South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 185, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 4 July 1921 — Page 6

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THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES MONDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1921

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

Morning--Evening--Sunday J. M. STEPHENSON, Publisher. JOHN HENRY ZUVER, Editor. Member United Press and the International News Service Morning Edition.

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JULY 4, 1921

If Mexico would clean up a little, we could recognize her. --o--Some blushing June brides are still blushing over a hot stove. --o--Dawes goes down in history as the man who made the budget budge. --o--Among the July thunder storms is the threat to collect delinquent taxes.

Remember those days when two could live as cheaply as one can now?

It looks now as though congress were suffering from a complication.

TOiddara, an opera with Its scenes In Greenland, is being- presented at tho Itoyal theater, Copenhagen. Iklmo costumes are used. Light of the aurora toreall3 play over tho icy ecenca. Arctic explorers praLo the f.dollty of thco cfTectA That would b better to look at than tho costumes would he to wear for a cummer fchow In tho United States. o ENEMIES. An army of prashoppera 15 miles deer arid 20 rr.ilffl lonp i ad-ancinr through Colorado. "Wild beasts onco menaced humankind. No longer. Kow It 13 Insects. If It were not for what scientists havo Karned in defer.fiö of crops from lnnects. unchecked lncreapo of somo kinds 0' Insect might cau.o widespread famine even In tho United State.

STAMPS. The firrt U. f. stamp was sold July 1, 18 47, In N v York city. Think what that event meant to people. liefere then It was necemiry to go to the pest oRjr to mail a. letter, and the- postmaster iv. is paid in cash for evxry letter ho posted. Small aa It U, tho postage tarny has performed l Kreut fervico. and one of tho many kind things that can be said about it U that it was the first commodity to come down in price after the war. O INDUSTRIAL WASTE. The recent widespread wage reductions were explained as measures to bring Industry back to a normal co?t of i reduction and consequently to "deRate" retail prices. Tho public and mot of the waga earner havo conceded th.n to to necessary. Ifut a eurvey made by a committee of the American engineering council Indicates there are other Efedle.as bürden on production that pad the cost to tho consuming public. The waste of various ports amounts to millions annually, the report fvays and to due chiefly to inetllclentr management. "Mora than 50 percent of the responsibility for these Tränte according to the engineers, "can be placed at the door of the. management, and less than 25 ycrcent at tho door of labor." Such wastea constitute a charge upon production, which the nation pays. If the indictment brought by the engineers be true, it is at least ns necessary for tho manufacturers to do pome cutting cf productive costs on their own account as to cut wages. As long as they are dient as to the Ineillciency of management, the public will ask why they ehould expect any exemption fxem. the deflation process that is applied to labor. o - COMMON SENSE. ' The Fett!cip.?Rt of th.5 Pritih miners' strike on the basis cf A compromise in which all parties. Including the government, yield something, in a great victory for Uriti-h common sense. The ftriive, which contin ' i for 90 days, was the moft ferious and co.-n'.y In the history of Great Britain. I'rora the first It threatened the country with an industrial and political revolution. Its effect on every phase of industrial life was little hort of disastrous, and had It continued much longer the great Industrial machine upon which the very life of the people of Great Uritain depends would have collapsed. The extent r f the disaster which was every day becomlr.e more imminent ae the result of the strike, can hardly be appreciated by the people in thk country. Coal mear.s more to the peop'.e of Great Britain, rich and po-r al.ke, than to the people of any other cf the Kreat nations. It is not cr.'.y the keystone cf their industrial are':, but if lu- medium through which they are abb to import their r.ect-ary food supplies. In Great Britain coal in kdng. Its large and ecoriiulal production nuanssome degree of prosperity t-T ail classes. Itr continued scarcity would ir.an ruin for ail c l-i-ves. Thy thratrned ruin has been avoided because In the final j inuh rlo,'.y concerned employers, miners and t:.- ; i.e. represented ty the government reai.. d. that they were all in he same boat.

WHEN YOU HAVE WINGS. Yru may y. t be an angel, have wings and fly, an! with-o:t aitin for another world, and no mot or re , uirod. sas tiie United States air-ervice. "Y are on r ir way. and already prizes for man-

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tion expert tillered that Cyinr without a motor . would be lmpcslble unless ome man cf ordinary weight should appear, capable of exerting two or three horsepower, -but recent Improvements In airplane wlr.fi have been startling. The latest doubles the liftinc poorer. That brings you nearer to flying without an engine. Aviation thus tend back to where It started. For the first wins-flyem th "Wright brothers, Lllienthal, LAngley, Chanute and Oder ua-ed gliders'. These "warft machine without motor or propeller They usually wera box Vrtea, resem'bilng' a honeycomb. "With cne of these, gliders, Oder In 1898 Cew through the air for over 1,000 feet. Orville Wright once glided for IS minutes. The demand was for speed .safety and ease la flying. That brought the engine-airplane, with vhich the Wrights made their firwt flight at Kitty Hawk, N. O. Dec. 17, 1903. The first hot-air balloon ascension was by ths Montgolflera In 17S2. They trot their idea from watching a wet shirt, drying before a flreplacee, elevated like a eali by the heat The dirigible balloon with propeJlera and steering apparatus arrived In 1885. Look at the airplane flying over your head with the ease of c bird, and it seems unbelievable that liss than 18 years have passed since America gave the world the airplane. Now there are SS commercial flying organizations in the United States, carrying passengers. So far, these organizations have carried 115,000 people a total distance of aore than 3,000,000 mile, with no accidents or Injurie and at an average fare w3f 75 cents a mile. The thing that Is holding back the airplane and preventing Its coming into common use is Its high tranrportation cot. That will be solved in time, and the experts say It ! not lmxoesible that the solution will como by a bird-wing contrivance that will carry us without engine or balloons such as was used by the immortal Darius Green of school-recitation fame. o ' OthorEditorsThanOure .-X , J MJ mL.-.. . , OUH SOCIALISTS. (Indiana 1 tolls News). American socialists, as far a thy are represented by the Detroit convention, do not seem to be such terrible folk. Doubtless they hold theories of government and society which most Americans believe to be wrong, but they certainly arc not dangerously radical. The convention drew the lino eharply against communism, refused to Indorse tha doctrine of the "dictation of the proletariat, " and rather poked fun at the idea of revolution. At a later session, the convention indorsed the general strike as "a powerful weapon of the working class" a rather foolish pronouncement but then added that a resort to it in thin country under present conditions would be folly. There was an attempt to get an Indorsement of tho strike as a political weapon to force or defeat legislation, but it failed, the motion or resolution being voted down. It wm proposed also to invite representatives of radical labor organizations, the farmer labor party and the nonpartisan league, to a unity conference. This plan, too, which was that of Daniel Hoan. mayor of Milwaukee, was defeated, the ilillquit resolution, merely calling for a survey of other organizations, being substituted therefor. Socialist members of unions were authorized to "remold those organizations from within," which, of course, they woulJ endeavor to do without authorization. It was decided that it was "a supreme duty to point out the fundamental errors underlying principles and policies of the organized labor movement, its failure to learn from tlie burning lessons of the pact, and its inability to face concretely and in the true light of historic prospective the economic and political questions of the day." o WHAT IS "NITVYS." (Buffalo Courier). Unfolding a copy of the New Tork Times in his pulpit, Itev. John Roach Stratton. of New York, preached a sermon on the wickedness and de-speratt state of the world ae revealed by the headings oi news and other matter, which he read aloud without comment. At the conclusion Mr. Stratton intimated that the appalling picture would have been blacker still if he had taken it from a less respectable newspaper, and went on to say: "I have net exaggerated the matter at all. I have quoted literally all the way through the accounts of reeking Immoralities and festexing sins at reported In a single issue, as 'all the news that was fit to print' fer that day. Well, God be praised that we were not given the news that was not lit to print for that day'." Mr. Stratton thinks his picture was not exaggerated, yet it was exaggeration of the most unreflecting and excessive type. The day's "news" does not pretend to be a picture of more than a very small part of the world of men and women and events; it is not concerned with the ordinary activities of the great multitude but rather with the startling exceptions. In its editorial comment, the" Times calls Mr. Stratton's attention to an important point which he overlooked and which too many pessimistic readers of newspapers overlook. Says the Times: "A newspaper Is a selection from life, an anthology of the Important, interesting, human. The dally habit ani routine are not there. Men and women go forth to their work till evening. The quiet, continual, fruitful activities, the average fiow and tempo of existence are not set down. The reader need not be told of the customary. The daily picture is of multifarious life, good, bad and mixed, full of the struggles, the paesions, the failures, the conspicuous good and bad deed. The newspaper gives a vivid section, not the whole, of course." o THH rOSTAD sintvicn AND psychology. (New York TinuN.) Postmaster Gen. Hays has an engaging and disarming frankness in admitting defects in the postal pervlc. When a letter straight from the white housa takes an unconscionable tlnve In getting to the .addressee in New York, the machinery is confessedly out of kilter. And the postmaster general is as well aware as the rest of us that this particular delay In the mails could be matched many times over. If complaints about lost or mnt letters and undelivered newspaper mall were to be collected and exploited as they were a year ago. it might easily be shown that tho service remains very much what it was. But Mr. Hays is wiser in his generation than was his fredecessor. Mr. Burleson was too much accuptomed to assume a haughty official ait and to declare that the postal service was nearly absolute In perfection. The new postmaster general appeals to the public to help itv setting things right. "If anything is going wrong, we want to know It." This change of ofllcial attitude is welcome, but how arc we to account for the changed attitude of the patrons of the post office? Only a year a-ro they were furious about a postal inethciency which they now accept in meek sile ace. liegular newspaper campaigns were conducted in I'Jli and !i'20 on the tmbject of the demoralized postal service. Kvery delay or miscarriage in the malls that could be pounced upon was flung Indignantly in the face of the postmaster general. But nOw such high crimes and misdemeanor are passed over without protest, certainly without any of the- old clamor. What is the explanation ? It 1 a clear eise of political psychology. When a presidential campalcn was pending, millions of people were interested in picking up every brick they could lay their hands on to hurl at an Incredibly incompetent administration. As tho post ctMce had a lot of exposed windows, many of them were smashed. But now that we have got the democrats out. and things go on much as before though under republi.ian rule, the main reason . for our righteous wrath of yesteryear has passed and our civic indignation has disappeared- Why complain? It 1 only fair to give the new postmaster general a chance. BefSdes, no sensible person ever did think that the etal rvice could avoid making a larg number of trrors. The real wonder is that it doesn't make more. Thus doe American pood nature and Inconsistency ork to the advantage of an administration Just com to power. Toward the end of its term, however, it ought to te warned that 11 its la.xltie-s and blunder will be cried out upon by outraged citixena

The.TovwBaM tjSj' Dill Armstrong,

DEAR customers: THIS Is Independence day. I DON'T know why they call it INDEPENDENCE day unless It's because OF the days that have gone before; IT'S been a quiet day thus far, IN PACT it's as quiet up here at BARRON lake as Grant Manning. A LITTLE boy tried to shoot off SOME firecrackers awhile ago AND promptly landed in the Jug. THEY won't let the girls wear THE KIND of bathing suits they WANT to up here and you have GOT to have a license for EACH kind of fish you're thinking OF CATCHING in the lake and YOU'VE got to turn the comer JUST right In Nlles and aside FROM that is looks like it was GOING to be an Ideal Independence DAY; at that I'll bet most OF THE brothers up here are FEELING better today than Georges CARPENTIER of Franco who put

an "S" ON his name especially I guess SO WE would have to sing It AND I guess we are about through SINGING about Georges and he car RETURN to the land of the frogs where WE SPENT so many valuable months of OUR LIFE along with Jack Pershing AND other lesser notables In the late LAMENTED army.. As I was saying INDEPENDENCE day Is now an occasion WHEN we can shoot off our Are crackers IF THE constable don't see us and WE meet our favorite bootleggers IN THE shadows and OH II 1 just got a bite and IT LOOKS like it was going to be A PEACH so I'll see you later. Yours respectfully, BILL ARMSTRONG.

JULY 1. 177

"What means the ringing of the bell?" "Trouble,- a father said; "Oh. fon of mine, it rings to tell There hall be fields of dead." "Why docs It ring fo loud and long?" The son inquired again. "And what's the meaning of its song?" "Sorrow and hurt and pain." "Why do the people dance and shout, - And throw their hatsin air? What is tho church 1. 11 rin.Lrinjr out That sets them laughing tho;e?" "Oh. .con of mine, this day is sid And ladtned down with grief. But all the people now are Kiad

Because of their belief. "And all of them are j leased to buy, With death and bitter woe, A fairer Hag for men to fly, Long after they shall go." "Father, the bell has. cracked, eo strong

The .-lippcr strikes its side." "It matters not. ere very long The crack hall be Its irlde. "It matters not how many die Who hear tho bell today; It matters' not how many high, The pain shall pass away. "And when the battle fla-gs are furled Under God's will and plan. Freedom shall fmile upon the world Uplifting every man." Copyright, 1021.)

M.i:i Tit.unc ofiui-:u. Editor News-Time?: Need of a traffic officer to regulate the constant How of automobiles, market shoppers and the like was fhown Saturday morning at Colfax a v. and Michigan t-t., when auto mobil ist. s seriously injmed a woman. Had a t rathe oliieer been stationed there the accident probably wwiiid

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WANTS DRINKING IXUNTS When a pernon is down town, why L it that he has to tramp. In many instances, several blocks out of his path to secure a drink of water? It api'O.ls to the writer's sense of I roportson that thero should be more than three drinking founts ia

not have happened, as it was. fright-j the- Im-ir.'PH district of a city the ened men ami hysterical women did size of South Bnd. Tho thre2 their utmost to take charge of the. j places where founts are placed in situation until the police patrol at-, the li;i"inss district are: The cor-

rived. which to spectators, seemed

like an eternity. Aithough the city has an official at the public market in B. B. Miiler, city sealer, his duties consist of inspecting weights and measures and not to provide police protection. I am of the opinion that an officer detailed to watch the market would prevent the endless confusion which now exists. Police were formerly stationed nt

ner of fed fax and Michigan sts.. the rc.-;:er of Wayne -.nd .MichUrnn st.-.. .r a! the corner of Washington and Main sts. In thse sweltering days, jerfoni shouM vot be obllgid o travel euch distances to procure a drink of pure, inexpensive, cool water. Purely, the expense of installing at least a dozen additional drinking, founts would be moi than repa'd

in eo:n;crt -and compliments to the

detail a traffic officer and another policeman to watch the crowds durinr the busy early hours of the.

More Truth Ttian PoGtru

the market but this summer none! water department of this self ai

has been around. It would be well verrised ' world famed" city which

Indeed If the board of safety would 1 tol -r it" such alrrust downrieht

order Chief Kline to Immediately criminal ncslieence in ?ueh a funi-

mep.tal essential to the health and peace of her citizens. L. O. K.

At dinner tables loosed. Like curses and domestic birds Como chuckling homo to roost. The man who says them never squirms And never bats an eye, But in atzsrieved and peevish terms He pulls his alibi. "I'm fearfully abused." wails he, "The papers have misquoted me!" (Copyright, lXi.)

S.nT WAY' OUT

Dedicated to a DHtlnguHiotl Naval O flieer. When tidings ran around the land That King Canute had said,

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Scotch Across the country swarmed. And stood alersr the shore to watch The miracle performed. And when he didn't even check The onrush of the tile. His jeering subjects said- "By Heck! It looks as if he lied." And yet Canute, the while they gloatc-d. Forgot to say: "I've be.n misquoted." Whn Ananias and his wife Conspired .with the devil To Uad a sort of busin-, ss life Not strictly on the level. And Peter caucht them in a deal And asked them roundly why They loved to gouce and cheat an I eteal. They merely sought to lie. And as a logicsl result. As doubtless you have read. The Mchtninsr. like a catapult. Came down and struck them dead. They never thought, to dodge their fate. To say: "We were net quoted straight!" We've learned a lot since the? oil di ys; When great men say things now Which, on their publication, ral.v The thunder cf a row; When over-freely-flowing words.

ins ruTi'ui: sixniK Well. Admiral Sims may retire, hut he'll get an offer from the movies the minute he does.

OLD STUFF That new monkey In Newport won't attract any attention. Nothing, short of a wild cat can arouse the eld-time interest in the place.

GI7TTING DOWN TO CASCS With moie reduction we will get more production.

IV THE CAMERA'S IX)CUS. "The Lotus Flower" is being made by Chinese players at Los Angeles. Violet Mersereau and Edmund Cobb are to star in "Out of the Depths." Burns Mantle, dramatic critic, will write subtitles for Norma Talmadge pictures. This allows the critics to criticise a critic, as 'twere. The screen version of Brady's drama. "Life" is released with Ar '.in Pretty and Nita Naldl in prominent rrie Fatty Arbuckle draws 'Thirty Day?" as his next picture. After that "!' will travel "Via Fast Freight." Otto Ledger, heavy in the Ruth Rclar.d series, made his stace debut in the hr y' chorus of Carmen at the opera house In Prague. He was eight the n.

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