South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 87, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 28 March 1921 — Page 6

MONDAY MOTIVING, MARCH 29. 1921.

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MARCH 28, 1921

NOW TALKING GOVERNMENT PLAN. A!ter all It jerr.3 the d!T05itlon, not only of th rÄÜrna.ds. but of the government, to resort at last. half way to tho fO'stem of government operation of the railroad' Jurlns the way, though, of coura. to be Indulged a a private or corporate ntrprlS9. Even Sen. Cummin, of Eflch-Cilmml"! fam. Insofar a.s the present law can make anyono famous, has made the discovery that something of the tort must b done, but having Joined the ranks cf th extreme advocates of private enterprise, ninco listening to Mr. IIov;- S. lenders at the Kiwanls club, Thursday, we aro r.ot coin? to agree; that Is, not tvltoeether. V.'e do. however. agTco with the senator on one thing, that tho railroad3 can bo gotten back, on ihelr feet only through better management and rodncwl cost of operation. That's sensible though m,ayko not aa easy a It sounds. The largest item in railroad costs i3 the payroll. Consolidation of the roads into about H regional eystem, aa urged by Cummins, would lower operating costs by ellmlnat1njT wateful competition and needless duplication of effort, but steel prices, another large item in railroad cotfts, are abnormally high compared with other commodities. They must fall. More efficient management of tho railroads, Cummins bl!eves, "cannot be brought about by law. It must como by tho orcnin? of tho eyed of tho railroads' real owners, tho stockholders." A utockholde, however. Is not apt to worry much about management as long aa he Lj sure of his dividends, aa congress tried to insure under the transportation act of 1320 which hasn't worked out m Intended. The q-jickcat way to make tho railioA buck, up and fight to get back on their feet may be deprivation of profits. If the roads skip a few dirldenda, the stockholder may stir up eome xcltemnt at headquarters. The situation isn't altogether "black. Steam coal prices hav smashed. That'll ruva the roads ecorea of milltorji this year. Freight and passenger trafflc are bad. but these will Increase aa business revives. Un thing is euro: The railroada havo been on feather bed long enough. They mupt-be led to th3 woodpile! o .'.v -BACK TO NORMALCY." If the economists know at all what they are talking about, "normalcy," thank you, is lurking Just around the corner; getting closer and closer aa tho profits of distribution, manufacture, etc., are reduced to consonance with tho cost of raw matcrYour cot of living is determined, in the long run, by the price of raw materials. These price now average only a fifth more than in 131, In ofhr words, four-flfths of the rise that took place during the war has been canceled. This 1 revealed by the price index published by Brtdstreet's which covers the prices of the 96 iTinelpal ne.ce3itles of life ?uch an metals, coal, bread-stufT-s, hide, leather, tetl:c.i and oil. The Uradstreet index tikes a given amount of ach of thse commodities and adds the price. Hov tha,t price roa from its pre-war level to its highest wartime point and what it is now is ehown in these liradatreet Insures: December, 1913 . . . . . I 9.22 'Y February, 1?1'0 -. 20. 55 March 1. 1921 11. S3 The steady drop during tho last 10 months haj l.en tit a rate that, if continued, will brink? basic prices of raw materials down to the 1 1 1 3 level by May 1, 1921. On that dite, according to calculations cf expert oWrvers including the National Bank of Commerce in New York, the first stae of Oef.Ation will probacy bo completed the first nai1! nrlvrn in the cotl'.n cf .k-rrs?ion. It may come e-T.-r. It may be delayed, but Indications now ar? that tho beginning cf the end 19 in right.

ELECTRIC ECONOMY. Americana uj'J at out 13 percent more electricity in 1925 th-n tht year before. Electricity, says the Geological Survey, saves the r.atic" about 4 1,000,ÜC0 tcr c coal a year. Herbert Hoover and other eneiruer. have Ion? printed out tho trr:ner.di.ms waste in huul!n? coal ntr railroads and handling it in factories and hunifs. Thoy pr(.-lit a d.ty when coal will be burned at tho run-., running giant power pUnt that will put the country on an electrical lnteaJ of a steamccaI basis. TlicsH in the know fay if a dream ihat'il com true. Kleotrl.lcaticn may be the solution of -he railit. ii problem. Out of every 100 tons of coal mind In the I'nited States, 26 tens are ust-d in operating railroads. Ilaulinr this rtal ties t:p thousands of

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the ,.oal until it gets into locomotives. It i;ei to be i:d that there wasn't enemgh copper ;r. the world to bctrify American railroads, but tl..- producers n"A- l.ave ;it lf.i-Ft 4 0 0,0 00.000 rounds of topper in tr-rag"-. Tr.ey are offering it abroad at 10 ct-nts a. pound, or 1 than a third of the wartirr." h!.?hst. Now iriht be an excellent time to tart general el--"-trilUtiun uf the railroads. Roads That have cb.a!.-r 1 to trie l.cmot; e.s say they ut ubln't go lack. It's a b!g job an 1 -uld take enormous capital. Tbat it would also j,rf,v:do jobs for thoartand And money is r.-ver sr.iri" in the fr.ited States that 11 tar.'t be gotten for any project that will save million in the long run.

YOU'RE LUCKY AFTER ALL. Sometime a. fellow lead himself to belier tht the world Is all wrong. It could b a. good deal wors. I-'or Instance. suppot-- you were one ef thoo "Fiamese twir.a" recently arrired In cmr country from Czeeho-Slovakla. Tor 4 2 years they hive been joined from th"5 waist almost to the knee. No rettina; away II the other provrd tiresome. Rosa, ihf twin that la marritd n.ni hti a boy. became fl'ick crcsTln? the ocem. Josrha, hr constant companion, hM food ew but couVdn't use them because her plstcr wrs III. And Jofpha likos to lep !an of rnorningn, t-hll sister Rest wakcT.i early .mi tir.cornpl!r.lngly read beok In bed no that in- fjfr.tr rr.mbr cf the circus tt im can er.Joy iont; ,.vrat,: A Jot of unusual thlr.f ;?a- -.r-rnd to theae people, however, to rn :Uc th'.lr 'u:.i Ufa Interesting. A Hamburg storekeeper wor oi.t u. warrant against Rosa because cf a disputed A'. tS'.phw. not aricRted. refused to ccoKipar; i.er oriwr to Jail. Then the officer took thern both After Uoaü.'i caAj wa settled. Jesepha th policeman arrested for making a false arrest. The case still is in court. If that situation appeals to your Imagination, read "Those nxtracrdinary Twins" by Mark Twain. You will como to the conclusion that there is nothing quite so Invaluable In this world aa physical independence. o CARDINAL GIBBONS. Cardinal Gibbon. Jost paied away, does not nea the perspective of time to determine the lofty position that he must hold In hrstory. Neither will recognition of his gTeatnes be confined to his church. All Christianity muft claim Cardinal Gibbons, for he Rtood for all that was best and noble the teachings of Christ. All Americans must regret hia paaaing, for he wals one of the leaders in jublic as well as religious life. Endowed with a high Intellect, a rtraisht-9rn vision and a charrtable oul, he exerted . powerful Influence over the period In which he lived. At a critical period it was given to him to help hold aloft the torch of patriotism. In the time of world unrest that included our own country, he tood for Americanism four-square. Repeatedly he caid: "I regard the constitution of the United States as the greatest instrument of government in the history of man." That should be included in his epitaph. He waa, indeed, an American, well ae churchman, and had the happy faculty of combining the two in a true Christian spirit, diminishing tho glory of neither. o Immigrants, landing In New York from EUIj Inland, beat up an agitator advocating overthrow of the government. Reform of deplorable conditions at Ellis Island might make all immigrants like that.

The Tower of Babel

BY BILL ARMSTRONG-

Ilar-itng's physician

Went on a mission To "Washington; found there a pie. He stuck in hi thumb An-I pulled out a plum Ar.d iK.ll, "I'm a real army guy."

Ilaton on hia route, guarding the picks, thn difTipr f ar. Nobody knew? who owns him.

Investigator claims that our Puritan ancestor didn't burn witches. Lota of history isn't hiatory; it's fiction.

Oh, If Petroleum V. Nasby could only return to liven up the ofilcial correspondence out of We.shing-ton!

Toles should find consolation, in that tho Silesians now will have to help Ilerlin pay the indemnity.

When you get blue, have grandpa tell you about 1873. We are lucky and don't know it. o - Terslana have an Easter myth, that the world was hatched from an egg. Goose egg? -O ' ' Is Intellect mipreme? No uraln Is as fast and accurate as an adding machine.

The American farmer Is down and out down at sunrise and out in the fields. If everything else fall, why not send an American book agent to collect the German Indemnity? o

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LT.N1XK OrT-WITS THEM ALL. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) The announcement corner, via London, that the Russian reds have appealed to Prea't Harding 10 resume trado relations with soviet Russia. This, if not now true, ia inevitable. The mad men of Moscow have been led to believe that the president favors such a course. They have that assurance from Washington Vanderllp anI from Raymond Robin. Just what ruch resumption would mean to the reds lis clearly Indicated in their Jubilation over the signing of other treaties. They are getting on. In truth they are winning Just now practically all the diplomatic victories. They are rejoicing over the ratification of treaties with Turkey. Persia and Bokhara. They have just won England over to their bide. They are boasting that China and Rumania are asking them, humbly we hope, to consider entering into a treaty with them. The admission ü made that tho treaty with Turkey 1 of a military nature as a defense against enemies. They have had no trouble in getting Germany to resume trad-J. We are next. Nothing could be more significant cf the fact that the reds are getting on splendidly than the speech of Lloyd George defending his own action. One almost wonders how tho premier can do it. He gravely tells tho British people that some of Lenlnc's speeches might havo been made by Winsten Churchill the mest out-fltandlnjr champion of private property in England. He actually attempts to convince his people that Lenlno has given up the soviet Idea. He admits, however, that the treaty he has entered into Is a recognition of the Russian government politically. He ridlculee the idea that bols-hevism H near an end. Here Mr. Lloyd George's speech might easily have been made by Trotzky. Verily the Russian redf are getting cn And we are next. c . T1ID UNPOrUIiAll HYP EX. (Indianapolis Xrvts.) ?omo cf the hyphenated Interests that claimed f much credit for the election cf Frost Harding, must be having Interesting ses-dons with themselves these cays. Following: the election, some of the GermanAmericana held a convention at which they took credit for winning the election, and made it plain to Pres't Harding that they expected specific recognition. George. Sylvester Vlerlck went to Florida and stayed there about as Ions as Mr. Harding remained. He and his associates had definite objects. I'irst, it wa recognition by the appointment of a German-American in the cabinet. Falling In that, they were after something equally good. Their main idea was recognition. They wished to be able to go before the country as hyphenated Americans, and say that they had been accepted at ach; that their political support had been rewarded by the administration. They wished to serve notice that in future campaigns they would be a fores to be reckoned with, and that in domestic and foreign roblsms they must be consulted. Some other hyphenates attempted the same thinpr. Mr. Harding probably pot the votes of many of these hyphenates. They displaced one American administration with another equally strong In Americanism. When Prea't Harding paid that It was his purpose to be president of all the people he evidently did not make an idle remark. One of thee days the hyphenated American will learn that whatever happens, the country is sound, and that an American prealdent can be relied upon to b an Amtricas nothing more, and nothing !ea.

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What's t!4v ust of the wind blowing bo hard in March, with skirt as short as they are? Success is not made by laying awake at night, but by keeping awake In the daytime.

Tins WOULD RE GREAT THING THING VOll ROB SCIIN'KLLK.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 117. Poor pay in the U. S. postal service doesn't bother Pete. He doesn't receive pay, anyhow. But every morning promptly at 9, the mongrel is at Postal Station C, waiting for Carrier E. Easton. He accompanies

I THINK. The pirl? are wearing dove-coiirrd stockings at Atlantic Citv. but this doesn't mean they are neresaarily r'.geon-toed. Tho new ?kirts represent the knplus v.'.tra -tyle. The French groverr.ment ha put the lid on dancinsr on the beichcs in bathlr.5 cults. We go: through that period here ft e years ago ant they will dance. I never have quarrels Or tho like With my wife. For I've Yecn a bachElor all cf My lifo. A Pvet die 1 tho other day. There will be no legal battle ever hia estate. New England woman his iued her htuband because Fhe. thinks he bewitched. No man could be married if he were not. Philadelphia bnndits rob a restaurant man of $1 after eating a meal. In other words, they j;: about get their money back. Chicago bandit had a tougrh night last week. He held up nine persons and they all turned out to be newspaper men going home. A bill haa been introduced to make barber shops shut up on Sunday, but we'll bet they can't make the barbers shut up on Sunday or any other day. One New York shoe dealer advertises. "Shoes at Very Unusual Prices," but the prices have been very unsual for pome years now. They're going to fire the fatter copAnd only keep the lean. To cha.e the guys who sell the hop.s And home-brew gasoline. Twenty young men have taken no the cooking course in a Pennsylvania college. They know what all the men will be doing 20 year3 from row.

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Ignorant Essays BY J. P. McEVOY

The troublo with the old saws ia that they aro dull. If they had any teeth in them once, they haven't any now and the maxims are all equipped with silencers or should be. When I was a lad I grew very tired hearing long bearded loons droll on tho wisdom of the proverbs and as I grew up and lost all the knowledge I so painfully acquired in my tender years, I could see how my youthful Judgement was being vindicated. The old proverbs are supposed to be very wise, but in reality they are very foolish. Take for instance that one about "the race is not always to tho ewift." A fellow who would go out and bet on a race using that for his guidance, would walk home in a barrel. Could there be any thing more loolinh than the line; "There is always room at the top." Of course there is room at the top, but there is more of it at the bottom, and if It's only room you want, why bother about the climb? George Ado made a much better proverb out of it

when ho rewrote it: "There is t

room and board at the top." Then there is that dear old bunk about "tho roling stone gathers no moss." I never heard anything sillier than that. Who wants mo? What would you do with it if you had It? You would only be called a mossbick for your trouble.

"All that glitters is not gold." And that's supposed to be a real smart Haying. I could mako them up by the hour; "All ia not ice that's cold." "All is not Ink that's black." "All la not bill? that coos." "All is not rotten that's written." They say: "Everything comes to him who waits." and then in the n-xt breath they say: "Let us then bo up and doing."' Who aro you going to believe? And then another set of them pay: "Look before you leap," and right after that they say: "He who hesitates is lest." Honestly they drive a man crazy. From our earl youth we are told that "e-arly to bed and early to rise makes a man healthly, wealthy and wise." Who gets up earlier than a milkman? Did you ever see a wealthy one? He certainly isn't wise or he wouldn't get up ro early. And who goes to bed earlier than a night watchman? After ho ha been up all night he goes to bed the very first thing in the morning. He often turns 'n as early as 6 o'clock the next morning. And yet we do not hear any fathers whose

ambition is to raise their sons to be a night watchman. "Two can live as cheaply as one." One what?, and if they could, who want" to live cheaply? And. finally, we are all advised: "He Rood and you will be happy." Walt, I tried It once and I never

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More Truth Than Poetry By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

NO HOPE. Wo fancy in our folly The hues that grow today On Lil and May me and Molly Would shortly fade away. We'd heard a lot of preachers Stern, unrelenting chap Denounce these lovely creatures For tinting up their maps. "Their sense." raid we, "will save 'em: This fad will pass, and then. The cheeks that nature gave 'em Will be in style again. But science new disclose That these alluring dears. Wore artificial roses Way back three thousand years. In probing hidden places In old forgotten tombs, They've dug up Jugs and vases Of pastes and creams and blooms. Which doubtless made entrancing The cheeks of many a minx, Who practiced posture dancing Pencath the silent Sphinx. If Egypt's sunlight glinted Of faces softly tinted With rare but bogus glow, No matter how the preachers

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JUST FOLKS By EDGAR A. GUEST

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The March Rug Sale offers many inducements to bir your rug now and only four days are left before tlie closr of the sale. Axminister Rugs Most popular of all rugs for living room and hall, nlsr used for bedroom and dining rooms. These Axminsterare firm in weave, deep in pile most attractive in pattern. 4 ft. 6 in. by 6 ft. 6 in. $16.85 and $19.25. 6 ft. by 9 ft. $31.75 and $32.75. 9 ft. by 9 ft. $42.50. 8 ft. 3 in. by 10 ft. 6 in. $47.25, $48.75, $49.50 and $61 .75. 9 ft. by 12 ft. $50.00, $54.50, $57.50 and $69.00. 11 ft. 3 in. by 12 ft. $74.70 and $81.00. , 11 ft. 3 in. by 15 ft. $94.00.

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CUT NOBODY lUSH POMS. Nathan Hale might have regretted that he had but one income tax to pay to hia country.

STILL MISSING. The birds re coming back all but the dove of peace.

If Mr. Harding's caddies are willing to take the itump for him in 1924 he'll deserve a second term.

The crops destroyed by email rodents and Insects in America would feed the people of Belgium.

EASTI'U. They found the great stone rolled away And Him whom men had crucified With cruel spears had pierced His side And mocked wit'i jests and jibes that day. Gone from the darkness and the Kloom Of Death's grim tomb. Where He had slept in Death's embrace The linen of His shroud wra piled. And white-robed angels gently smiled, And bade them walk Into the p!ac

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away, The soul lives on beyond the grave. Death ui but rest from pain and strife The gate to life!

British oil interests have received concessions in newly discovered oil fields in northern Greece.

In the last 10 years wages of farm, laborers have more than doubled.

The 1920 output of long-staple cotton in Arltona and Southern California was 100,000 bales.

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