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VOL. XXXVII, NO. 291
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1920.
PRICE TEN CENTS
But Art, Got Back
To Class in Time
irV y Try F.r.r. and T'-rr; r'v.vj. r would like the?
.'"''jth l'-n bo. . Th ar lordon fc'lgerfoes. 17 years,
II5 S. St. ! r s. Arthur llinlrr.in, 1 7, years, S13 Harri:--,
n iv.. nr. ! Friert I, c. 12 years. 12 3 N'. Lafayette
1 ivd. Th!; trio pe ialed their bieyrj,-s 22C miles to so
th nntr rry !- rar' ." at Marion, Inl., I-bor day. They
b ft th;- tri 'An with r.nt much more- to carry them
throi;r;h than the spirit of adventure-, having only
In the 'AT.rM.
Saturday, tho f.rct 'lay out, -uns a merry one. With
lots of money in thdr Jean, they blew themselves to
all rt the luxuries dear to the. hears nf 'tf en-ycar-old
I - x In s: lte cf the time out to rat sodas, they wirft
in "Wabash by 7 V-:lo;k that nit,ht. Their cyclometers
regj.-tered ? mi'. s.
Hiro they plunged the nisp'.vfs to a room at a hotel.
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This was hard on tho pocket book but what car.-d thry;
let the morrow take care of Itself.
The next day's trip to Marlon was too phort to use
up all of their so I would not be surprised if some
of th farmers around that city will miss some of
their watermelon crop this fall. When youthful en-
n:y Is not well spent, It will bo spnt in mischief.
That nisht they slept in a strawpile. At about mid
T:i':ht. there was a shower. With tho ingenuity of
boys who are nceustomed to doing their own thinking,
tho thro riders built a shelter of an abandoned pig
P-n.
The next day wer the rare. This was the boys
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We, Too, Have Our Modern Day Saints
But They Rate Another Kind of Crown
nY THO. MAS r. HKAIiY.
It was In ax crowded metropolis that I Paw him.
ThfTu was a crowd around and he was speaking to
th"-m. He had long unkempt hair which bore, the
marks of having been onco oiled and combed with
rare in other days. He possessed an anaemic looking
countenance, and a pair of grey epileptic eyes that
stared oddly at times. One could imagine something
ascetic about him and holy, that is if one had a strong
imagination. There was a certain t-hiny aspect about
him from his forehead to hi." trouser cuffH that d.
noted a long-standing acquaintance with polished door
knobs and mahogany filing cabinets.
Tho winds wero blowing and a f-w rain drops came
.'.own and it was cold, but he fpoke on unconscious of
it all. He was shouting at the top of a voice which
was by naturo weak. He was Faying something about
T' A MMcrn Day Saint. " '
Oed ar.d the spirit of men. Industry and labor and tho
new dawning. He talked of Russians and Koreans,
patriotism, tho river Styx and the ocean cf eternity.
He said that tho world must conn to freedom and
truth and men mu?t become saints even as he him
df had found, glory.
And f-o with that curious and none the less credulous
mess cf Individuals one I'.nd in citifs he was blazing
away "to bat holl and the devil" in a maze of
verbiage that Bank into weird whisperings around tho
th corners.
&ouls and Lcxlgcrs.
II Imrre,i!d one as a quondam clerk who had by
zome freak of an a!l-wl?v Nature broken out cf thj
cor.f.ncs cf an of.".co and decamped upon the world at
large?; with his soul free fron; rt:ty pens and bound
and musty tomes full cf f:gi:rcs. lit- was probably an
lr.trcsrectivo person and brok- ferth or.e tlay with an
expanded soul drea:r.lr.g of God and a brief for Iooüo
icaf ledgers.
Now here he was mounted er. a steplidder which ho
regarded ai a lowly foo't'l i f the Ird and
haranguing an a?emMed mob murh (as he could)
after the fashion ot one l'aul to the Hplusians of nn
earlier ago. Only in this latter lie f ult d for lie lacked
something which Paul posi-es.od.
Tho fact cf the matter is that there is only one Paul
and you ear.net ilu;,l:
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-:-.: :n n ae like this.
Furthermore' any km 1 cf a yiint could not live today
and get away u 1th it. S.ii
do not flourish in
age of Jazz mufi- an 1 plv a 'a mode. Modern society
would ruin a .alr.t ar.d ;:a5h his sul to a shapeless
pulp- Tl.tr are r.o kings which he ecu'.d visit any
r..cre ar.d there is v.o win-j to simulate eutial fcr-
or.
The Story of Simon.
A modern a-ar.t would hae to do what Simon
Stylltcs did S:m-,ii wanted t f:t ;way and with this
laudable de?ire tu:lt a tower and sit upon the top
fcr forty and s.'-me odd 3 ears. Thr people passed down
l eiow and looked up at him .o:ne 'J feet nearer to
heaven. He r.ev-. r c down. Fo:r. of the chron
iclers i-.i'. S he !a..l up and yrew in grace and a
leard and didn't mm i th- rain.
Tb vould-bu iiimon of our day could not do it. Flr
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Chung Yen of Lawton, Michigan, Alien in a Far Off Land,
Toils at Dawning and at Star Time in His Rows of Green
alnd Dreams of a Home He Soon Will Have in the Orient
IJY TILNK FA RHIN (i TO X.
This 1 the story cf Chung Yen. a slant-ey d eon of
China, who lives on a farm near Lawton, Michigan.
It Is a truo story. So far as we know, he Is the only
Chinese farmer in this part of the country, and his
land Is an everlasting tribute to tho Industry and fru
gality of the Chink.
The Celestial appears to most city dwellers only In
his painful occupation of laundering clothes, or run
uintf chop suey restaurants. His thought and aspira
tions are as unknown to the whito man as the music
of the spheres.
In that setting. (Thuns Ten probably would not rate
an inch of type, unites it couid be told how the medley
of smells which floats around most launderies is pro
duced. I'.ut Chun Yen disrgins in his soil, and raising
Chinee vegetables for the chop Fuey houses in tho
cities. Is of interest.
When the Sunday editor told mo there was a colony
of Chinese farmers near Lawton, and that he wanted a
story on thern. I was all attention. The Japs I havo
seen In California, working from early morning to the
last pllnimer of lifrht, and causing the native farmer
and fruit prower to gnash his teeth in rage, and send
agonized appeal. to all other parts of the country re
garding the ' Yellow Peril." Hut of his brother and
dear enemy I knev little, except that he was given to
running ChincBe restaurants", paid little attention to the
spirit of the laws of the white man, and much to tho
letter: and that ho always had at least two teeth gono
from the front of his mouth, the better to sprinkle the
"Onions Mc I'ickum."
clothes for ironing. You see, all my knowledge of the
Chinese was obtained from the short etory writers,
who evidently study their laundry ma- or atmosphere
and material.
Where Trains Ilun Tlirougli.
Lawton might be described as the place where tho
trains run through. A local train, late according to
of all he would havo to build a veritable skyscraper
for tho people of our times can see farther than did
their forefathers. Ho would have to come down and
eat, for manna does not come from Heaven any more
sinco tho Greek restaurants have killed all competi
tion, earthly and otherwise.
He would not do without a haircut at least once a
month and that necessitates a barber. He would have
to have an elevator conducted by an ebony-faced Hot
tentot, for modern soles cannot stand the wear and
tear of stalrwaya. Aeroplanes would bother him in his
meditations, and what the hell 1
The MaguzJne Saints.
Of course there Is the Great American desert where
the heroes of magazine fame and fiction commune with
the silent stars about tho secrets of their bitter past
and in the end arise from a cactus plant and follow a
burro trail home to mother and mountains of the east
regenerate beings and wio of soul.
Speaking of modern saints, we might mention three
who have come near to that distinctive title and yet
not close enough to win a halo There is Pussyfoot
Johnson, who lost an eye in preaching to the people of
wild and distant lands. But Pussyfoot lost by this
that he predicted too much and took a chance on the
greater part of it coming true, which did not happen
at all.
The Two Snlnts William.
Hilly Sunday stood a good show, for he built a taber
nacle, but he shouted too much and performed too
many unholy physical antics which saints do not do.
A great man was William Jennings Bryan, who multi
plied the bottles of grape Juice, but the fact is that W.
JenniriKs ran too much and too often, and talnts don't
run they step carefully.
The truth remains that we may not have any more
saints among us. The direct and indirect cause of this
lamentable ommission of our century is that all the
goodness of the earth has been gathered together and
cornered by a certain band of irresponsible individuals.
They have obtained a monopoly on the market of grace
and holiness, and endeavor to enforce undiluted and
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Men You Ought to Know
(Being one of a series featuring the great and
near great among local good fellows)
BY STUART H. CARROLL
THANK GILMER
Past your desk the culprits trudge.
Old and young and stxong and
pale;
All to sa' "Good morning. Judge,"
Al". to tell their little tale.
One there is from Fat cf town
Who brewed and sold some Bol
shevik One from where the West begins
Who left a wife in Battle Creek I
Youngsters who have heard the lure
Of light and life from land of
Jazz
An aged man who isn't sure
About the pocket book he has.
A dusky gent from Hibberd Court
Who rolled the neatest Little Joe's
Iutil Bert Olmstead faded him
And grabbed his romping Dominos!
All are passing in review
But still you s-mile, day after day,
And still you aid the ones who trip
And from the path of virtue stray;
You've carved a niche of lasting fame
Within the bulging book cf fate
And so I'm glad to add yeur name
To those who make a city greatl
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Tlio Hills and ltows of Grvtn.
schedule by 40 minutes, deposited me at Lawton aocut
1 o'clock.
I dug the cinders out of my collar, nnd started
a hunt for the Chinese colony. The street was lined
with wagons piled high with crates and baskets of
grapes for the factories, and it might be possible that
some of the men atop the big loads were the Celestials
I had come to see. Not a one had tho yellow face
and the slant eyes of the Oriental, but thero was some
thing near the end of the street that was more inter
esting than Chinese. That was "The Village Black
smith" shop, a great black horseshoe over the door. In
this ago of gasoline and modern scientific progress tho
village blacksmith has almost taken his place in the
hall of antiques, with the cocktail shaker, the bung
starter, and bromo seltzer.
Ilaldng Funny Stuff.
Falling leaves from the trees fluttered down on the
wagon loads of grapes, and on tho horses, drowsing in
the sun. One of the fruit men informed me that there
was no colony cf Chlne.ee, but that there was one
"Chink" who raised funn3' stuff for chop suej-, and
that he lived .about four miles out. So I hunted up the
inevitable tin Fizzle, with the taxi fign on the wind
shield, and told the driver where I wanted to go. We
went. I hung to the camera with one hand, and to
the seat with the other.
It was not a long road, as the crow flies. But by
the way the auto pants, it was long, counting the hills
and the valleys, the sand and the rocks. Vineyards
with their leaded fruit, nnd colored as to foliage, were
on both sides cs we bumped along the way. Then in
the most hlllj' part of the section, after a brave strug
gle up a sandy hill, the driver pointed, and announced:
"Here's where the Chinaman livs."
There were no stripes of red paper on the door cf
the simple white farmhouse, and nothing to indicate
that the farm was very different from that of th
neighbors. No life was stirring about tho place, ex
cept some whito chickens which scratched busily about
tho barnyard. Set on tho brow of a steep hill, the
fields of tho farm spread cut in rows and checker
boards below. On the sides of tl slope rows of sun
ripened grapes were wating for the shears cf the pick
ers. Far below me in the field two pygmie figures
were toiling in the heat of the early afternoon.
Chun Yen Comes.
Then Chung Yen appeared and spoke. He pimply
asked in the most direct manner possible: "What you
want?"
I told him that I had heard of his famous farm,
even down in tho city of the Bend, and that I came up
to get his storj and his picture. His story? Yes?, that
was all right, but the picture was another matter.
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One of Chung Yen's Patches.
Reason his clothing was too dlrt3 But that was not
the entire story. Deep down in the heart of the
Oriental was some sort of a fear or a superstition
against tho camera. Discretion is worth a quart of
ointment, so it is said, in keeping bumps cff the dome.
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Princess Mishawauka
Ycrso a nd Illustration By
FLISABFTH STEi:LE.
When the mists of earlj' autumn
Creep about our southern hill tops,
(lather thickly at the. river,
Shroud the black pine and the beeches;
And tho flocks of blackbirds hover
O'er tho Kankakee now soggy .
Comes to us in Indian summer
Fairy shado of Elkhart's daughter,
Comes the Princess Mishawauka
Iattlo Princess Itapid Water.
And once mor' as she returns here
To the land of her forefathers.
Softly smiles she on the places
Whcro Chief Elkhart built his lodges.
On tho rivers lays her bkssinnr.
On the valley, soft and gracious;
Through the hills she walks circling
In the haze of Indian summ r;
Softly touching birch ami sumac
Till they flame and burn with color
Scarlet as her woven blanket.
Bitter-sweet in hazy giory
Burst their pods and prickly rosetlps.
Blush a red that stays eternal
Through the coming of th winter.
Clusters of the hidden wild graphs
Scent the air with richest fragrance;
Slender larches in the beauty.
Eofty pine trees in their grandeur
Bow and bend to Mishawauka
As sho gives to hill and valley
Colors brilliant as her raiment.
E'en forgetting bitler hatre.j
Skirts the shore of Shawne! holdlncs
Passing up the St. Joe portage.
With her magic fingers painting
Every lfaf an J sarvls berry,
Every shrub and creeping ground -vine.
Golden hickories, scarlet maples.
As she comes, the robber crow bird
Stealing in a russet corn field,
Hoarsely caw8 and flapping slowly
f lives the warning to his brothers
That their days of feasting short, n.
And the furtive squirrel list'ning
Scolds and chatters as she loiters,
For he knows with Mishawauka
Pass the days of lazy backing
And the nuts must soon be gathered
For the wind-swept days of winter.
All the wild things as sh? passes
Peer about with eyes quite fearless
And the Prince-ss Itapid Water
Smiles upon her little brothers,
Smiles the ghost smile cf her fathers
As sho passes through our valley;
Turns and smiles her benediction
On the golden grain fields shrouded
In the hazo ot ghostly peace; pipes;
Smiles upon the scarlet maples
As the leaves float down the river,
All the growing things transmuted
By her fnge-rs turning go-den;
Then in mists cf her creating
Fades the Princess Itapid Water
Little Princess Mishawauka.
Soul of hazy Indian Summer.
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When Shop Girls
Call Us 'Dearie
Bli FOItlTTTO I.OIIPI'A.
Courtesy, ta-t, a pleading pe r- -nallty and g""1 M5
m.jr.ship are sio.. rf th r.ualitles which -cal mer
chants desire In th' ir sib speopb. Almost or olt art
the days when a .c'. ry- yed. tm.grammatlcal young
w.maii. who c-ud contort hr fico into l1 different
shapes by exercising one stick cf Wrmley?, called to
h' r C'mpa:.:on presiding at th oppoc counter. "S-i3',
Min. whatedj'do List niht?
Archie went cut
to Sprir.cr rock an had -1 swell time."
Nowadajs. merehatits like to have hlch joh'vl grrAd
uatrs or at last thos- who have finished grmm.vr
school to attend the customers who com in their
stores, and they ar- the ones who havo gained in
larger sales and ir.reased patronage. No customer
likes to he f.midarly nddrer-sed as "De.ir:" or
"(lirlie" while n.aking a purchase, nr t- htv tho cleric
assure hr hat eery li.it it s-:!t fhe tries cn
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becoming, just your style. d.r'" u!:, :!'.r th bat
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garment is hi-lenusty i: :i 1 nj - ir. c: to her particulnr
typn or not. rurally, most o::-t mors will rfsnt tho
clerk's assuming that they are s jrul'.il 1. On th
other hand, a eustrmer whese t.tste is "a',1 in her
mr.'jth" might appreciate the assistance given her in
s-elei-tir.g sniui- u.iriüciit r r.-w chapeau.
i:eryone llki s he .i'Tk wlio "::;" cn slylf. whi
knows the sease.n'3 latest c-o',. r. nnd f 1! ri's an 1
who imparts her knowh dgn to her ou-.torr.ers without
unduly assuming that she is Fame F.ishi.-n's only her-
n 1 d .
The Book of Utiles
Mo of the sttift s lo re h.iv.- llu'.e Hooks n"w, whirli
aro not tinlike hose of Mar-h.;:i
Mandell Brothers and ( tii r larg.
Chicago. These looks eNpl.'in t!
V:- Id's, KotlKhii i s.
irtro.ent stores ia
tails
of making
C'tit checks, mann r ot addre ;nc ucto:r. rs. how th. 7
want their clerks to dr ss iluin.g bu-in ss hours, etc.
Thesr l'ooks have lrn in, a'.u il to beginn rs. as w!I
as saving tiie time of more t p r: m-.-d rk s v. !i
formerly lind to take th ir time to i- .n h l eu-lnr rs th
details cf salesmanship.
Haunting tho Ec hange I) k.
Some women are so addicted to the ex hange haV it
that they are n In; est ttmpNd to return a handker
chief. One woman, who is in ih.irc rf the millinery
deiiartment of a bxal store, said tli.it people .ire being
educated away from that idea. Some women, wh'..
after purchasing n h.it, war it n-e op tic to a te:i
c r luncheon and then ( xpo t to return it, w-. re asked.
"Wfiuld you want to buy a hit which yr.u had s"e;i
f-e.me other woman wearing? Would jou have oonfl
denc e in that nureh.mt?" IIa .ng beon convinced of
tho justice of it, th se women, as will as others, sel
dom return any imn handis.-.
An excuse frequently offered for returning goo.i in
that their "husban ddc sr.'t like it." one case which
came to notice was when- ;i woman ordered hats sent
out from ev. ry store i:i town and then called her
friends in to s e which they thought th" mo;t becom
ing to her. Another pretend.- to .uy a p att rn hit.
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South Bend Tales
Of the Long Ago
Written in the history of every city, town and hamlet
will be an account of the hrst i-tth mffit. It will tell
how the pionr ers in seare h of a favorable place for thu
location of their new homes came to this particular
spot and will give the reasons for the selection of it
as the site for tho proposed settlement. Enumerated
among these reasons will be invariably the following,
"this place afforded an abundant supply of pure
water."
As it Is with the foundation of other cities so It ie
with tho history e,f South Bend This part of th
country was well traveled during t!i - arly periods i f
Amcriean history, as the great water shed is located
r.ear t J 1 ci?y of Fapoit", Ind. The wa?rs part here,
srTue flowing into the Crmt Fakes and on into th
Atlantic, w liile the r st starts It rours" to the Missis
sippi and eu down into the i;:lf ef M-xio. 1 resntini
a m-.ans of travel frcn Maine to F.ui.-lana by water.
On tlie St. ,?(N..
Seeing th" f r u i t f u". r.e ss of tii- ercjntry md realirimj
that they liad a good supply '-f wi'.-r, the traders
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formed a scttlerr.T.t on the. banks rf the St. Joseph
river which has grown into the pre.sp-r&uj city cf
South B.-nd.
Ui.aw.fj ef the underground rivers cf pure ni
lubblir.g wale.-, th' sturdy men drw their upp'.y
from the river. V. "ith ihi3 act beri th hislory cf th
South Be-r.d Water Works.
As a means of protection apilnst fire. It wells, svrn
feet deep and 12 feet acrc.-s. were dug in different
parts of the town. Two big cisterns. 2o--te j in xh
hco.rt of the bu.-.r.es s-cti;r.. provid -1 the fr depart-
n.'T.t with v. at-r t
any ..re wh:
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dar.o'.-r the 1. u;ld:.-.-s and hem- s
Their I Ire I'rote-etlon.
In 1 S 7 1 . the town hiving grown to goed prcportiTis,
caused the per pi. 3 to become interested In tho question
of ade.wv.e l.re protection. A proposal to form a
Holly wate r works comp -any, which s stem provided
Coau-nuvJ. cn it th-a ecucn.j