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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

legal move, will find little difficulty
in drawing the conclusion that men
who try to escape proceedings by such
a plea are more anxious to get clear
of the courts than they are to prove
their innocence. Yet they have eX-
amples that go far TO afford them
justification. The habit Of putting
technical regularity before judicial
system. Two famous and recent
supreme court decisions illustrate. In
one the opinion declares 8. doubt
whether the defendant had a fair trial,
but for technical reasons leave him to
be sentenced to death. In the other
the opinion { the court is voiced that
he Jim Crow law is unconstitutional;
but il is left in force because the plain
ifs contentious in the lower court
we're too general"
Certainly these things do not tend
to weaken the belief that our judicial
system needs to learn the lesson that
10 do justice - more vital than to
obey technicalities, and the only value
of form in procedure is to make easy
the road to justice. - Pittsburg Dis
patch.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
HIS GREATEST DIsTINCTTIN.

As civilization progresses the forms
of crime multiply. The criminal i'm
pulse in a primitive state of society
works through few and simple
ways, and the criminal code is brief.
society the channels of operation for
crime increase beyond calculation, and
acts which were once inoffensive fall
multitudinously under the ban OF the
law In a community of 100000 peo-
pie 1000 arrests within a given time
may today mean a smaller prevalence
Of felOniOuS crime than half as many
arrests 100 years ago.
The conviction OF David Lamar for
impersonating a congressman over
the telephone in an attempt to profit
some one through lobby activity Is.
therefore. to be heralded as an index
of advancing civilization. The es-
sence of the crime may be old. The
Lamar case gives il new form and
virtually creates a new crime which
could not possibly have existed 80
years ago.
To other distinctions the wolf" of
Wall ST thus adds another. He has
contributed TO our civilization a new
way OF reaching the penitentiary. He
adds, as IL were, new evidence OF
progress in our civilization He may
even claim that his case has develop
ed new proof that the world Is get
ting better, if not that the educational
influences of Wall st. are getting bet
ter.-New York World.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
MAY BAR LOBBYISTS.

Democratic members of the next
Indiana legislature, who have just
met at Indianapolis, are proposing to
bar paid lobbyists from operations at
the state capital during the coming
session of the assembly. This is apt
to badly chill the enthusiasm of sun
dry and divers patriots who have
managed to make a pretty fair sort
of living by pleading the cause of the
pee-pul in various measures that one
interest or another wanted either
killed or passed. Incidentally 1t
should remove practically all of that
sort Of lobbying against which criti-
cism has been directed in the past
We trust the democrats may CLAMP
the lid tightly on the paid lobbyist
Ft WaVne Sentinel
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
THE MILEAGE GRAB.

The mileage bill which is TO be in
lroduced into congress almost imme-
diately and doubtless rushed through
is well called a grab" The senators
and representatives are not entitled TO
the money which they will vote to
themselves. They will take il simply
because they can dip their itching
palms into the public treasury and
help themselves.
\ century ago. when il cost cOnsid-
cradle 20 reach the capital by horse
lack and coach, ii was decided TO be
fair and allow 20 cents a mile for the
expenses of the senator's and repre-
sentatives on their way back and
forth. 1t cost about that then.
But nowadays it costs only a small
fraction of that the expense being not
much more than three cents a mile.
congressman. however, have gone
on pretending that it cost the 20 cents
a mile. have continued to vote them
selves this amount and have pocketed
the surplus.
The representative from California
pays SIS for his ticket TO Washington
and S37 for a full section on the Pull
mana total expense OF S112. He
otes himself $500.
a New York congressman pays six
dollars. and draws $50.
We won't dwell on those from In
liana. Ii strikes too near home.
1t is nothing but a grab, one Of
me rawest ever made, and il has been
kept up. congress after congress.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
DIMES AND NICKELS.

If it were possible for the parents
Of an average home to see in single
pile all the small coins spent during
the year by their family, they would
no doubt be amazed.
The reckless nickel-spending habit
is not confined to the children by any
means. How many good. hard-head-
ed business men are continuously
handing out small coins for things
that crafty a moments within! There
are women innumersIble who are most
careful in home management AMI self
denying in their own wardrobe who
viii literally load up" with tribes
merely because the cost is little. The
result is more than the dropping of
bits of money; their homes are clut-
tered up with these cheap things. until
neat housekeeping is impossible.
Apples half eaten; nothing finished
up; new supplies of all kinds before
they are needed; nothing more than
half used. 1t is the result Of abund-
ance. with no idea of an end thereto
1t has all come about in one gener-
alton. How our grandfathers ard
grandmothers boarded their small
possessions. mended their toys and
cherished bright-cOlored cards
The coTsplexity of modern living lies
not merely in our doing too many
things. but in our having too many, in
more books and papers than we can
possibly read, more clothes than we
can wear or care for, more utensils
than We have need Of and so on
through d long. long list.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Reminders From the Columns
Ct The Daily Times.

John Donahue died, aged 81 years.
Miss Clara Ginz will spend sun
day in Goshen.
Or. ". A. Hager has gone 10 Ha-
gersville. Ont. to visit his parents
Harry Schrock is at home from Ann
Arbor for a few days.
DR.. and Mrs. G. II. Myers entertain
ed the Pottawat0mie club The ia
Vors were won by Mrs. w. A. Funk
and ]. d. Oliver.
South Bend encampment. No. 9.
|. O. .. F., elected the following Off
GERS: Schuyler g. Martin. chief pa
triarch; II. X. Miller, senior warden;
Hiram Penrod. junior warden; l.. G..
Carpenter. high priest +. z. Lambert.
scribe; c W. Martin. treasurer; J. d.
Henderson. p. b. Boone and d. B. J.
Schafer, trustees
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
LEGAL TECHNICALIIIEs.

Several OF the defendants indicted
in the New Haven conspiracy case
have appeared in court, not 10 get
indication by proving their innocence,
not 10 seek a speedy trial. but 20 es-
cape BY technicality. They allege
that the grand jury which indicted
them was Improperly drawn, because
rhe names were put into the box by
the deputy clerk of court instead Of
by the clerk.
The ordinary man. observing this
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
THE MELTING POT
COME! TAKE POTLUcK WITH US.

profanity TO charge up against him.
We assume, however, that If man
should resort to tears to relieve his
feelings woman would Immediately
take TO profanity-and with ample
pl Ovocation.
What the Editor Found In His stock
ing.
burr Oak Acorn.)
It's surely some variety the pub
Usher has lately been favored with,
you will note: Mr.. and Mrs. John c.
Chatfield OF Ferry send us box of
wintergreen berries and leaves and
fern-moss; Chas. HagadOrn OF Wenat-
chez, Wash, provides us with liberal
samples of luscious Winesap apples;
and Clarence Holcomb of Drumright
Okla, contributes rare specimens of
tarantula and centipede. Thank you,
SOME men inheri. jobs, some have
Jobs thrust upon them and some go
out and hustle. We were thinking of
the fellows VINO are going about clear
ing your sidewalk of ice and snow for
quarter. Those are the fellows
whose initiative Will keep them off
the soup line.
An Old Conception of the school
master.
Essays of Elia.)
Why are we never quite at our
ease in the presence of the school
master because we are conscious
that he is not quite at his ease in ours.
He is awkward and cut of place in the
society Of his equals. He comes like
CULVER from among his little people
and he cannot fit the stature of his
understanding 10 yours. He cannot
meet you on the square. He wants a
point given him, like an Indifferent
whist player. He is so used to teach
ing that he wants to be teaching you.
One of these professors. upon my
that these little sketches
of mine were anything but methodical
and that l was unable TO make them
otherwise kindly offered TO instruct
me in the method by which young
gentlemen in his seminary were taught
to compose English themes. The jests
of a Schoolmaster are coarse, or thin.
They do not tell out of school. He is
under the restraint of a formal and
didactive hypocrisy in company. as a
is under a moral one. He
can no more let his intellect loose in
society than the other can his incli-
nations He is forlOrn among his
coevals; his juniors cannot be his
friends.
Now feel the Christmas spirit in the
Feel again. If you should doubt, it
is there.
Hearts of men and women tender
When the Winds of winter fiercely
blow.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
Letters Of the People

The Nevs-Times opens this column
TO its readers for expressions OF their
views IL accepts no responsibility,
however. for the opinions here put
forth. Correspondents must show
good faith. however, by signing their
communications with their correct
name. This Will not be published II
the CORES pendent so desires and in
dicates, but the name MUST accom-
pany the Communication or It cannot
be considered.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19

Now that the administration has &C
cumulated its corps OF experts in the
electric light and power cases we will
probably begin 10 find out something
about what our real chances are. OF
course. the public service commission
IS still 20 be considered. and ditto, the
ether side.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19

The state and the indicted men have
agreed upon a statement OF facts in
the legislative scandal cases. The
people were pretty we'll agreed upon
the facts long ago. What is wanted
now is a statement OF the law.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19

the other day. This is about as near
as an American president can safely
come 20 initiating European royalty
in its recent dash for the front
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
SIX MONTHS WITH POETS AND
PHILOSOPHERS.

Me when the cold Digenuan stream
revfVeS.
What does my friend believe L
think or ask?
Let me yet less possess, so L may
live,
Whate'er of life remains, unto my
self.
May i have books enough: and one
years store,
Not TO depend upon each doubtful
hour:
This il enough OF mighty JOve TO
pray,
Who, as he pleases, gives and takes
away.
Horace.
Studying genealogy makes
splendid paStime for people who
have never accomplished anything
and never hope to.-TOledO Blade.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19

Italy may De neutral but her finger
isn't far from the trigger. And every
time the Turkish generals report one
Ct their successes il seems TO be a
hard matter TO keep the trigger from
working
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19

Perhaps Mayor Keller wants that
aerial truck from which to pour water
into the hole at the corner Of Main
end Jefferson.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
Statesmen Real
and Near.
By Fred c. Kelly

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-This story
is really a tragedy, because one of the
principals ended up by breaking his
leg. Instead OF saving that for the
. climax Of the tale We give it here at
the start so that the cautious reader
may know the horrors in store for
him. Sen. Kern tells the story. Two
friends of his in Indianapolis were in
a gambling joint one night when the
place was raided To escape the po-
lice they dashed out a back door which
led into a yard full of ash barrels and
rubbish. They fell over a barrel into
n tangle OF wire and tore their clothes
but got through a rickety wooden
gate into an alley.
From there they ran down another
alley until they found themselves up
against a high fence with barber wire
on top. They imagined they heard
he police in the Otfing, and so man
eyed TO get over this fence with moth
ing worse than some minor cuts from
the barbed wire. Then they found
themselves in what appeared to be
a big open space, but before they had
gone many rods they ran into high
fence made of boards at the bottom
and heavy netting at the top.
By helping each other like pair
of Zouaves they scaled this fence and
all might have been well, but one of
the two lost his balance, fell from the
top, and broke his leg-just as we
pleasantly set forth in the opening
sentence. His companion tried TO drag
him to a place of safety. but the pain
was so great that the injured man
could not move.
But his companion would not desert
him. They remained right where they
were until sunrise, and then discov-
cred that they were in a baseball
grounds and had climbed over the
backstop.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19
THE IOAE,ER,S ARGUNfENT.

Talk 10 any loafer long enough and
he will tell you a poor man has no
CHARACTERIZATION Globe.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19

Woodrow Wilson joined the Wash
.ngtOn rush for Christmas bargains
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19

Rep. Maurice Connolly of Iowa, who
came rather near beating Mr.. Cum
Minis for the United States senate, has
one great passion. 1t is the passion
for song-particularly that phase of
vocal music which in barber shops and
livery stables is termed close har-
mOny.
If young man has any natural
leaning toward duplicating himself
with swipe chords, this tendency will
be amplifed and augmented when he
goes to college. AS Maurice Con-
molly has gone to more colleges than
any other man in congress-being an
alumnus of Cornell, New York uni
versity Cambridge. Heidelberg, etc,
naturally he became more and more
devoted 10 his art. Even as Nero
added while Rome burned, Maurice
Connolly would just as soon sit on
the rail of a burning piazza and sing
that in his college days he would
catch freshmen and impress them to
join in sng
The themes he chose were not al
ways from the classics such as The
Pilgrims Chorus" or Ave Maria"
but "Tenting Tonight" The Old Red
Shawl" The Passing Policeman"
"Old Black Joe" and White Wings"
Perhaps the one he liked best was the
pals. jolly old pals, clinging together
in all kinds of weather.
II was not uncommon when others
slept for Maurice to sit with a group
out in the balmy spring air and pipe
such lays as He Sleeps Beneath the
Old Oak Tree" until his companions
skunk away TO work or sleep one by
one. Then, with ears alert, he would
harken for the song of some rollick-
ing crew and rush of TO join them.
He would think nothing of singing
Graceful and Easy" 80 or 40 times
in a single evening and each time with
greater feeling.
BY the time Maurice was ready for
his life's work he was not only thor
Oughly and deliberately educated, but
had acquired knowledge of native
folk ballads second TO none.
Byron Rufus Newton, assistant sec
rotary of the treasury and acting sec
rotary when MT. McAdoo is away, set
out while ago to master the game
of golf. He had never tried it before.
and he hired golf professor TO show
him what one is expected to do. From
the start Newton eXcelled in one par
ticular; he could knock the ball
straight in given direction. 1t might
require a whole lot of strokes for him
to make his goal but each stroke
would be in the right direction. The
golf professor spoke OF this. partly
to encourage Newton, and partly be-
cause he was really curious 10 know
the reason. Newton himself did not
know for long time why he. a novice.
could hit the ball so accurately. Then
il came 10 him. When he was a small
lad on the farm he used to chop wood.
His father was a stickler that would
should not be wasted in the chopping
and Newton was not permitted to
make any needless chips. He had TO
swing the blade right TO an exact spot.
That knack was still with him when
he started in at golf.
Copyright. 1914, by Fred c. Kelly.)
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-19

Subject 10 change without notice.
F. 1. HARDY. Supt Transportation
c. FRANTZ, G.. p. & F. a.
Crv.N p0-d Indiana
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-24

T .n,srs. As4sa each day az dawn and cOntnuss unt
o'eloek h shs uornhg then and besna ssan %
ocloc eOnuas until IN the svSns The cathedral ana Otn'
buRdings have bssn greatly damaged.
The German artillery pessd che northeast OF the town.
while the French guns occupy eplacsnent to the soutnes
There appsa no necessity for the shs to fall on the town e
Is Ie French troops stationed considerable distance rom
Noycn also suffering from the German gunnFe nu' 'ne ms
cathedral up the present has escaped.
Tdays advance Of the allied troops entaied very severe
6rhsna IA which the artillery played large part The comOa
had lasted for twenty-fo hOs but eventually the Heman
yielded ground sustaining large number OF casualties me
AU- .r. o h.avv Io.ers Many ambulance trains have left
The font for provincial eiss carrying German and french
wounded Large nubsrs Of seriously wounded British officers
and men have been transported the American and other nos
piaIs IN Paris
Among the killed to-day General DuPul commander
the 9Th Infantry Brigade.
Eight American and British correspondents, arrested at
Rheims on Monday fer visiting that city without leave have Oeen
released through the intervention of the American Ambassador
MyrOn r. HsrTc The military Of PaTs announced To-
day however that any u'S temporary pass FOR leaving
Paris to penetrate the fighting would be subject WITHOUT OK
ception to a severe penalty.
This precauton against sp who appear to be numerous
and adro resident Of Maubsuse who has just escaped rom
that town. says that that city during the siege full OF secret
German spe The French discovered 'uOterraean telephone
which was being used by German esry to inform the GermSn
officers of French dispositions Every SOre OF the gaon
failed because the Germans were ready having apparently 0e'n
forewarned
Military exper warn the public ignore the German
efforts 70 force the French barrier chain at its more aaaDie
pO REQUIRES much paenes wait for the result OF tn" Dat
tie but 90 confident the English and French that their armies
vii be successful that they worrying much
London Sept. ga dispatch to the Central News rom
Antwerp says: A., et
ieen hundred Germans arrived this morning at Ath, h'
teen miles northwest from Mons Belgium, coming from France
be outskirts Of Brussels everywhere been mined and
strongly nrenehed The entire German garrison has LETT for Atm
Journal and the adjacent districts where barbados also have been
erected prevent Bens falling the Germans should the
Germans be compelled to retreat from France
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-24
GERMANS RENEW FIGHT
TO INVEST ANTWERP
By JOHN BANIsTER.

S New York Tribune "The London Standard
Client Sept 23The German efforts invest Antwerp have become
moro strenuous and determined line extends westward nearly INTO
this CITY artillery hard work on the south oahN OF e
Schcdt Railway service south oil mere mas O
stopped altogether. :, g, - .
There still ground that the city itself Will escape
direct attack Brussels completely of, and occupied by
,ro reinforced German garrison hosts will not be driven
hack 10 the Rhine without lighting and slaughter 1t IS I'M
possb 10 Judge OF across the french IRON
tier whatever happens those German armies in the southwest
am certain that the Antwerp by any means
b can and TO remain of Southern Belgium at what
. -
For prepared for more German
m bbaie horyng the sack Of Louvan and Iermonde
hy have spared Client please themselves but all German
pledges are scraps OF paper We hope for the best
London Sept 22The Daily Chronicles" correspondent with the
Bclqu army the villages beyond bear undemab
Evidence Of having been subjected Of German culture as
this highly civzng understood by the kas soldiers Al
bbeke many dwellings, including those Of people earning mis-
cradle pance have the church also has suffered
Relatives to-day helpless citizens on the hrst vista
~ the savaees from Rhine cruelty done death
villagers marched
All them hundred dwellings, placed them against the
Teen under very their relatives who clustered about heart
and mad with terror
With refinement cruelty which hitherto had been considered the
pocative warpath taken
here were death imprisonment no one knew which
Il said that 42 the small Belgian of Tmnes
~ the Namur district killed presumably Of some
act against the the district The dead include the
priest and notables After wholesale executions the torch was
standing the district
II i little wonder Belgian mddened by the knowledge
these unprovoked atrocities hrsting close with
these soldiers whose would sgaced the barbarian fighter
With legitimate and uncomfortable hate IN It's heart th
BELGIAN pushing toward the capital which wrested from
"a few weeks ago still under the dominion OF Prussia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-24
TALES OF HORROR
TOLD BY WOUNDED
1t Was Kill, Kill, Kill, and Still
They Came On Say SOL
diers from the Aisne.
[Ry cable to nc Tribune. ]

London, Sept. pa "Daily News
correspondent sends the following
from north of Paris:
1.-THE statements of the wounded re-
turning from the Aisne show the ter
rible nature Of the fighting. All prac-
tically, told me the same story:
at began at with heavy and ac-
curate she'll fire. There was lunch
interval. 1t stopped about $3.50 every
day, and then in the night often came
the charges. One night | couldn't
count them. 1t was awful! Kill! XIII!
Kill! And still they came on, showing
each other over on to US.
There was no man but had his story
of comrades shot on either side of him,
of how they were smashed day after
day, of the shrek Of shells, of the
perpetual grooming of the wounded as
thew Law in the wet trenches-'seven
DAYS and nights of it, and sometimes
only an hours sleep And all had the
same description, 1t was just absolute
hellp No one found another word to
describe it.
Sand the sight of the men bore it
out Muddied to the eyes, wet, often
blood caked, many were suffering from
the curious aphasia produced by the
conti0uous and terrible conclusion Of
shells bursting. Some were dazed and
speechless, some deafened, and yet,
splendid to relate, l saw on no face the
terrible animal war look"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-24
RUSSIAN VICTORIES
MYTHS, SAY AUSTRlANS

Manchester, Mass Sept. 23.-Th.
Austro-H Hungarian Embassy gave on,
te-night the following Official t.I..
gram by wireless from Count Bereh.
told:
"The Austrian forces, concentr,t.
ed in new positions for several days
await in vain a serious attack bt
the Russians. This is the best proof
against the correctness of asssr.
tiOns that the Russians were yicto.
rious, that they had defeated
DankPs army and that the Austri,n
troops were in dissolution, pursued
by Russians.
Equally incorrect is all new,
about famine and depressed public
feeling in the monarchy. The POP
ulation and the army are full Of
confidence in final victory.
'In the last few days the Aus.
TRANS have had several successful
engagements with the ServIans. The
AID Landwehr division, consisting Of
CrOatians, displayed extraordinary
courage"