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4 SATUItIAY, JANVAUY 2, 191.' THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES SOUTH REND NEWS-TIMES THE NEWS-TIMES PRINTING COMPANY. 210 West Cnjf.iT Avenue. South Bend. Indiana Kntered a? frc-r.J c:.-.s matter at tho I'ustotflce at South iiend, Indian! IJY CAIUilEH. Dally and Sunday In advance, per Dally and Sunday by the week. .. 12c year K.00 Daily, single copy 20 MunJay, single copy 2c BY .VAIL. DcJ!y and Sunday In advance, per year $4.00 Dc'ly, In advance, per year J3.00 If your r.urr.e appears In the telephone directory' you ca telephone your want 'ad" to The Nev.'s-TIms oirice and a till will be mailed after itl lnert!cn. Ilr.me phone 2151: Dell phono 2100. CONK. LORENZEN & WOODMAN Foreign Advertising Representatives. 123 Fifth Avenue. New York. Advertising Building, Chlcacv SOITII HUM), INDIANA, JAN I Alt Y 2, 11)15 KAILKOAD AND i;.TI. : may be pood for us or had for us. M r'-ly l) (.u:-e thi intt r.-t.iU- com- Whether it will be Kood or bad de-im-rce commie-ion recently granted pends on the relation which the the raiiro.uhi a freight rate of increase knowledge bears to the work we have of live per cer. t, it d n;t nt cr.-;-.ir.ly to do. If it intensities our interest in uuan that th; railroads arc all bad. our work and increases our etticiency One mU'ht hHh-vo from what news- ;n it, it is ood for us; but if it diverts papers say that the railroad sy.siem is from our business in life and so de-nece.-rarily a public enemy, robber creases efficiency, it is bad for us. Men and outlaw, and is ntiilo-l to noihintf arc qualified for their wuik by knowl bul trial without law, convinion with- eupe, but they are also negatively out proof and execution without de- qualified for it by ignorance, lay. Nature herself appears to take care Hut this is heap poj py-cock. The that we do not know too much that railroads are th arteries of eomrnoroe, ' doej not concern us. We are bound they arc Inseparably intertwined with J to a little planet and hindered by im the rest of the business of the conn- j passable gulfs of space from wander try, their owners are not a class apart ! ing in stars where we have no b jsi but are also owners in other lines of J ness. If we have any kind of eifi business, their managers and opera- ciency it is owing chiefly to tonrtn tives arc in constant and close con- tration of our minds upon the lines of tact and dealing with men in all other knowledge necessary to our work and kinds of business; and it is reasonable to the directness of purpose which is to assume that the railroad business favorable to a powerful individuality, is conducted upon just about the sumo The objectionable seeking after ethics as is the rest of the business knowledge is the c aking after the of the country. knowledge which does not belong to Let's not forget that the railroads, us. It is possible for us to be like with all their faults, have done more that foolish camel in the Hebrew toward making America than any proverb, which in going to seek horns, other one thing. We couldn't do with out them. And they can't continue their service without profit, but when is the increases for profits to end? Now they are threatening to ask the legislature of arious states, in- losL his ears. The history of every successful man can he summed up in one sentence: He knew one thing well. Success is an absolute mastery of the single thing in hand. cludinir Indiana, to increase their oas- .-enger rate, from two cents to two- I "OTN OI' JUDGE VAN FLKKT. That was a splendid compliment and-a-half cents as the maximum legal tare. They told the interstate com that the St. Joseph county bar paid to merce commission that they could do! JudBe Vcrnon W- Van "cct uPn hi retirement trom tne superior court bench with the passing of the old year. There is always something im- buslness nicely on the wanted live per rent increase on freights, but now they want to boost charges in their passenger departments also. It is possible now to transport a man a mile for two cents by automo-i adation of O'ers meet to bid bile. If railroads devoted more time i"""-"" aujcu lu " pressive about court procedure that is solemn and impressive but when an to thinking out ways of hauling peo ple and less time to thinKing out ways of hauling water they would be tack ling the problem of passenger rates from the right angle. Improvement in equipment, in creases in density of population and in volume of railroad travel and kin dred developments do not appear to have benefited the railroads. They are not aide to transport people any more cheaply now than they were L'0 years ago, is the only conclusion that can be drawn. If this is true either -railroads are a failure or railroad methods are a failure or the public attitude toward railroads is ;i failure. How different is such a trend as this from the func tion the railroad ought to perform. Mankind has thought the world was growing smaller and that all men are growing closer together, geo graphically. The old days when the man in one county never saw the peo ple of another county and did not even know their language are gone, men have said. The railroad and the telegraph, with the travel they make possible ar.d with the diffusion of knowledge through such mediums as ncw.papt-rs which they minister to, jire destroying space and provincial ities, has been our vision. P.ut it is true that people do not us the railroads any more than they ist it becomes particularly so. It is something to preside over a court for as long as Judge Van J.'leet presided over the superior court of this city, and be able to retire with the full re spect and confidence of the lawyers that have practiced before him. It is even more to be able to quit with the full respect and confidence of tho litigants whose differences he has ad justed. Judge Van Fleet gives way to George W. Ford, elected last fall. It is not the only one of the changes about the county building to take place the first of the year. Now ah-o, it is Sheriff Charles Bailey and Clerk George M. Haab, chief among the new faces to inhabit county offices, while Sheriff Edw. Swanson and Clerk Frank Chistoph, appropriate an "Fx." Treasurer Fred W. .Martin succeeds himself, while Auditor Clarence Sedg wick and Recorder Noah Lehman hold onto their jobs for another year. It is only in the case of Judge Van Fleet, however, that there was any thing formal about his departure, due mainly, no doubt to the dignity of the office, and, to the fact that there was an organization to take the matter in hand. We believe that the bar be spoke the sentiments of the entire community in its set of resolutions. The public "admiration for his schol arly attainments as lawyer, his abil- used to, insofar as p-ssenger traffic is!ity as a jurist- an(1 his fearless and concerned, and the reason thev do not "martial administration of justice. is the fact that travel by rail still costs too much money. Cheaper rates have made the slower iind less convenient travel by inter Urban cars more popular. If railroads are .so ineiiicient that instead of gradually reducing trans portation rates, both freight and pas-1 high school inspector is needed hut senger. they must gradually increase if it is it would be interesting to know them and keep them at the level of a t-ome of the results of his labors. In is quite as general as is that of tho legal fraternity.. II I(i 1 1 SC 1 1 OO II XM'KCTOIt, The last legislature passed a law providing for a high school inspector at a salary of $-.500 a year, another office and another salary. Maybe a quarttr of a century and more ago, then the railroad men will need a micros-cope to show to the average man tho harmful effects of govern ment ownership and operation of rail roads, an:l the po?s:l!e social advan tages of such ownership and operation will be a correspondingly more entic ing prospect. DOING THING Yi:i.D. Edison's life motto has been: "This one thing I know electricity." Confining himself to that one thing, lie has taken out a thousand success ful patents, while million? of men knowing a little -f everything, or try ing to, or imagining they tie. have accomplished little. Ieevhor, the greatest preacher of all probability his service amounts to about as much as did the old-time dis trict school inspector who made the rounds once a year, and, in a neatly prepared oration, assured the pupils of each school that they wcro the best behaved and highly intelligent aggre gation that he had seen anywhere in his travels. And then as soon as he had left the pupils resumed their cus tomary throwing ot paper-wads and making faces at the back of the school ma'am. It seems, however, as though a man might be found to tour the state and speak pieces to the high school pupils for less than $2,500 a year. been held universally to typify the extreme of fragibility. There is bound to be loss. Hut at the same time this ratio of waste seems out of all pro portion to necessity. The parcel post, with its excellent facilities for immediate and safe trans fer from the producer to the consum er, would sem to offer a solution of the puzzle, at least to a large degree. But, once again, the lack of fore sight and care of the people of this country in buying their provisions, operates against the working of this plan. The average American would rather order his egg every morning from a down-town store by telephone, though it may have been in storage for months, than to have a fixed arrange ment to get it every' day fresh from a farm. THE MELTIMG POT COME! TAKE POTLUCT WITH US. ItKEXi HOSPITALITY. Tli 5-ocnt the-atcr is tli poor man's club, an' It's th only placo where he's welcome after lio spends his lat nickel. Kin Hub bard in Indianapolis News. It has just been discovered that counterfeiting was one of the ancient arts practiced by Egyptians long be- j fore the Christian era. The further' one goes in research, the further off get the good old times which are be ing held up before each succeeding generation for the latter's reproach and example. In the meantime, it is somewhat consoling to learn that counterfeiting is not one of the ex clusively Christian sciences. There are a number of daylight darknesses recorded in history, among t them being those in B. C. 295, A. D. 252, 746 and 775. There was a dark day in England in January, 1S07, and another o October 21, 1S1C. There was also a dark day in Detroit on Oc tober 19, 17 62. On May 19. 17 SO. there was such atmospheric gloom over Hartford, Conn., that the legis lature adjourned for the day. Now someone comes along with the information that Joffrc's name is pro nounced Just plain "Joff." Sort of sim plified pronunciation. Can it be ap plied to the other places in the war zone east and west, particularly east? There's nothing more marvelous than the English language; for in stance, the cool million which a Brooklyn bank wrecker is said to have "salted" down will be all "sugar" when he g-ets It. Tho London Lancet announces that cold water will leach out all the caf fein in coffee; but who wants to drink his coffee cold? A glass-eye famine is predicted, due to'the war. This shows the extent of war deprivations will not easily bo seen through. When will people learn that it is as unwise to hunt for a gas leak with a lighted match as it is to blow out tho gras? Statesmen Real and Near. By Fred C Kelly llKOKKN KGGN. A New York investigation of the egg trade brought out from a witness his century, had this motto: "This j testimony that the breakage of eggs i on-1 thing I do." His mighty aohicc ment was possible only by turning all his rp.ergit s and interests into one chain: 1 1. G"ethe's rale fr success was vcrj much the :-air.c: "Whatever thou art, lis i'll there." Tin re is a ort cf intellectual chem istry which is quite as marvelous as h".r.istry. and a thousand ore diificult to control. along with deterioration, costs a loss TV. M T IV I t I l"l-l limes Every m '.v study, i very thoMght ai': , it th mi'i'i. ia-n vlivnt- ewrv new n w : .i.t. everv new ts the .vhtde charactt r K rything u e b arn not n.i r-; i;nt:en, but t ity. Th3 mere I !s to our fiange t:; st re of infor ming s q" al- addltion of knowledge of $200,000,000 every year. This is a wantage of nearly HO per ecnt. In what other Industry is there a ,-s:- to any such extent as this? We have been carefully cultivating efficiency in the hen. Had wo not better apply sme elhcieney methods to the egg handler? Of this loss, $50. CC0. 000. it was tcti fied, is in unnect ssary breakage in transit. The other $150.0(0.- no represents brakgo after tho dealer has received them and depre ciation through addling or the neois .'ity vi re grading. Eggs, of coure, are the mo-t fragile sort of food stuff. Sincq Humpty Dumpty fell off the wut they have WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. This Eu ropean war would be a great deal worse in its local aspects if it were not for Eddie Savoy. Eddie is the little old colored man who has been doortender at the oltice of the secretary of state since as far back as anybody can remember. As a rule his duties are compara tively simple, even though part of his work consists of mothering the for eign ambassadors and other diplo mats who call to see the secretary of state. Just now, however, the handling of foreign ambassadors is a delicate tUk, for one must be constantly on the alert to prevent a meeting between any two representatives of the na tions now at war. If two ambassa dors from the warring countries were to meet face to face they would not speak, but would look off into spaco with the abstracted air of a man trying to make himself think he is somewhere else. This is that custom and precedent may bo fulfilled. The ambassadors are all friendlv enough with one an other persona!.' but if they were to nod or speak, U would only be an other step to passing tho time of day. And if they did that they might ex change small talk. From small talk they might go to war talk, and that would not'do at all. Thus It happens that although Ambassador Jusserand of France, dean of the corps, and Am bassador von Bernstorff of Germany aro good friends and much seen to gether in time of peace, either one would be horrified to be ushered into the room with the other one just now. To prevent such a scene is part of the task of Eddie Savoy, and he teems with pride over the fact that so far he has been successful. It is no small job, either. Ambassador Spring-Rice of Great Britain does not like to b shown into the diplomatic waiting room at all, even though none of the representatives of the nations at war are there. He prefers to avoid con tact with the diplomats of all other nations whatsoever, lest somebody should accidentally start up an un pleasant conversation. o that makes one less room in which to put the British ambassador, and adds to the responsibilities of Eddie i-'avoy. As a rule Ambassador Spring-Bice is ushered directly into the privato office of Mr. Bryan. When his visit is over Eddie Savoy must make certain that no other am bassador is lurking about the hallway or anterooms. Occasionally Eddie has to shift an ambassador from one room to another to clear a path, and he does so in a quiet, motherly fashion that is dis tinctive. An ambassador always feels that he is amply protected from em barrassing situations so long a.s Eddio Savoy ha-s him in charge. Only once In his long career has Eddie allowed two ambassadors to meet while their nations were at war, and that was during the Japo-Russian war. The Japanese ambassador was walking thoughtfully along the cor ridor Just outside the ottice of tho secretary of state when he chanced to look up and found himself staring into the face of the Russian ambassador. Before he stopped to think of prece dents the Japanese man nodded. "I did not nod to the man, but to his position as dean of the corps," insisted the Japanese. So strong is the aversion to a chance meeting among tho diplomats of that warring nations that none of DONT YOU? We love the smell of burning wood, We strike a match to get it. And covet then a longer piece. And wish that we might set it. Who was it now that gave us fire? Was Prometheus his name? At any rate we'll e'er revere The man who thought of flame. WE are looking for a man In a blue suit of narrow waisted coat and peg top pants. We don't want the man, but would like the clothes. After tho big snow storm the man got the suit under pretense of keeping our side walk clean all winter. We still have the promise, the man has the clothes and the sidewalk is full of snow. IN Columbia City the firm of Brand & Hildebrand is just burning to give its customers some great bargains. A Mexirl of Brevity. (Cor. Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette.) Jimmy White was seen to dig down deep in his jeans Monday, and from their capacious depths to dig up some loose change, which he swapped with Agent Harris for credentials allowing him to ride on the cars over to Wood burn and return, and as soon as the train pulled into the station he was an occupant of a plush cushioned seat and the permit was working, and Jim my soon reached his destination, where business matters occupied his attention during the day. THE superstitious and pessimist will find common cause for apprehen sion in the beginning of 1915 on Fri day, an evil omen greatly augmented by the fact that the year will end on Friday. April and July also end on Friday and October begins on that day. But the optimistic and non superstitious will welcome the test that after all Friday will be only tho unusual usual this year. THE liver may not be the seat of the imagination, as the Toledo Blade is inclined to think, but any married woman can tell you it has a lot to do with the affections. "Bill's In Trouble." (By Request.) I've got a letter, parson, from my son 'way out west. An my ol heart is heavy as an anvil in my breast. To thnk the boy whose fut.ur I had once so proudly planned Should wander from the path o right an come to sich an end! I told him when he leffus, only three short years ago. He'd find himself a-ploln' in a mighty crooked row He'd miss his father's counsel, an his mother's prayer, too; But he said the farm was hateful, an he guessed he'd have to go. I know that's big temptation for a youngster in the west. But I believed our Billy had the cour age to resist; An' when he left I warned him o the evcrwaitin' snares. That you find like hidden sarpints in life's pathway e very whe res. But Bill he promised faithful to be koerful an' allowed He'd build a reputation that'd make us mighty proud; But it "oems as if my counsel sort o' faded from his mind. An' now the boy's in trouble of th- very wustest kind. His letters come so seldom that somehow sort o' knowed That Billy was a-trampin' on a mighty rocky road, But never once imagined ho would bow my head in shame, An in tho dust'd waller his ol' daddy's honored name. He writes from out in Denver, an the story's mighty short, I Just can't tell his mother, it'll cruch her poor ol heart; An so I reckon, parson, jou might break the news to her Bill's in the leglslatur, but he doesn't say what fur. Unidentified. IT may be helpful to remember that as the burden of sacrifice in creases each day brings us nearer the opening of the baseball season, ONE day under the new code of morals has passed. By the way, how are your good resolutions holding out? THERE is a Utr opening for a hap py new year over In Europe. Hark! Those rumbling sounds Are but the water wf;gon on its rounds. C. N. F. Woman Tells of Shelling Cities on Battle Front Short Talks on Advertising BY R. S. NEWMAN. It is continuous effo. t that pays in advertising as in everything; else. A business man doesn't keep his store open one day in the week or one week in the month, or three months in the year. If he advertises in such a way, that is the impression people will get. It is continuousness that has made the "oak leaf popular in a local furniture store's advertising. Peo ple are very forgetful. They have to think Pretty hard to remember the vice presidential candidate two campaigns back, and yet he was pretty well adver tised at the time. It has been pretty truly said that the time to advertise is all the time, in business there is no such thing as standing still. A business man will either go forward or backward. Hven if you do just as much business the coming year as you did during the one just closed, some other fellow is doing more business and is getting ahead of you. Each day's efforts should be to exceed the sales for the corresponding day a year ago. The only sure way to do it is to advertise. Advertise in busy times be cause the iron must be struck while it is hot. Adver tise in dull times to heat the iron. It can be done. EDINBURGH, Scotland, Jan. 1. A letter has just been received here from a French woman whose home is In SoLssons, long one of the hotly contested points on the French bat tlefield. She describes to her Scotch friend the misery of the inhabitants of the city. The Germans, it seems, were driven out, but not beyond the range of thf.r big guns. The French woman did not desert her home. She says: "We have to remain in our house, for we really could not bring our selves to leave it, and all our posses sions, although most of the inhabi tants have left the town. "For three months the bombard ment of the town has continued, sometimes for days and nights with out ceasing, and then we hide in the cellar you may guess how happy we are. We simply live in dread of the shrapnel which is going to fall on our house and set it on lire and bury us in the ruins. "You have no idea what terrible engines of war the Germans have. Seeing everything around us burn and fall to pieces, we live in a sort of nightmare. The house of Dubois (next to us) is in ruins, and St. Jean des Vignes is practically a heap of stones indeed, everything in our quarter is demolished. You will be heartbroken to see it when you next come. Fortunately our huse has so far escaped, though all the tiles are smashed and the windows broken by the force of the detonations. It is not worth replacing them, but you may imagine how comfortable we are in this cold weather, and the terrible thing is that no one can say how long it will last. Germans Take Quarries. "On their way back from the Marne the Germans took possession of all the quarries along the hills to the north, which they had carefully prepared on their way south with concrete and iron, making of them veritable forts. They are terribly clever, and now they are shelling Soissons from the quarries of Pasley, Clamecy and Crouy, from which they can also dominate all the main roads from the town. There is absolutely no chance of taking them by sur prise, because from there they see everything that happens. They have got the light railway to Coucy, which enables them to revictual from the rear. From Coucy and Chauny they have the main lines right to Germany, so that they can bring up reinforce ments as they require them. "They have driven away all in habitants, and they take everything movable they come across., We had samples of this in Soissons, where they remained for two full days. We had 18 billeted on us. Every unoc cupied house they broke open and took away everything in thaJr wagons and automobiles. Nothing that could be lifted did they spare furniture, linens, bedding, contents of the cel lars, everything went, and from the farms and flour mills they took . all corn of every kind, flour and all live stock absolutely a clean sweep. "It is not a war of soldiers, but of robbery" and destruction, such as I suppose the world has never seen, and which should not be allowed. Why bombard open, unfortified towns and villages? But they have said they will ravish all France. I do not know what the future has in store for us, but if we, who have right on our side, and who have your soldiers and the Russians with us, lose there is no more justice in heaven. Must Walt, Say Soldiers. "Our troops can only keep them from advancing and they will tell us we must wait, but for how long? For all the winter, perhaps. But we shall j be dead before it Is over. Quite a t lot of English soldiers have been j here fine men and splendid horses (we have not a horse left in the dis trict), but now they have left this quarter and are in the north. They did well, too, and I am sorry for them where they are, for with the severe weather they are going to be very un comfortable. "We also had some of our own men from the south, and they were shiver ing with the cold, for now it is freez ing hard. I forget to tell you that Crouy, Cutfies, Vailly and all these villages you know so well are all razed to the ground- churches, houses, everything nothing remains. "As I write the bombardment commences afresh and I must run. The room is shaking and the table dances. Who knows? It is perhaps our turn now, for, as I have told you, we await the shrapnel that is to fin ish us off. I cannot do housework, sewing or indeed anything. We take our meals as rapidly as possible, and wait for the whiz of the shell which is to tell us that it is time 1o dash to the cellar. And to think that it has been like this since the beginning of September. We are almost at the end of our endurance." 'V" """" '. "A ?' ' ' '": " ' " ' j OUR WISH To You For 1915 is that you may have everything you want, and want everything you have, and we know that in your wants you want Electric Service in your home not only want it but you need it. Our wiring offer for 1915 is one that has never been surpassed, and puts this one want within your reach We will wire your home FREE OF CHARGE, with each job of fixtures purchased from us for already built houses, and give you a year in which to pay. Now is the time to take advantage of this proposition. A call on either phone will bring our represen tative to your home or office day or evening. Indiana & Michigan Electric Company 220-222 W. COLFAX AV. BELL 462. HOME 5462 1 these will accept any invitation what ever, even to a private home, until they know just what guests will bo present. And it is extremely rare for one to accept even then. The chances of the war being discussed at tho dinner table are too great. When this war began Sen. Kern made up his mind to preserve his neutrality at any cost. A day or two ago tho senator sat eating his dinner at a table with one or two pro-Germans, and as many anti-Germans. A pompous person came along and said: "I'll make this prediction: Within 30 days the German army will reach Paris, and within 60 days the Irish will take London. What do you think about that, senator?" Desiring to preserve his neutrality. Kern, without looking up from his rice pudding, made this thoroughly non-committal reply: "It beats the devil, doesn't it?" (Copyright, 1314. by Fred C. Kell.) TWENTY YEARS AGO Reminders From the Columns of The Dally Times. SHE KNEW WHERE HE WAS. . r II. .2... Y . V.rh in an muiamt tuy retcuni mvi, fell dead on the street of heart dis ease, a well known "rounder." "Mrs. Jones." said the minister, "I hardly know what to t-ay to you to- ! night in the way of sympathetic ut-i terance. I just want you to know, though, that anything you suggest to alleviate your present distress, will bo done if I can perform it." "Well. I am not without comfort," said the wife. "At least I know where John la tonight." CapL Edwin Nicar officiated at the installation of the following offi cers of Auten post. No. 8, G. A. R.: J. A. M. LaPierre, commander; J. M. Caulfield, senior vice commander; J. N. Calvert, junior vice commander; W. G. Denman, adjutant; John Klein dinst, quartermaster; Ileece Stephens, sergeant; E. B. How, chaplain: J. II. Heiser, officer of the day; J. S. Van Arsdale, officer of the gur-d; John Finch, sergeant major; M. 1. Steffey, quartermaster sergeant. The First Baptist church chose the following officers: Dr. D. M. Calvert and J. J. Iluntsinger, deacons; Wil liam Mack and J. G. Keltner. trustees; A. G. Keltner, clerk; W. H. Matk, treasurer: W. H. Mack, O. Y. Huff, E. T. Howard. Allen Munroc, ushers; B. B. Kimble, supplies committee. Young friends of Alex Ruple gavo him a surprise party. Cadmus Crablll of Olive Branch is In the city. Stuart MacKibben, principal of tho high school, returned from a visit to j Frankfort. Mich. MAKE YOUR MONEY VORK START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT All funds deposited prior to January 11th, 1915, will commence to draw interest from January 1st, 1915, at pg. CENT Compoundeel Semi-Annually. CITIZENS LOAN, TRUST & SAVINGS CO. Next Boor Iist of Post Ofliee. 2 I M J FOR STEAM HEAT The plants should be installed by a, plumcer or steamfitter who thorn oughly understands his trade. Hq must combine the knowledge of ona with that of a mechanical engineer,, otherwise mistakes may occur or poor workmanship cause trouble ani expense later on. Place any such work in the hands of Thos. WilliamJ and it will be done skillfully an well and heating troubles banished THOMAS WILLIAMS 122 E. Jeffereon Blvd. Home 5934. 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