you can obtain the exact number or pills which will be needed in South Bend weekly. Liquor dealers in Albany say that a kiss Is intoxicating. Lucky the discovery was made before July 1. It must have to be a particular kind of kiss, though, or the police couldn't handle all the drunks we'd have In SouthJend. Though the Germans have not yet been compelled to economize on air, either hot or cold, it may be significant that Herr Wissel has been appointed minister of public economy by the new regime in Berlin. Here's hoping C. J. C. is all right tomorrow. W. K. G.

Getting the Most Out of Life

By KUhop Samuel Fallows.

CHIXA SHOULD UK HL'AIII). (lHfl rbont IruIcMndcnt.) As a good basis for future argument and for a precedent, the Klaochow matter Is being pushed and may be taken as far as the peace table. China insists that she went into the war on the side of justice, and expects to share in that justice. Truth to tell China's attitude throughout has been helpful and honorable, and merits grateful consideration at the hands of the powers. Japan, it is understood, agrees to restore Kiaochow to China on condition that China grants her a preferential trade agreement; this arrangement it is believed, has been effected, although not without murmurs on the part of China, who hints more may be heard of it. Obviously, if Japan cedes Kiaochow on the basis of Justice and no one questions China's claims to Chinese territory then Japan has no more than a burglar's right to any preferential agreement; and if on the other hand Japan assumes that, possessing Kiaochow as a result of war operations, she has a trader's right in it, then Japan is setting up an argument which will meet with comprehensive opposition In many quarters, and not least in the United States. Japan has the habit of getting a pound of flesh every time she gives anything to China, and. in fact. Japanese penetration of China has reached the point where China is anxiously watchful of every fresh persuasive move on the part of Japan. With this anxiety in mind, China Is preparing to state her case against all intruders, particularly Japan, to ask equitable treatment in world trade, allied cooperation in the development of her natural resources, and wider employment for her people at home. China deserves a fair hearing.

CIjASS." (Chicago Herald. llxaminer.) A wife seeking divorce asserts that the contented husband of humbler days finds her, In the present high prosperity, 'not classy enough." Nothing else Is the matter. She just somehow doesn't seem to "flt" in the new-bought aristocratic atmosphere of the boulevard. "Classy" Is an indefinite bit of slang borrowed from the race track. But, like most enduring lang. it Is expressive and cncorr.Passdns;. After the horsemen finished rapturous enumerations of such technical points as are covered by "a good barrel" and "lots of substance," they tilled In the rhetorical chinks with "class to burn." The word, however, is not In a gentleman's lexicon when speaking of a woman, especially his wife. Were it adapted for polite usage In the sense that the oldtime horsemen used it, "classy" would not have the meaning when applied to a woman that the unfortunate litigant's husband gave to It. It would mean instead a woman who. in spite of a $20,000 income, was not a stranger to her own kitchen; who could not be transformed by prosperity from a home-maker into a spendthrift butterfly; one immune from the string of the 'society' bee and whose memory of the altar lights would not be blurred, by the incandescents of the lounge lizard's lair.

CFLLAItFUL OF ItUMFDIUS. (Kansas City Star.) That Pennsylvania coal mine which has been on tire for 60 years Is still burning, It seems and the next expensive plan to stop it is to starve it out by removing the coal veins from all sidej. Sackville McKnutte has a plan which he believes is cheaper and better than that. Mr. McKnutte has a cellar full of highprlced asbestos, dirt and sJate which somebody sold him for coal last summer. Two shovelfuls of this mixture will put out any fire in the world, Mr. McKnutte says.

C.ETS A Di:i1OSIT. One kid will show a visitor His Christmas book. And gets a word of comment or A Pleasant look. Another urchin will display His little bank. And as a financier, I say, Takes highest rank.

can in: doxu "Dairy prices in Chicago have had a sharp decline." So." "Said to be due to the refusal of people to pay the previous high jrices." "Simple when you think it over, isn't it "

OXFJ OF THE BÜCKST. (Indianapolis Newa.) Von Bernstorff says that the German people in the vast majority do not feel guilty although they do not deny that mistakes were made." And he was one of the biggest of the mistakes.

NOT SURPRISING. (Brooklyn Eagle.) Those wicked Paris Apaches seem to have stolen the livery' of Uncle Sam to play the devil In. Why not? They stole their name from our noble red men. and they have disgraced it ever since.

SHOULD C.IYi; NOTICE. "I wonder," said the young man, "what place history will, give me." "History never gives any man a place," responded the older man. "You've got to earn it."

wiikiu: SUB WAS imtT. (Kansas City Star.) The fact that Germany expects to get her colonies back seems to show that one of the serious injuries Germany received in the war must have been to her head.

MUST AID. A sixteen-year-old stammerer attempted suicide the other nl?ht because he could no longer endure being ridiculed by his classmates. Tteading of this in his morning naper. a friend of mine at once wrote to him thus: "Although yoU never heard of me

before, I believe you will be inter-1

ested in some things I am able to) tell you. When a boy, I summer- i ed. but little by little I outgrew lt. j You have a right to hope that you wilL j "But suppose the thint? keeps up. You can succeed in spite of it. Qn i of the most respected journalists in New York City stammers. Two of Boston's leading medical men stam-1 mcr. Krastus Wiman stammered, j but amassed a fortune. Phillips Brooks summered, yet became not only a famous preacher but event- i

ually a bishop. "Whfti your classmates poke fun at you, the l?.ugh is on them anybody with sense knows better than to ridicule a stammerer.

"Buck up and be a sport. Stick!

it out. In that way you will develop! the strength of 'character that will!

make you a very successful man." A rather awkward reply reached my friend, but one overlooks awkwardness in a boy especially in a boy who has lately been written up in the papers for attempting suicide - and between the lines you could read an acknowledgment that my friend's letter had given him new courage and . new point of view and, in all probability, prevented his ever again lying down under

misfortune. ! A splendid letter it was, brimmlng over with inspiration for) while classes besides the stammer-;

ers. What encouragement for the beautlless girl, or for the lad with a black skin, or for the deformed, or for the multitudes of young men and young women who feel themselves handicapped by some family disgrace! By overcoming precisely those handicaps people develop he strength of character that brings euccess. Oftentimes they succeed not so much In spite of the handicaps as because of them. But what shall we say of the man who wrote he letter? Dozens of people scores, I suppose were prompted to write that boy in a good deal the same words when they read the item about him in the paper. Of the dozens or scores, only my friend actually wrote, and I suspect that even he would not have written if he had waited a bit. Like the rest, he would have said, "Well, it isn't my affair, why should I butt in?" or "It may give serious offense." or "Who knows if I shouldn't be doing more harm than good?" Oh, the splendor of first Impulses, the moral dowdiness of our much vaunted "second thoughts:" There is sometimes generous heroic, almost in first Impulses. A little later, enthusiasm will cool. Doubts hesitation, ignoble fears will have their way if you give them time. Don't! Act at once. By acting at once, my friend has a magnificently good deed to his credit and has saved a boy from ruin if hot actually from a suicide's death.

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Act That Way. "A native of New Guinea must never speak to hU mother-In-Uw. To do so U taboo." "ome chaps in this country must have heard of that custom." "

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This is the title of the first of tHo tlCW scries of IHo cük ventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glow, which will appear next Sunday in Tho News-Times, Tha first story is a corker a fair unplo of Avhat there isto cornea If you are a follower of theso ullmitable partners you will, as a matter of course be on the lookout for these new stones. And if you have not read of their previous adven hires, now is the opportune time to make their acquaint ance; you'll be mighty well entertained The new Potash and Perlmutter stories will to printed exclusively in South Bend in The News-TTmes. This will be their first publication anywhere in any form.

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