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THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES
SOUTH BEND NEYS-TMES
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NOVEMBER 27, 1917.
"TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY."
Calling attention to Marie Donini Brown's "Truth
About Germany," now running dally In The News
Times, It will pay you to follow it. It gives an in
side view upon the lives that the German people aro
living that even former Ambassador Glrard, in hJa
Look, is not giving. And to think that she is the
"beautiful woman" that he speaks o often about; like
as not, fur all w know one of his secret agents. Any
how, Misa Urown seems to know a whole lot about
Germany. Follow the story.
WAR'S CRIPPLES.
One of the most distressing aspects of war is the
number of men crippled for life. Yet if our govern
ment cares for these men as the other warring coun
tries are doing, the sad results can be minimized. Mos!
of thesr cripples are being so trained that they can
lad satisfactory livcä and tnay be more successful than
before. To offset their loss of physical activity, they
have the honor of their fellow countrymen and peo
I le like to help them in a business way.
In the lighting countries crippled men aro examined
to know their attitudes, and many of them are being
educated to do higher grade work than before. Many
manual laborers are trained to do successful business
work. For instance, some of the crippled men who
used to be journeymen bricklayers are now being train
ed to be foremen of bricklaying gangs.
Many men come out from the army hospitals in such
condition that they need outdoor work to put them
on their feet again. Huch men are trained to be gar
deners, poultry raisers, or specialty farmers.
Former railroad tuen who are badly hurt are often
given a course in telegraphy. Then they can take such
a position as that of station master in a country town.
Tbe world contains a good many men who are doing
work not adapted to their peculiar bent or ability,
no the chance to improve their condition, even after
they have suffered some physical injury, by training
them along lines for which they are fitted, appears
very considerable.
The United States owes it to the men crippled in its
rervieo to prepare them to earn comfortable livings.
And it will pay in money. It will save many pension
bills, prevent many from becoming dependents, and
overt a large part of the loss of production that a
long war always entails.
SOBERING UP.
The board of inebriety and the hospital authorities
of New York say that drunkenness is greatly decreas
ing in the metropolis. In February there v?ere 1,522
arrest3 for intoxication, and in August the- number
had dropped to 569. The psycho-pathlc ward of Hel
levue hospital has had fewer alcoholic patients in the
last six months than for any previous six months in
its history.
Thy reason given by officials is the great demand
for labor and Vvhat they call "indirect prohibition"
rart of which is the fact that employers will accept
on difficult Jobs none but sober men. The rise in wages
has something to do with this. The employer who
hires a man for $1.75 a day can afford to overlook an
occasional lapse or Inefficiency. When he is paying J 3
ond up per day for unskilled labor, the laborer has at
least got to be sober. On government work temper
ance is of deadly necessity.
Fublic opinion is also a great part of the indirect
rrchihition. Fcople in general no longer tolerate thj
habitual drunkard, and view the man who over-indulges
at all with suspicion.
It Is often saJd that drinking is on the increase in
large cities, especially among women. It is true that
such drinking as goes on Is more obvious. But the
people who have much time to spend in public places
where the drinking Is ?een are always very few when
measured by the whole nation. The great majority
is looking upon alcohol more and more from an in
tellectual rather than a moral standpoint. It is no
longer terribly wicked to tip a glass of wine. Tho
allurement cf the forbidden is therefore disappearing
In its stead is coming the knowledge that it is ex
tremely foolish to lower one's mental or physical effectiveness.
"SOUTH BEND WORLD-FAMED."
Again, with reference to the Fittman slogan, 'Vouth
Fend, Ind., and Froud of It," as picked up by Editor
Dunkle of the Chamber of Commerce organ, 'South
Fend Today," and offered as a new motto. As before
rtrnarked in this column, the citizenship of South Fend
may well ade pt it. for it breathes a civic spirit, while
the old slogan, "outh Fend World-Famed," is only a
great big brag.
South Bend was never more, nor even half as "world
famed" a it Is today, and largely the result of Sergt.
Pittman's patriotism : his ocal pride. To inspire such
1- what slogans are for. "Do it for Jackson." and
"Ft. Wayne with Might and Main," and "Dig and Hoe
for Kokumo." et cetera; practically every slogan you
-e. anywhere throughout the land, and they are framed
to inspire ciic pride and community effort all except
OL.rs, which has the j ychological effect of appealing to
our vanity, rendering us imaginative that the whole
norld is gazing at us, regardless of our not being over
crowded with things to gaze at us for.
Fat does not come to a rua-n nur a community by
merely going forth and claiming it. Sjelf-assertion of
it kills it. We need to learn to distinguish here be
tween "fame" and "notoriety." Fame is a silent creep
er that comes up unexpectedly, and most often from
the most unexpected directions. The cradle of fame
is almost always a humble one, and the authors of it as
humble as the cradle from which they spring.
"outh Bend World-Famed!" The only inspiration
that there is in such a slogan Is the inspiration to keep
up the bluff. It i3 what leads a considerable portion
of our population to object to any exposure of local con
ditions that call for correction, through fear that it
will get to the outside world and cast a shadow over
our self-vaunted fame. Instead of inspiring us to the
maintenance of a community that we are "proud of,"
always improving to that end, it merely encourages us
to keep up a false pretense in many cases, covering up
things that we are really "ashamed of," and letting
correction and improvement, too often, go to the bow
wows.
South Bend is pretty well known, of course, in busi
ness circles, throughout the world, but belr.g known
and famous, are different propositions. Our wagons,
and plows, and sewing machines, and watches, and
harnesses, and threshing machines, and clover hullers,
and street sprinklers, and automobiles, etc., have earn
ed for themselves a certain fame, to be sure, to which
outh Bend attaches, but they are not the heart and
soul of the community; are Just a means of livelihood
end evidence of work well done. The heart and soul
as what spoke out "over there" in France; "South
Bend, Ind., and Proud of It!"
Here Is a young man, among the humblest of our
citizenship, performing the highest duty to his coun
try that one can perform; facing death, he fires the
first American shot at our great national foe, and when
auked for his home town, he didn't say: "Chicago,
111., ü. S. A." nor "Washington, D. C, U. S. A." nor
New Tork City, U. S. A." but "South Bend, Ind., and
Proud of it" How many editors, or publishers, or man
ufacturers, or bankers, or merchants, or preachers, or
lawyers, or doctors, or others, here In South Bend, do
you suppose would have, out of the impulse of their
hearts, thought to have expressed their pride in the
home town In such a moment as that?
We need to cultivate that spirit and here is a slogan
to do it with; a slogan that has already flashed around
the world, from the depths of a hero's toul. Let us
cultivate a pride in our city, cultivate a city to be proud
of; which done, fame will come without our going forth
tc claim it, while secreting, perhaps, a lack of deserv-
edness in the rear.
It is the difference between the philosophies of John
Locke and James Russell. "Everything is born of sen
cation attracted from without," says Locke; "Every
thing from within out," says Ruvsell, in which, both In
part are right, and both aro wrong.
GOOD USE FOR A BREWERY.
While the brewery industry is being assailed by con
servationists as a waster of the nation's food, many
breweries are engaging in activity of the opposite sort,
and helping to eave the food supply. A large establish
ment in Evansville, Ind., Js a good example.
The company has cheerfully defied prohibition by go
ing into the bottling and canning business. It has trans
formed Its old plant and invested half a million dollars
in new equipment ,and looks forward to making more
money than ever, in ways to which neither economist
nor moralist can object.
It is busy right now canning apples by the carload,
and is prepared td put up many kinds of fruits and
vegetables next season. It has developed a specialty
deserving of particular mention a process of canning
corn on the cob, half a dozen or more ears together.
That looks like a fine use for a brewery.
Other Editors Than Ours
Tiii:ni: is a i'ui:t shortage in ixniAXA.
(Contributed.)
It may be that mine operators are to blame, or the
lailroads may be at fault, but the stern fact is that
there Is a coal shortage. Government and state sta
tistics show that the mines are producing more coal
than ever before. In Indiana last year, we produced
more coal than ever before. This year that record will
be surpassed. Yet there is a coal shortage.
Why? Because we are exporting to France and Italy
great quantities of coal which they must have if they
are to remain effective in this war. Canada, especially
eastern Canada, has been transformed into one vast
munition factory, running night and day at maximum
speed. We are furnishing the coal. We are as much
interested in gettirg out that ammunition as i3 Canada.
If these exports were cut off, still there would be a
coal shortage for the reason that our own navy, now
operating in the war zone, must have unprecedented
supplies of the best coal in the eastern fields. For the
further reason that manufacturing necessary to the
equipping of our vast army, his doubled, at least, the
demand for fuel In manufacturing plants. These needs
MUST be met. Of what use are men f they have neith
er guns nor clothing. We can not cut down on the
consumption of coal In those manufacturing concerns
which are turning our materials and ammunitions for
this great army we are getting in shape.
Have a mind that all this equipment and munition?,
all these soldiers and the food necessary to maintain
them, the supplies and materials for the new fleet we
are building, must be transported on the railroads. This
has Increased the demand for fuel for railroads. This
demand can not be cut down without causing havoc
and disaster, not only throughout the United States, but
in Europe as well.
These are some of the more obvious reasons why
we have a fuel shortage, notwithstanding the fact that
our mines are producing more coal than ever before in
their history.
TALUS OF GFJtMAX COWARDICE.
(Indianapolis star.)
According to a story in the London Times written by
one of its correspondents at the front, Germans fre
quently show cowardice, or as the writer puts it. a yel
low streak. They become easily demoralized, it is said,
when they are being closely pushed, this being shown
by the readiness with which they surrender in large
bodies.
But general panic is not tho only symptom of "yel
lowness." and the cowards are not by any means con
fined to the rank and file. Among recent prisoners, it
is related, were found at least two cases of cowardice
among groups of officers. In one case a sinirle officer,
made prisoner, cursed all the other olficers of his unit,
who had left him, he declared, to fight alone while they
all fled to the refuge of their dugouts. In another case
10 otfieers in a hiding place were taken prisoner. They
volubly explained that they could not come out because
their machine gun required a trained expert.
This Is really very painful knowledge. After all we
have heard of German etficlency and of the bold and
warlike quality of Prussian othVers a quality displayed
in time of peace by shouldering women off the side
walks the information that they turn cowards in a
crisis comes with a distinct shock. Can it be that, after
all. these terrible Germans are humbugs, base pretend
ers, asses in lions skins? No one hears of British or
French soldiers deserting their commands and seeking
thir own iaietr.
THE MELTING POT
"Come Take Pot Luck With Us"
tiic ijoosi: xur makes thi: noise.
?ome people bluster through the world like running to a fire;
They seek in hot and hectic haste the goal of their desire;
They use the largest emphasis for everything they say;
They loudly sound their motor horns while yet a block away;
And lest their great importance be the subject of a doubt. -They
hold all conversation in an oratoric shout.
Thre are some other citizens who c.o not thus resound;
The echoes do not always have to wake when they're around;
They work as smooth as butter on a biscuit fresh and warm.
With no desire to imitate an equinoctial storm;
Their program doesn't call for them to constantly erupt,
To utter exclamations unrestrictedly abrupt.
The people put together with the maximum of skill
May sometimes make a little noise while going up a hill.
But take them on the average and you will duly find
That much commotion indicates the loose and llappinj mind;
While he who doesn't stupify the audience's ears
Is filled with highly competent, well lubricated gears.
Arthur Brooks Baker.
Ascension
HV ULLA WIIEELIJl 'WILCOX.
I have been down in the darkest water
Deep, deep down where no light could pierce:
Alone with the things that are bent on slaughter,
The mindless things that are cruel and fierce.
I have fought with fear in my wave-walled prison
And begged for the beautiful boon of death;
But out of the billows my soul has risen
To glorify God with my latest breath.
There is no potion I have not tasted '
Of all the bitters in life's large store;
And never a drop of the gall was wasted
That the lords of Karma saw fit to pour.
Though I cried as my elder brother before me,
"Father in heaven let pass this cup!"
And the only response from the still skies o'er me
Was the brew held close for my Hps to sup.
Yet I have grown strong on the gall Elysian,
And a courage has come that all things dares;
And I have been given an inner vision
Of the wonderful world where my dear ones fares
And 1 have had word from the great Hereafter
A marvelous rrvasage that throbs with truth.
And mournful weeping has changed to laughter.
And fc'rief has changed into the joy of youth.
Oh, there was a time when I supped sweet potions,
And lightly uttered profound belief.
Before I went down in the swirling oceans
And fought with madness and doubt and grief.
Now I am climbing the Hills of Knowledge,
And I speak unfearing and say "I know,"
Though it be not to church, or to book, or college;
But to God Himself that my debt I owe.
For tho "ceaseless prayer of a soul Is heeded.
When the prayer asks only for light and faith;
And the faith and the light and the knowledge needed;
Shall gild with glory the path to death.
Oh, heart of the world by sorrow shaken.
Hear y the message I have to give;
The seal from the lips of the. dead is taken,
And they say to you. "Lo! we live."
Watch How the Income Tax
Affects YOU
If your salary is $6 5 a week, your
yearly income is 3,3S0. If unmar
ried you will pay a 2 per cent war
revenue tax on all in excess of
$1,000, which the government ex
empts in your case. Two per cent
of 12,380 is $47.60. If married, you
have an exemption of $2,000 and
must pay 2 per cent of $1,380, or
$27.60. Salaried women, married
or single, are subject to this tax. for
the war revenue bill taxes "persons"
and not "men."
Your "net" income is figured In
determining the amount of your tax.
Exemption may be claimed for per
sonal Indebtedness, which may brine;
your actual income far below the
$63 mark.
For instance, you may own a
house on which you are paying
mortgage interest, taxes and water
rent. Say the total yearly sum is
$2,300. In this case the bachelor
would pay a tax on only $80, while
the married man would escape tax
free.
If the latter has seven children
ho will not be required to pay a tax,
for the law allows $200 exemption
for each child.
If you own rented property money
FPent for repairs may be included in
your exemption claims, as may be
money contributed to certain chari
ties. If a man is making $40 and his
wife $25 they will receive the same
exemption the man alone would
have if he were the sole wage-earner.
$2,000, and must pay a tax on
$2,SS0.
What Your Boy
Is Doing
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. The
s?cond line of every' army is the ar
tillery. In the present war heavy
artillery has made almost obsolete
the field of former days. There are
no more gallant charges, with snort
ing horses drawing light cannon and
caissons amid bursting shells. Ar
tillery today is too heavy for horses.
It is moved either by railway trains
or motor tractors.
American boys in the artillery
will find themselves dealing with
bigger guns than they have ever
dreamed of. Life in the artillery is
no sinecure, but it has the disad
vantage of plenty of action with no
apparent results. All day long the
heavy guns are drawn up several
miles behind the front, and they
are banging away at objects out of
their sight. The artilleryman ne 'er
sees In modern warfare his mark.
He fires by mathematical calcula
tion at some object which an ob
server has reported.
Artillerymen are more apt to be
trained men than other branches of
the service. Men schooled In mathe
matics are sought most eagerly. The
work of the enlisted artilleryman is
not as diversified as that of his
brother the infantryman. His work
is the incessant tiring of his gun and
the constant handling of ammuni
tion. Aviator, balloon observers and
outposts report to the commanding
officer of each artillery battery spots
which should become targets. The
report is couched in technical terms,
and the range Is found bv mathe
matical calculation. As a uun fires
an observer watches its effects and
communicates back to the com
manding o'ficer the results. The men
behind the guns never see the dam
age done by the shells which they
handle.
Under present conditions the ar
tillery are used to cjear the way for
an infantry charge. Constant ham
mering of the charge guns for days
is purposed to tear down the en
emies' defenses and make the in
tantry charge easier. When the sig
nal lor the infantry charge is given,
then the artillerymen must protect
the chargers with a curtain of steel,
known as a barrage. The barrage
must lift with exact timing as the
charging men reach the enemy
trenches or the artillery will be
shelling its own men.
Enlisted artillerymen have heavy
work. The shifting of the guns and
ammunition is strenuous. However,
they have the compensation of com
parative safety, especially so now
that the German aviators are rare
ly flying over the allied trenches to
spot artillery.
Artillerymen are designated by a
crimson red cord about their hats.
Their collar insignia is two crossed
cannons. They wear leather puttees,
since they come in the classifica
tion of mounted men.
ONCEXWERS
ITS NOT HARD TO DO.
There are a lot of disagreeable
things which are necessary in this
life.
Make them a game.
Play for the goal.
Let no difficulties deter you.
The more the better. It adds epice
to the fun.
Suppose it is Ilooverizing.
If you have a growing family and
you can make them see the situa
tion intelligently, they will be keen
er for the qame than the older ones.
For it it not that people should
fast or starve.
The game is how to get alon-;
without certain foods which have
become an establi3hed custom on
our tables, but which now must be
saved for the soldiers and the allies.
How to get along and be as well
nourished and satisfied and yet 'give
up our former tastes and desires for
the sake of others.
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USED
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Prices
We begin today a forced sale of used cars to clean our iloors for
Winter business.
To substantially reduce our stock of used cars in one week, we have
cut prices to the lowest minimum.
To prepare for this sale and to insure ourselves that every car
sell is in perfect runninc: condition and sufficiently good value t
protect Studebakefs name, we have specially overhauled and rebuilt
many of these cars and classified the bargains to make it easy for you
to pick out your car.
The prices are bonalide cut-sale prices, as low as we have ever placed on ood
used cars much lower than we can oiler after the sale is closed, or per''i.'.ps
any time again for many months to come.
At these prices, every car is an INVESTMENT the indications are that witii
curtailed automobile'production, due to war, the Spring will bring a shortage,
of cars and greatly increased prices.
Right now is perhaps the hest time you will ever have to buy an automobile.
new or second-hand, and especially so at this sale, when the cut prices almost
actually insure you that you can sell or trade in any one of these cars in the
Spring, after you drive it all Winter, for as much as you pav for it now
perhaps even more.
Here are only a few samples of the many bargains offered:
Studehakor Six Touring Car "is
series," equipped with shock ab
sorbers and Gabriel snubbers, spot
light, two extra tires, good finish:
tires in good condition S;2."
Stmlcbakcr Six Touring Sod an "1
series," a demonstrator car driven
about 2,000 miles, had best of care
in hands of expert drivers, rebuilt,
refinished, repiinted maroon ilor.
equipped with silk curtains. "n)
tires : . jr,o
Studehakor Six Uo.-uMer 'IS se
ries," three passenger, rebuilt, re
finished, tires good, one extra,
driven about 3,000 mil-s; a bar
gain $850
Sludohak r Four IUad-tor "17 se
ries." two passenger. rebuilt;
driven les than 700 miles; a won
derful bargain.
Dmlgo Uro;. Jo;nMer Iiel-uilt nr. I
refinished. tires good; an ex . ;
tional bargain.
Studehakor Four B;Mi-(r 1 l ."
model, good condition, rebuilt t;
pood, tires poo.l S:'.oo
Two lrd T'Mirirvg Car. 1:U. g.,. i
condition, tires good, tops g..),'..
good finish, each M.
Oorland Model 7! U 1 t:n.
driven less than 5.000 miles.. S2."o
In addition wo have a few t.irx
for which no reasonable off r v;i;
bo refused.
Credit Terms to Responsible Buyers.
No junk, no lemons, no big, heavy, old models in this sale. Everv car a liht
economical, late model car, with" good tires, good paint (practically your se
lection of color), good leather, good-as-ncw running order.
Studebakei Factory Retail Branch
Corner South and Lafayette.
Factory facilities for overhauling, repainting anil rebuilding and futnre soriloft.
Tho factory soils usoI oars at cost without profit.
The name of STUDKHAKl-IK is a guarantee of value.
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Just in Time for Thanksgiving
The new dress fashions are simply delightful
every one aglow with a subtle air of distinction
and individual charm that wins for them instant
admiration.
These new 1918 Dresses arc first on view to
day and tomorrow.
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FOR
WOMEN