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The daily sentinel., 1914-08-01
INDICTMENTS RETURNED

Chicago, Aug Three federal
grand jury indictments we're re-
turned today against officials of the
New York Central lines. the Ogara
Coal company, the Lake Shore &
Michigan southern Railroad compa-
ny, the Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chica-
go & St. Louis railroad and the
Chicago, Indiana d Southern Rail-
road company, growing out Of
charges of rebating.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
TWO IMPORTANT SIDE ISSUES.

Two important questions are TO
come before the people at the election
this fall aside. from the election of
candidates for office.
One of them is. shall a constitu-
tional convention be held, and a new
constitution be framed for the state?
The other is shall Indiana celebrate
its centennial in 1916 by the dedica-
ton of new state library?
Both questions are important. The
people are asked to vote $4,000, 600 for
the centennial celebration and library.
The cost of the constitution is some
thing of problem, though as to dol
lars and cents, there is no doubt but
that the centennial has several times
the best OF the bargain-best in the
way Of being the more expensive.
Maybe Indiana can afford both:
certainly can if the people think so.
and it is not the purpose here to
boost the one at the expense of the
other.
We need the library and museum
for the preservation of state relics,
books and documents. the present
quarters at the state house having
been outgrown, with no other place to
go.
We need a new constitution because
the people of Indiana occasionally
want to do things that the present
constitution does not permit. and the
people of 1853 ought not be permit
ted TO boss the people of 1914 and
henceforth. too much
Rather than make any mistake. and
vote NO" on the wrong subject. we
believe it would be a splendid thing
for every voter TO make straight
Yes of it on every special question
at the election.
According TO GOV. Ralston. in his
address at the democratic state con
vention last spring, Indianas foreign
debt will be off the slate by the New
Year. The new library would cost the
voter ten and One-half cents "A year
for ten years on each $1,000 OF his
assessable property and the new con-
stitution added would make it less
NAltAti NtAAAc AVA the llISL year. bOIn
institutions would be monuments To
the state, the library in marble and
stone. and the preservation Of intelli-
gence. the latter in increased oppor-
tunity for the masses of people
through the opening of new avenues
for the passage of much needed laws
and the curbing of unwanted evils.
The last legislature acted wisely in
afording the voters an opportunity
10 settle these questions for them
selves. Shall the state proceed TO the
fulhllment of one or the other. or
both? There can be no economy in
the defeat of either when the neces-
sity of either accomplishment is once
established.
And il ism I even essential that
either issue be pushed TO The point of
necessity. Ii is enough if they are
desirable-and it ought not be a hard
matter for anyone TO answer questions
So simple
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
SHOOTS Roth WAYS.

Since it has developed that Hugh
Tn. Miller. while lieutenant governor,
signed some bills that ought not to
have been signed. and that some
amendments got into the statute books
that ought to have been kept out
while others were kept out that should
have been put in, decent republican
newspapers, noting the uncleanliness
Of their own door-yard, have ceased
to pirate about similar situation be-
falling Homer l.. Cook, speaker of the
last house of representatives.
But decent republican newspapers
are not so very easy to find, especially,
very close home. OF course, they in
sist that it isn't so about Hugh TIL,
and another, of course, that ought to
settle it, for the republican party never
makes mistakes. 1t is infallible For
a republican TO blunder is a rank i'm
possibility. The republicans say so.
If there is anything wrong with the
bills that passed Hugh TIL. Miller's
pen when he was lieutenant governor
the mistake must be in the senate
journal. or somewhere else; not in
the lieutenant governor.
But it is different with Speaker
Homer l.. Cook. He is a democrat,
and like Miller a candidate for office
Regardless of his innocence, il is
simply impossible from the republi-
can viewpoint that he could be other
wise than an all-rOund Skallawag
Fact of the matter is neither the re-
pnblicans nor the democrats have
anything on each other so far as the
Cook and Miller episodes are con-
cerned, and both are playing up ma
terial COR the progressives by keeping
the controversy alive-a controversy
that is without merit so far as fixing
any culpable responsibility upon either
of the candidates involved.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

That the United states government
has entered upon. or contemplates
entering upon a policy OF irritating
the governments at war in Europe.
with untimely and unwelcome proffers
OF mediation. is the latest 20 agitate
London. perhaps incident II our
recent prayer for peace. sunday;
probably due 20 something else.
Correspondents 10 European news
papers must have been giving undue
prominence 10 the activities of persons
this side OF the Atlantic who have
seized upon the peace" cry for pur-
poses OF self-advertisement, self-ag-
grandizement, or otherwise. This with
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
NATIONAL


FOR q. s. Observation-Disclosures F.
hhiVely.
FOR 18TH DISTRICT REPRESENTA-
TIVE Henry a. Barnhart-
STATE.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE-Homer
l.. Cook
FOR AUDITOR OF sTATE-Oale ].
Crittenberger.
FOR TREASURER or sTATE-George
". Bittler.
FOR SUPT PUBLIC DISTRACTION
Charles A Greathouse
FOR JUDGE SUPREME COURT-MOses
+. Larry.
FOR JUSTICES or APPELLATE
COURT-Josia g. Ibach. Frederick :.
Caldwell. Milton b. HOttel Edward w.
relt and Frank NJ. Powers.
FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT
j. Fred France.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL-RIchard
MilburD.
FOR STATE GEOLOGIST-Edwa
Barrett
LEGISLATIVE.
FOR STATE SENATOR-Gabriei r.
Summers.
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE
George Y Hepler and Charles A Hagcrty.
FOR JOINT REPRESENTATIVE -
Pete A. Follmer
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
THE NEW HAVEN.

Singularly significant is the plank
which has been inserted in the Rhode
Island democratic state platform with
reference TO the New York New
Haven q Hartford railroad. any di-
rector, req DIS the platform who
would vote 10 pay Nelson ". Al
drich and his associates $20.000,000
for the Rhode Island company COP
Grating trolleys) and its property is
not a proper person 10 act as trustee
for others" This declaration is be
lated but il shows the development
Of public thought. Less than a week
ago il was announced that the gov
eminent and the New Haven had ac-
cepted a plan for dissolution, and
that only details remained TO be per
fected. A few days ago the New
Haven. and its affiliated company,
the New England Navigation Co,
brought suit in Meriden. Comm
courts against John l. Billiard and
certain other officers in the Billiard
company. The New Haven seeks to
recover $3.S24.147 in cash which il
alleges, Billiard received, and also de-
mands a full accounting from the
Billiard company.
This throws the notorious Billiard
transaction" into the courts and
ought 10 mean better days Tor the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
IN DAYS OF OLD.

1t is said that cherries and rasp-
berries were not cultivated in Eng
land until the days of the much-mar-
ried merrie monarch, Henry VIII.
Doubtless they were raised in other
lands prior 10 his time, but the
chances are that they are compare
lively modern additions to the worlds
regular fruit supply
The ancient world, indeed. would
seem strange to a twentieth century
dweller. not only I'm the absence of
mechanical devices. but in the animal
and vegetable worlds as well. Pea
cocks had been newly introduced in
Athens in the days of Pericles and
there are indications that a few cen
turtles earlier the common domestic
fowl was unknown in the Mediter-
ranean world.
The peach. which now survives the
winters OF New England, was then SO
tender that il seldom ripened fruit
even in the island Of Rhodes, with a
climate much like that OF southern
California. Horses were OF small
size and pretty uniform type; the huge
draft animal and the trim racer being
alike unknown. Goats were far more
common than COWS. Oranges and
lemons were unheard Of, and so was
sugar. its place being partly taken by
honey. The status of apples in that
day Is uncertain.
However Inferior the ancients were
as breeders of plants and animals, they
had one point of superiority in the
breeding Of men. Olden warfare.
waged body TO body with cold steel,
killed off OF enslaved the weak and
cowardly and left the brave and
strong 20 become sires of the next gen.
Grafton. Modern warfare, With long
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

out explaining that noDObdy here is
taking them seriously.
Pres't wilson is not going to involve
this country in trouble by "butting-
in" one way or the other. OFFICIAL
Washington realizes the dangerous
possibilities Of action along the lines
proposed by either the rabid peace
crusaders" or drawn battle advo-
Gates. just at the time Thee is
time for all things. and the fighting
powers of Europe need not worry.
rhe United States will automatically
await the proper moment for its
further advances.
Mr.. Robert Lansing, counsellor for
the department Of state, has made this
clear by a recent statement. that
should be borne in mind He says:
Reports that this government
is Offering new mediation pro-
pOsals to the European nations
are false and without any foun-
dation. All such stories in the
future, unless given out from Of
fetal sources, should be disre-
garded as the invention OF per-
sons who appear 10 have some
other motive than peace in set
ting afoat rumors Of this sort.
In a perfectly proper way the
latch on the door of mediation" is
lifted, with our good offices at the
disposal Of the warning nations when
they are ready to accept them, but
they. and not the United States, must
set the day.
Only mischief can result from any
other course, and those who, no mat
ter what their pretext, are only
creating mischief by attempting to
induce the president to force himself
in where he is not wanted. The best
way is to leave other peoples quar-
rels alone"-until the other people
have come to think they need you.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

IN biblical times it gave man
some distinction to be a prophet He
was looked up TO as something higher
than the common herd and was not
without honor in his own country"
What he said went, and he was usual
ly wise enough to date his predic-
tiOns far enough ahead TO make them
safe.
NOWADAYS about everybody you
meet is a prophet They have their
grades. one is the prophet who
demonstrates with statistics and argu-
ments. Another supports his pro-
phecy with a theory. Between the two
the public keeps the future we'll in
view.
ALL are now devoting their occult
power to the penetration OF the pail
that hangs over Europe for the pur-
pose of ascertaining when the war
will end. The progress made is mar
veloUs. All grades of prophets agree
that if the war is not brought TO an
early termination il will be a long
one.
THOUGH published nearly a CEN
fury ago the Essays of Ella" might
be read by the present generation
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

Gallup has been on the carpet be-
fore. II is a caution therefore. for
both first and second offenders. if Of
tenders they are-and to be an of
fender, it may be understood, isn't
such very difficulty matter.
The police might as well under
stand that they are under restrictions
very strictly construed, and whether
the restrictions or the constructions
are wise or justifable or not. il is a
condition and not a theory that they
are up against
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
CARRANzA,S sHIETY ATTITUDE.

y
AS time goes by it becomes palmer
that the peaceful elimination of Car
rama as "A presidential possibility
should be viewed with approval by
this country.
At no time has Carranza evinced
any appreciation Of the disinterested
efforts of the United States to bring
peace 10 Mexico Everything he does
shows a thinly disguised opinion that
this country is Officiously interfering.
This attitude received its first il
lustration in the Benton case. Re
cent dispatches showing his failure
TO give satisfactory replies TO AmeTi-
can representations regarding the fu-
ture evacuation Of Vera Cruz serve TO
emphasize it.
He has failed, for instance. TO say
plainly whether he viii comply with
States that, on receipt of the $1,000
600 collected at Vera Cruz, ne will
not further modest the importers
al that point.
He has failed. though asked by this
government 10 do so, To give satisfac-
tory assurances that he viii respect
the reasonable conditions OF. evacua-
ton relating 10 life and property laid
down by Gen. Funston.
All this savors Of a shifty. hostile
state OF mind, If not of actual bad
faith. There is no reason i'm the
world why he should not deal frankly
with the United States, and every
reason why he should
He will probably have his attitude
10 thank for ii If the American
troops remain at Vera cruz much
longer than he desires-ChicagO
Herald.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

New Haven John /. Billiard Is the
person who acted as the dummy in
the Boston q Maine acquisition by
the New Haven. He was the fnan-
cial go between" in that gigantic
deal which cast a shadow over even
the general court Of Massachusetts.
1t is admitted in the New Haven legal
complaint that Billiard received mill
lions of dollars in cash and securities
in secret trust" Therefore trans
actions with Billiard were entered on
the New Haven books as bona fide.
What became of the money? What
became of the enormous earnings of
the New Haven, which, a few years
ago, was one of the most prosperous
railways in the United States? What
caused the New Haven stock TO
slump from almost a record quota
ton for railroads to a figure which
many innocent stockholders? No
one knows exactly where the money
went, but there is evidence TO show
how it was spent.
The Billiard transaction in con-
nectiOn with the Boston & Maine. the
S20,000,0OO paid for the Rhode Island
trOlleys, the other million paid for
the western Massachusetts trOlleys,
the enormous salaries and commits
SlOnS PAID 10 the Morgan OIlCeTS,
and the lavish expenditure of moneys
i'm furtherance of the monopoly
Scheme-these were outlets for the
New Ravens income. If Billiard
fraudulently obtained $4,000, 600
from the New Haven he ought to be
compelled TO pay it back This is for
the courts to decide Recently the
New Haven directorate underwent a
change caused by the retirement of
George + Baker. the New York
fnancier William Rockefeller and
two Connecticut capitalists. Months
ago Mellen was forced out and a new
man installed as executive. If any
New Haven directors of the old
school remain in power the Rhode
Island democratic declaration is per
nt-IndianapOlis News.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
THOSE PFACE TREATIFS.

Sec'y Bryan has q good record %
send down into history, and especial
~ that part relating 10 the peace
treaties. He has negotiated - of
them and is about 90 add four more,
that four being England. France.
Spain and China. SO NE viii have 26
peace treaties that viii stand as
bUlwark against war. These treaties
propose, when diplomacy fails 20 set
tie any question between this and the
other countries, there shall be an in
vestigation by accredited agents on
both sides OF the controversy, 10 see
II the dispute can not be peacefully
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
DEMOCRAT G TICKET.
81. JOsErH COTNTY.

81. JUSTIN iOlNI1.
FOR SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE
George Ford.
FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
Chester X Montgomery.
FOR HERlFF-Charles Bailey.
FOR AUTHORITATIVE Wolf
FOR RECORDER-Ber e Klysz.
FOR CLERK-tieorge Raab.
FOR TREASURER-Fred W. Martin.
FOR ASSESSOR-Johl NJ Truax.
FOR SURYEYOR-Hender Mcclellan
FOR CORONER-Thom J. Swantz.
COMMISSIONER - middle District
Thomas Williams; ONestern DISTRICT, J.
W. Miller.
CoUNClLMEN tat-large)-Nelson ].
Riley, Melville w Mix and Frank Mayr,
1r.
PORTAGE TOWNSHIP
FOR T3USTEE--Gus A. Klingler
FOR AsSESSOR-Joseph Voorde.
FOR JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Elmer Peak and Joseph V. WyplszynskL
FOR CONSTABLES- Robert A. Beyrer
and Andrew Fitzkanitz.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

settled, and in the meantime the two
nations shall refrain from all war
like movements.
The idea is TO investigate and dur
ing the time necessary To confer. the
war fever viii let up. II will every
time. Give the passions time to- cool
and they viii cool All the nations,
including those now at war i'm Eu-
rope, except Austria-Hungary have
signifed their consent 10 enter into
this arrangement ON the basis Of
these treaties the United states need
never go To war IT can stop building
its dreadnaughts and dismiss it's
navy. There viii be no more need of
any ships. except the ships OF peace.
Ohio State Journal.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Reminders From the Columns
of The Daily Times.

son was born TO Or. and Mrs.
II. r. Mitchell.
The medical society was addressed
by DR.. Bertrand on "Hydrotherpathy
and by Dr.. Greene on Abdominal
Surgery" DR.. Stoltz made some re-
marks on quarantine.
Hannibal a. Williams OF New York
gave a Shakespearan recital at Elks'
hall
II. G.. Dresden and "Fod" McCord
have gone 10 Diamond lake for a
week.
The democratic board fecommis-
sioners made reduction of nine
cents in the county taxes.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
WASTEFTL AMERICAN HABTT.

The American habit is TO order.
not TO buy. The consumer wants
certain food supplies, and usually pays
the price demanded without question
as 10 The amount or the weight or
measure, and with little intelligent
concern as to the quality. Ordering is
the habit engendered by prosperity.
1t is wasteful and costly. 1t lets the
pennies slip through the fingers and
runs up the cost of living.-New York
Mail.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

work of the city schools is one OF
the encouraging signs Of the times.
The earnestness of purpose which inn
pels a young man. and especially one
of middel age, 10 take up the cultiva-
ton of his mind at night after work
ing all day means good citizenship.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

The founding of the University of
Notre Dame. the anniversary of which
has just been celebrated. was mani
festatiOn of faith which attained the
dignity of prophesy. The nucleus
was a feeble promise of the develop
ment, but it grew stronger as the
years passed by.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
THE MEL TING POT
TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

without suspecting that they refer to
so ancient a period. For example:
1T is an error more particularly
incident TO persons of the coTrectest
principles and habits to Seclude them
selves from the rest of mankind, as
from another species, and form into
knots and clubs. The best people
herding thus exclusively are in dan
ger of contracting narrOwness. Heat
and cold, drynesS and moisture, in
the natural world, do not fly asunder,
TO split the globe into sectarian parts
and separations; but mingling, as the
best may, correct the malignity Of
any single predOminance. The
analogy holds, suppose, in the moral
world. If all the good people were
TO ship themselves off to Terra In
cOgnita, what, in the humanity
name is 10 become Of the refuse? If
the persons whom / have chiefly in
view have not pushed matters TO this
extremity yet, they carry them as far
as they can 60
The Haven of the Oppressed.
In circuit court this morning John
Moore was granted a divorce from
Sophia Moore, whom he left in Ken
lucky on their 40-acre farm in 1911.
He alleges that he came to Indiana
because he was unable TO stand her
abuse.
WE see by the paper that +. l. d.
ct al returned from Indian lake,
bringing back so ducks" Whaddya
mean. bring back? Where did they
get them.
why do policeman drink? Well, d.
r. c. When a policeman lays aside his
club of authority and doffs his uni
form he reverts TO type. He IS then
no different from any other man who
has an insistent thirst.
1T is startling for Jerome x. Jer-
ONE TO tell us that Americans have
no freedom. Recovering from our
establishment We resent it, No peO-
pie in the world make free with
everything as much as the Americans.
All we have got TO say
OF the summary way
In which the BOstOns cleaned the
Phillies
Is that while it may seem hurried
Twas a short hors quickly curried.
And the Phillies have a bad case of
the gillies. c. y. +.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
SIX MONTHS WITH POETS AND
PHILOSOPHERS.

Gold. Gold. Gold. Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
Molten, craven, hammered and
rolled;
Heavy to get and light to hold;
HOarded, bartered, bought and
sold,
Stolen, borrowed, squandered,
dOled. Thomas Hood.
An animal, under whatever
circumstances il il placed, re-
mains within the narrow limits TO
which nature has irrevOcably con-
signed il: so that our endeavOrs TO
make pet happv must always
keep within the compass of its
nature, and be restricted to what
IL can feel So it Is with man: the
measure of the happiness he can
attain is determined beforehand
by his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
hauer.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

South Bend is making unusual prog
ress materially this year and it may
be regarded Of an emanatiOn of the
spirit which, unchecked by temporary
~ unfavorable conditions, is stimulat
ing the people TO greater enterprise
and more harmonious action.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

1t seems quite clear that the aver
age republican politician is either
hog-tied TO doctrine and argument
some five years obsolete. or lacks
either doctrine or argument of any
R'nd whatsoever. Many of them have
opposed the ADMINISTRATORS war
emergency measures. Yet, for their
part what has been proposed? Not
a blessed thing.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

range guns and 16-inch shells. butch
ers nations best and bravest, and
leaves weaklings to perpetuate the
race.
If Socrates could make a careful
study of Europe just now. would he
conclude that civilization had ad-
vanced or refrigerated since his day?
Chicago Journal.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

The sure way TO get things done is to
go and do them. SO when it began TO
appear that private capital would not
finance American steamship lines to
carry American commerce, the presi-
dent promptly set about buying some
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

There surely would be more infor-
nation in the war news. if the state
ment that the allies have again
pushed back the Germans was not al
ways followed 10y the statement that
the Germans are now in a stronger
nnsifinn
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

Civilized warfare should be at least
as honorable as the duelling code,
which gives the participants in a duel
a fair chance 20 defend themselves,
or the practice which saves an un-
armed man in the west, but the sub
marines and the bomb troopers do
mot do that
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

John Lind. who came into prom
inence as Pres't Wilson's representa-
tive in Mexico, is taking much
needed rest at Battle Greek. He viii
not only get a rest but something
good for his stomach.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

King Cotton is another who thought
he could everlastingly wear crown.
without one of those nice elastic
bands running along behind the ears
and under the chin.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-14

The serpentine line marking the
battle front in eastern Europe has not
materially changed its position in the
past few weeks. but it has grown
longer, the head reaching out toward
he sea