South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 187, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 5 July 1920 — Page 4
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JULY 5. 1920.
THE COURAGE TO ECONOMIZE. ConaMerAbly mora than a century agro Benjamin Franklin propounded to the American people a oijal of thrift upon which Mra established the prosperity of the republic. Hl homely advice to take car of the pennies, to keep everlasting and Jealou -atch upon the odds and ends of extravagance, and wast were followed by the founders of the nation, of necessity aa well as of choice. Ills advice, valued In tha days when the land was being tough-hewn from the wilderness, became Invaluable to tho airufrgrltniT atates recovering from a long: and exhausting war for Independence. Americans eaved, and from their economies roee the- colossal prosperity that market ensuing decades. With plenty came less need to conserve, and with a slackening ofiryhe grip of necessity ensued a weakening of the will to eav. Prosperity became commonplace. And with tha distribution of wealth, and an eanlng of the bonds of circumstance, came a lessened respect for thrift. Men took pride not so much In what they saved aa In what they tpent. They feared to bo thought niggardly. Rather than be thought tenny wise they preferred to be pound foolieh. The pity of It Is that the extravagance which In recent years has become a national characteristic has net beea confined to those who could most nfferd It. It has invaded all ranks, and been moat rronounced by men and women who sought to clothe their modest circumstances by a show of plenty. There Is a Etory told and a true one of a millionaire and a young friend who were walking down one of our great shopping avenues. It was in the day when a half dollar would buy a good pair of suspenders and suspenders were worn. Tho younrer man was about to enter a haberdashery to upend his half dollar when his more experienced mentor saw a sin across the street advertising uspnders at 45 cents. He called his friend's attention to it. "Oh, I wouldn't walk across the street to eave five cents," the prosperous youth remarked. "Voung man," said the veUran of finance, "I work a year and sometimes longer to make 10 percent on my money. You have a chance here to bave a3 i.tuch in five minutes." Thero is food for thought here for every employer and every employe; for every householder in the Wnd. We should not be ashamed to practice the small economies. We may eorne day be ashamed if we don't. 1
ORPHAN WAR BONDS. One of the reasons for high prires in this country k that so many people who subscribed for Liberty bonds did not pay for them, and to many who did completo the purchase have borrowed money on them Flnce. It was announced recently by the federal reservo board that the banks still have on their hands Jl, 500,000,000 of war bonds that should have been taken by their patrons, and that they have Jl.OOC.OOO.OOO more of war bonds cjivm as collateral for loans. This make? a total of S:r.00,00P.(-0O in bonds which should be in the r os.oi-sion of private investors and which aro actually in possession of banking institutions. And these fisurfs evidently apply to national banks only. The total, then, may be J3.000.O0O.orO or $4.000.000,000. Why should that raiso prices? Because this enormous value in government bonds is not kpt as an investment, but is u,i to "intlate credit." It adds Jurt eo much to th volume of money and credit In the country. Financial inflation thit la to say, the increased quantity of mon in th country. In all Its various forms Is admittedly one cf the forrno..t. if not the very foremast, cause of the cheapenlr;? of the dollar cr the Increase In commodity price aj reckoned in dollars. There ar other phase; of th subject still more objectionable. There i th questionable honor of citizens who, agreeing to purchase bonds through banks, left thos banks with tbt securities on the'.r hands And thre i th personal and national misfortune of o m.iny hundred- of millions of dollars which shov.;, h.ive been paid on those bonds, or which have been raised since by Hcrtsagii-g the bonds, helrg pnt for luxuries or for worthless securities. If people who have war bend? outstanding would redeem them, they would perform a valuable service alike- to their country and thmslves.
THE MENACE OF THE RAT. The outbreak of bubonic plaprue In several American and Mexican gulf ports has called renewed attention to the menace cf the trat. It Is now known that the rat is the carrier and spreader cf this dread d'.setse. The danger to coast cities is great, tir.ee Mediterranean p-urts are repcrteri to be affected also. Extermination cf rats offers the only effective preventive action a;:!r.$: the disease. While inland centers are not menaced to the same extent as coast cities the elimination of rals is desirable from an economic point cf view were they not purveyors of disease. The United States public health service animates that there is at leas: cne rat for every
person In the country. The destruction they wreak rnually computed at 51 5000,000. This enormous sum would srem .') make worth while any systematic effort to xterrr.lr.ate the rodents for what would be stired iu dollars and cents wer the health menace ph if nr i to be considered. Community organization offers the only means of carrying en an effective crusade against rats and in auch movements the public healta ?rvice is prepared to cope-rate and direct the work. A rat at best is such a loa'hsomo thing" that It :s ctrsne that eo many of them are permitted to e?.iit undisiurlfd. A wider realization of the menace thev constitute may !e-ul to more vigorous steps .iair.ft them. The general fellr.g toward them is that they are annoyin? but unavoidable. The Utter is erroneous. They can be exterminated and should be, both from health and economic motives. If we can save the greater amount of the $180, 000,000 annual lo3 attributed to them in destruction of property and foodstuffs. It Is the height of wastefulaers not to do so.
MARKET BASKETS. "P.emember," warns the federal Bureau of Markets, "that there I no nuch thing as free delivery cf jroods. There may be no separate charge on the customer's- bill to cover delivery, but the price of every article he buys has been boosted Just a little to cover what it costs the merchant to send it." Hence, in the interests of economy, back to the old market basket, and the carrying of bundles, unashamed! Yes. yes. quite so! But first, before you Join the Casket-carriers league, be sure that the honest dealer who permits you to carry your own stuff home is actually charging less for each article you carry Also, be Fure that it is economy for you to take the time and the strength to go to market and lug your stuff home. If you are strong and husky and have plenty of time, well and good; if not. you haa better avail yourself of the fervice offered by your grocer, and pav tho few cents he charges for delivering your stuff. The housekeeper whose dally tasks tire her overmuch or hurry her continually will do better to trade at one reliable place, where she can order goods by phone, get what she ordfrg and have it delivered; and the world is full of honest dealers who give good service in just this way. Money saved on deliveries may be paid to doctors by the over-tired woman. The self-toted market basket may be the badge of careful economy nine times out of ten. but the tenth time it may be the rankest extravagance the shopper can indulge in.
UP TO TENNESSEE. The suffrage "buck" Is now passed to Tennessee, Maryland, Delaware, Mississippi Vermont, Connecticut and other states had been given up es hopeless, one after another. Now, by an unexpected turn cf events, Tennessee seems to offer hope of being tho 36th state to ratify the suffrage amendment, and what is more to the point, doing it in time to give 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 women a chance to vote for president this year instead of four years hence. Now having what Tennessee proposed to do, Vermont has gotten busy and proposes to go and do likewise. It has been an Interesting" race, this scramble of parties and political leaders to give the women what they want. There aro certain ('rr?nts of humor in it, because the scramble Is so belaid, and the suffrage enthusiasm of many of the leaders is so new, and the campaign advantage sought by the effort tt win feminine favor is so obvious. But whatever the' motive of those who have been wrestling with reluctant governors and legislatures of both parties to this end, the aim is recognized by the big majority of Americans, of both sexes, as desirable. If the Tenneisee legislature, then, is willing to ratify the amendment, and If it haa constitutional power to do so, as it seems to have from a recent supreme court ruling, regardless of referendum. Tennessee may win immortal glory in the annals of political suffrage, and the nation can get that Issue off its mind' and go ahead more freely to tackle other Issues still unsettled.
A high-brow convention In, Cincinnati is reported to have "sung patriotic songs in the Latin tonKfie." Those people ought to be able to produce a hymn for a Latin-American league', or the League of Nations".
Connecticut Is so short of school teachers that prayers are being offered for an increased supply. Retter salaries, however, would probably prove more effective.
OtherEditors Than Ours
NO MORI- GASOLINE? (Motor Age.) It is well to conserve the visible supply of petroleum, in the sene of not wasting any of It, but it is also well not to worry about uslfrsr it up in advantageous ways for legitimate purpose. The supply may run out in 20 years, as some of the expert? say. though it is likely that the discovery of new deposits In many lands will prolong It beyond that term. But suppose it does run out. What then? Must we .top automobillng and scrap all our internal combustion engines? Ffsslmism Is never safe, for some constructive optimist is always coming along and doing the impossible. The surest thing about the human race is that it Is able to take care of itself. If the race were not ruperior to all the infinitely varied problems or existence imposed in a changing world for many hundred thousand years, it would not have survived and triumphed to this day. The same Intelligence that enabled it to Invent the arrow and spear and gun, and thus subdue wild beasts apparently far stronger and abler to turvlve, can probably be trusted to find another fuel capable of exploding satisfactorily In a gas engine, cr else a better engine. The human race, as a whole, has always known how to feed Itself, clothe itself, shelter itself, warm itself and transport itself wherever it wanted to go, and we may safely assume that it alway3 will. When the gasoline gives out. there are still the coal mines, good for centuries yet. When the ccal gives out, there is wood, or woody fibre, in a thousand forms, capable of immeasurable production. Petroleum, coal, wood, all are essentially the same thing, and from all of them can be made volatile liquids, explosive in the form of gas. And if the inconceivable occurs, and they are all exhausted, cr fall to provide enough fuel to warm man and do his work and carry him about, there emairs the energy contained in the eun's rays and In the Interior heat of the earth, both of which infinitely great resources aro- as yet untappedThe pessimist is a bear ort tha, human race. Trust mankind to ftod a wa
The Tower of Babel
By BILL ARMSTRONG
pa rnnKLVs says We saw Jake Heckaman comin" out of the St. Joe Bank the other morning. We dropped In to see If they had missed anything & were held ourselves on suspicion.
MUSICAL NOTES. As a rusult of action taken at the democratic convention, a special called meeting; is announced for the Colfax Avenue Glee club this week, for the purpose of beating a number of bottle openers into pen points.
Mis Evelyn Armstrong spent the Fourth at Barron Lake. Mich., with the balance of the family close at hand.
local nnrcFs. The Saturday evening clciing plan will enable Tom Prandon to run into New York over Sunday. "You've seen your last convention," remarked the business manager as she enatched a program of the Elfis' conclave in Chicago out of her handicap's hands, hitting him with a rolling pin and knocking him under the cedar chest. We believe Emll Johnson down at Splro's la in the market for fome kind of a blpr car like a Ford, an we observrwi. him witnessing a pvbllc spark plug demonstration on a ford In front of the court house the other p. m. It took Andy Weisberpr. who has
taken over the Oliver hotel, years to ret accustomed to the smoke of Pittsburgh, but he'll f.nd the hay and wheat ehaff cf South Bend just as hard to bear with the first 40 or 50 year. All the drafts we ever saw came from the war department. Ail the drafts Charley Zlgler ever saw came through his bank. Ei'stlee Foledor, of the Philadelphia confectionery store, is goinr to start this week working on an lfi hour a day schedule. Eustlce explains that this is the age when a man don't hare to kill hlmsef work- ; in sr. j William Jennings Bryan caught a ! man laughing at the San Franclse convention and had him searched by a revenue man on iturplclon. " The boy without his firecrackers ; on the Fourth of July must feel ; a good deal like the man that fan
cies all the amendments but the ISth one. Fred Dennis, the noted local slngr-r. has siened up to sing
"Sarah" in grand opera during the j coming winter. ; General Wood has rotten behind Hardinr for the presidency. This action likely brlnirs Charles B. Sax
back Into the O. O. P. fold. Fred Rose spent the Fourth panning Dave Fishgrund.
One of A. S. Burkart'a toupes ha ; been returned from the cleaners, enabling him to attend the Klks" i convention this week. j We note that Ex-Lieut. Earl ;
Reeder 1 beginning" to call furniture men by their first names.
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE
T1IK TASK. Slim little maid 'with tho grim, little frown. Toiling o'er problems till late in the night, Hubblng out numbers and writing them down, Always despairing of getting them ri"ht Lay down the book till the morning is here. Put on a dimple instead of a pout; Never a problem was solved by a tear, Maybe tomorrow we'll figuro them out. Problems and problems, they come to us all. To vex us, perplex us and tangle our brains; Hard ones and easy ones, great ones and email, And little reward do we get for our pains. We solve one today and tomorrow we find A bigger one still that remains to be done, And oh! but the world seems supremely kind With plenty of trouble, and little of fun. Fut what can we do but keep pegging away On all of the tasks that are set i s to do. And he pe for the time when there's leisure to play Before we must bend our labors anew. . 1 To play for a while, and to sleep and to rest. Then back to the problems, the same as before, For most of our Answers are still to be guessed. And all of the future Is still held In store. But what can we do but keep pegging away On all of the tasks that are set us to do. And hope for tho time when there's leisure to play Before we must bend to our labors anew. To play for a while, and to sleep and to rest. Then back to the problems, the same as before. For most of our Answers are stilt to be guessed. And all of the future is still held In store. And when the Great Problem at last shall appear, To call for th. answer that men cannot And, We'll stick to the task, and for year after year. We'll toil till our brows aro all furrowed and lined. Through doubt and through fear we'll ke-o-p pesrgtng away. Till reams of solutlonos are- scattered about. We'll toil till we're beaten, and broken ar.d gray But none of us ever will figure it out'.
WHAT'S IN A NAME
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hlatory; its meaning; whence it was derlTcd: its significance;
J your lucky day and lucky Jet? cl.
BY MILDKED MARSHALL.
(Copyright, 192C.) CAltMLN. The very Spanish name of Carmen and the more or less English appellative Canr-ela are identical. Though they are used aa distinct names, both signify "vineyard" and come to us through the Italian where Carmen is spelled Carmine. The source of these two names is bound up in the history of the prophet Elijah, whom the Greek translators called Elias. When the Empress Helena visited Palestine she built a church on Mt. Carmel. around which rose a cluster of hermitages. The order of Carmelites was said to have been founded by the prophet himself, but when the Latins overflowed into Palestine it first came into note and Its fame became widespread throughout the West. St. Mary was made its patronncsa and in Italy she became known as the Madonna dl Carmela or the Madonna dl Carmine. As a result the two nam.es of Carmela and Carmine gained great popularity among the Italian women. They are still used there and in Spain, where Carmine was turned into Carmen, the name became a national favorite. The ruby is Carmen's talismanlc gem. It is said that she who werus a ruby can dwell without fear in the midst of enemies and will always be shielded from adverse fortune. The gem must be worn, however, on tho left side. Tuesday is Carmen's lucky day and 7 her lucky number.
niT WE'LL NFJVLTl Gl.T ONE. What the country would like to see is a one pieco party platform. WATCH HIM If the Kaiser Is permitted to gQ Into the tailoring trade he'll soon have enough money to start another war. CAUTION VS. criUOSTTY. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford are going to vuit the American battlegrounds in France. Curiosity to sec- battlcMds didn't cvercome . Douglas whi'c several rallllon American douchboy wete touring Lurf'i'O erroute for Berlin. (Copyright, 1920.) A new ladder has no rounds, only two steps, one for each foot, which slip up and down in s'.ots along the gldes of the ladder. Ascent Is made tv dragging one foot after the other. Ratchets hold the steps In whatever position they are pressed. Eliwocd Landia. a U-year-old newsboy at York. Pa., found a wallet containing $l-00 in cash and sreuritie and took It to the cwner.. who had advertised the loss. The man rave the boy $12 and said that
he would pray fcr him.
The Horoscope
TUESDAY. JULY 6. This day's planetary figure in conrpicuous for very powerful stellar operations, both benefic. and malefic. However, the propitious Influences arc domir.ant, since the two major benelcs, fiol and Venus, are in trine aspect with Luna a splendid augury for good fortune,
prosperity and happiness offsetting ! the baneful presage of Saturn and j Uranus adversely placed. Those In j employment, under the powerful I
trine of tho luminaries, if undeniably deserving, should seek promotion, honors or favors from their superiors. Others may look for favors or preferment from those in places of authority. In domestic, social and afunctional matters all should flourish and bring happiness and good will. Some attention should be given to the temper lest it be the means of marring or d turbing this predicted prosperity and pleasure. Those whore birthday It is have the assurance of a pleasant and prosperous year. Those in employ
ment may win favors, increase or ; promotion. A child born on thV j
day will be popular ana wen con -
ducted and will rise In life.
American Red Cross Society Still on Job nY MAIIIE ATI l ER SOX. It will he a long time before the world is free from the inevitable accompaniment of a Ions and destructive war. Disease and ptstllence may be expected to break out with violence in many places, nuking extraordinary care and precaution necessary to combat death-deal-lr.g maladies. One area threatened with pestilence is that portion of TaisU known as the Crimea, where chol-ra has broken out with a severity which threatens the whole of that district. In a fortnight 67 cases have resMlted in 31 deaths, the disease being due to the arrival of many Infected soldiers from the Caucasus Smallpox has also been prevalent in this district, and strict measures are being taken against bcth maladies. It is a matter for congratulation that the American F.ed Cross is at work in the Crimea, being the only foreign relief organization assisting the Russians in their ffort to got cholera under control. The first Methodist church at Springfield. Mass.. Is to have a moving picture outfit, to b used as an educational, recreational. socUl and, evangelical agency
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