South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 315, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 11 November 1919 — Page 8

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PROFIT FOR BOY TRAPPERS. n.iluit skins ?.r' in pr-.i. ü inainl this ar. no to wrap iia'-y Uunfini; in luil to nuke hats of. A Miigie n.-torn conom h;t. announ'-fd thüt it wil. rol !0.0t'0.H(iO rn'lit skins Ourinir 1 ! 1 'J ;uil 1 railly is no lonjcf-r th only on- to a -Jiuiitin-,' for thfc .kin. riil.fr. M;ir.v Linn lm s arc locking forward to . min a small inoonip hy thnir activi-t:-in procutm the much want-il rabtiit These ki') am sohI hy tho Tound, one pound roittainincr soven or olfjht lrio.l kins. Tlw l"nit l stau s h'partmnt of agriculture will supply any in piin f vitli thp namo rind address of nossil.U- nnii;i'i.of rahhit skins ami other pelfs for a K';t manv othr conimnnplaco and formerly üttle-vahu-d fiu ;.rp hfinjr sought today. Thiis is i protitahle tielJ. of t;ideaor for tin- o:in (tapper who want. to earn a little real money and who realizes that there are mor rahhits in his r.-i elihorhood than are Hood for tlic crops.

PRUSSIA'S EDUCATIONAL POLICY. Prussia's new educational policy, if carried oil in good faith, will accomplish morp toward making if a country that the world can trust than any other plan that could hn devised And in hemming country worthy of trust it will do more to promote the happiness of Its people than could !.- ilonr in any other way. The? minister of iducation announces that ideas of r-vfn and hatred will not 1 tolerated in th class room?, hut instead th doctrine of eternal peace and eternal brotherhood will he triuht. Germany's children will b informed that hope of reIrmintf the fatherland lies in useful work, not in another war. That a sensible stand to take Th? Teutonic temperament is -.such that in a few years they c.ln easily forpret. if they wish, all thoughts of levenfce. The nh'ejrmatic German cannot cultivate for prenerntior.s the hope of retaliation except by careful nursing. The 11am e of hatred may burn lereely for a while but its life cannot b p.-o. trncted so Ions in the people of Teutonic blood as iti those of the Iatin race. The Prussian?, therefore, if they carry out the educational minister's plans, should ra?e the rancors of lhe war from their minds quickly. The sooner :? is done, the prompter will be the national recuperation. The new German constitution provides compulsory education of all German children for 12 years from thj aso of six to eighteen years which will carry them through what corresponds to the ei?ht grades of our primary schools and the four year of hih school. With every German of the next generation a hich school graduate, the country wiU have an advantage over competing nations which pay less attention to education. Lttit us hope that thv virtue and necessity of keepnsr covenants will he instilled into German chiMitn under the new educational system.

HIS GIFT TO HUMANITY. An invention which a French mechanical genius says he has produced and which he declares promises a revolution in urban transportation may be that or it may he just some clexer advertising; like the synthetic gasoline which was to give a ;uadrupled mileage to meter vehicles and didn't. The Frnch invention is said to ic a small machine which weighs only n little more than ICO pounds. It is small enough to be taken anywhere and is said to be- able to take to the air from afnnt door, a back yard, or a cellar door on the sidewalk. If there is anything- suspicious about this machine it seems to bo that it premises too much. The inventor differs from the majority of his follow workers in that ne says he will rt fus-e to make any profit from his machine. Jig offers it as a gift to humanity. Hut the gift to humanity part of the program seems to be nullified by the report that New York promoter? are ne-otiating for his plans. If the machine gtts into the hands of New Votk promoters humanity may have to w :it another ceniury or so for th- gift cf fa, raph . safe and cluap : i ar.sportatioa

A memory liouldes back to those nrdvamt.-.er pUadings to buy the winter's ui.il, tli- : g gr v jon inevitable that perhaps u wo .'d be ;i to do ;'..e t.'hristmas shopping euily.

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Aircraft "Smellers" Shocked. JUST as well to keep a little posted on the way in which things are proceedin?:, if you care to; bright and brilliant things that are being done, here, there and yonder, getting ready for next year, no difference at what cost, and no difference by what process, or disregard for truth. The house of representatives investigations into war expenditures are in point. The latest limelight on the heedless and haphazard methods of the investigators, comes from the probe of aircraft production, resulting in a sudden shock, particularly to the republicans on the committee, when they came face to face with John D. Ryan, director of the bureau, during the last six months of the war. Prefacing his testimony with a denunciation of the sub-committee's methods in assailing himself and others in a telegram to the secretary of war, some months ago, without granting them a hearing, he said: "I want to say here and now that I think it was an outrageous and scandalous abuse of your congressional privilege to send any such telegram, impugning the motives of men who were doing their best to win '.he war, and to make any such charges and statements as were made in that telegram without first having given the man who was charged in it an opportunity to answer." According to the reporters and dispatches. Mr. Ryan looked steadily at James A. Frear of Wisconsin and Walter W. Magee of New York, the republican members of the sub-committee, who were responsible for the telegraphic charges, Clarence F. Lea of California, declining to assist in such work.

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AR. RYAN also unsparingly criticized the "smellers" for refusing him a V1 hearing at Washington, where all his official records are stored, and termed his being forced to appear in New York as unfair and placing him at 'a distinct disadvantage." Gossip has it that Chairman Frear, realizing that his charges against Mr. Ryan were without foundation, called the hearing in New York in the hope of avoiding the publicity that would be given by some 200 Washington correspondents, all familiar with the case. But he found the New Yorkers equally alert. A telegram from Sec'y of War Baker to Chairman Frear on September 4, 1919, in answer to the latter's charges, was read into the record by Mr. Ryan, the chairman having omitted to do this for reasons that become apparent when it is read : "In both of your telegrams statements arc made with regard to matters which I have investigated and which are wholly unsupported by the facts. In addition to this, grave accusations and intimations are made against persons of the highest reputation whose services to the country have been patriotic and upright. I cannot by telegram cover in detail the manifold errors in your messages. I can only express the hope that your committee will afford complete and adequate opportunity for presentation of all facts before it undertakes to make a report. Frankness leads me to express deep regret that the committee, not having heard all the evidence, is making its suspicions the basis of widespread and unjust publicity." Mr. Ryan's testimony, which was unshaken, embraced the following points of outstanding importance: y 1. That he had nothing whatever to do with the building of the 36 miles of railroad in the spruce section of the Olympic peninsula, Washington, and had stipulated that he should not have on assuming control of the aircraft production because of being a director of the Chicago, Milwaukee öc St. Paul railway, the connecting line. 2. That the $4,000,000 expenditure on the railroad also embraced the construction of yards and terminals, and because of natural conditions encountered, war costs and the necessary speed the figure was not excessive. Incidentally the Milwaukee railroad is not bidding for the line because it was not placed in the territory the railway company preferred, but was so situated for the purpose for which it was built (a prompt getting out of the spruce from the heart of the spruce section). Also the plans originated by the Milwaukee railroad for a projected extension tapped 1 0 times as much land of the Milwaukee Land Co., a subsidiary, as did the line constructed. This showed the facts to be diametrically opposed to the Frear telegraphic assertions. 3. That after consultation with allied representatives the United States aircraft production board agreed eventually to produce 30,000,000 feet of spruce a month, and that the program was well advanced when the armistice was signed and developments were halted. 4. That the use of American soldiers in carrying out the railroad and lumber contract being investigated, was more than justified because of an I. W. W. strike, alien enemy maneuvers and a shortage of labor. 5. That on his return to America from Europe in October, 1918, Mr. Ryan had contracts for 6,000 Liberty engines from France, at $21,000.000. and 5,500 engines, at $16,000,000. from Great Britain. Before Mr. Ryan went abroad this country had contracted for the sale of 22,500 Liberty engines; on his return the total was 49,500. This country was making 150 Liberty motors a day on November I I (Armistice day), as against 250 a week in England after four years of war. Ill RYAN continually carried the war into the territory of the republican members of the committee. He expressed his scorn at the acceptance of testimony of "soreheads who failed to get government contracts," and refused to be bound by a map exhibited by one of his accusers on the ground that it was palpably drawn "for campaign purposes." One of the witnesses preceding Mr. Ryan was H. S. Kerbaugh of the firm of Siems-Carey-Kerbaugh, Inc., contractor for the railroad and the deliveries of spruce in that section. He stated one reason for the selection of a route 1 1 miles longer than another was that the shorter one would have had to be built on clay banks and would have been practically impossible to construct before the rainy season set in. and also that it would have cost more to construct the shorter than the longer line because of these conditions. Mr. Ryan's information was to the same effect. England had to have 10,000,000 feet of spruce monthly, said Mr. Ryan. France specified 3.000.000. Italy 4,000,000 and the United States planned on 6,000,000, but the total was made 30,000,000 to allow for delays, submarine sinkings, etc. England's demand was in addition to what she was getting from British Columbia, which was uncertain. With 2,000 feet of spruce needed in one airplane, it was figured that 1 1,500 planes a month would be possible, while England and America each figured on 5,000 and France 3,000. Brig.-Gen. Brice L. Disque, executive officer in charge of the spruce production, was called "the best lumber man I ever saw" when work practically stopped last November, and at a time when, Frear and Magee asserted, British authorities found fault with him. Mr. Ryan produced a letter from one of the leading English aircraft officials praising Gen. Disque in highest terms. The organization by Gen. Disque of the "Loyal Order of Loggers and Lumbermen" was a "stroke of genius," Mr. Ryan said, ciS it made possible the ousting of the I. W. W. and alien elements. "In the spring of 1918." said Mr. Ryan, "any lumber worker loyal to America was liable to assassination; in the fall any one who was disloyal was in the same danger." It was on Mr. Ryan's recommendation that Gen. Disque is now head of the Amsinck Co., a subsidiary of the American International corporation, at a salary of $30.000 a year. This was the general tenor of the entire examination of Mr. Ryan. No bulldozing performance was attempted, and the best efforts of the committee's $3,000 special fee lawyer failed to dislodge Mr Ryan. IV. THINK it over! Do you. Mr. Citizen, who must pay the bills, exactly approve of tuch trumped up investigations, just for political effect wasting your money for the mere pleasure of throwing mud at a serious affair, such as was the winning of the war, when everything was being done breakneck speed, and in the m-iin, with but the one point of winning the war, in view) Politics! Politics! Politics! Nothing but politics, and you pay the bill. And you gel a glimpse here of the kind of dirty politics it is.

The Tower of Babel n BILL ARMSTRONG.

IX YK KDITOR'S MAIL. Friend Bill: A few days hko I noticed in your famed "Tower" &n articl in which I was the main actor, said acticle accused me of a fondness for street car ridina:. statine that I so much enjoyed the same that I would walk several squares away from the city to taie a car to town, may be true, but Just the same, if a few of my prosperous neighbors and friends and old John Haberle would occasionally take a ride, the poor street car company would not be compelled to put into service one man tars. Respectfully yours, H. J- LEDBItEFk

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Sir: Jae is humming with political speculation since the world's series. Everyone is talking politics, and now that all the Ii. B. bets are made and laid up for the winter, the great fourth party, the public, is being joined into line. Jake sez "the public mind is the political puzzle and the politicians is baffled." Jake handed me the following: "During my journeys 'round the faces of many of my clients I note many evidences of this here dtsi-" for a change in politics. I am surprised to find men 'from as far away as Bertrand who soz wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if, in the next campaisn. we could have one party, or one candidate, to represent the independent progressive American citizen?" "I wouldn't care how many other parties or candidates there was," he added, "if we could have just one man to represent the American public, to champion American ideas and American institutions. That there feller 1 shaved Just before you was from Bremen, he needed a shave bad. old friend of my brother Ed's" J. C. E.

Armstrong: My reader advertisement in your paper is again missing today. Betting on the. appearance of my reader advertisement in The News-Times, is like playing the racps you seldom win so they say. ALEXIS COQUILLARD.

roc. you sirouLR fi:i:l lucky vor ;ot a wioxK! wi: rdi:hi;d oi; during tri: war and IT 1IA1XT COMK YI7T. Dr. Stoeckley's office telephone number is 8 S o and phone has not been disconnected, as continually reported by the telephone operators. Residence Main 3361.

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