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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
EXAMPLE OF TRUE DEMOCRACY.

True American democracy will find
its highest complication at the
grocers' and butchers picnic today.
Its spirit will dominate the sylvan
shores of Hudson lake where the hun
dreds of men. women and children of
the allied trades will gather for their
annual outing.
There are wholesale grOcers and
retail grocers, and wholesale butchers
and retail butchers. big and little.
dealers in groceries and meats, who
sometimes establishes between mer-
chants in the same lines and meet and
mingle on the common ground Of a
day OF relaxation from business cares.
Petty jealous,es and snimOsities, il
any exist. will be forgotten. or at least
laid aside for the day and the bitterest
competitors Will lie down together
under the shade Of outrageous trees
and eat from the same basket. In
the unfettered enjoyment of their hol-
iday they will have a new cOmprehen-
sion Of the goodness and beauty Of
brethren living together in unity.
The day is an exemplification Of
the truth that it is not good for man
TO live by work alone. that life is
something more than dull round of
duties and that the social element in
human nature has rights the world is
wise TO respect. For one day in a
year at least the insatiate demands Of
the nuhlic stomach may ne forgotten
10 the advantage Of those who feed il.
The grocer and the butcher should
be blessed more often than they are
mathematical. They serve US the
year round 10 the best Of their ability.
They are entitled 10 one day away
from the persistent and occasionally
impertinent telephone.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
THE KITCHEN CURE.

You've no doubt seen the type of
girl who sits in the hammock and
reads dippy novels while ma washes
the dishes or mends daughters clothes.
Well. there's one family in an east
ern city where that won't happen.
It's a wealthy family. pa being "a
lucky manufacturer who got into the
tariff trough while the getting was
good. They employ three maids. But
the other day, as daughter got back
home from finishing school. one OF
the maids gave notice and ma said TO
the Sweet Girl Graduate:
Here my child. is a chance for
you. Pa and 1 have been spending a
lot of money to get you educated.
The prime purpose of education for
a woman is TO qualify her TO be the
administrator of home. You've had
a good training in the theory Of house
keeping. but you've not had the
chance 10 put that theory under the
test Of practice. We can afford 10
hire a third maid. all right; but we
aren't going TO. You are 10 be the
new third maid"
And. being a sensible girl, albeit
fashiOnably finished. daughter saw
the point. dOnned a wrapper, rolled
up her sleeves and went 20 work.
When your daughter gets into the
hammock and novel habit, uy the
kitchen cure. II may be just what
she needs 10 save her immortal soul.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

by the ancient Romans and Drulds
who built the city's hotels and prune
joints-and installed the plumbing.
Therefore even m.lllonalres are
forced 10 tramp the streets or else
contest with local lOahng talent Tor
soft spots on park benches
As il doesn't cost much more 10
cross England in a taNicab than 10
cross Broadway. l.. :. A. in one, some
OF the well-to-do visitors are hiring
machines by the hour in order TO graD
repose. You can dream you are GO
ing around the world, crossing Africa,
Asia and the Brooklyn bridge ana
wake up 10 find that your taxi rare
is only six bob and a tizzy.
tt has been suggested that west
minister Abbey be thrown open 10
house the millionaire homeless ones.
but the prospect Of snooZing on cold
tomb next 10 an effigy IN iron pants
and with sharp spurs on somehow
fails 10 appeal 10 tourist imagination.
So keen has the competition for
lodgings become that wise travellers
are registering at London hotels by
wireless from mid-ocean.
If this keeps up the tourists VIII
have To register months ahead, and
when they finally reach the big fog
roundry on the Thames they'll find the
hotel torn down and all the bell hops
drawing old age pensions.
Conditions in Paris and Berlin are
not so intense. The continent is not
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
TIE WORK WE'LL DONE.

II must be a source OF satisfaction
TO the board OF public works and the
city administration as well that the
assessment rolls prepared TO cover
the cost OF the Meade and Huron st.
sewers has been a pronounced equi-
table in a ruling by impartial ap-
pTaisers on the protests filed by sew
eral large property owners.
The decision must likewise be some
satisfaction TO other property hold
ers I'm the district since a lessening
OF the assessments of the professors
would have increased the cost 10
every one else. For the cost of the
improvement is a fixed thing and If
one citizen should get off without pay
ing. or by paying less than his share
every one else would be taxed more
10 make up the deficit.
The members Of the Studebaker
and the Oliver families who filed the
protests were well within their rights
They we're largely assessed and are
doubtless relieved TO know that after
a fair consideration of the whole
proposition. the appraisers have
found that the board of public works
did not yield to the temptation which
is sometimes present. to curry favor
with small property holders by sting
ing the big fellows. They may feel
satisfied that they have been fairly
treated.
The assessment district plan is a
necessary outg-Owth Of city life. In
early days any improvement to the
community such rs roadways would
be built by the settlers themselves,
every one contributing so many days
work. Public sentiment was sufficient
TO see TO 1t that each did his share.
But the city has Outgrown that
stage. The people TO be benefited by
such an Improvement as the trunk
sewer do not know each other. They
can not afford TO spare the time from
their days dork to give actual labor
on the job. There may be owners of
unimproved property in the districts
who don't care whether the improve
ment is put in or not.
Under the rule Of the majority
which is the fundamental thing in
our form of government the i'm
provement must go in if the majority
OF the people affected want it and are
willing to pay for it. though some
neither want il nor are willing to pay.
Then comes the delicate matter of
deciding who shall pay and how much.
This has been worked out on a
scientific plan that should allow for
no favOritism and should work out
with as near absolute justice as pos
sible. The plan is to assess each
property owner who is benefited di-
rectly in proportion TO the value of
his property and to the benefit his
property receives
Any property holder who thinks the
assessment unfair TO him is always
at liberty TO question tie assessment
1t is a satisfaction to think that in
this case the work has been done we'll
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
THE MEL TING POT,

with. say. Mamye. who was that
swell guy I seen you with Sunday
Fun.
He's gone, Billy, the evangelist man.
Fife Brothers-Gentry Brothers also
Without a culver I turned them
down,
But to Barnum and Baney's big show
Oh, indeed, 1 sure did go!
1T was in a Boston hotel when
they were something new that
South Bend woman saw shredded
wheat biscuit on the breakfast bill OF
fare. Her curiosity was excited and
she ordered one. She liked il and
ate ii, but found she had room for
none of the other good things she had
asked for. Since then. she reflects,
paying 70 cents for a shredded wheat
biscuit is her idea Of zero in con-
siderations.
No Chance.
Funny. this political effort TO make
oil and water mix. IL would take a
perpetual motion bottle shaker to do
il, and perpetual motion hasn't yet
been discovered. Y.
The Apache of the Road.
The plains had nothing like him,
And the Paris type is tame.
Compared with the one who rides
like death
In the motorcycle game.
FROM now on Huerta should
carefully feel of his head every
morning before taking up the bust
ness of the day. to be sure it is in
place. 1t has occupied its present
place between his shoulders really
longer than we thought it would.
THE boast of an eastern poet
that he is living on 70 cents day
is nothing remarkable when you con-
slider the kind of meat upon which
he feeds.
WE view with alarm the state
ment that we haven't enough tor
pedoes TO fight one round. me
Fourth of July took a good many.
STILL, we can't help admiring the
temerity of people who undertake TO
build a new party with the material
on hand.
c. n. F.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
DIR. ROBERT HARRIS.

DIT. Robert Harris was a very re-
markable man, physically as well as
mentally. He not only attained the
age Of 90 years. but lived them. Men
tally and physically he extracted
much from life that less active men
lose. He never looked old. consider
ing his age. and never was old in the
sense that he retained his interest in
and his grasp upon the activities OF
life TO the end.
1t may be said OF DR.. Harris that in
the early years OF his residence here
he was riding the country and endur-
ing hardships for small pay perform
ing his duty as physician when 9TH
err were reaping wealth from the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

Out : in the cold world, out in the
street.
Asking nights lodging of each boob
/ meet
They auctioned a garnet, but 1 was
Outbid
Reg Vanderbilt got it for ten thous-
and quid
The Wall Of a Homeless Million
aire.
How would you like To have a mil
lion dollars or so at your beck and
call and be homeless in London town ?
Rich. and nary a pillow tc rest your
head or a quilt TO deaden your shores,
Late cable dispatches relate that
American tourists are trotting the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
Getting the News
BY Erred G. KELLY.

When Sam Blythe was editor of one
of the Buffalo papers, some years ago,
a young chap came to him wanting a
job. The paper didn't need any more
men just then. but to get rid of the
young man in pleasant, off-hand fash
ion, Sam pointed to the headline in
an afternoon paper about a beautiful
young girl lying unidentified at the
morgue.
Find out who that girl is" sug-
gested Sarn, and I'll take you on
Certainly, sir" said the young
man. And he started out with the air
of one who thought nothing of solv-
ing just such mysteries.
The young man took the thing SER
iously, too. He went to the morgue
and asked see the young woman's
effects. There were no marks on her
clothes that helped to tell where she
hailed from, but she had carried a
little purse that contained rusty
trunk key.
The applicant for the newspaper
job took this key and went TO the
railway station, where he persuaded
the baggage man to let him try all
the trunks until he found one the
key would fit. This was slow, tedious
work, but the key did finally unlock
a small trunk containing a woman's
wearing apparel and other articles.
From the stuff in the trunk the young
man got sufficient clews TO telephone
TO a nearby town and ascertain the
girls name.
So the young man got his job. To-
day he is a successful playwright. His
name is Paul Armstrong.
Arthur B. Krock, the washington
wit, and correspondent of the Louis
Vile Courier-Journal. is another shin
ing example of a newspaperman
whose initial adventures were like
those of cub reporters in the story
books.
Arthur was sliced on the police
beat with a parting injunction that he
was strictly on probation and must
make good or be fired very shortly.
He was accoste6 by q panhandler
on the way TO the police station. In
stead OF giving the poor man the
paltry dime he asked for. Arthur
merely talked to him and asked him
how he came TO be so far from home
without money.
why don't you wire home for
money!" inquired Krock.
All" grunted the man, Il have no
home. and the only man 1 might wire
TO probably wouldn't pay any atten-
ton TO me. He's too busy a man."
And who is that, pray?" asked
Krock.
"Pierpont Morgan" answered the
man. and blamed if he didn't pull
out a letter purporting TO be a letter
of recommendation from Pierpont
Morgan. The letter said the, bearer
had shown himself To be brave
man."
II seemed, according to the mans
story. that he had been walking the
ties one night. when he found a wash
out in the railroad right OF way. and
he tagged the next train. which hap
pened 10 have Pierpont Morgan for
a passenger.
True, it was a pretty pipe-dreamy
story, but Krock got his office 10 wire
10 New York. and the story was veri
fed at Morgan's office. Also, the sig
nature on the letter proved to be
genuine. The account OF the man
starving with a letter OF Endorsement
from Pierpont Morgan in his pocket
that and a facsimile of the letter
formed an important feature in
krOck's paper the next morning.
And young Mr.. KrOck was almost
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
golden opportunities of the time.

golden opportunities OF the time.
The doctor was lover of the rod
and gun and a regular patron OF field
sports. He loved a good horse and
always had one. He was an ardent
baseball fan. As a member of the
city council he sought TO protect the
small taxpayer. on the board Of
health he vigorously fought unsani-
tary conditions. There were people
who thought there was no doctor like
DR.. Harris as long as he was able TO
prescribe for them.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
Maybe she Didn't.

Speaking OF baseball games. I
never saw anything funnier than the
stunt pulled off by Honus Wagner at
Springbrook when he beat out a
bunt to first, and through wild peg
ging to head him off and an unsuc-
cessful attempt 10 run him down be-
tween third and the home plate COM
pleted the tour in safety. There was
general uprOar of mirth. Some
what recovered from the excitement,
1 recalled that in bestowing slaps
with abandon to the right and left,
l received a cushiOny sensation on
my right hand, different from the
impact on the knee Of my brother on
my left. But. bless you, she never let
on-maybe never noticed it. The
caramels are on me, subject to call,
all right. 4.
IN case OF war in China following
the secession of Fukien ii may be
necessary To brush up your Oriental
geography. and buy a Chinese pro-
nouncing dictionary. You may also
have TO look up a new laundryman.
1.-The girl at the counter had a
sweet. intellectual face" writes r. G..
D." and 1 was imagining all sorts Of
sentimental things about her when in
a voice with a peacock meditation
she hailed the girl across the aisle
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
A JOURNALISTIC TRANsPARENCY,

we hope Warden Fogarty VIII read
carefully and thoughtfuly, If not
prayerfully. the long editorial space
devoted by the Tribune 10 wise guild
ance and counsel for his future con-
duct He should appreciate what is
voluntarily given him by an avowed
enemy in a gush OF generous mag
nanimity.
To receive from such "a source ex-
oliclt directions for the government
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
Immediately proclaimed a bright
young person.

Immediately proclaimed a bright
young person.
Robert II. Patchin, chief of the
Washington bureau of the New York
Herald, used TO do the white house
news for one of the Washington pa
pers in the days before he was as eX-
perienced as he Is now.
He lived always in a horror of miss
ing something, and for that reason
aimed To- talk To everybody that came
out of the presidents room, no mat
ter how unimpCrtant the person
might appear.
one day a quiet elderly man came
out from a brief talk with the pres
ident, and Patchin noticed him. Pat
chin had no way of knowing right
offhand who the man was, but he
fastened to catch step with him and
draw him into conversation.
All, we talked about nothing in
particular said the elderly caller;
"I simply happened to be here and
called to pay my respects TO the
president"
There was no talk of a political
nature" asked Patchin.
"Oh. no.
They kept walking along down the
driveway until they had reached the
white house gate, Patchin wondering
all the way who the man might be.
and yet not knowing how to ask him
without seeming abrupt, for the man
seemed TO assume that Patchin knew
him.
Finally IS they were about to sep
.arate, Patchin put out his hand and
said:
My names Patchin. You know. 1
can't just recall your name, mister"
White" the elderly man told him,
modestly. Andrew d. White"
Then Patchin went and used his
head for a battering ram and tried 10
knock over a couple of trees.
Patchin tells Of another funny lit
tie caprice OF his.
When WI Ting Fang was the Chinese
minister. Patchin's office desired 10
know China's attitude regarding Ger
tain diplomatic affairs which Minister
WI had thus far declined to discuss.
Patchin was young and full of en-
thusiasm. and he suggested scheme.
I'll write out a cablegram setting
forth what might be the facts. said
he. land I'll take il and show it to
WI and make him believe we got IL
from China. Then he'll think that so
long as we know about the thing
anyhow, he might as we'll tell the
whole story, and I'll get cOrking in
terview out Of him."
The editor babe Patchin go try il.
Armed with his fake cablegram,
Patchin went
Wa listened TO Patchin's statement,
read the message and then with a
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

1t wouldn't be fair 10 accept every
thing Col. Mulhall says as true with
out hearing the other side. but most
q his testimony is so reinforced by
written records that 1t leaves little to
say i'm reply.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

The study of traffic rules should not
be confined to drivers Of vehicles.
Everybody should understand where
vehicles are likely to be encountered
when crossing a street.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

Great Britain's prime minister has
gone so far as to say that England
may force Balkan peace. Stepping a
little farther in the scale of declension
we aver that England should.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

The exercise Of prudence on the
part Of pedestrians as well as by
drivers OF automobiles is made appar-
ent by the statistics for June, which
show that twelve persons were killed
by automobiles in Indiana during that
month
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
POLICEMAN SHOT BY GANG
OF CHICAGO BOY THIEVES

CHICAGO. July 25.-Policeman
Samuel ". Sewers was shot in the
abdomen and fatally wounded by a
gang Of four youths he caught burg
larizing a tea store early "Wednesday.
Bruno KlonOski, Is, was found hiding
under a bed at his sisters home and
charged with the shooting. Three
other suspects were taken into Gus
tOdy
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

If Mr.. Bryan has checkmated a
across Nicaragua, as seems probable,
his title TO niche in the hall of fame
will be no longer disputed.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

streets of the roast beef metropolis in
a vain search for a room and bath
They don't insist on the BATH but
they'd be dead willing TO sleep in a
bath tub that leaks.
LondOn's hotels and lodging houses
are filled TO the skylights with bloom
ing Yankee tourists. Never before
has the city welcomed more travellers
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

Scarcity Of cattle in this country
will force the American packers
under the new tariff bill 10 compete
with foreign packers in their own
countries. South America and Aus
tralia will benefit thereby and the
cost Of meats in this country is ex
pected to be reduced.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
FIND MAN HANGING

JOLIET, H., July 2S-Children
Wednesday found the body Of Louis
Scion. labOrer, hanging 10 a tree
near the Silver Cross hospital. Scion
had been respondent because Of i'll
health.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

Mr.. Watson's success in working
both ends against the middle. as de-
scribed by Col. Mulhall made his pub
lie service look like side line.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

Michigan City reformatory had a
larger graduating class than usual this
year. Warden Fogarty's humane sys-
tenn is bearing good fruit
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

Turkey is using the big stick in it's
efforts TO secure a permanent peace.
The sultan cannot hope to regain his
lost prestige
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23
c. n. F.

funny little tweak about the eyes, in
CURED, casually:
Young man, how many days have
you been a reporter"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

With more than 1000 new babies
reported for June InGiana's infant in
dustries seem TO be thriving.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

TACTICAL.
During a situation tense.
The infants delight was revealed,
AS the only drink par excellence,
Without a spike concealed.
The Teddy cocktail has not arrived.
Yet we have the Teddy bear,
Are we then 10 be deprived
OF drink without a snare?
d. 3. II.
PHYSICAL evidences Of Edwin Poe
will have all disappeared with the
razing OF the building in Richmond.
Va, in which he edited the Southern
Literary Messenger. II has taken 81
years TO wipe them out, much faster
than relics Of distinguished men pass
away in the older and less changeful
countries, but quite deliberate for
America.
But Poe needs no monument of that
kind. While interesting the buildings
he frequented are trifles compared
with the indestructible material he
has left us.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

Babies have an irresistible attrac-
ton for flies.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

The rail strike hangs trembling in
the balance.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

50 crowded that American millOn-
aires have to press the paving stones
in lieu Of a mattress. Besides, who
wants to go TO bed in Paris2
Late Bulletin-The sleep famine
has been partly solved by Yankees
who are buying front-row seats at all
the late English musical comedies.
The snoozing is said 10 be highly sat
isfactOry.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-23

LOS ANGELES.-Chief of Police
Sebastian extended an invitation TO
$50 women social workers 10 attend
tea" at the police station July 30
and get first hand knowledge Of Jail
conditions.