South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 66, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 7 March 1921 — Page 6

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MARCH 7. 1921

THE PASSING OF THE LEVER ACT. At Inst the supreme court haa gotten to it and the opinion of Atty. Gen. Ialmer, conveyed to conKree by ex-Pres't Wilson long ago, asking for amendment of the Iever act, making it applicable to peaco times, is upheld. Tho?o congrreselon! and eenatorlal gentlemen, who refused to make the Jtmendm.ntjt. and for campaign purposes maintained they v.tre not necciry, can be thanked for th tuatlon as It exists. The rain, as has been notd. "falleth alike upon the Jut and the unjust," but not so with law?. Too otter:, thy bear hardest uron the weakest, who are not always, the most unjust, the invalidating of the late Ivver art, result ins in but one of innumerable cases where equally guilty were not equally l-unished. During- the yenrs when this so-called antiprofltecring act was on the tatut books of the nation certain labor men thought it to their best interest to ttrike. For doing this some of them were arrested charged with violation of the Icver act, ftnd were imprisoned. All of them were hard pre?ae-l to pay costs of defending themselves; their builriex es, hornet, and income suffered, but, being relatively poor men, and by reason of the fact that courts could, and did. use their power to punish for contempt, many of thfe men paid the penalty of the L ver act. Now that act has been wiped off the bocks by a decision of the supreme court. On the other hind, sundry persons and corporations, indicted for alleged violations of the Liever act. could, and did, stave off punishment by appealfl to higher courts. The power to punish for contempt did not stretch to their cases. They now go out of court, untouched. Their costs of defenee were WKh Ie than the profits they reaped. The law i held unconstitutional. If It is unconstitutional now, it wa unconstitutional all the time, but until this was determined our legal machinery made it necessary that Home should pay the penalty, while others marked time; that some should be punished while others appealed. I'osnibly the remedy lies In a reconstruction of the machinery of the law. Or perhaps what vre need ir a wiser congress: legislators who, themselves, can distinguL-h between constitutional and unconstitutional act?, but thi", probably, is too much to exppct. as. only 298 of the. 438 congressmen 6S percent are lawyers. M;b what we need mcrst i a judiciary not eo slow-moving, lower courts that keep their calendars up-to-datf. and a supreme court, that can out-dl3-trnre th snail. It might help considerably to have all cf thi. fins a federal department of Justice which will, immediately after a law is enacted, set in motion cast intended to test constitutionality. Such a happy Kaution of the problem wonld aid huin-ts. !alor, and the public. It would increase respect for law and for courts now at a very low Yes. at low ebb. and somewhat appropriately eo. It Is ruch instance as this that breeds anarchy in this country and it breedt it Infinitely more effectively than the importations from overseas; not that the supreme court if wrong in it decision, however, but that our supreme law making body the congress. by negiiger.re. if not intrigue in behalf of the profiteers, should have made such a decision possible. It is the fault of congress, but how about the refund for those who have ben punished under .t law, which as applied to peace conditions, did net exist? c THOSE DEPUTY U. S. MARSHALS AND JOE VOORDE'S "INFLUENTIAL FRIENDS." Pepuli United States Marshals Whicker and Burnett who o Rraciously denied the arrest of Joe Voerde under federal Indictments, charging conspiracy to violate the Volstead act. may have felt somewhat obligated, somehow, to do him, or certain of bus henchmen, !otv.e favor. Wherein nuch obligation lay we do not presume to know, but maybe. If it If true as reported, that certain Influences were employed to etTect th suppression. It might not be out cf place for th next grand jury to investigate those influences, and thf reasons for the deputy marshals submitting to them. There eeems little oietion now about the delibetateness of the untruth In the deniai? cf the two rrhcr. when both jparately, end together, they infisted that r.ci on! hail Voorde not been arrested, tut that th:v w.s r:o warrant for him. He was t that tlm under arw. ar.d undr bond. Fo far as the r.ws;apert are concerned it isn't the first time we hr- cr. Lett to; that point U unimportant. It 1-S rne lies told newspapers, which mistaken for the truth ; inio print, that eometlme makes them appear so untruthful. They are juft a reflection of the people, the truthful, the false, and the mixed, with whom they come in contact. The point In this urtlcular case is. were the newspapers misled from fn? ulterior Kvtlvrt-i, cr influences, and were the peop'p exerting ath Influence, and having such motives, in any way connected with the conspiracy with which Voerde is charged. But for this we micht not condescend to comment. Put conspiracy, under the Volstead act, covers a w'.i? terri'ory. and whatever Influences Intervened to rrotect Mr. Voord from publicity, might if investigated to the bottom, bring other conspirators to light. Let Marshals Whicker and Durnett tell the 4,-rand Jury why they so violated the truth with refrance to Mr. Vooide's arrest. Who were they trying to accommodate ? Why ebould anybody be to con

cerned In protectinr & violator of feflml law from th publicity, cr anything eW, tKat hin Indictment Therts Is altogether too much cf Ihls frifttiÄIy Intervention In behalf of law violators suing on In th!a community; altogether tod frequent efforts to influence public cfflcUU In the matUr of hot bringing offenders to Justice. It iarft eo very long ago that, according to current report, a Irl of local ,'estima.b!es,, eaw fit to call on Federal Judge Anderson at Indianapolis, to tell him how Bouth ilend ought to be "laid off from;' that everything here waa so lovely and clean": that "our city haft been woefully misrepresented," and bo on and so forth. Judgo Anäerson, It Is said, called in the district attorney and fcotne of hie investigators, and the 'estlmables, after hearing them retired, spptrently convinced that their mlJnion was misspent. The indictment that followed, including that of Voorde, may be eome proof of the- "loveliness" and "cleanliness" of our town, and the manner aftr which it haa been so "woefully misrepresented." Evidently, however, not everyone friendly to the cause of the bootlegger haa been caught In the net. and perhaps if Marshals "Whicker and Burnett were to tell their ory to the grand Jury, the circumference of the conspiracy for which Vcorde is indicted, might enlarged. It is rather this than any nutter of politic according to our yue5. The utorm-center of political Influence has shifted from the paloon to the home, with the passing of the former and the introduction of women Into the political arena. If anyone who regards himself a political prophet has interfered, or used any influence in Mr. Voorde'a behalf because of politic. It must be Irt payment cf some r-aat obligations, and not in anticipation cf either he or his following being able to eway anything very wonderfully In the. future. It is pretty nearly certain that the more of that stuff that you get into politicu hereafter, the worse it will be for the party that fostera it, and any man who thinks himself a politician, who does not pee this modern trend, Is only kidding himself about hlo political attutentfw. He ought to be Indicted fof something: if for nothing more than political feeblemindedness. o THE SURVIVAL OF NUMBERS. Not the "survival of the fittest," but the 'survival of the greatest number," eeem3 to be the new law that civilization Is to be forced to live under. No more of that Spencerian fftuff. Philosophers have a new frame of mind. The United States today Is the leading nation of the world. The white race stands first In civilization, propre, wealth, education, ability, energy, and war strength. But how about tomorrow the tomorrow of your children's children? Which nation then will be supreme WTiieh race? Walter B. Pitkin, author of a new book, "Must "We Fight Japan," has the seemingly correct answer to both those questions, for the same answer fit each. It is: "War or no war, supremacy belong to the race that produces the larger number of babies that grow up-." Not to the nation, or race, that i3 most inventive, beat educated, most highly civilized, wealthleot, but to the nation and race that leads In the production and rearing of babie. Understand, it is net alone that a ration, or race, must have a high birthrate. The babies must grow up! This they tand the best chance of doing when the nation, or face, is educated, civilized, progressive. But they must be born, too! That is very necessary. Theodore Roosevelt had something like that idea in mind when he first sounded the warning against race suicide. o MORE BONDS FOR SALE. Hopes of the opponent of the farm loan system inaugurated by the outgoing administration, were washed to pieces when the United States supreme court stamped Its approval on the federal farm loan act. The law is constitutional, deirplte the opinions) of high-priced "unconstitutional' lawyers, employed by banking interests to contest it, and the bonda too. are O. K. They pay five percent interest, and come near being the safest of investments for the man of small means. It is a matter of cooperation for city consumers to thus aid their rural brothers in the production of food. Buying a farm loan bond is more than a mere investment. It Is) helping some farmer, somewhere In this countryt to Improve his farm o that he may ra!e more and cheaper food. This may be through the purchase of adjoining acres, better livestock, machinery, or the paying of a high-Interest mortgage which has been making low production costs impossible. The supreme court's decision ought to make farm lng a more attractive occupation for agriculturalists, for it opens to them a much needed avenue to credit, without which no business could thrive. o It's a long, long way from the passage of a law to its) interpretation Ly the supreme court. 0 i

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THE rOSTT OFFICE THE FCKnD.Uiti OF SPOILS. (IjuuisviUe Courier-Journal.) The announcement of Mr. Harding that one of his first acts on becoming president will be to rescind the order of Tres't Wilson placing postmasters of the first and second class under civil iervice, is just beginning to make something of an impression on the country. It 19 being described as a step backward. The civil service reformers, however, who sat up o'nlghta to protect the civil service against Pred't Wilson, with whom It has) been safer than with any president since John Quincy Adams, are strangely silent. The action of Pres't Wilson merely completed the work begun by Pres't Toft. The latter placed cue class of postmasters under crvil service: the former included the others. Xow all are on the merit bns'A Nor is there any myth about the merit baeis either. There are many republicans now holding first and second class oftices,, appointed by Pres't Wilson on the citation cf the civil service committee. When tfts democratic postmaster of Boston died, his successor, i ow holding, was a republican because he stood first in the examination. If Mr. Harding complains that the majority are democrats, the answer Is that when Mr. Wilson became president he fojrid that ail were republican In the claas that Taft protected with the civil service b anket. And Wilson let it stand. It is not Mr. Harding's Intention to dlsmlse all present postmasters and then hold competitive examinations. The purpose Is to appoint hone but republicans. And if all future presidents act upon this theory the postmastcrshlps will always) be the spoils of party politics. Even as matters now stand there are 2.000 postrruietershlps to be filled without destroying the merit 6ytem. And business men are mere and more coming to teallze that postmasters ehould hold oftlce on merit alcne and nhould be free from the sjoils taint. It Is a business office. It is not an easy business to learn. And It Is a big business. As long as the postmasters are changed every four years tha pot effiee department never will be operated on a business basis.

The Tower of Babel - By BILL ARMSTRONG

IX THE EDITOR'S 31A1L. South Dend, Ind., March 5. 1921. Bill Armstrong", Tower. City. Dear Bill: Jake sez that Frey Brjana an awful good campaign manager when he's on the Job, that Wednesday buslnew not so good "because Fred went over on the cast side- a coupla times, neglecting his work on my candidacy," but Thursday, Interurban day, business pickt up a lot. It seems M!n Mitte, having went to Bremen, told someone from Bremen Jake was .running tnd when Col. Frank Koontz heard the news ho knew Bremen had m!?d a trick eo he got Ed and he and Ed is to head a delegation from Bremen to ask Jake to come back to Eremen and be mayor there a Kttle while to get In practice. Jake will have to put off his weekly Joy ride Sunday so as to be on the front porch when the delegation arrives. J. M. got back Thursday so it was quite a day. He and the Col. and Clement are taking up a sub

scription to get the new mayor a new Big Six Studebaker as the town wants him to ride in a Studebaker when he's mayor like Doc Carson going to the depot meeting politicians and celebrities etc., like mayors do lots of times when they're mayor: the Rolls-Dodgo might not do the Job so well on account of capacity. This Is going to be a knockout because Bryan has seen Mr. Biggs and Ot Sherman came In for a nhave. Mr. Feltes for a haircut. Vance and Cox sent their regards.

has to take n rebuff now and then ; same being attached to the Job. but . he can't low heart over slight re- ; verses which will happen of course, j The Col. told him to go out to Car- j

lisle Manor and Me his sister, meb- ;

be she could get Mrs. Maud Wood Parks, who wl'.! speak to women next Thursday P. M., to ay to them when not addressing them in her non-partisan capacity that Jake'H all right. She being an expert in the psychology of the woman voter, understanding what women want and having organizing ability. 1. would be fine for Jake If he could get off a little while Tuesday P. M. and go over to the Methorist church and see Mrs. Parks and have her get the crowd started his way. Bryan Is going to hold a few meetings behind closed doors and appoint a committee of three to see how to spend the campaign fund Rome donated this A. M. Yes. Jake will break ctrong when tho time comes for running. He's out In front already. Hoping you aro the same. JOHN C. EL.IjS WORTH.

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It Is reported officially that Jake Heckaman is seriously considering i offering Fd Haxrey, cf Brandon-

Durrelle, a good Job like for instance engineer at the central pumping station to cause him to withdraw from the mayoralty contest.

Speed came in this A. M. from Sin

ALSO IN THE EDITOR'S MAIL. March 5, 1921. Mr. J. Heckaman, Armstrong Publicity Bureau,

South Rend, Ind.

Tryon Carlina and found Jake surrounded by a lot of office seekers and Rome Stephenson. Rome made a contribution to the campaign fund and paid for a fellow's shine, thus getting solid with Jake. Jake shook hands with nine lady voters, gave chocolate candy to three little rcpullcan children, kissed a baby on his way home at noon didn't know whose it might have been Hvelyn. Horace ntuck his hend in and said, "Wax, wax means to grow. Jake'9 campaign boom is waxing." Speed says he will come to South Bend to stay when Jake Is elected provided Weed. Reed and Steed all .get Jobs in the cabinet. Hubbard Is glad Jake will poin Bill's clas and sez he will do all In his power to help him make a good mayor. Charlie Sax, Bess Cigars and Joe Grand Leader have paged the firnt block south of Washington street and Abe Livingston has got Geo. Wheelock and Gene Miller for Washington street, while Goat Anderson, Herb Eldredge and John Ellsworth have Michigan street north to the river. Tom Brandon the Blackstone district, Charlie Carlisle tho teachers and preachers, Phil Goetz and Frank Mayor tho four ward down town district. Fred Rose and Three Bell PeLeury need special mention a they will take the stump for Jake as the campaign waxes hotter. Thursday was a big day and the only fly in the ointment was news that one of the east society leaders who Jake had all fixed came out and sed a woman ought to be mayor. Jake

Take my name off your s'ate or support of original Heckaman man will be withdrawn. W. G. LAMPORT.

South Bend, Ind., 3-5-21. Tower of Babel, City. Dear Bill: I read In the paper the following: "With Harding. Hughes. Hays, Hoover, "H" playa a well, a large role in tho coming administration." A teacher on readirg this said. "Ye?. 'IP there and the remainder of the word in 'mellon And so s a v I . A. READER. March 4, 1921. Mr. Wm. Armstrong, Editor, Tower of Babel, South Bend, Ind. Dear Freind Bill: A friend of mine dared me to send you the following and I take pleasure in "passing the buck" on to you. Here it is to be sung to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." "The 'Dems' are out of office again. Hurrah! Hurrah! We hope that pome will escape, the "pen." Hurrah! Hurrah! So give them a cheer and some "home brew" beer. Then turn 'em around and kick their rear; For we all feel glad That the 'Derrus are out again." Yours as ever, LOOM.

Ignorant Essays BY J. P. McEVOY

OS WHITING VERSE. Writing verse is similar in many ways to making a good road. The road must be smooth for the feet, anatomical or poetical; there should be controls on places for refreshment and reposo along tho way and definite terminal facilities should be provided for. In verso the terminal facilities aro the rhymes that finish off the sentences like the rattles on a rattle snak.o They may be simple little moron rhymes like "true" and "you," or "moon" and "spoon." or trickier bambinos liko "hysterical" and Tom and Jerrycal," or "Her agile architecture is conducive to conjecture." Of course there Is also, free verse, most of which comes under Mencken's classification of "aVull prose stowed Into Irregular lengths." It refuses to be hampered by rhyme or annoyed by reason. It is foot loose In the sense that if it ha? any feet they wiggle and wobble and fancy free in thut it is free of fancy. The old Wells Fargo receipts read somewhat like the free versifer code: "This company will not be responsible for the acts of God, Indians, or other public enemies of the Government." It ia not necessary to have an idi In order to write verse. All you need is a flock of words of assorted Unrthir. crouoed in proper sequence

and segregated Into lines that begin

with capital letters and end w:tn similar sounds. Suppose you want

to write a verse and your first thought is -"How nice it would be if I hacll an idea to writo a verse about." You have an idea already for the first stanza. You embalm your first thought into verso in this way. When weaving ruminative rimes To soothe tiie drowsy public ear, "Tis quite convenient at times To have a tangible Idear To hold a figment, say of thought. A pop of sense, .i feeble fact On which a Ptanza may be wrought And rows of running words be racked. There! Iight lines and you've said nothing except thit you have nothing to say. And If you wish you can continue saying nothing till th- bovine ruminants return to their vepertinal domesticity (slang for "till the cows como home"). But we shall do just one and dismiss the das. (Our next lesson will be on writing plays or making those straw hats for the horses, whichever you prefer. As I remarked, exuding verse Of scintillating smack and snap

In fabrication ain't so worss When there's a core of sense to j

wrap. Or flc:k of rare afflatus swi?h From out the azure, so to speak And lur poetical ambjsh

To zum the zither on the beak. i (Copyright, 19:1.) I

More Truth Than Poetry Br JAMES J. MONTAGUE

A GRECIAN LULLABY. Hush, little princeling, don't you cry; You'll wed a widow, by and by. With millions of dollars in shining gold. And buy back all the jewels you've bold. Hush, little princeling, don't you caro If the gruff, rough peasants cry. "Get the air!" For a nice rich lady from Yankee land Some day will invest in your royal hand. Hush, little princeling, be not cast down; You have lost your throne, and you've lost your crown. But thtnk of a rich American wife!

That's the life, boy! That's the life!

Hush, little princeling, don't despair; Ladles are plenty and rich and fair. With bags of cash that are all their own, To trade for a seat on a royal i

throne. Hush, little princeling, dn't be sore; The lovely robes that your papa wore Will come out of hock, and come out to stay. And you'll put them on, on your wedding day.

Hush, little princeling, do not sigh; j You'll be a king before you die! ! With a wealthy wife with a perma- ! nent wave From the land of the free and the t home of the brae! (Copyright. 1921.) j

MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES. A judge has ruled that it Is no crime to steal booze, tut only the boldest burglars ever undertake It.

OFF TIIF .lOR. Mr. Burleson must have got careless toward the end of his term. The aerial mail from San Francisco to New York went through In 33 1-2 hours.

Rely on Cuticura To Clear Away Skin Troubles in.V-'. Lub. 3 Crow. XMtiM.

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