South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 47, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 16 February 1921 — Page 8

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FEBRUARY 16, 1921

FOOD FROM STARVING MOUTHS. TJUme I; rll, whore arf we editors going to srt eff; vrherp, oh whore. Is the solution to the editorial conundrum? It is just like trying to untie tho knots in a board. The Unitod Pre??? wires into tho office this interesting: Lit of market new: "Chineo egg.s arc bring dumped on the Amerlran market, million1? of pounds, forcing a break in prices to tho lowest quotations since before the war." At the same moment the. International News service is bringing ua anotln?r telegraphic message: "Kev. Francis Griffith, missionary at Anping, China, say: 'The ?oup kitchen 's closed. Nothing stands between countless thousands of human brings and starvation. There are no leaves on the trees and no weeds left for food. The doomed throng daily at my door, prostrating themselves in the frozen snow; but there is no food for them." And there you have it: no food for the Chinese, not even weeds for them to eat, ami yet Chinese food is telling in American market?, underselling American food. The North China News, saith the dispatches, prints a story' of the famine condition in Uncheng, tabulating the ptarvatlon statistics of that one small district: "Died of starvation, 103; children sold, 207; children abandoned, three; children killed, one." And a cable from Peking fills U9 with horrors such as this: "People in the Chengting district are consuming the seeds cf thorns, or of locust trees, or are livir.fr on gras or grass roots." The North China Press reveals the other side, too. Shipping reports tell of vessel after vessel beIrk loaded with exports, a large part cl "which included food for America, eggs, beans, tea, vegetable oil. Half the boats leaving Chinese ports advertise: "Kxcellent cuisine." Tht other half put it this way: "An excellent table is provided." Plenty of food, and good food for those leaving China; food for American, where food Ia plentiful, but no food for millions of Chinese In Cltina! On the very day that Chinese eggs at 32 cents the dozen "broke" the Minneapolis market, Chinese i-pgs were soiling at 20 cents a dozen in China. There's the answer. The starving Chinese lacked ihe 25 cents. Tho problem, then, isn't so much a greater production of food in the world, as it is a more equitable distribution of the "power to buy," without which individual starve, and famines kwtep over entire countries. Will the wie men of the world ever have the fcense to realize tho real significance of this thing; that a "more equitable distribution of the power to buy, tloen not mean "bolshevisni." or even "socialIsm," as he ahvay? Klus to squawk, but only freedom from monopoly in the power to .ell? Keeping the world in a turmoil, by doing nothing to sottlo conditions, and enable people to become Mi-lf-sup-porting. is being paid for in contributions to the Chine?e relief fund. V must enable those peop'.e to buy from the 'monopolists who alone have the eatables to sell.

WHO'S ROBBING THE RAILROADS? Just now when capitalism, utilizing a popular jsycholegy, is enjoying the upper-hand for a season; with everybody afraid let those who have may b2 penurized. while seemingly fearful that those who have net may hang onto that they haven't, It is Interesting to take note now and then of something which to .such end, is ordinarily kept in the background. Take the present railroad problem the differences between the railways and their employes that are being aired, quite exclusively on the theory it i.-; the employes, and their wanes, that are responsible for railway deficiencies. Vice Pres't Atterbury of the Pennsylvania system, says the roads are facing bankruptcy, and seems to see in the national wa?e agreement the only cause. Lt us see. Take the question of coil. The railroads use about 150.0e0.000 tons a year. The average cos: a ton to the railways during the year 1920 was $4.17, Ther.? was a steady increase in the cost of railway coal from March. tZA') a ton, to October, $4.77 a ton. March was the first month that the private owners cperated the roada after tho 26 months of government operation. The railway coal bill was about $16. COO, 000 more in October than it was in March, due rtirely to increased price. This was more than half of the railway deficit en the six percent basis. That there has been and still Is outrageous profiteering in coal is conceded by everyone txcpt the coal operators, and a good many of thern admit it. Two hundred and fifty million dollars U probably a conservative estimate of what the railways paid for coal in 1920 more than was, nctös try to yield a fair rrcfit to the coal operators. Again! The railways are the largest single cons irr.ers of steel in its various forms. It is notorious that the steel industry has exacted millions from the railways in excess of rrlcea that would yield a fair profit to the steel masters. CVrtainly there is both reason and logic in the protest of the railway employt against wae reductions to make up stockholders dividends while hundreds cf millions of what should be railway profits are being paid ta steel and coal profiteers. Understand! This Is no brief for the railway employes. It is merely 'methir.g different to think fcbeut. It isn't iiecess irily incumbent upon us to tak j T:cc Tres't Attetbeury'a word for everything without prrraltting ourselves to think of anything else.

We anticipate that perhaps the railway ware board !id Mmethinsr of this sort in mind when It declined to cancel the national agreement. It a nice problem.

WHO WANTS A VENUS) Ivers of art, more for art's sake we eometimts think, than for humanity', are always wont to set fortii the models of ancient tlmis and ask this modern age to pattern "after them. Thirs we are informed once mere that the modern girl La inferior to Venu d Milo, and still "Inferlorating." A profeor of the University of Pennsylvania, speaking to a class, releases the bad news. He compares the armless wonder with the modern campus flapper and is peysimLstir about it. Styles In pirls change. Venus represents the Jdeais of ancient Creece. Heavywei?ht 'beauties were in vogue In these United States back In the days of Ham T. Jack. The 1921 model cannot be Judsed by the old ftandards simpiy for the reason that t?he hasn't got her full growth. Mls De Milo was an adult lady when she posed for her portrait in marble. The queen of the hour with whom the professor finds fault !3 still on the giggly side of 20. She is a source of anxiety to her parents, whila her hard-hearted classic rival is far past all frivoiitj. Clothes make a difference, too. Our P.apper still wears enough to render detailed comparison with the Venus perron unfair. Study the expression on the graven countenance of the goddesä and choose between her and the vital, keen, wide-awake, life-loving young woman who today shocks the professors and who tomorrow, or the day after, will L reading papers at the club meeting on the scientific education of children! ""Which do you prefer? o "BORDERLAND DEFECTIVES." Pr. William J. Hickson, criminologist, has given a Lame to 'the most troublesome class of people in the world. The men who resort to crime when they are out of work, who desert their families, Impose upon their friends, are a burden upon others from the cradle to the grave these are "borderland defectives." They cry out that "the worlid Is against them." And it is. Nature is against them, because they are inefficient and antl-eocial. Science can view them with detached understanding, their mothers can pity them, but everybody else dislikes them. When the shifty-eyed youth with a morbid twist in his mind, a taint in his soul and bitterness in his heart comes along, he brings woe with him. To confine all the borderland defectives would ba impossible. Improving conditions of living and thinking among all classes of people Is the one sure way to get rid of them. This will be the work of generations. O MAYBE THERE'S A CATCH IN IT. The repeated urgings of Ludendorff, Rupprecht, Hoffmann and other former generals of the imperial German general staff that the allied council permit Germany to raise a huge army to fight off bolshevism has a slightly suspicious ring. It behooves the council to watch Its step, think the matter over caretully, and go slow. Itupprecht, Ludendorff, and Hoffmann seem to be having a pretty easy time of it for militarists und Junkers In . brand new revolutionary republic. Bona fide revolutionary republics are not in tho habit of being fo kind to their former oppressors and masters. Ludendorff, Itupprecht, Hoffmann et al live in ease and comfort in a land where there is much hunger and actual starvation. They are even sought for advice on state matters. The dramatic trial of th?se men for provoking war and leading men to slaughter has gone flooey. An opportunity to raise an effective army, granted by the allied council, might very easily result In something quite different from fighting off bolshevism. Besides bolshevism does not seem so likely to overrun Europe as it orce did. The scare has died down. C Nebraska legislature denying jury rights to women looks like the same fellow who debated tie right of way with a steam roller. 0 Why worry? Minnesota proudly pxroClalm its ability to pay the- national debt with the state's peat resources. But It won't! o If the taxpayer lobnled as much against appropriations as he kicks against paying for them, he'd have less to pay. o Now we know Harding's a heavyweight. They're using structural steel, instead of wood, as usual, for the inauguration platform. o Waiters report that the nickel tip is coming back. Sweet are the uses of adversity if the thrift era drives out the bat checker.

The Tower of Babel

By BILL ARMSTRONG.

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Ford s-.vore It was a cruel hoax To say that he was trying to coax From Wall Street fifty million bones; He said: "If every one who owns A Llizie would slip me two bits I'd toon have twice that in my mittg."

Many a self-made man could be convicted of violating the building law3.

March will come in like a Wilson and go out like a Harding; how'sat for safe weather prophecy - o As has been noted before; there is much con in congress.

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Tim iiorsix coNsniucY.-' (Uhlimond Times-Dispatch.) Sec'y of Commerce Alexander may or may not have put his ringer on the ulcer in the industrial situation that Is retarding the quick recovery of bosiiHss to peace-time normality. Noting the improver merit that has already occurred, he remarks, "But many obstacles must be removed before the read"jr.stment will be complete." For these conditions he nctults retailers of blame, charging that combinations in the business and industrial worlds are responsible. In pressing this charge, he says: "One example is the housing situation. The nation now i9 reported to be short 1. 500,000 buildings. Prices of building materials arc- high. Building contractors and workers are in combination to keep prices up. Consequmtly no building is going on. The result is continued exorbitant rents. You cannot expect prices to fail when there is a combination to keep them up. The buiMing situation is only one in which similar difnctiltie to readjust are encountered. These difficulties must be removed if we are to go ahead quickly." That the housing situation is one of the weak spots in the general movement toward national reevery admits of no denials. With insufficient housing to meet the Increasing demand of willing workers for comfortable places in which to reside, rents are bound to remain hish. and so long as the greater petrtion of their wages must bo applied to meet this expense, they are In no position voluntarily to consent to a lowering of existing wage schedules. Yet wage reductions mut occur, else the cos: of living will remain high. If. as Sec'y Alexander says, there is an unholy combination intent on maintaining r resent high prices for building material and labor, thus stagnating the building Industry, there is ample law, both state and federal, to destroy such combination, and the sooner it is invoked to remedy the situation the better for the whole country. Public sentiment demands action.

AS A riUNTKtt WOULD SAY, IT CANT UU DONE. "Xothin' to do but do it." "Do what?" "Do It." "What's it?" "What there a to do." "Well, what is there to do?'' "NothinV

Some people have high foreheads; some people like to eat onionvs; some have square jaws and thick necks, while others find it convenient to be polite and avoid altercations; some people go to church and others have touring cars; some folks like pancakes and sausage only for breakfast; some want only a dollar's worth of food without good fellowship; some insist on sprinkling sugar on their potatoes, while others invest their money in stocks and bonds.

At last we have found the twin brother of Fred Loughman, the well known hauler, and he is no other than the Ward end of the Ward & Lewis department store, which is soon to open on S. Michigan st. Ward has got a shape on him like the south side of a hot cross bun.

THIS SOUNDS REASONABLE. A sure cure for baldness Take a xchbtrcxt and apply with gfhlktflcntly, thoroly kegfringsklbrng. You will have no further beeflgvky.

The color left her cheeks later I found she was washing her face!

HOWZIS? A Russian named Vladoffovitchpkiofsky, Wiile living in Sigonosivishnygoffinsky, Ferhaps for his sins Was presented with twins. And he named them Carlinskyvitcheff and Freddyvitehnyoffsky.

We don't know how w would get to press sometimes without the Notre Dame Juggler.

Some day when our friend. George Louis Wolf, marries they'll say to him. "Married?. And he'll rer;ly, "Ye Goods no, I so these here cars in France."

OUR DAILY POME. Little "Willie in the best of sashes Fell in the lire and rras burnt to ashes; Bye and bye the room grew chilly But no one cared to poke up "Willie.

Andy Weinberg has got himself into a terrible fir, they say. He had a sign in the lobby, which read, "REFINED DANCE IX THE ROTARY ROOM EVERY EVENING BUT SUNDAY," and the reservatlones for Sunday night suddenly threatened to swamp the place.

UK HASN'T SENT US THAT APPOINTMENT AS YET.

The T. R.'pony garnered praise Back in the strenuous White House days; Taft had a cow and Wilson sheep, So Harding got a pet to keep; A playful fellow, full of guile, A 'gator with a six-foot smile.

It would be just our luck to be going home some night with not a cent in our pocket, and have John Ellsworth call us up and tell ua that he won the big clover huller prize down at his store.

Ignorant Essays BY J. P. McEVOY

TYPICAL CONVERSATIONS. Business. Well, how's business by you? Oh. ho, so, how is it by you? Oh SO SO. That's the way it is with me. just SO SO. D'ye think it'll pick up? I don't know d'ye? Oh I s'pose it will. I s'pose so, too. So do I. Me too, but y'never can tell. That's right, y'never can. Y'sure can't. Sometimes it will and sometimes it won't. Ain't it the truth? That's just what it is. Sometimes it will and sometimes it won't. You said a mouthful that time. I'll say so. You sure did. I'll say I did. That's what you did. I'll tell the world. Yes, that's just the way it is. Y'never can tell. Ain't it so? It sure is. I'll eay it is. Yes. SIR, Y'know there are times when it wMl pick up over night, yes sir, over night! And then there are other times when It is as dead as a doornail. Yes sir, just like a doornail. Ain't it the truth? I ask you! It sure is. You said it. I'll say I did. Well, this is my station. G'by. S'long. Don't take any bad money. Ha! Ha! Don't you take none neither. S'long. S'long.

Politics. Well, wha'd'ye think of the Japanese question? I don't know, waddye think about it? Oh I don't know. I think they oufthta be kept out. America for Americans, that's my motter. Mine, too, America for Americans. That's a good motter. If wo'd always keep to that we'd be all right. Yes, I guess that's right. And yet there are a lot of good furrlners, too, y'know. Thai's right, there is, isn't there? There sure is. but I don't think we should ought to let them there Japanese in. They'll lower our standard qj! living. Don't you think so. I sure do. You said something that time. I'll say I did. You sure did. You know I did. You sure did. America for Americans. That's my motter everytime. Mine, too. America for Americans. Although some furriners are all right. That's- right, some of them are. But no Japanese, no fir. No sir I risht. You're right it's right. I'll say so. You know it. Well, here's where I get off, G'bye. G'bye. Don't drink any woo.l alcohol. Ha! Ha! That's good. Don't you drink none yourself. Don't you worry none,. G'bye. S'long.

More .Truth Than Poetry By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

THE LOVIXil ARE TJU: DARING. Dancing is a regular part of the training at West Point.

When a gallant cadet whizzes by with his girl, To the jazze's unrhythmical beat. Or joins in the tfizy, bewildering whirl With shimmying shoulders and feet. And only at intervals pause to puff In the course of a hard dancing night. Don't think that he'9 pulling unsoldlerly stuff. For that's how they teach em to fight. The lad who would stand undismayed in a trench Or calmly go over the top. Has often been noticed to shudder and blench 1 While dragging a Jane through a hop. The mind that can master the intricate dope That the-writers on strategy plot. Too often is sadly unable to cope With the one-step, the glide or the trot. Wild war's worst alarums have never been known A veteran dancer to stun; Cadets who can skip to a braying trombone Never fhnch at the rcr of a gun. And leading a wall-flower out on the floor. Who Is lacking in litheness and beauty, Implants in the earnest young student of war Unswerving devotion to duty. And so. though you fancy dancing's a sport ' Unsuited to soldierly deeds. Like crushing a salient or storming a fort. It's quite what an officer needs. Cadets who four years through the

maze of the danco Have side-stepped anl eddied and whirled. If ever a mix-up should give them a chance. Will easily lick the whole world. (Copyright, 1921.)

JUST FOLKS By EDGAR A. GUEST

BUILDING THE LONG AGO. These shall be. and we do not kno7. The glad sweet days of the long ago; When time has silvered the furrowed brow

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now; When all of the cares are understood There days shall seem to us, oh so good! There's never a man but shall sigh to know Tho bright blue skies of his long ago, And the orchard fields where he used to play With the glad companions cf yesterday; Oh, the friends of now :n the far-to-be Are the ones he'll sigh for and long to see. Our yesterdays, we shall count them o'er. Shall see the children around the door, - And the roses nod and the lilacs bloom. And the old arm chair in the sitting room; Then many a day shall the wish occur That we could return to the joys that were. Oh, the friends pass on with a glad good day And we think that forever with us they'll stay. But the summons comes, and the voice is stilled And life has a void that cannot be filled: For out of the joys which today we know We are building the future's longago. (Copyright, 1921.)

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