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Tri'-SDAY, JULY 1. 191.1 THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES. SOUTH BEXD WS-TLIES THE NEWS-TIMES PRINTING COMPANY no Wpt Colfax Avenue. South Bend. Indiana Entered as second class mutter at the Pcstotflca at South Bend. Indiana , by carrier. Dally and Sunday, In advance, per Dally end ' ..day by thi weclc.llo car 15. CO. Dally, single copy 2C Sunday, single copy Zc BY MAIL. Dally ttnd Sunday in adx'ance, per year 54 00 jXUly, In advance, per year , 3.00 If your name appears In the tele phone director you can telephont your want "ad" to The Newf-Timca o :fice and a bill will be mailed after lta Insertion. Home phone 1131; Bell phone 2100. co n n. lorenzi:n & woodman " For .'gn Advertising Representative. 25 Fifth Avenue. Ntw York. Advertising Building. Chicago SOUTH IS KM), INDIANA, JULY 1, 11)13. WHY YOU A Hi; HOT. In hot weather wht-u peopb' should give most attention to their diet and the care of their bodks they seem to be most neglectful arid reckless of consequences. In winter they dress warmly and eat heartily of strong foods to supply the- needed fuel for the body, but in summer take few pre cautions to keep the body cool and refreshed from the effects of the heat. It i3 as simple a matter to keep as comparatively comfortable in summer as in winter, but the means employed are exactly opposite. Winter calls for heavy clothing and a heavy diet. Sum mer demands light clothing and a light diet. Yet with many people, while the clothing may be changed the diet remains the same. They think they must eat the same rood winter and summer, if they give the matter any thought. Tho greatest sin against summer comfort in the matter of food Is meat eating. Meat is a doubtful necessity at any time and known to be harmful If eaten in large quantities In sum mer. A vegetable diet is equally sus taining and nourishing, without the heating qualities of fresh meats, but whatever one tats care should be taken to see that it is in good condi tion. Meats spoil quickly in hot weather and vegetables and fruits are likely to have bad spots in them. In placo of meats vegetable soup, made from meat stock, should be used, particularly at the noon meal. Many will throw up their hands at the suggestion of hot soups, but it is because they are not acquainted with the toning effect of a hot soup. It gatlsfics hunger, it nourishes the body and after the immediate heat follow ing the eating of it the body feels re freshed and cooled. The stomach is the important thing at any time, and particularly in sum mer. Hot soups help to keep it in tone and to counteract the effects of the quantities of cold and otherwise harmful liquids poured into it. Al coholic drinks of any kind increase the heat oj the body and decrease its power of resistance. Iced drinks of any kind tend to unsettle the stomach, and overeating should be carefully avoided. The city water is South Bend is cold enough to be refreshing and is as cold as should be taken into the ttomach. Within the bounds of rea son one cannot drink too much of it. It provides the needed moisture for the body and acts as a laxative. There weed be no fear of overloading the I Idneys w ith South I bend's artesian vater. The pores will take care of most of it. Hot nights those who are not so fortunate as to have sleeping porches lind their bedrooms uncomfortable. This can be obviated to a considerable degree by sponging the body with cold water before retiring and not drying it or merely mopping off the surplus. It cools the skin and enables sleep where otherwise one would pass a restless and uncomfortable night. Many simple expedients of this kind may bo resorted to for relief from heat, and that is all that can be done. The hot weather is here to stay until it runs its course. To complain and become obsessed with it only ag gravates the distress. In fact to a large degree the people and not the weather are responsible for their suf fering. These are some of the things they do: Eat strong foods. Drink alcoholic beverages. Drink iced liquids. Dress uncomfortably. Lcavo their houses open during the day. Neglect to bathe frequently. Unnecessarily expose themselves. Sit around and swelter and com plain when they would be more com fortable and contented if reasonably busy. Frequent the hot business district at night when they miuht be comfort able at home or in the parks. Hush around catching cars in pur luit of amusement. This is not all, but it is enough or on.? dose. Think it over. J THi: OPPORTIMTY AND Till-: .MAX. The suggestion, expressed by The News-Times, but obviously a produc of events, that Fred Miller shy hi.- motor cap into the mayoralty ring should afford the opportunity he pre sumably desir to put in practice the peculiar ideas he has long entertaired as to the manner in which South Bend should be run. The time seems to be opportune for Mr. Miller to come from behind the barricade from which ho has been throwing insidious but non-explosive bmbs and cast himsdf into the fray, lie must realize by this time th.t his efforts to obtain what he wants through others are fruitless and that if he is to save South Bend from its Impending fate he must act person ally. At this time what Mr. Miller most uttjili U vindication. Always there with plans of procedure and rules of con duct he has never succeeded in ob taining from perverted public senti ment the indorsement he doubtless feels h merits. And perhaps it i3 because he had stuck too closely to the tripod of the Tribune. Lei him come out in the open now when op portunity offers, forget his innate modesty and boldly declare himself the champion of the people. We pause to smile at the piospect presented. We witness the ascension of the triumvirate, which could stand almost anything but that. We see the expression on the counte nances of the republicans who have been deserted In their hour of direst need. It Is not pleasing to contem plate. We see the glitter in the eyes of the progressives. It Is something sinister. And yet here Is the opportunity for the man who by his own confession knows best how the affairs of the city should be conducted, and who will not deny that he has drawn from his own personality his ideal of what the mayor of South Bend should be. AT r.IJTTYSBUHG. Memory and the imagination will have full play at Gettysburg for the next few days. For the old soldiers of both armies memory will work her spell. For the civilian visitor imagi nation must supply what memory does not possess and what the field mark ers do not supply. The positions of the opposing armies as they were disposed on the three days of the battle are plainly indicated by the markers erected by the government. So far as the move ments of troops are concerned they can be followed accurately, but ex cept for those who can summon mem ory to their aid or conjure the battle lines in their imagination the spaces , will not be idled. The field sleeps peacefully beneath the summer sun. The roar of battle Is stilled, the voices of combatants are hushed. The armies that fought and maneuvered are ghostly hosts. Only memory, the pictures of the imagination .and a few straggling sur vivors remain. The thousands who soaked the soil of Pennsylvania with their blood have reaped the reward of sacrifice. The Peach Orchard, Big and Little Round Top and Cemetery Ridge are tho same today that they were fifty years ago, except that they are the mementoes instead of the scenes of conflict. Soon the last survivor will have de parted, memory will fade and history alone will tell the story, history as written in the books and as engraved on the markers at Gettysburg and on the gravestones of departed heroes. The fiftieth anniversary of the battle is an inspiring yet pathetic occasion. It marks the passing of so much and impresses so deeply on the contem plative mind the frightful price Amer ica has paid for her liberties. BACK TO FIIIST PItlNCIPLKS. We say, many of us, that we ad mire an upstanding person, one with tho courage of his convictions. What vf mostly mean, itn't it, is a person with the courage of OUR convictions? For instance, how many suffragets will send bouquets to Erwin McCoon of Towanda. Pa., who recently put his advertisement In the local paper? WANTED Tho woman who has been doing my washing has gone back on me; I must have a wife at once; would like a white woman, between 25 and 35 years of age, a maiden, who has not even given herself to any so-called Christian societies, or will for ever renounce same and give her self up entirely to love, respect and obey me, while I love, cher ish and protect her; my judg ment always to be final and com plete. Yet ought we not to think well of a candid soul who. being old-fashioned and "sot" in his notions, proceeds frankly to live up to them? If Erwin were a lord or duke in stead of only a homespun Pennsyl vania farmer, the chances are he'd have a raft of applications, the wash ing notwithstanding. As it is, we wonder. ' Yet who was it called woman the riddle of the age:? Maybe this plain way of wooing will prove iffective. We've alot of faith in truthful ad vertising. The announcement of the death of Bear Admiral George Brown will be read by many without a second thought, but if it had occurred fifty years ago it would have caused a sen sation. Elkhart furnishes another instance of the interesting circumstance that no one is eer driving his motorcycle or automobile more than eight mile.4, an hour when an accident happens. Cleaning up the city has reduced the output of Hies, but the pest is not extinct and will quickly reinforce its t numbers if the fisht I not persistently f continued. Isn't It straining a point to quote' Apostle Paul as an advocate of wo man suffrage? The last we heard from Paul he was telling the women . f to keep silence In the churches. The woman political boss has made her appearance in Chicago, and we are advised that "the female of the species Is deadlier than the male." With the men stifling their pride and removing their coats at church may we hope that sometime the wom en will take off thir hats? Perhaps we have been dull not to see all along that Editor Miller is the logical candidate of the "citizens" ticket. Sylvia Pankhurst is trying to make herself more of a nuisance than her mother, but she has assumed a big task. We view with pleasure and pride all broken records bin those of heat and disaster. From now on we're going to take more interest in this lobby investi gation. Our last word to Jack Johnson is that we hope he'll like it over there. Spiritualists can no longer claim exclusive rights on the stunt of ma terializing the invisible. We arc expecting to hear the colo nel remark, "I told you so." Goodby. June. We'll try tc stick around until ycu get back. STATESMEN REAL AMD NEAR V. V.Y 1TU:I) C. KELLY. WASHINGTON, July 1. It was not until he was part way through his first term in congress that young Mr. Simply A. W. Lafferty, of Oregon, discovered that he had overlooked a bet. He got the impression when he! first came to uashington tnat ones autobiographical sketch in the Con gressional Record should be short. Most of the sketches occupy only ten or fifteen lines each, and Lafferty took it for granted that that was about the limit. True, he noticed that Sen. du Pont of Delaware occupies about a page, with his lists of battles he has been in, but that, Lafferty supposed, was simply the one glaring exception that proved the rule. So he limited himself to the conventional ten lines when he wrote himself up. Some time after the book had gone to press, Lafferty learned of his mis take. It is not necessary to limit one's self to a mere handful of bio graphical data. One is permitted to go right ahead and tell the whole truth. Oh, of course, there is a limit; it wouldn't do to write so much that the directory would have to be printed In two volumes, like a Dumas novel; but unless one writes too absurdly much stuff, it goes in. The story is that Chauncey 31. Depew, w'hen he came to the United States senate, turn ed in a biography of 64 typewrit ten pages, which would amount to something like twenty columns in a newspaper. That, it was decreed, was, too much much too much, and Sen. Depew was asked to leave out men tion of some of the things he had been, and hold the directory down to something like its usual size. But all this is getting away from young Mr. Simply A. W. Lafferty, who is the subject of this that we're writing. The more Lafferty thought about the meager little ten biographical lines le had written, the more out of patience he became with himself. He had given himself a bare compliment ary mention when just as well as not he could have had something long enough for an obituary. However, he did not let the oversight prey on his mind. He waited until the next directory was being made up and then he got even. Today he occupies al most a -page in the directory with the second longest write-up in the book, and he spares himself not. His en tire life is laid bare, right down to the little details. For instance, he says: "Fu!l name is Abraham Walter Iafferty, but has always been called Walter, and signs his name A. W. Lafferty." However, Iafferty isn't a bad sort, at that. On bi'jsy days when Speaker Clark gets tired of sticking at his post, he beckons to some likely democrat and lets him be speaker for a little while. One of the men most often chosen for the honor is Rep. Finis Garrett of Tennessee. Observant members noted from time to time that the moment Garrett got in the chair he began to beckon to other members and hold little whispered conferences with them. As Speaker Clark rarely calls men up in front that way, there was a good deal of wondering what the important thing could be that Garrett was always having on his mind when the honor of presiding fell to him. A quiet investigation was started. Men who had been seen holding con ferences with Garrett yp in front were cautiously cross-examined. And it turned out that they weren't con ferences at all. But Garrett is al ways thinking of funny stories and when he thinks of one he just has to tell it. He sits there in the speaker's chair and he ses some member who would appreciate the particular story ho has in mind. What more natural than to call the member up and tell the story. Then another story occurs to Garrett and he looks over the house untu he sees the man who would ar predate it. Before telling it Garrett cautions his man not to laugh, no matter how funny it may be. as that would tip off the frivolous nature of the conversation. It was the solemn looks of the story-teller and the victim that fooled the house. George F. Burba, the writer, who is secretary to the governor of Ohio, ued to have a funny hobby. It was promoting extemporaneous fights. Down in his native town of Hodgkins ville, Ky.. which was also the birth place of Abraham Lincoln. Burba was foreman of a little newspaper. When ever he had a little time to spare he would call somebody in off the street and hide him under a big dry goods box that served as a table in the of fice. "Just keep perfectly quiet, Burba How to Dodge Lockjaw on the Fourth And Any Other Time Ml. LIIOXAKD KKEXE mUSII BLKG, 31. I). There are three ways to avoid the lockjaw that reaps its annual harvest after the Fourth of July. One way is by not using explosives on "the day we celebrate". Another Is by cutting open widely the wound and cauterizing every nook and crany of it to its utmost recesses with carbolic acid. The best method of all is by inject ing lockjaw antitoxin into the tissues immediately. Tetanus antitoxin is an absolutely certain preventive if the patient is in oculated within one or two hours after the injury is received. It destroys the toxins or poisons- that are spread through the sytem by the tetanus bacilli, and which, if unchecked, 'par alyze the nerves and stiffen the Joints of spine and jaw until death results. No other virulent organism is more widely distributed in nature than the tetanus germ. It is found in the lit ter of every barnyard, and In the dust of every city street. The prongs of every pitchfork harbor it and it is in the earth of every field and fiower garden. It has been found in dirty clothes, on shoe soles, in gutters, on the surface of fruit, on pocket knives and even In sea water. But this gacillus, though well-nigh omnipresent, is far from vigorous. Sunlight and fresh are its chief enemies. It is alo easily killed by most of the common antiseptics. When the bacilli are introduced in to a wound, the body makes an effort to combat them and prevent their en trance Into tho blood-stream. If the wound is an open one, into which light and air may enter, the bacilli are killed soon and their dead bodies are expelled. But in case the bacilli happen to get into a deep or ragged wound, they increase rapidly and begin to send their toxins into all parts of the body. This is what often happens on the Fourth of July when some luckless small boy wounds himself with a toy pistol. The powder makes a ragged, confused wound, and drives into Its depths the tetanus bacilli that happen to be living in the grime upon his hand. (the melting pot) TIli: CANDIDATE. A man can run for office If he likes in this country, He can pose as a reformer Or for party policy; No law prevents his saying He's the best man for the place, Nor making any platform He pleases for the race. He may believe he's gifted WTit ha genius for control. He may hear a call unuttered, His virtues to extol; He may think himself the choice Of the eager populace And hold himself the only one The job to rightly grace. But there are others, he'll And, And things not what they seem, Contingencies that oft arise To dissipate his dream; What was so sure at first, he finds, Alas, proves shifting sands. And when the fireworks go off No telling where he lands. IT is none of our business, but what comfort the populace finds perching on the court yard wall and loitering about the business center on a hot Sunday night is beyond our powers of perception. It is as if we had no parks or no country roads within a mile or two of the sunbaked pavements, where the hot might cease from sweating and the weary find rest. "ABUSED 3Iother to be Quartered." Newspaper headline. Presumably she was first properly drawn. A 31E3IBER of the laity writing to the press advises the job-seeker never to go in quest of employment with an empty pocket, if possible to avoid it. "Line your pocket with a $20 bill borrowed from a friend for the occasion," writes this philosopher. We recognize & great principle in volved in this advice. It is the prin ciple of self-dependence. The feel of silver in the pocket, the consciousness of banknotes in tho wallet give con fidence. To the extent of the pur chasing power of the fund on hand the possessor is independent of jobs or sympathy. He need not cringe before the employer nor accept any terms the latter may choose to give. We might coin a phrase: Money in the pocket is courage in the heart. Where He Belonged. Sir: Billy Sunday sharpened his points with a good many telling stories. I was heartily in sympathy with all I heard or read, with one exception. You recall It a mother would say, 'and you'll hear something funny." Then he would call in still another man off the street and ak him: "John, what is your opinion of Billy iTu-and-So?" Billy being the man hid under the box. Nine times out of ten the man ask ed would say something to make the man under the box fightin' mad. Then the latter would scramble out from under the box and endeavor to knock the other fellow's face all out of kelter. Burba would lean against the wall and laugh with much glee. Rep. Seldomridge, of Colorado, Instead of sending for a doctor and having the wound properly washed and dressed, the boy's mother binds it up herself, perhaps with a dirty rag and tells him to .5top crying. This means that the lockjaw germs are left where the powder forced them deep down in the lacerated tissue, among the dead and dying skin cells, and cut off from all light and air. Protected thus, and living under conditions ideallv adapted to their welfare, the bacilli begin to multiply and poison the nervous system. Such a wound would always be, cleansed thoroughly with carbolic acid and watched daily. This can be done only by an experienced physician. And then tetanus antitoxin should! be injected into the patient's veins! given off by the bacilli. If this is done when the wound occurs, the patient recovers. If de layed until lockjaw symptoms appear antitoxin is of little help. An amount just sutliclent to confer immunity in the case of a suspected wound costs $1 and the amount need ed to arrest an ordinary case costs from $25 to $4 0. Whenever one sustains a lacerated wound, it is advisable to wash it thor oughly and at once with soap and water and to flood it, before binding it up, With common peroxide of hy drogen. The peroxide gives -off oxy gen, which causes the death of all tetanus germs It reaches. After this has been done, the wound should be covered with a strip of the antiseptic bandage sold at low cost by all drug stores. A clean, open wound, which bleed3 freely, is little apt to harbor the germs of lockjaw. Unless the flow of blood is excessive, it is well to make no effort to stop it. It will cease of Itself In a few moments. It is well to have a doctor dress all wounds, no matter how small they may be. He alone is capable of wash ing them as they should be washed and of estimating the likelihood of in fection. His fee is money well in vested. It may buy only insurance against a long, terrible, painful and expensive illness, and then again it may buy insurance againnt death. sent her photograph to her son who was a convict in a penitentiary, and he damned her and returned the pic ture, ascribing his downfall to her act in teaching him when young to play cards. There is no doubt a wide dif ference about the innate sin of card playing. Plenty of scapegrace ex cuse themselves for gambling because they, were not allowed to amuse them selvs with cards at home when young, where there would be no allurement for betting. But dealing with the case in question soleby on its merits, I think this particular reprobate was a moral pervert, a whining, self-pitying scoundrel, who had justly found his appropriate abiding place. 31. D. S. WTIIAT time did your iceman get around? "LABOR," said Abraham Lincoln, "is prior to and independent of cap ital"; but you would have to show capital. "We Have Xothln to Say. Sir: While Detective Cassidv is chasing the breakfast cap girls away j from the street car station, why not' shoo the men who turn down their ' shirt collars and expose their hairy chest protectors? Honest, I thought! one of them had a yellow dog In his! bosom. 3IAUDE S. THOSE human skulls without fore heads found in the northern par of the state are probably tho remains of nomadic tribesmen originating in the vicinity of Indianapolis who died from exposure to unaccustomed cli matic conditions. See the Galled Jade Wince. I hate to claim the protection of the Humane society, but if goading one to write for the M. P. with the thermometer at 90 doesn't warrant it what would? Of course I have other excuses. Let's see: Too busy shoo ing the sparrows away to roost on some other fellow's Ivy vine; three women in the family tikes all my time, to pick up hairpins and fasten innumerable buttons. But I can't be expected to recall everything. Be sides, why send stuff to the 31. P. when the weather will melt it nearer home. Anybody got a match? 3Iy pipe has gone.out. S. D. 31. THE ethical marriage provides for everything but the consequences of coming in late and finding your wife waiting up for you. THAT comes under the head of emergencies. C. N. F. used to work on a Denver newspaper, and his first assignment was to go and get an interview from Jay Gould. It didn't take him more than a week to write all Jay told him. I (Copyright, 191C, by Fred C. Kelly. All rights reserved.) LITTLE OLD NEW Y0PK IJY XOKMAN" 5$C jC 5fc 5 5fC 5f ifc 5K 5 XFW YORK. July 1. Great plays are not confined to the b:g leagues. By no means. You might, in fact, comb the records of the National and American circuits for many years back, without finding a C.tch so spec tacular as Kocksy's. Bocksy is otherwise Charles Rocks, eight yc'ars old, left fielder of the Iloss. an amateur nine of some standing in the vicinity of 11th av. and 70th st., which plays its games on vacant ground between the railroad tracks and the Hudson river. It was in the seventh inning of a very close and exciting game be tween the Roses and their most dreaded rivals. the Lilacs, that a thrilling crisis arr'.?d. Two were out and the bases full when the prize swatter of the Lilacs came to bat. The Roses's pitcher tried in vain to fool him. Baig! and the ball went sailing out to left eld an aw- ful smash. "Oh you Rocksy! Get under it, Rocksy!" piped the partisans of the Roses, and the eisht oher players of said team. Rocksy was on the job. With his BY UNCLE SAM'S HIIALTH BUREAU. Eat only plain, unseasoned food, unless you know it's life history. Housewives should use their eyes and noses n everything tbey cook before feeding it to the family. If it doesn't smell ju.n riht throw it away. The ptomaine, most deadly of poison baccili thrives mightily in this weather. Mothers should examine and taste all food for children to detect any taint. Pasteurize all milk its the most dangerous of all fcods when it isn't absolutely pure, clean and fresh. Clean your ice boxes and don't handle your food more than noe---sary. Cook everything you eat. Don't place too much faith in that "guaranteed under the pure food law" label. Boil all water that you aren't sure i? pure as the breath of heaven. AND swat the fly. eyes on the ball, he streaked it out to deep left. Clear out onto a plaink ing over the river he ran. he made a desperate stab for the ball, he got it and into the river he went. All the boys knew that Roeksv was no swimmer, and the game was for gotten while they watched Willie Binnia and Jim Reynolds, who rushed to the river, jumped in and swam to ward Rocksy, who had floated out some fifty feet and hail gone down twice. The rescuers got to him just in time and swam ashore with him. H was revived and feeling much better before i.n ambulance surgeon arriv ed. The doctor gave Rocksy a ride home in the ambulance. The It oses and the Lilacs are agreed nign-waae ratte tor Less 1 nan X7E HAVE scores of VV the Stoddard-Dayton, The Peerless, Lozier V V L Ci. 1J 1 4- and others that were taken in exchange for our Premier Sixeswhich we are willing to dispose of without profit. These "trade-in" cars carry the latest and best equipment, are luxuri ous in appointment, and besides selling at a price much lower than you are asked to pay for "cheap" new cars, are just the kind that you can be proud to have stand in front of your door. If you are interested from the economy standpoint, or because of the prestige a high-grade trade-in car would give you, send for our Bargain List of Used Cars and learn how little we ask for same. i-' We Will Pay Your RaHroad Fare to Chicago and Return should you decide to buy. When writing, ask for 1913 Bargain Bulletin and tell us when you will arrive so that we can meet you at the depot. Quality Car Co., Chicago I- (Used Car Dept.) Address Mail to Office 2329-31 Michigan Blvd. Cars on exhibition at salesrooms 1462-64 Michigan Boulevard, M tt.frJKJiy.ri V" t . 0 wOr s.V ,Mh-M 'uUC'.V'' -v v v l a in Everybody is hunting the cool spots, and the-merchant with a comfortable store is sure to get the trade. Make your business place a pleas ant place for customers to spend their time. It is the best kind of advertising. Make conditions better for your clerks and they will sell more goods. ectricity Electric lights give off no heat, smoke or oder. No matter how low the ceilings, or how small the room, the air in an Electrically lighted build ing is always fresh and wholesome. Use a fan and warm weather will have no worries for your business. Be up-to-date, use the best ligh'c for the least cost. Let us explain vhy Electricity is the best. ii ndiana & Electric 220-222 West that the catch was undoubtedly : greatest ever, but they can't agr-i about one tiling. AH the runners had crossed the plate before they rea!:z--d just what had happened t Rooky. Do Thso three runs count, or ib a't they? The Lilacs contend that, as l was not icoverd along v:th Itocksy, he must have dropped it. Therefore, the runs score. The. Ko-v--f declare that if a player catch tho ball, that is enough he can't b ex pected to curry it around In th- r:vr with him. And there isn't a thing in th that covers the case. TRY NEWS-TIMES WANT AUS 1 Lars aoid high-grade cars, such as svN Tl T 1 T - lM IN J ' Tv VJ I" Will Do It MicMgaa Company Colfax Avenue m Cheap New Ones l - -m w k -i. M Arm mm i