South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 115, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 25 April 1921 — Page 4

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APRIL 25. 1921

UP TO THE CLERK AND COUNCIL TO Sr'.RVE PEOPLE NOT POLITICIANS. Tomorrow u shouM o ;in to announce whtn tho r for n1um :clion n th- city ni iniKer plau t ;ov rnnint 1 to bo hold; will l-o if the city clerk fliri rnmmcn runoiI function as th-y hould, ob-f-rvlr.ff thir duti..i ;is pre-scribed by luv. Their rmir"' i i!ain. I3'f-ry honi-n ciliz n fi id hop-d th:tt. (ln;dto iT.-nn?il di-!iko of the prnpo?od new syMi-rn. n. r would try to d f the rights of th I rir. ' ' r tho l.-wcs of the state, plainly outlining thoir irc.p-r oourn-. I'rr,n jrr nt app lranr. in fact, de.-plte curb-' f-tono trr.ij to th contrary, m'mlTs of the council have n'er intended otherwise, onro their duties i ndt-r tho law was mado Known to them. Indication n r' that tho froy.sip has b-on tho ps.sip of pditif iaru.-. with "tho wi.h tho father of th thought." wanting to mak a "at" of the council and th" loi k. and so-kinc to nü.-doad them in what tho law in. to induce thrn to ko wron? if thoy r.u!d. Indication? yctorday woro that prrhap thoy had loratod hu h a "poat," and perhaps a moro or less willing n' in ('lork Pdlinkl. And he refund to either drr.y or confirm the rumor. Jle prevaricate! .'nd know that he must prevaricate if he aserta it wa a pb.yfical impossibility to ascertain whether '. or not J, 000 out of the 3,700 siirners of the city mini.cer petitions are voters; and ho knows that if he takr the position that ho was forbidden to employ moro than five day in tho investipation. he does it Lr an excuse for violating the law and not for con piylnff with it. Quite Mr. W. W. Ftidenour, ono of tho republican candidates for the mayoralty nomination, states in an interview published today, it wouM t- almost lrn j. oib!o to pick 3.700 prown poopl) in b'outh BcnJ, at random, -,000 of whom would not r lepal votern. till thr- are tho registration lists of last year that micrht hive ben resorted t", at lea.t until tho-. h id i n picked out of that :',700 names who art; on that iit. If th?y were voters thn they prob, bjy are now. That would leave him only a balance t bo investigated by personal call, or inquiry. If then were any balance- to make up tho 2.000, hut there would bo none but then, perhaps, that wouM le too much to expect of Mr. Hllinski, looking a. he appears to have been, all alonp. to find a. way not to rrtify thc list rather than to ascertain the numt r of oters listed. l..ikewifo when he told City Att'y. iUick, as Mr. r.ilinski himself admib, that and hi deputy couM r.ot work on the petition at tho tv-tme time, because the sheet were bound t--pother, it merely indicate a subnormal functioning of tho brain. He could easily Scratch off a few name? and address- of s'.pnern and hand them 'o his deputy to ascertain if they 'were voters if he wanted to. That i the way the petition committee haw boon investipatirp them, makinp a lin before the Ttitior.s were tiled. All thl prft.eip amounts to. and all Clerk Ililinskl's ri'Tiduct will amount to. if it confirms the po?si;.' when ho conies to fllo hi- report, will be to des.-.on:, ate how crooked tho opposition to the cnmmL'siin-mtnaser plan of city povernment politicians and their henchman will be if the dare, in their efforts to kep the people from pa.;sinp on th subject. Thy have said tho people do r.ot know er.ouph about tho system to vote on 't. and have heped that sotnethinp might turn up to keep them from becoming Informed. There wi'l re- plenty of time for the reople to become educated on tho subject in the campaJpn that "will follow the-soioction of an flection date, but tho duties f tho clerk and council arc plain and the pollt.r'.n are likely to h.-.ve their run-in with th3 peop'e, if annt'Ur.ce.l subterfupe? are reorted to to prevent the liw taldnp its legitimate course. But the clerk and the. council may be wiser than tho politicians thoupht them; at lea: we so be l.vc. ?ir.t cf thc:n aro candidates for otllco toc: r.orr fr mriyor, .vmo v-ant re-cloctlon to the cou.iil. It would be i splendid recommendation to their tirrsosi. wouldn't It, for them to nvort to euch methods, denant of the legal petitions cf 3,700 South lr.d voters -rd .everal hundred mere. Surely 1he petitioners havo as muc'Ti rlpht to the Con?ide ration the law requires for them, as they would Itave. if they were petitioning for a witer main or f. r a ewcr. It is just a tart of tie ofüdal business, tb.i! l all. Tho rlerk and council reallcs we hop-. thtt they are only ministerial and legislative insf It 'tlor: nor judicial NiJif. nor are they ip?rior to th law as monarchs.

THE HALF-WIT CRIMINAL. Atro.'luLis crimes, committed by dftfsctlves. have Cartel r.gitat! n in arioiu states for better control cf tho weak-minded. One in every 300 Americans is a defective, according to Dr. Martin Bar', thief physician of th Pennsylvania trainir.p school for fr eM?-minded children. Dr. Barr estimates that thre are 350.000 defective in the United States. C nly 21. C00 are ronfined in state institution. About 1 CO mere are cared for in private asylums. Thtt leave. 22S.0CO mental and moral defectives at larpe. A sv-od many of them .'ire harmlcti Kut many are potential or actual criminals. Police Comm.i-ib-ner Weeds of Nmt Yr rk has ppecialized on th subject. He nys that 3 T out of every 100 criminal aro out-and-out defectn.. Sixteen staff do ahsnluttly nothinp to care for th'ir defectives. No tat handles tho subject et!elfntly. In the average community it L- nobody's uir.ei to keep an eye rn defectives. They ar? allowed to inn at lare until pi-kd up cn a crimir.s.! tiiarff. New York city leads in the attempt

to provide proper care for defectives. It has a special he-spital on Kandall' Island, which looks after defectives culled from local school. Only a few years apo. New York's defectives went to the regular school and mingled with the normal children, exerting an unwholesome influence. What's to be done with them? Police Commlsloner Woods of New York says: "The beginning of p movement to eliminate the defective from our midst should start In the schools. Examinations .hould he made and children who are dull, stupll and t:npromIInp. but a yet not criminals, shoull bo separated and treated. If it Is found that after Und and prolonged treatment the child cannot be made normal, he should b1" put permanently In nn Institution. In the same way. It should be possible to take and treat feeble-minded adults, many of whom turn to crime because they are unable io mako a living in ordinary work.' The care ar.d restriction of defective Is a recopnlzed function of state legislatures. The problem 1 up to them.

BEING TONY AND POLITE. Were you ever invited out to a swell dinner and then got stumped on which fork to start eating with? Did you pick up your water glass and tip and sip until someone took the lead In picking up a fork? Or did you ever show up at a party Ir. etreet clothes and be mortified because all the others wore satin-lapel undertakers coats? If foj, Valvation is at hand, for a flood of books cn etiquet Is appearing in our midst. It eeema that none of us is to be spared, for the flood Includes an "Encyclopedia on Good Form for Little Ones." Thf-se books on how to be polite prove mat everything travels in a circle. They are a resurrection of a craze that swept the country a half century apo. Joe Miller's joke book had nothing on the etiquet guides of by-gone days. In them you could Mal verything from "how to set the table for a sixfork dinner" to "model for a letter from a youn man at preparatory school requesting funds from his father." "My Esteemed Parent," ran the lettar. et cetera, et cetera, et ceretra. "Never remove falso teeth at the table withou holding a napkin over the mouth," was one of th.3 printed rule9. It further appears, on perusing the old volumes in the attic, that it was bad form for a gentleman to pick his teeth with a quill when riding in a hack. It was the height of impoliteness for youn folks In the 20's to lead the conversation when eld folks were present. To be in good form, one's calling card must be penned with great flourishes that looked like an X-ray picturo of the bonea of c black bass. Politeness is most commendable particularly in rdjuring us not to eat pie with a sharp knife. In a. jostling, selfish -city a return to good manners would make this a happier world. But let's hope the etiquet-book craze won't whir us back to the stilted days of hoop-sklrta and eldevvhiskers when the code demanded that the polite person act like a trained monkey.

. EVER HAPPEN TO YOU? John Blank, the busy business executive, picks i'P his 'phone and says to the switchboard operator: Cet me Smith of the firm of Punk, Bunk & Monk." Mr. Smith is gotten on the line and is told to "wait a minute, please." It develops that Mr. Blank r.a ambled across the hall to a neighbor' offlco or I.- down at the far end of the factory. He has a mania for getting as far away from the 'phono as poflble, after putting- In a call. Smith, at the other end of the line, rests weari'y on his elbow antl goes into a. comatose state watching the window cleaner across the street. After about five minutes, Blank has been successfully paged and rushes In to tho 'phone. "Sorry to have Irept you waiting:." If Smith pets a dozen juich calls in a day, he loses an hour. This Is a ret. and a growing one, that has ren in business within the part few years. It has beon made possible by the. era of private switchboard perators. In the days when a business man had to make his own telephone calls direct, he had to stay cn the job until he got hid party. Nobody's time was wasted. Thoughtlessne?? Yes. But it can easily be remedied. Have a. little consideration for the other fellow's time. Don't put In a 'phone call for him tmks yovi are ready to stay nearby for the 10 seconds or so required to get your connection. It'll rave a lot of time and make business run more smoothly.

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TinZ COLOMBIAN TIUIVTY. (Indianapolis News.) Whatever the motive that prompted the ratification of the Colombian treaty, the effect Ls to repair, as far uh r.osslb'e, a great wrong done to a friendly power. It is not necessary to go over iho history of the transaction. All that It ls necessary to know is that we "took Panama," and never paii anything for tho territory to the owner thereof. Nor can there be any doubt that, whatever the origin of the revolution of Panama against Colombia, the actior. of our government made It Impossible for Colombia to suppret?s it. It Is true. too. that we were bound by treaty to maintain "the perfect neutrality of tho before-mentioned isthmus," and that its treaty also guaranteed "the rights of povereignty and property which New Granada (now Colombia) has and possesses over the eaid territor." The seriate yesterday, by a vote of 69 to 19, ratified a treaty awarding $25,000,000 to Colombia, and guaranteeing to her such rights as by th3 old treaty, referred to above, she is entitled to. Colombia, on her past, recognizes the Independence cf Panama, accepts the boundary line fixed in tho treaty, while the United States obligates Itself l ue its good offices to bring about, the establishment of diplomatic relations between Colombia and Panama, and to effect the settlement of differrncec mostly of a pecuniary nature between the two countries. It is, cf course, remarkable that there should b3 such a complete reversal of r-oitlon by some of tho senators notably Idge. who. four years ago der.cunccd the very Idea of reparation. If he has not lest the capacity for embarrassment ho must have been greatly embarrassed by the situation, lie explained his action thus: "This action on our part is asked for by the I resident as part of a great policy which, he bei'eves, will be cf value and importance to America and the American hemisphere. It is to the interest of our security, our national defense, and the safety of the canal, which ls in an Insecure position, from a military point of view." The effect undoubtedly will be good In these rays, as in all others. Hut it will be so because the rction of the senate proves that the American people are willing to make reparation honorably whenever reparation Ls due via In this case and that they propose to pay for what they get, and to abide rcrupulously by the terms of all treaties to which they are a party. The passage of the ratification resolution by the vote-s of 40 republicans and :? democrats was an act of simple Justice, and It Is not to be doubted that meet of those who thus voted were Inspired by the desire to right a wronp. If there was another and les creditable motive, even that can not affect the quality of the act.

The Tower of Babel

BY BILL ARMSTRONG-

AHA. PHOIl UiLY a iiin comiuy: (nkws-times ad.) Mr. Mark I-r.p has pj rcha.'od the South I?-;-nd Inn. ir.j N. Main street. The Ir.n will continue to operate with tho 0M farcv

POLITICAL NOTi:s. Mayor Car.on aks The- Tower of Babel to announce that h's 1 pinning to think ho was a!:j responsible for the Porter .re k.

an lAirvn uL srxn.w. Yesterday was a wonderful diy for automobiling. Early in the day wr pt out the old bus and started down town. The traffic was extremely heavy on Lincoln way W.. - much so in fact that we suddenly crashed into an elderly lady in front of Huffs durp store. Nobody was hurt, but the force of the collision cum' near throwing our small child on the hard pavement. It feemed like a diy full of eventful happeninp. becauso try as we might we were unable to keep the old hugpy off of tho sidewalk. Everybody, however, escaped furious injury. On N. Main we electrified a fmall but apperviative audience by running up the. stops of one of the flats in th- ;iv r row, proceeding on into the house without doinfr but very little damage. Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you folks, we wero on foot and pushing the baby's buggy, when all of these unusual thinps happenedl

Maybe no business is founded on falsehood, but what would happen

to a plK't"- ' ."r's business' if he always reeor i tlto plain truth, ask oM Phil A. S-Tlur, of the :ud baker Co-op. r.i'.-.r.

Sunday v as movir.p diy for the Tribune. Now we can have Main s:. all t our.-1 Ives.

imn:r mays or Tin: citv. I xvi Weisberg and Billy Williaii.s, b.-th of Pittsburg, Pa., ai- visiting in South Jl.ni at th- Oliver hul. The 'only thin. 7 we hold apains-t the two men is that Lou Weisberg happens to h ivo a brother named Andy, who lumps around the O'iver cxi'. pt at meal time. .postal cards aro acknowledged from Sammy (Jantz (), AI Zimmerman and Ilster Frank (). () Indicate writer in is New York having a good time. () Indicates parties aro at San Prancisvo, preparing to sail for the Orient. All postal cards pratcfully acknowledged immediately on rccc-pit of same.

TItC.i:i)V TOPICS. Tayinp ." a pint for "odd te.i" and petting it. On a trolley at midnitrht with a i:0 bill th smallest you have. . The best restaurant in town with tho only pirl in the world and your money in your other pants. Believing your clock Is half an hour fast in the morning and discovering it is 20 minims slow. Tho 14th of the month when pay diy is the l.'.th. Five dollar?, a $i.I3 check and a nastv waiter.

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Coty's L'Origan Face Powder, all tints, 85c box.

Como And Sro Store Hours: Open 8:30; Close 5:30 Saturday closed at 9:30

Dorin's Irrnch Fo::r per box 39c

More Truth Than Poetry By JAMES J. MOiNTACUB

MOKE TRUTH THAN POETRY an i:.ci;ptiox. It was the teacher in the school Who said, "To lie is wrong. And little boys who break this rule Will never pet alonp.

The fibber dies in rags and phame

A hard and cruel fate

While those who earn both wealth

and fame Do not prevaricate. It was tho little cddy boy A simple guileless youth Who vowed thereafter to employ The plain unvarnished truth. "If very' earnestly," said he, "The teacher's words I hood, I rather thing that I shall be Quite certain to succeed." So when next day a portly ,pink, Whose caddy bap ho bore, Said, "Look here, caddy, don't you think I made that hole in four?" The caddy viewed him. scornful eyed, (And, thinking of tho fate That liars always meet, replied. "G'wan! Yuh made an eiphtl" It was the HUle cadfly boy Who ppoke the truth so well

That soon he managed to destroy

A paying clientele. And thus the little guileless youth Found out to hia mirpriso.

That while some lads do well with

trutH, A caddy thrives on lies. (Copyright, 1921.)

SONGS

i;y Ai.ntrn Arnold. There is a song for happiness. With movement soft and sweet; There is a chant for might and power Of strong ami sturdy beat; There is a hymn for hope, that sou mis All plaintive in the ears; There is a song for loneliness. And a saddest one lor tears. Yes, life would tell its thoupjits in song And speak in melody; For singing words alone reveal Tho heart's intensity. The stumbling sounds are awkward, cold, And hollow as they fall, T'ntll they lind that perfect strain, And music's voices call. There is a song for sorrowing; There is a song for pain; A song for sadness and for care; A tender, easing strain; There is a song for faith and joy; Then let tho iipS repeat The melody, tho harmony That doubles all thoir pwcet.

Fifty-one posts of the American Legion have been chartered outride the continental limits of the United States. The posts nro distributed among three trritorial jioswions and IT foreign countries, on four cont inont.-.

NO MOHM ISi: FOR T1IF.M. After hearing Mr. Harding's message congress is sorry in bought so many dictionaries during the past eight years.

BPS I NESS OPPORTP X I T Y. The tailor v'ho can supply armored hip pickets is going to reap a fortune.

Cuticura Talcum "" Fciaatingly Fragrant Always Healthful Sunle freeof Cotlenr Lbrtor!i,Dpt.X.MUr., kui. hverywiiore lie.

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Democrat Prepare for the primary. Study your candidates and qualify yourself to vote right. Your government says you have the right to vote. It is up to you to say whether you have the ability to vote or the ambition to vote. The government has done all it can for you and on election day it is your turn to do all you can for your government. The least you can do is to vote; the most when your ballot is the result of mature deliberation and study. Peowho do not vote are not In on our government. They are letting others do their work for them. They have no voice in affairs, and have no right to object to the kind of government they get. A person who does not vote has no more right to find fault with his government than the man who jumps his board bill has to kick on his board.

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36-inch colored figure Madras a 75c yard. The new Fraille Lustre for draperies in plain ,wA two-toned at $1.50 yard. 36-inch colored drapery Madras at 05c to $1.50.

French Doll Lamps Boudoir Lamps They are expressive bits of decoration for your home and make appropriate gifts for any occasion. French Doll Heads and frames for bedside lamps, for telephone and phone with lamp. Mahogany boudoir lamps at $4.00 and up. French grey decorated lamps $3.75. Old ivory decorated lamps at $4.00. A new and complete showing of silks in all col-

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