South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 235, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 23 August 1919 — Page 6

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THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

SOUTH BEND NEVS- TIMES; THE M'aculous trolley system.

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AUGUST 23. 19 19.

COOPERATIVE BUYING. Th Chimin rourifil of sr.ria! nn'ifs he np-roint-fi a committo' to invrriat' nays of improving th? hiiyinK rnlhiMl of vvlf-tro organizations. It 1; hf liov .l that if there u f rt cooperation in this mutter charitabU' institution.- in that ity cohl savo a totnl of 1100,000 a yar. ITn'ler present on.litions thf purc-hasiii authorities of tlu various welf.trt- orr nizations an not even aco.ua int ! with one .mother There is no definite policy in regard to buyini; supplies. CfUcieney and experience acquired by one buyer are not availably to buyers for other a'fnries. Kach organization acts alone and in comparative ifenorrnre of the purch:i?in activities of the others. Thin i; foolish on the face of it. Their wants- are nil imil.ir. Settlements, 'homes." hospitals, charitabl'; airencies and other b-n?volent institutions all need food, clothinp. ful and institution supplies. Quite often their otlice requirements are very much alike. Social acenHes are practising cooperation today more thnn ever before. They are uniting in discussion of many of the problems they are variously roncerned with In or.br to avoid duplication and waste of effort. To cooperate in their buying is mother t-tep In the ric;ht direction.

THE GUILTY CAUSES. Here are the muses of the hiph cost of llvincr. us revealed n recent bright sp-che3 in the houso and senate at WashinKton: Inflation of currency, hih taxes, devastation wrought by the Germans. Hiu armament, prohibition. Kovernmrntr.l rtravajrnnce automobile. short w-orkincr days. movies, milk bottles, wholesalers, retailers, commission .men, trusts. farmer, sanitary p.ickaprs. delivery wapona and telephone, domestic servants. Housewives, mud road, delay In ratifying the pence treaty. Takt your choice. Nearly everything Is there, though a few details micht be added. And having learned the list what are you poinc to do about tt:

THE FIVE DAY WEEK. Officers of the United Mine Workers of America Bay that at the national convention of that body, to bo held early in September, there is Koine; to be. tt demand made for a 30-hour week, the working time to be divided into five days of Fix hours each. Alonp with this short day and short week combination there i to be a demand for wnce increase of 40 t 6C percent over the present scale. Along with this remarkable proposal must be placed the. demand of 12.000 union painters and decorators In New York city who, though not defcianding such short hours as the miners, have actually pone on strike to obtain a five-day week, thus precipitating the hve-day movement in tho I'nlted States. These- demand.- are naturally regarded with keen Interest by the 'majority of Americans, who would rejoice just as much a the miners and painters, in the prospect, say, 4 f a eight-hour day and a bidny week, but who do not see any immediate possibility een of that. Production demands nt least that much work from the present labor supply. Where is the farmer who puts in so short a day or week? Where is the newspaper man. or doctor, r merchant, or hanker, who tan attain that deft raid e goal of ease? Where is the housewife who hopes eer to get her "sork done in 15 0 hours a week ? It is well to aspire to such f.ise as this, and work constructively for the creation of conditions niak-in-: it possible, uoi for any single class, but for all clashes, bat it is necessary for people who realize the actual phcht ofthe nation-and the world today to keep repeating tint this is no time for such extravagant ventures There lias been J - i1 e. 0 " 0 0 . 0 0 worth of wealth dctroed by the war. The peed of the time is the production of more va'.th to make up that loss. I'nti! more produce. i. r.ioie cannot be distributed. To work fewer diys and few er hours is to limit production, ntard the replacement of the lost wealth, keep up prices and make everybody poor indefinitely. It is ri-ht that every occupation should b- enabled to make a proper living and have its shite of the pred ict- ! ir.dasm, 't the American people will never Ket anywhere, under present economic conditions, if they work productively only siv. hours o it of . 4, or only tie lays out of seven. Any man or iratt thit seek to obtain full compensation fv-r such p.rt-time -ft'oi: m advance of the t'.rr.e when it will be possible generally, is demanding irore than he has any rii-'ht to, and trying to ub. tain ..is ctra le.-Jie at the epe !-... oi the rest of edety

Wi'h strei rr fnrev riin? everywhere, com-

j'anirs complaining tliat thiey are lomg mor.ey ;nd jitrons kiekin against higher fares, there is increasing inter t in th ("lcvel.inl plan. It is certainly n surpriin ,r phenomenon to find that in thM city of juarly I.O''.OOO people and long trolley hauls, the p..pl are riding for less than five cents, with no prospect of an increase. The present rat- of fare is il tickets for 10 cents, with an extra cent for trnrsfcT. It does not seem to be wreckintr th. company, either. The took, whi- h is quoted at 102, payn a dividend of six percent, which may soon be raised to sen percent. Wages have been increased 25 percent lately, and the employes are satisfied. How has this miracle beer, accomplished? "First, the water was squeezed out of the stock ome year ago The company was re-financed on a basis of actual value, with priate ownership and, public regulation. The company kept the actual management of Its property and employes, but the city guaranteed interest ;nd dividends and a?-sumed considerable authority over service, finances and general policies. This authority Is exerted chietly through the agency of a street railway commissioner. The fare moves up or down automatically to provide the Tuny required for fixed charges and operating expenses. S'o far, it has ranged from three to .five cents, with sumetlmes. as at present, a charge of one cent for transfer. The plan "is being studied with much interest by the Feder. il Klectric Railways Commission at Washington, and may be made tiv groundwork of recommendations made by that body for the straightening out of trolley troubles in other cities.

WHEN ONE COW EQUALS' FIVE. . It nuiy sound like an examjeration to sa one .ood cow is worth more than five poor .a s The asser' on is proved, though, by an incident related in a 1. S. department of agriculture bulletin. A Ne Jersey farmer had he cows, just ordinary cows, which were not very pood milkers, but with which he was pretty 'veil satisfied. He got as much milk from them as -lis neighbors cot from their cows. His son, hovoer, was not satisfied. He bought a high-irrade cow, and paid $"? for it a prieo which his father regarded as extravagant. When those six cows came fiejh in the spring, the one high-grade cow produced more milk than the othfcr live together, and kept it up loncer. There was live times the product for one-tifth of the labor and feed. Does good stock pay? Anybody in that neighborhood will ; gree now that it does The farme rs there, are selling off their old stock and buying a better breed.

At least, city consumers tind a certain satisfaction, in the midst of high prices for brea dstuffs, in the realization th.t thev don't have to help make up any billion-dollar bonus for the farmer s 'wheat crop.

Everywhere public men tre getting red in the fnce with denouncing "the prof iteers" a nd carefully refraining from specifying any particular profiteer.

Other Editors Than Ows

COMMON SKXSK AND Tili: I.KACU'K OF NATIONS. (Ily flom-go Allan Kngland.) Th most original thing any one can do, in discussing the league of Nation?, is to refrain from quoting Tennyson. I shall do tnis thing. Which means that I shall put aside much of the idealism of the subject and approach it from the standpoint of common sense, alone. In the first place, the matter is complicated by the general assumption that in dealing with the various nations we are dealing with homogeneous units. The T'nited States, France, Kngland and so on are spoken of as such units, animated presumably by common purposes. The franiers of the League have ignored, have either not understood or have suppressed, the fact that no such homogeneity in truth exists. The salient feature of modern capitalist society, the class struggle, has been conveniently shelved No effective voice has proclaimed the message, in the councils of the league, that modern, civilized society is cleft by this' dividing line and that the Interests of the different classes conilict. This league, as proposed, is therefore, essentially a League contemplated by the master classes for their mutual protection against the ravages of war; war having been amply proved as altocther too expensive a method of settling master-class quarrels. Would not the peace of the world be more securely guaranteed by a covenant between those. throughout the world, who do most of the suffering and paying for war. that they will right no more? I throw this hint into the air, like n Longfellownim arrow which may "fall to earth I know not where." but which may bear with it germs of a really effective peace organization. Another thought: The league contemplates cooperation between various social groups in extremely different states ot development. Some are full capitalist states, others partly so. still others frankly primitive. This makes an extremely hybrid organization. It is like trying to add different kinds of tilings; and we learned in primary school that different kinds of things cannot be added. There must be a common denominator. Think this out. also, "nnd see just what the only possible common denominator must be. in effective international p aco-etforts I have mv idea; what is yours? In case the League goes through, as proposed, certainly justice will be outraged if each n.Jon. civilized or uncivilized, capitalized or primitive, has an equal vote There should be an upper and a lower hou?e of some sort, th former with one or two votes, each, for every nation involved; the latter with one representative for each unit of population, be that unit one million, five million or whatnot. Only thu can any sort of Justice be maintained And even this arrangement may work Injustice to the smaller, weaker nations. In fine, the problem involved accepting the world as it really is, and laying all blue-bird dreams aside is so vast that to the eye of common sense it looks to be nearly insoluble. On the whole, however. I am !n favor of the Leacue. Faulty though it may be. tt is a step in the riizht direction. Internationalization moves this way. If we cannot have the whole apple, common rense dictates that we accept a bite. lv all mean.-, bt u have a League. Rut let us forget rainbow-chasing in the wake of Longfellow, iind 1"! us realize that ;aiy .League as now constituted can b4 only one step toward a really vffeetive one. which shall for all time efficiently safeguard th. peace of tb world

More Truth Than Poetry By James J. Montague THE OLD ONES. I relish these problem plays keenly enough. Though I never know what they're about, But I miss the old drama that used to get rough And whose finish was never in doubt. I loved to see heroines,- facing big odds Being dragged from their screaming mammas. In dramas with seventy-seven "My Godsl" And seventeen hundred "AhasI" I like to see Virtue beat over the head. For three long and terrible acts, While villains walk round with a rubber-heeled tread Hiding whisky in temperance tracts. I like to watch scenes where the dear little child Js about to be drowned in the dam While the torrent is raging, and logs, running wild. Are piled in a hideous jam. I like to see heroes fed into a saw. Which appears to be toothful and keen. As a bi, bunch of bystanders looks'on with awe, And no one dares stop the machine. I like to hear rifles ring out in the night When redskins are out on a bust, And know that a number of savages tite To quote old Bill Cody the dust. These dramas perhaps were a trifle uncouth; They got a bit crude now and then. But they brightened the nights of my vigorous youth, And I fain would behold them again. 1 love to remember those glorious days. When a sack, of red gum drops I'd munch, And weep or applaud at the soul stirring plays. That had a full measure of punch I (Copyright. 1919).

The Tower of Babel

ßy Bill Armstrong

IN Till; i;i)lTOHS mail. Editor of Tower of Babel. Hear ur: In your column Thursday I

i ticed there was u.-ed as a "tiller'

ad of Uorlick's malted milk

noall in

which a cow is prominently featured. Would not a Rull Durham tobacco ail be more in the proper setting ? HARRY E. WHEELOCK

Our Kiwanis friend, Al Smith of Iincaster. Ta , who looks like Nelson Jones hut is not bragging any about it. writes that he finally cot

; back home from the Kiwanis convention held in May at Rirmingjham, Ala. He lost his watch on the 1 long trip and sends his Regards to Nelson Jones and the other local

Kiwanians who were at Birmingham.

AN ODE TO A WOl'LD-lU: FISH. FRM.W. (Ity a Keel Fisherman.) South Rend has n druggist I-andorr is his name He claims to be an expert At the fishing game Wuh a brand new tackle Ho hied hi.ui to the lake And promised .his friends A string of fish he'd take He fished throughout the day And he fished through all the night Rut a friend who saw him Claims he never had a bite Tired, worn and weary He rowed to the shore And swore by seen kind of pills That he would tish no more He has laid away the fishing-rod The hooks, the line and spoons For he is as lucky at fishing As gathering mushrooms.

We had always thought Nels and Al looked a lot alike, so one day down in the Tutwiler at Birmingham we lined the two up together and appointed a committee of six judges. They brought in a verdict of guilty on all four counts and decided that- AI was bald headed and Nels had a lot of hisn yet, while Al had a sort of cream colored nose and Nelson didn't.

wk m:vi:h iii:ki of ft m:ixc WITT. From one of the other leading afternoon dailies: "The chances are that the dwtdlinus advertised today will be rented before the afternoon edition of the Tribune is dry."

John Lasimer tells us that they are only passing around one kind of a bier these days.

r An advertising agency the other day sent in an advertisement to sell formulas for making beer, whisky and wine. We will take this occasion to inform the trade how we behave on an occasion of this kind. We first a dj i:sted a pair of very heavy smoked glasses to our eyes to make seeing - impossible. We next

! picked up this most objectionable

piece of advertising copy with a pair of very large tweezers, anfl lugged it into the basement, where the paper was burned to a crisp in a furnace provided for this purpose. The ashes were removed carefully from the furnace and were deposited in the .St. Joseph river, where they will be practically safe unless there is a policeman straining the river at some point between here and 5?t. Joseph, Mich.

We hate to stagger to press today without a contribution of any kind from The Niles Barber.

Ralph Hutchinson called one to our attention, Kd Haver hung a set of harness out in front of his place with a sign on it: "For isile to the lowest bidder."

LONDON, Aug. 2.:. Hugh L. Dohority. former lawn tennis champion of Rpgland, died Thursday at Rroadstairs, a summer resort in Kent.

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McCall October Patterns are now on sale at pattern counter. McCall Fashion Sheets also here.

There is but one more week to buy Furs and Blankets at our August Sale price.

Luggage for School and Traveling Here Listed Below Are a Few Pieces of Our New Luggage Department that will be Shown in the Window Over Sunday Trunks 36 inch Ladies' Dress Trunk in ?N?jc7 the full size. This trunk is of the 2? 7 new Mishawaka model of the N. V. &VÄ&SS P.. is well made for serviceable f frl 1 ? wear . . . $19.50 A full size Wardrobe in the N. V. Wml Ml P. trunk, made of 3 ply panels and mf ' hard vulcanized nbre, cretonne y CZ fcc;Jj- ;tT'I.' lined and equipped with laundry V" ''nj bag and shoe pocket $35.00 Medium sized wardrobe of the noted "Indestructo" construction made in arrangements both for men and women, cretonne lined $60.00 Extra large Wardrobe, 25 inches wide, the "Indestruclo" laminnted construction and fitted for every convenience $75.00 The "Indestructo" army trunk built for heavy army wear, is exceptionally suited for automobile touring. It measures 1 3x1 7x3 1 inches $15.00 Bags A Ladies' 16 inch Bag of long wearing composition leather and moire lined. $1 1.50 Ladies' 16 inch of black boarded leather and .leather lined $25.00 Men's full sized bag of heavy brown leather and leather lined $36.50 Suit Cases Ladies' light weight suit case for over-night trips, and boarded imitation leather and satin lined $1 1.00 A Ladies' over-night case in a good-looking black enamel with black and white stripe linen lining $13.00 A brown leather over-night case, 22 inch size $18.50 A medium size suit case in brown leather of special value at $17.50 Week-end cases, 28 inch black enamel, complete with tray $14.50 Brief cases for school use $5.00, $8.00 and $15.00 All of the Above Pieces of Luggage Will Be in the Window Over Sunday

Increased Production a World Necessi?

FARsiGHTFD business men realize, now that the war has been won, that the problem ot" getting capital and labor to cooperate closely for greater production is more acute than it was when war was a driving force behind it. Anything which impedes production means less advertising and leaves business helpless in the face of rising wages and increased cost of living. What plan will best insure this imperative co-operation between conservative labor and constructive capital, and how Advertising the lorce which helped mightily to win the war may help promote that plan, will he discussed by leaders on both sides of industry at the rifteenth annual Advertising Convention New Orleans, September 21-25, 1919 No matter what plan may he evolved, cither by capital or labor, public sentiment will make the tinal decision. Advertising must be used to inform the public. All business men and women are invited. Come voursclf, or fend a high representative of your organisation. For detailed information, hotel accommodations, etc., write ät once to Associated Advertising Clubs

of the World

no West 40th Street, New York, N. Y.

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