South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 61, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 1 March 1920 — Page 6

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MARCH 1. 1920. THE DECLINE IN EXPORTS. TThy a French importer, who formerly settled vrith five franca every bill for Jl rendered by the American exporter from whom he bought hi.n goods, now nvist pay 14 francs is indicated by the annual report of the federal reserve board, showing that the United States ont abroad last year $4,02 7.749.000 more of Konda than it received in return. With American exchange difficult. In consequence, not enly for French but for most European importare to obtain, it is but natural thut they should curtail their purchases from us. It has ben predicted that there will bo a decline in our exports. The fulfilment of the prophecy M in fclght. accordjnp: to a statement made by officials of tho United States nrain corporation that "th4 decline of foreipn exchange has made available sufficient tonnage" for a proposed shipment of flour to Austria, Armenia and other famine-stricken countries. The falling off in our forisn trade w:ll be re prtted. There is fcorr.f consolation, however, in the prediction that with Uurope's demand lessened thare will be more poods available to suf ply domestic needa. and that the cot of living will fall fn coniuuonee. A for Furope, hird as it may bo at first to ha deprived of the supplies which hav been coming' from the United States in such a triantic stream alnce the bejrlnninpr of the war, it cannot but eventually re beneficial to be thrown on her own reKiurr es. She will continue to buy necessaries, such aa foodstuffs and raw materials, from us. but until the equilibrium exchanges ha? been restored will havft to manufacture herself supplies to roplace. those she his been buylnp in the United 8tites. The enforced return to work will speed ra-ertablishment of normal conditions.

STANDARDIZED DRESS. "Each reader is invited to picture in hi. or her own mind the deleters to a national convention of a woman's association of commerce which hn been meeting in Columbus. O. As an aid to the proceis two of the resolutions adopted may be of value. One declared for n standardized dross for business worn ?n and tho other approved ready-to-w ar npparcl a-- a means of reducing: the hih cost of iivirr. Most persons can imapine without any preat effort thse pci'.tle damf-s who favor a st irdardize 1 dres for business women. The vintace may be further fixed Ty that declaration approvinp of ready-to-wear apparel. They are probably still livini; in what th literary cent? ref'r to ;is the mid-Victorian ape. It may b .id of tbc;r resolutions that one is as Impossible of realization ns the other is unnecessary. If standardise d orss were adopted for busines.? women the next problem probably would be to find women in business. There may bo acceptance of certain repulations in Keeping with modes of employment, sensible suircestior.s that are their own recommendations, but it has been noticed that even With the adoption of those there is the widest latitude for the display of personality and the result H Anything hut standardization. Even a shirtwaist (or i it a blouse?) .nnd skirt have possibilities of personality that upset all ideas c-f standardization. As to ready-to-wears, what do thrse estimable ladies think the women of America have been doinp rturinp the h. c. 1. era if not werinsr ready-to-wears ? With the pradual disappearance of the home talent for dressmakinp, what else was there for them to do? And. by the same toXen. may it not be that the hUh standard of th" ready-to-wears Is one of the chief reasons for American women bmp as a whole the best dressed women In the world?

THE SPLIT IN THE G O. P. "While the republican pary orpans hve bctn tealous in mapnifyinp the least difference of opinion amor.p democrats into "a party split, this is largely only to distract attention from the breach in the G. O. P. in 1912 that Instead of heallnp is now as widely open ls ever. This is the whole trouble with tree 6 6th congress. Although the republicans have a majority in th body, their v!ws are bo divergent that they are unable to do anything. They quarreled fcittariy over the orran ization of conres and they have been ur.ablo to aprce even upon a program o( action. Never wa bankruptcy in party leadership shown to a greater extent than In the record of the republicans In this corpres. Xow comes Sen. Borah, one of the defeatists who hat been allowed by the republican majority to mak9 an unholy rectacle er it in dealinp with tho r-jce treaty, with an txposo of the emptiness of fcavrrncrry pretensions of Chairman llaya and

some sharp observations on the pledge-breakir.f: of the jinrty. He warns his colleagues that the party's "special promise" of economy Is not being carried out. Thia reminds us not on!' that the republicans In conpress have done nothinp to decrease the ordinary expenditures, but that they have been prolific In wastefulness by conducting scores of investlKationa "to pet something on the administration" which, unable to dip up a scandal, have raulted only in takinp time from necessary work and In addinpr to unrt. Meanwhile the preat majority of the democrats in th senate have acted unitedly for ratification of the treaty without ejiy weakening reaervations. The unanimous Indorement glvn to Proa't Wilson's work for peace ana hla adminUtratlon generally by the .democratic national committee is further "testimony to the solidarity of the party, which has r.roved alike its progre-jalvaneM and its faithfulness to the people.

MORE PAY FOR LESS WORK. Ask while the asking is pood, scema to be the motto of a laraje number of workers. A ülnsterers' and cement flnlshera' orpanixation has recently preFented a new et of demanda to the contracting plasterers of a Pennsylvania county. They ask an increase of $2 a day in wages, with a five-day week and street-car fare to and from work. At present they are receiving $1 an hour for an e'pht-hour day. They urpe that high Irving' prices have com-i pelled'them to make this demand. Can it be that high HviniC prices are responsible also for the shortening of the working week to five days? There is still much amiss in the reasoning of many workers. Wage increases beyond a certain point will not help to bring down the cost of living. And generally wage increases accompanied by work decreases may be counted on to give another upward push to that same distressful c. of 1. ' It Is absolutely right that every worker should receive full reward for his services, and that means not merely enough money to buy the most necessary food, clothing and housing, but enough more to provide suitable education for children and suitable opportunity for recreation and self-Improvement. In sincere honesty and zeal for justice, however, many intelligent citizens will seriously question the fairness of such a demand, involving more pay for less than normal work. Economic facts and common sense do not justify it.

BRAIN WORKERS ORGANIZE. The brain workers of France, recognizing that they have been squeezed by conflicting forces and have suffered therefrom, have resorted to the same means to enforce what they believe to be their rights long since adopted by those whose source of income lies in the nklll of their hand; organisation. Artists, poe', dramatists, journalists, university professors, engineers, doctors, lawyers and architects are to be Ireluded. Its purpose, it is announced, is to secure justice and to pain for brain woj-kers the position, honor ;;nd reward to which they are entitled. Whether brain workers who differ widely in ability will be able to profit so fully by organization as have manual laborers remains for the future to determine. It is possible that the abler ones might reap a benefit that would be denied to those of lesser ability. It would certainly not be possible to standardize effort to the same extent that it prevails in the trades. However, any class ha.s the privilege of organizing to better conditions and trial alone will demonstrate whether hopes are well founded. Team work may succeed where individual etfort falls. At any rate, the idea that union methods and collective efforts are adapted only for workers with hands and that he who had only his brain ability to sell could do it only as an individual seems to be rassing.

"WHITE WAY" TILL MIDNIGHT. Saratoga. X. Y., is adopting an admirable innovation in the way of a variable street-lighting system. Instead of being lighted uniformly through the night, according to the usual custom in American cities, the streets will be lighted brightly until midnight and less brightly, though still sufficiently, for the rest of the night. Every globe is to be fitted with two incandescent lamps, one of 1,000 candle power and the other of 250 candle power. At midnight the current will be switched from the big lamps to the little ones by merely pushing a lever in the power house. The utility of such an arrangement is evident. It makes possible a saving in the cost of light for the hours when there Is little traffic abroad. That saving can be used either to reduce the city's total light bill or to provide better lighting than usual in the hours whn the streets are full of people. It is thij latter possibility that appeals to the Saratoplans. They are going to have a regular "white way" until midnight, at little additional cost when once the new fixtures are installed.

The British have already estimated what American tourists will spend in England and France this year. Though further loans may be refused they figure on petting the money anyhow.

Memory is so treacherous when it eome.s to recalling all the items that should go into that income tax return!

A Premier Clemenceau hobnobs with the sphinx he must 1e reminded of those good old 1319 days at Versailles.

With a farmer's party, a labor party and a woman's party, thr politicians may yet have to form a 1 arty of their own to get any votes.

Better hurry up with that Income tax report.

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WHY NOT STOP IT?

(Importe Argais.) A canned cartoon sent out by the republican national committee bears this caption: "Let us stop the orgy of waste, this perennial vacillation and curb the mounting Laxe." Well, why don't you? Not a dollar can be spent vr.le.-s it is appropriated by congress. Thla congresr is republican in both branches. If there, is any orgy of waüte. it is the fault of this congTess. Do the republicans of the nation expect to win a victory by repudiating the republican congress, just ar. the republicans of Indiana figure on winning by repudiating Goodrich and hU republican administration?

The Tower of Babel

By BILL ARMSTRONG

pa pi:rkins six. There's a lot of raisins nowadays that work more than some men.

J trouble with local authorities on a I charge of chasing a prospect from Max Adler's corner to out beyond

the Muessel brewery. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sydney Thorpe, and their son Weatherstrip, have left on an extended trip to New Carlisle, Terre Coupe. Importe. Gary, Englewood and Chicago. Quartet and glee clurs are spring- (-.- 1 1 r-v oil ninr t V o irr mi r rnr-

respondent writes in from Havana, also requesting that we send him a little money.

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The Indiana Egg association will meet In Indianapolis March 2 and 2. Hard boiled eggs, fried and scrambled will register at their respective hotels, as early as possible.

Maybe if they Improved working conditions in the state department, for instance cut out the time clock. Wilson might be able to keep hi? new secretary of state for the balance of the week at least.

OUIt GEOGRAPHY I.USSOX. A revenue officer is a male man, entirely surrounded by reporters.

IjOCAL IlKTEFS. Mr. John F. Reynolds has returned from the three mile limit Just west of California. Jack Irwin, the insurance man, Is improving from an attack of lumbago he contracted from Lloyd Greenan. It is rumored that John V. DeHaven has gotten himself into

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More Truth Than Poetry

By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

A 11LOOMIXG SIIAMK: It's reported in the trusty Sunday cables What tho little English children, bless their hearts, Are enamored of the glamor of the substitute for grammar. Which the transatlantic movieshow imparts. In the titles of the Fairbanks-Chaplin pictures. There's a certain brutal punch and vulgar tang. And the hapless little blighters (they're all cinema first-nighters) Are becoming too adept in Yankee slang. It is harmful to the adolescent P.riton To observe a giddy youth upon the screen Who bestows his hard-earned thick 'tins among females ho calls chickens. Over whom ho says he's wild instead of keen. Little children quickly catch these horrid phrases, Never thinking how debased it is and wrong When tho lady with thir'jioodIe. doesn't murmur, "Toodle-oodle" When she waves her hand at parting, but: "So long!" How It pains the proud and proper British parent When his son and heir, a toppy little chap. Quarrelling with his brother Wilfie, rather than remark, "You silly!" Substitutes tho awful expletive. "You sap!" How the British mother shudders in amazement When her daughter, with disgusting Yankee pep. Doesn't say. "My word, old topper, j-ou will come a blooming cropper!" But observes with blunt directness: "Watch your step!" And the elegant, soft-spoken British nursemaid. How she suffers when the children in her care. As they munch their morning kippers, speak of kids instead of nippers. And. when meaning "Aw! Gowan! say. "Get the air!" We should really ask our motionpicture magnates If they won't put more refinement

In their game. Introducing slang expressions in His Majesty's possessions, la a blighted, bally, blooming, bloody shame!"

Too Iate Now, However. If Spain had known we were going dry she never would have given us any provocation to take Cuba away from her.

Only of Statesmen. Anyway, there is no shortage of candidates. (Copyright, 1920.)

WHAT'S IN A NAME

Facts about your name; ithistory': meaning: whence it was derived; it aignlfi canoe; yonr lucky day and lucky 1cwel. 'llY MILDRED MARSILXLL.

SOPHIA. The wisest of feminine names is Sophy, or Sophia, as she should be called properly. It is perhaps the only name which is closely associated with divine attributes, since Its origin dates Lack to the dedication of that most gorgeous of Christian temples by which Justinian declared that he had surpassed Solomon. It was 'ailed St.u Sophia (the holy wiadim of God). Ai-awrdir.g to the "Preacher" in

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Tin: riRsr alarm or Tin: VIGILANTES. Twelve automobile owners of South Bend are reported by the newspapers to have formed an organization of vigilantes, to stop automobile stealing. Their mission will b" to patrol the streets of the city as soon as an autrmobile has been stolen. We Imagine the vigilantes are going to be kept pretty busy if they get next to all the automobile thefts. We can picture tho 2 solemnly leaving the Oliver theater during a performance of "12 Nights" and proceeding to patrol every street in town: or crawling out of warm beds to run to earth a Ford burglar. We shall await eagerly information of the first alarm of the vigilantes. Wo would like to be on the ground with a note book and a well sharpened lead pencil.

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AUTOMOBILE NOTES. Charley Frazier is having his coon skin cap gone over and renovated for summer wear.

tho Book of Ecclesiastious. Wisdom is the mother of fair Love, Hope and holy Fear, and this idea is said to have si:ggested the allegory of the holy woman with three daughters so-called, and in compliment to the newly built church the niece of Justiania n's empress, afterward wife of his nephew and successor, was called Sophia. Tho name straightway became fashionable among the daughters of the nobility of Greece and was carried, through Slavonians, to Germany. History records a Hungarian princess of that name in 911, and another, (laughter of King Geysa. married Magnus of Saxony and spread the use of the name throughout Sar.ony. Denmark is said to have received it through this latt princess and has since ma do It Almost a national name. Its vogue vith the royalty of Denmark is unmistakable and its use spread through all classes England barely escaped he.ving a Queen Sophia, and even though Sophia Dorothea of Yette never actually ascended the throne of England, her granddaughters gave it vogue in the British Isles in the reigp of the house of Hanover. England claimed both Sophia and Sophy. France makes her's Sophie: Italy. Sofia; Germany, Sophia and Fieka, and Russia, S.sofija. Sophia has an odd talismaaie stone malachite. It protects its wearer from danger, if it is engraved with an image of tho sun. It is Particularly potent for children and is said to ward off disease and promote peaceful slumber if attached to a child's cradle. Saturda is Sophia's lucky day and 5 her lucky number. (Copyright, 1920.)

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THE nilllAK IN THE G AMI' OR "WON' BY A YI'LL" It was an exciting game from every viewpoint. The teams were evenly matched, and tho half ended with the score a tic at eleven points. The forwards were having no little di:Tlculty in getting by the guards to get a basketball players' favorite shot, a short from under the basket. The next half found the same oveness in the score. In fact when the time for the gamo had ended the score was still a tie, this time at 20 points. In order to settle the supremacy test an overtime period of five minutes was played. During the overtime period the allotted time was nearly up with neither team having scored a point. There was now but 20 seconds left to play, and the rooters for both teams were frantic. They kept yelling for a basket until their shouts took on the resonance of the breakers. Ah! the back guard had the ball and no one was near him. Tho captain of his team shouted "shoot". He carefully guaged the distance to the basket and prepared to end the agonizing contest. There was now but 20 seconds left, and calm had come over the stands. All were breathlessly awaiting the outcome of the shot. His arms were now extended with the ball. Would he make it. or would he? everyone was spellbound. Then one of the rooters for the other team sonorously bawlt'u with all his might "You're too far away. don't shoot." The player who had the ball cropped it as though it was a bo.nb he had in his hands instead ot a basketball. Ore of his nimble wittd opponents dished up and picked the ball off the floor. He dribbled once and then shot. The ball hit the ring and fell in. The game was wen. all because of his own ability, and the brains of or.e of his supporters.

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