South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 99, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 9 April 1919 — Page 6

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APRIL 9. 1919.

BE A BOND SLEUTH I Tli ' i iirii'-nt. l)iru.;t;h th- ITfirts of th- tff;ibury d i .t 1 1 n i n t and thi capit.il i-u,s connnittr , ii ti.iii all it ;ui to protect I.il'i rty bond holders fron lh- Operations of fraudulent .stork prronott-rs. In f-tiations are n d.tily at VahinKton on tlie !j.--is of information already gathered. The work is hcin pre.-ed forward n tn asinicly not only to .-top ?windlint,' in rotm'otion with pre Uus Kiherty loatts l,'!t to in'ire protertion for the millions of pu t e ha -is of the eomin sjrrat 'n tor loan. A federal trade mm in i'ion 1 n 1 1 1 t : t j earries the following a'lvii to all hond holders: ;i Sleuth! When omonr tries to ell ou s peeii 1 a t i r Cr dOljhtflll Morks and eJrlt ir-s - (let his name. Particularly if he tries to -vi h in?" his mrurities f(r our Liberty lamds lift his name! (let not only his name, and address if poMliN . h it iet ail tiie "literature" he has. Then -end it all to the federal trade ronimission, Wa-hlllk'toil. I . ('. The holder ,f lare nun. I.ers of Idherty ho'ids usually knows how to protect himself from th swindler. The warning is especj.diy for those people who p.owr held any s a rit ie hefore. Hniph.vt rs, local welfare and ciic organizations, every one. in fact, M ho lias an opprw tnr;it to do so, should tell such people of th if il.tnu'er an! urp1 them tt "hohl their !ond"

WITH AF'OLOGIES TO THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION IN THE LIGHT OF REV. A. M. EELLS' CIVIC SUNDAY SERMON. ir we arc to take l:e. Ir. I'ells if Westminster rhureh. in the full m-h c of his criticism, we guess we indeed, owe the .Ministerial association an apology. In his Sunday murnincr sermon, he takes the pr s-s to task for sitiillin out the members of that organization, and appealing particularly to them, when moral questions are to be ansuereol, m preference to the other churches not aliened with the association. He s.ys we have (fen "partial;" anxliow. we suppose he meant us, since the shoe fits so weil w e can hardl ail wearinu ii. ihilit'.anly nn organization of that character, which for wars, until p' lhaps just rcctntly. has prolainie.l itself the cetn v and eit ( umferenoe of all iuo ements tenömLr to the moral uplift, would feel proud to ha such parti ility shown it. Kvidently we have not kept pace- with its jjrowini: humility. It is a n w -1 1 1 i t that stems to have taken hold of what w.i formerh. in apparent u ish a sort of "ministerial trust." induUin the ri-:ht to dictate th- morals of tip- commvinitv. In-t-ad of "pri'i. uoeth before b-st ru i-t ion. and a haughty spirit 'n fore a fall." belli their latter-day motto, as i: was of old. they appetr to b.ave adopted that other one: " hosoe.r ealtth him-elf shall al.is.d, and he that hum'-leth, himself -ha!l le exalted" And o. as w e tak it from lh. l a lls' address, .lie .M misNria ! as.u iati'Ui. sort of "at-ased" through

the self-ealiat;on. pride ,ind ha i ;ht ii i

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tu in bersiiips. Would like to i; i out from under, hiiiubline; itself for future xalta I ion. by admitting th.it ministers no! within its folds, arc also capableof hav m ; moia! and civic aspirations for the community, which they should he invited to expound. That would lie a shifting of some of the respotisibiht too. as wt review it: shifting part of thf rt sponsibility, whi.h in our present stress of moral rottenness natural no one rates to assume in full. )f course. Pr. ,'b lis is speakit.u onlv for himself nt least b hitr.M'li'. - 'M far as the remainder of the Mini-; rial association is concerned, and perhaps we should not attui h too much of the significance of his talk to that oriMiiiut ion. That he lias talked, however, pretty much :cs the association has acted, is at b-a-t circumstantial evidence of his httVitif," taucht Hi" sniri; from somewhere. Itosides !l Lb he who. a !;.ui!'r of the organization, raiscil the .iest!on in its ,d;alf. and that is all we have, to j;o by. We quote h.s wcrds that there may bo no mistakin; them: "We depend upou our newspapers. We need them to cr st.tllize public ventiment. Hoth of them have condemned otucial neplipence. And t h i- is the time to .'.ri-e above partis-in politics. T'.uT in their p-ili- y whether intentionally or unintentionally, the pap, rs hir been partial to par: of the tbry of our city. When the ,ni,. tarn of ituumI cor.tlitioits has arisen the reporters h.e hurried to interview members of the Ministerial a-ev iation to tind out if anything wa planned for a correction of nublic e r.s. l'.ut they have ignored those p. tutors outside of the association. One paper ailed the roll of the association, told them to stand up ami laid on them the blame for condition, but did not ascril e any responsibility to those outside of the ass-elation. What law or mandate ha made that association or particular organization the sob- monitor of puMi. morals? "Are the pators of the Iutheran. Catholic. Ilpis opal. an and Jewish ihurches without any moral instincts or with-'tit a desire to better Cüü ii:iur.; ? .N'o. I ki'.ow tjme of these men

and churches and I know that they would favor a movement to better our city. It Is not fair to the Ministeriii association or the othr pastor of the city to expert that association to he the sole instrument to achieve a moral reform. And I invite the newspapers to direct their efforts in prcurincr the cooperation of all courageous pastor. and churches for the purpose of bettering conditions. It each church and pastor stand on an individual record toward such a plan. Then the. public can draw its own conclusions a to the responsibility of existing conditions;. "The Ministerial association will not correct public- evil. It never has. It is easy to appoint a committee, disagree with that committee or depend on that committee to shoulder the. whole duty and the rest forpet it. Nothing will result. I)urins: the lest efforts to better conditions here all th'- rhtircho represented in the association were per'unctorily committed to the movement. Hu when the tet enrne there were two churches that stood out unflinchingly and dependable. And they cave themselven. not to the plans of the association, but to the civic welfare and upon their own individual restvnsibility. And any movement that succeeds will be a campaign that is not dependent upon the Mir.i-terial association hut instead is dependent upon the Individual responsibility and reputation for fearlessness, of every church and pastor choosinr help make South Uend a city of good repute." Which, we guess. js a picture of things, pretty much as they are, and even, as they .always have been, but not as the Ministerial association has in times past sou cht to have it appear. Furthermore, why u Ministerial association, if not a place to pro. an alignment of pastors, for coordinate, interested, effective action? The old records show such to havo been the claimed purpose of the organization, but evidently only for the purpose of making a biff noise, when convenience justified, or when there was an ulterior motive, as for instance, depending upon which political party is at the helm of the misfeasances or malfeasances in vogue. . We might in such connection suggest to Dr. Hells that while he is lighting lightly on the city administration and the prosecutor's office because of their "political quarrels" seeking to minimize the efforts of the latter into the same category with the lack of effort on the part of the former, ho mitrht mayhap, with some propriety, make the same application tf) the association that lie is seeking to screen, while inviting responsibility for other shoulders. Would the Ministerial association W as silent, and would its members be urging assumption of responsibility, or even the possibility of interest in the morals of the city, upon non-member ministers, if the political completion of the city hall and the prosecutor's ofiice were the reverse? Theold association, of years ago. we dare say wouldn't. rut anyhow, we apologize. We won't expect any particular concerted action in tho direction of civic righteousness or moral welfare from the Ministerial association any more. We had given up expecting anything of the kind even had Dr. Hells never delivered his sermon. We had been judging the modern organization, after several changes of pastorates, by the status in the community that it claimed, say; well, two, four, six, eight or ten years ago; judging it by the big noise that it has echoed down through tho years, instead of its present unyellish 111 odestv. Which is exactly why. quite contrary to Dr. Hells, we stood the members of the association up n line, and asked them some questions not laying "the blame on them for conditions," as he says, hut asking them if in the light of the Barrett case. they could see where the responsibility lay, and if they were ready to do something to correct it. We have given you his words. Now tike ours. We asked them: "Are you able now, in the face of what happened in the superior court ' Wednesday in the 'Tony' Harrett liquor case and Monday in the case of Tom Ward, to satisfy yourself, regardless of your own politics, or of the political complexions of the city administration, or of the prosecutor's office, as to who is 'fourflushing' in the matter of law enforcement, and who is 'jimming up the trial of the liquor cases?" "Your generosity in the past, if not individually, at least, as a Ministerial association, in carefully avoiding criticism of the city administration, while so seemingly willing to condone its stigma sought to be cast at the prosecutor's office, has been such that one might almost expect you to meet now and pass resolutions of commendation to Chief Kline for his splendid work in forcing 'Friend' Uarrett's freedom, and condensation of Pros. Schwartz in not being able tr. secure a conviction in spite of it. . "The South Hend and Mishawaka public will be glad to know now, in the face of Judge Jones' pronunciamento, whether or not the Ministerial association is to ho a real moral force in the community, hoisting its Christianity above party politics, and standing for what is right, and decent, and for the man who da reu to serve, regardless of party, bt caust it is rieht." That is why we asked the members of the Ministerial association, individually and collectively, in the Unlit of the organization's past claims, to "'stand up." and we added as emphatically, that if they didn't like it. their partisanship so superceding the moral issues, that they couldn't "stand up," they should, of course, "sit down." and we can accordingly see very little in Dr. Hells' attitude, except a disposition to "sit down." and let the other ministers, outside the association, along with those inside willing to act independantly "take up the white man's burden." Wherefore, having caught the drift, it is worth the apology that we offer. Our mistake seems to have been that of swapping criticisms in public witn a ghost.

We hope the next Chicago speaker that comes this way will have more tact than to attack the national administration in a political way unless he comes for that purpose. rather than to address a purely mm-partisun gathering. While Chicago ihariy showed its anti-American attitude in the list election. South Bend is still an American city.

Th wirebss telephone has been perfected to such a degree '.hat it is possible now to carry on a conversation with a steamship passenger from the time ho sails from an American port until ho lands in Kngland or France. That is. if the victim doesn't jump into the drink before ho lands.

Theodore Koosevelt. Jr.. announces that he's going into politics, and there's a Roosevelt cousin assistant secretary of the navy again. Which is interesting, but not conclusive. History may repeat itself, but biography doesn't.

The whoi? world's attitude toward the United St-ites will soon be represented by the eloquent little symbol. "I. O. U."

774 bandonedRoom A Mystery Story by Wadxworth Camp. (CONTINUED.)

SYNOPSIS. Bobby Clanrtrn 1 auapected of the murder of bis grandfather. Silaa Blackburn, who wit found dead with a small bole tt the base of til brain. In aa abandoned and locked rexm of hla home, tie Cedara. Circumstantial er 1 dene potnta to the rullt of Bobby, who Is on able to establish an alibi aa a reault of loa of memory after a night of "Ray life" In New York, spent In company of Parades, from Panama, and Marie, a bpanlah woman. He awake In a deserted shack near the Cedars and goea to the bouse, where be meets bis cousin. Kstberine, and Graham, a friend. All agree that mystery surrounds the death of the old man. who wai on of many

; Blackburna to die In same manner. Strang sighs invariably mark tba occa

sion of a death la the room.

Paredes blew a wreath of smoke. Ris eyes still smiled, but his voice was harder: "Bygones are bygones. Isn't that so. Bobby?" "Since you wish it," Bobby said. But more important than the knowledge Graham desired. loomed the old question. What was tho 'man's game? What held him here? Itobinson entered. The flesh around his eyes was puffier than it had been yesterday. Worry had increased the incongruous discontent of his round face. Clearly he had slept little. "I saw you arrive," he said. "Rawlins warned me. But T must say I didn't think you'd use your freedom to come to us." Paredes laughed. "Since the law won't hold me at your convenience in Smithtown I keep myself at your service here if Bobby permits it. Could you ask more?" Bobby shrank from the man with whom he had idled away so much time and money. That fleeting, satanlc impression of yesterday came hack, sharper. more alarming. Parades' clear challenge to the district attorney was the measure of his strength. His mind was subtler than theirs. His reserve and easy daring mastered them all; and always, as now, he laughed at the futility of their efforts to sound his purposes, to limit his freedom of action. Bobby didn't care to meet the uncommunicative eyes whose depths he had never been able to explore. Was there a special power thero that could control the dejtinies of other people, that might make men walk unconsciously to accomplish the ends of an unscrupulous brain? The district attorney appeared as much at sea as the others. "Thanks." he said dryly to Paredes. And glancing at Bobby, Tie asked with a hollow scorn : "You've no objection to the gentleman visitng you for the present?" "If he wishes," Bobby answered, a trifle amused at Robinson's obvious fancy of a collusion between Paredes and himself. Robinson jerked his head toward the window. "I've been watching the preparations out there. I guess when he's laid away you'll be thinking about having the will read." "No hurry," Bobby answered with a quick intake of breath. "I suppose not," Robinson sneered," since everybody knows well enough what's in it." Bobby arose. Robinson still sneered. "You'll be at the grave as chief mourner?" Bobby walked from the room. He hadn't cared to reply. He feared, as it was. that he had let blip his increased self-doubt. He put on his coat and hat and left the house. The raw cold, the year's first omen of winter, made his blood run quicker, forced into his mind a cleansing stimulation. But almost immediately even that prophyjactic was denied him. "With his direction a matter of indifference, chance d him into the thicket at the side of the house. He had walked some distance. The underbrush had long interposed a veil between him and the Cedars above whose roofs smoke wreathed

in the still air like fantastic figure weaving a shroud to lower over the time-stained, melancholy walls. For once he was grateful to the forest because it had forbidden him to glance perpetually back at that dismal and pensive picture. Then he became aware of twigs hastily lopped off, of bushes bent and torn, of the uncovering, through these careless means, of sin old path. Simultaneously there reached his ears the scraping of metal implements in the soft soil, the dull thud of earth falling regularly. He paused, listening. The labour of men was given an uncouth rhythm by their gruntinff expulsions of breath. Otherwise the nature of their industry and its surroundings had imposed upon them a silence, in itself beast-like and unnatural. At last a harsh voice came to Bobby. Its brevity pointed the previous dumbness of the speaker: "Deep enough!" And Bobby turned and hurried back along the roughly restored path, as if tleeing from an immaterial thing suddenly quickened with the power of accusation. He could picture the fresh oblong excavation in the soil of the family burial ground. He could see where the men had had to tear bushes from among the graves in order to insert their tools. These was an ironical justice in the condition of the old cemetery. It had received no interment since the death of Katherine's father. LJke everything about the Cedars, Silas Blackburn had delivered it to the swift, obliterating fingers of time. If the old man in his selfishness had paused to gate beyond the inevitable fact of death. Bobby reflected, he would have guarded with a more precious Interest the drapines of his final sleep.

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Tili; AN'CiHY JANITOR. Under the title of "Leaks from a Fountain Pen," a contrib hands us this: The janitor stood in the court, His features wore a scowl; '.Most any one could see that he Was mad enough to howl. Hi-: little daughter poked her head Outside and cried: "Oh, dad, Tho tenants all are asking why You're mad." He shook an angry fist at her And cursed the world at large "You tell them this," ho bellowed forth, "Just as I say it. Marge. Hxplain that I have cot a grouch That always is in force. Because J am a janitor, Of course!"

WASN'T SO EJtV WRONG. Food Regulator Merritt was discussing the high cost of living- and other things, and remarked, "The fluctuations come w fast that it is

impossible to keep an accurate line j

on prices. We are all in the same pos-ition as the small boy who said to his mother: "Why do hats cost more than houses, mamma?" "But they don't, dear. What made you think so?" "Well, that sign says 'Hats, $10 up.' and yesterday 1 .saw a tign that said 'Houses, $10 üovn. " Judge.

MADE HIM MAD. Ly sender, a farmhand, was recounting his troubles to a neighbor He bald of the wife of the farmer who employed him: "This morning she asked me, 'Lysander, do you know how many pancakes vou have et this tnornin'?' I said. No, ma'am, 1 ain't had no occasion to count 'em. 'Well,' says she, 'that last one was the twentysixth.' And it made me so mad I jest got up from the table and went to work without my breakfast!" Kverybody's Magazine."

D I l llZl HINT V I LIWP O LNTS. Rankin A new song is called "It's a Hoog Way Back to Mother's Knee." Phyle "Humph, sune obi idea!" "But there will always be soiv? praising mother." "I didn't think of this one as praising mother! I thought it was taking another slap at the short skirts." Yoifngstown Telerrram.

FROM Tili; CIIKSTNLT TUKE. "What relation is a door to a door-mat ?" "What?" "A step farther."

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