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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
YOUR TAXES GO UP AGAIN.

NhdlalndZOO leleSraDn-HGeSS
State tax will be 90 per cent high
err"
Michigan is growing. The common
wealth cannot wear its swaddling
clothes Expenditures of state gov
eminent will grow as the state itself
grows; and no taxpayer begrudges the
state whatever revenues NAV be nee
essary TO keep il in the forefront. We
want progress and we are prepared
and willing to pay the freight" Mich
igan has no desire TO be penurious
But! Michigan also has no desire
to pay dollar for less than a dollars
efficiency and net results. Michigan
has a right 10 be dissatisfied unless
and until the public dollar approx
mates as much value received" as the
private dollar.
This latter happy result will never
come so long as state appropriations
are made in a veritable financial riot.
(The wonder is that hard working and
conscientious legislators do as well as
they do with an antiquated system
that wouldn't be tolerated five seconds
in any private business in the state
This happy result will never come so
long as the state utterly ignores its
unit purchasing power and splatters
. its disbursements through scores of
unrelated ans uncoOrdinated branch
es anu departments.
The key TO the situation is a COM
prehensive budget system" and some
approximation of a system of cen
, trail purchase and disbursement"
These sound like tremendously I'M
interesting and unsentimental propo-
sitiOns Hence, when legislatures are
in session. few are the citizens who can
be reused TO more than a casual inter-
est in such self evidently righteous re-
forms Citizens are too busy to get
busy" They have forgotten last years
tax: and next years tax is months
away. SO; why worry, And the leg
islature, mistaking popular silence for
popular lethargy. sits and rests and
never moves into budget system"
action.
Hence: state tax will be Sc per
cent higher
II a state tax could be levied and
collected just once while the state leg
islature were in session. Michigan
would have a budget system" etc.
etc in 90 days. Then cause and
effect" would be sufficiently close to-
gether 10 5e entirely visible 10 the
naked eye
Cumulative millions in state savings
are waiting upon these reforms. How
many more times must these summer
headlines roll round-"State tax will
be SO per cent h'gher"-before the
reforms arrive?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10

auto delivery started on two routes
radiating from Quarryville. Pa. Other
motor routes have been planned. to
begin next month. The postmaster
general has already signed orders for
more than 100 machines. TO cover
nearly 5000 miles Of post routes.
The service will be extended just as
fast as the departments resources and
the conditions Of the highways per-
mits. OF these two considerations.
the latter is the more important. II
is comparatively simple matter for
the government 10 replace the present
box-lil1e rural carriage wagons with
automobiles. The original cost is little
more than the cost Of horses and
wagons. Their operation is no more
expensive, and their efficiency is far
greater. Horses, however, have the
advantage of being able to get through
almost any sort of roads If they have
10, while the motor cars, though they
are faster and can cover more ground
in day, cannot take chances on roads
that are not KEPT in good condition
the year around. The adoption of
autos for the country service will
therefore be another powerful incen-
tive TO further the good roads move
ment. Farmers almost everywhere
should be willing TO make the i'm
provements necessary to gain such
postal facilities. especially since bet
ter highways will amply repay their
cost in other ways.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
NIEDICAGO SATIvA.

The virtues Of alfalfa have long
been trumpeted by the federal de-
partment of agriculture. but now the
medical profession has taken to boost
ing this particular brand of fodder.
At a national convention in Chicago
DR.. Alexander Blaclwood of that city
announced that alfalfa is just as good
for human beings as it is for cattle. In
fact he declares it is not only nu-
tritious food product, but has valua-
bic medicinal properties.
He experimental with seventeen
students at the Hahnemann Medical
college. feeding them a compound Ia
beled "Medicdgo Sativa"-which is
merely the Latin name for alfalfa
ana they not only digested the stuff
and throve on it, but had their ap2c-
tites for other provender so stimulated
that they were impelled tc eat five or
SIX II els a day.
Alfalfa may come in time to form
an integral part of every family meal
and restaurant menu, and there MAJ
be an alfalfa bed in every garden. But
economically, the discovery doesn't
seem to be an unqualified blessing.
Even if it cures indigestion, as DR..
BlackwOod says, we're not going to
save much money by a hay diet that
drives us to eat six square meals a
day. Why not discover something
that will make one meal a day suf-
fice3
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
HELP HELP

Prof William d. Armes proclaims
that western American literature is
gone forever, writer's of today attempt
ing to depict the western life being
mere imitators.
Prof Armes is associate professor
Of American literature at university
of California, and he should be one
Of the last to yell about western liter
ature's sinking 10 the fishes. He ought
to throw out a life preserver, a rope.
or an anchor. How can the ordinary
man be expected to dive in and rescue
literature. when the professors merely
sit or the dock and wall?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
WANTS TO RECIPROCATE.

wal" sighed Cyrus Browne, a
genuine Rhode Island farmer, as he
entered the house, Jed Hopkins
wants me TO be pallbearer again TO his
wife's funeral"
Wal wOt be We hesitatin' about
reJoined his soul mate.
It's this way, Melissa. Yknow
when Jed's fust wife died he asked me
TO be pallbearer, an l did. Then
his second wife died. an l wuZ pail
bearer fur her. An then he married
Deacon Wallis widow, an she died,
an wuz the same agin. An now
wal, don't like TO be all the time ac-
ceptin' favOrs without bein' able to
return 'em.-EverybOdy's
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
long SCHOOL VACATIONS.

All over the country colleges are
thronged with students for summer
courses. business schools are running
about as usual. music pupils are study
ing music and private educational in
situations of all kinds are continuing
their work. And all over the country
the public schools are closed for three
or four months, great and costly edu-
cational plants are lying unproductive,
the continuous progress Of instruction
is interrupted and millions of children
are left in compulsory idleness to
roam the streets or burden their dis
tracted parents.
The long summer vacation is ration
al enough in the country. where boys
and girls have to help with the farm
chores in the summer. In pioneer
times nearly all school children had
such duties. But that is not a suffi-
cient reason for turning present-day
children out Of school for a quarter
OF a year in the cities. Few of them
have any vacation duties. Few OF
them need so long a rest. Most Of
them develop into a temporary nui-
sance to their families and community
while the learning OF the past year
fades from their memories and the
power Of mental application GIBBS
away.
A months summer vacation would
probably be far better for city schools.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
PLAYING IN THE STREETS.

dayton NeWS.)
The Fairgrounds association Of
New York recently arranged that the
children might play in the streets OF
certain portions OF the city, the streets
being closed 10 traffic for n certain
number OF hours a day. 1t caused
some inconvenience 20 traffic. perhaps
but IL brought a lot of happiness into
the lives OF many OF the little people
OF the congeSted centers.
Anxious TO learn the effect upon the
children OF the new movement. a dele
cation OF interested persons visited
one or the streets and watched the
children AZ play. They were amazed
at one thing-that many OF the chill
dren associated guilt with play"
That is the children seemed 10
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10

through it. and turned away. with
flooding eyes. and fainting heart. to
weep in heartache and loneliness.
Very funny-eh?
Well, there ere men weak enough to
remember such things and so blind TO
humor as not to see at all that the
mother-in-law is nothing but a contin-
uOus farce.
Yes, yes, there are men-strong
men, whOlesOme-mi men-whO
realize that in sickness. misfortune.
distress, the mother-in-law is the first
TO come and the last to go. ever the
readiest TO serve and to sacrifice, ever
the most loyal. the most untiring and
the most sympathetic. For she brings
her heart with her. and her heart is
love.
And. too. many a man has known
her TO linger white-faced but calm
eyed. to speak words of courage to
him beside their dead-hers and his;
and then. hiding her heartbreak. take
the mothers place with the mother
less children. and. forgetting that she
is a farce. become a ministering and
sustaining angel.
Let those who can. laugh at the
mother-in-law let them perpetually
handy back and forth the stale jokes
and gibes in ridicule of her.
For there are some men who can't
laugh at the mother-in-law In the
innermOst secret place of their soul,
there is a shrine sacred to her. where
love and gratitude give worship.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
BITS OF INFORMATION.

The entire plant of a Pennsylvania
is mounted on freight cars, so that it
can be taken wherever there is work
for it to do.
Throughout the world one-fourth Of
all children die before six years of age.
one-half before they are sixteen and
one person in 100 lives to see sixty
five.
a deficit in Italy's trade balance is
accounted for in part by the loss of
$50, 100000 a year formerly spent by
travellers in that country and $4,000
600 usually sent home from the Unit
ed States by laborerS
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
KICKED AGAIN.

Now the sultan has decreed the ex~
pulsion OF the secretaries and attaches
Of the American embassy at Constan-
inople as a mark Of reprisal for the
London.
This kicking OF Uncle Sans dog
around is getting TO be quite a popu-
lar div rsion in Europe.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
THRIFTY.

Il always put ten dollars of my
salary in the savings bank every Sat
urday" said the young man who was
holding down his first real job.
That's a very good idea, my son"
said his father.
You bet it's a good idea. dad. Be
lieve me, that ten comes in mighty
handy along about Thursday or Fri
day."-N. " World.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
SOLVING THE DIFFICULTY.

The following was put TO pupils in
public school:
There is a family Of five children.
The mother has only four potatoes to
divide among them. She wants to
give each child and equal share.
What is she TO do?"
Finally one boy put up his hand.
We'll, Sammy, what would you
do?" asked the teacher.
Mash the potatoes, ma'am. Top
Notch.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
CORRECr CLASSIFICATION.

The angry citizen puffed into the
office OF the city editor.
See here, sir" he yelled, what
do you mean by publishing my resig-
nation as may in this way"
You gave the story out yourself,
didn't yOu?" asked the editor.
"Of course 1 did" replied the angry
citizen. But your fool paper prints
1t under the head Of Public Improve
ments.' "-TOp-Notch.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10

Says a self-styled "Heartbroken
Lady" in a letter TO a New York
newspaper:
Do you think it is fair to bring
a pet cat to q hospital and after
paying 50 for treatment not to
get any. but next day TO find said
cat lying in a dirty. wet. cold
cage. in a dying condition, with
not even a drink of water? Yet
there are pee Die who talk so
much about what is done for the
prevention of cruelty TO animals!
Nv cat died without treatment,
the assistant doctor not being man
enough to say he could not handle
the case, and only caring for the
twO-dollar bill
I think it is a shame. Please
put this in your paper. so that no.
body else's pet will have to suffer
the same way.
It's a beastly shame there no doubt
of it, A person can't help wonder
ing. however. what would be thought
of such letter if it appeared in a
London. Paris. Berlin. or Petrograd
newspaper. The civilized world has
got pretty much past grieving for cats.
There are sterner things to think
about. Any normal man or woman
called upon to weep for "a cat lying in
dirty. wet. cold cage in dying con-
ditiOn" is apt to think involuntarily
of the tens of thousands of men lying
in worse plight than that between the
firing lines where there is no respite
either TO relieve the wounded or bury
the dead
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
HE HAD HER

Teacher-JOhnny Jinks. as a pun
ishment for missing your lessons to-
day you may stay after school and
write the word fail" one thousand
times
Johnny-It can't be done. teacher.
YYou told us yesterday there wasn't
no such word.-N. Y. World.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
GALAXY OF GRINS
Substituting for the Melting Pot
SHE HAS HENo

DO animals possess the sentiment
OF affection?' asked the teacher of
small Margaret
es, ma'am, almost always
Correct" said the teacher Turn
ing 10 Young Harold: And now tell
me what amman has the greatest nat
ural fondness for men?"
Woman. "-Everybody's.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
ROGUS.

MY face is my fortune" said the
blushing maid.
And it's counterfeit at that" NUT
tered the young man who had OBJ
served that the blush was permanent.
N. Y. World.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
A SMALL EARLY ONE.

What IS Your husband's income? ?"
asked one woman of another.
"Oh. l hardly know" was the re-
spouse; usually about three a. NJ
Ladies II mooeJurnal.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
POOR PECK.

Henry, you talk in your sleep"
We'll. do you begrudge me even
those few words?"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10

The soft answer may turn away
wrath. as the Good Book says. but the
neutral answer certainly makes a bel
hgerent madden than ever.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
AUTOS FOR RURAL NAIL.

The all conquering automobile is
now replacing the horse in the rural
mail service. on July l t.le pioneer
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
SICK CATS.

Says a self-styled "Heartbroken
Lady" in a letter TO New York
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-28
DYNAMITE AND FIRES
MENACE NAVY YARDS
U. S. Inquiries Into Finds at Phila-
delphia and At
Norfolk.

Washington. Aug. 2s.--The navy de.
partment Is making inquiry to-day into
The finding Of three sticks Of dynamite
under. the cruiser Prairie, in dry dock
nc the Philadelphia navy yard, and the
two fires Of unknown origin that broke
out within an hour OF each other at
the Norfolk navy yard.
According 20 the workmen az the
Philadelphia navy yard the three sticks
Of dynamite were found in such a po-
sition that, If exploded, not only would
the Prairie have been destroyed but the
dry dock would also have been serious
~ damaged. The dynamite was found
by a workman.
The first blaze in the Norfolk navy
yard was In a pile Of boxes and lum-
Der near the steam engineering depart
ment. The second. IN the plumbing
department building. The yard yolun-
toer department extinguished the first
hlaEe, but the other was 20 serious that
the Portsmouth city department bad TO
be called.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-28
CARRANZA TO MOVE
TO CAPITAL SUNDAY
He Believes That This Will Aid In His
Recognition by Pan-Ameri-
can States.

Washington. d. c., Aug. 2s.-General
Carranza will move his capital to Mexico
City Sunday. All the departments of
his government, except the Office Of for
eign affairs and interior, already have
been moved from Vera Cruz to Mexico
City and the remaining departments win
60 with General Carranza himself.
President Wilson's appeal to the Mexi-
cans for peace specially referred to Mex
loo City as the place where the capital
of any government applying for recogni-
tion must be established. .Carranzs's
move was regarded in Latin circles as
one Of the steps in his efforts TO obtain
recognition by the United States Car
ranza's reply to the Pan-Ameriean peace
appeal had not reached here yesterday.
Reports that arrangements had been
made fer another meeting of the Pam
American eonferees were denied at the
state department.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-28
Ex-President Would Stop All
Discriminatory Leg
islation
LABOR LEADERS FIND
POWER INTOXICATING
Advised That Railroads Be
Not Harassed--Party with
Leaders" Not Bosses"

San Francisco, Aug. 28.--Former Pres
ident William H, Taft argued for rea
sonable regulation of capital and eau
toned labor against seeking discrimin'
atory legislation in an address here to.
day before the San Francisco CONNER
cial club. He deyiated from this line
to discuss political parties paying his
respects to ''the leader of the great
movement which is not machine but
an organization with leaders and not
bosses
Its a keen witted people who don't
have to be kicked twice TO be made to
understand this movement soon will be-
come part of political history" he
said.
Getting back to his main thought he
said it took railroads twenty years to
find out that the Interstate commerce
act really meant something, but that
the lesson had been learned Now"
he continued, I'VE have reached time
when we ought to haye reaction and
not bind and harass the enterprise and
ingenuity of our American business com
munities"
Labor unions, he said, had done good
for workingmen and therefore, for So
ciety, but he hoped for better leaders.
Men like Gompers and others are lob
bying for legislation which is dscrimin-
atory," Mr.. Taft explained Like the
capitalists they are beset with the evil
of being intoxicated with power. Il
hope for leaders who do away with this
dead levelling-and give greater reward
for greater efficiency in the worker"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-28
John d. Rockefeller Charged
with Murderous
Policies
AND CONTEMPT
FOR GOVERNMENT
In United States Report on
Colorado Coal Min
ers' Strike

Chicago, August 2s.-A report BY
George P. West on the Colorado Goa
strike of 1913 and 1914 made public
yesterday by the industrial relations
commissions, says that responsibility
for the disorders must be placed
squarely on the shoulders of the oper-
ators.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company,
controlled by John ID. Rockefeller, is
declared to have been the leader in
formulating and carrying out strike pol
icies. Mr. Rockefeller and his son, John
ID. Rockefeller, ir., are charged with en-
ploying incompetent and reactionary
agents and with having heartily en-
dorsed those agents after the worst of
the troubles had been precipitatcd.
The younger Mr.. Rockefeller is ac-
cused of having approved meausres to
coerce the Colorado state government
and is said to have 'houted the will of
the president of the United States"
The report mentions "perversion of and
contempt for government, disregard of
public welfare and defiance of public
opinion" There is also reference to
the Colorado Fuel and Iron eompany's
ruthless policy of suppression"
However, "Mr. Rockefelleris charac-
ter and policies are important only as
showing the possibilities inherent in an
economic and industrial situation that
permits one man or group OF men to
WELD such enormous economic power"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-28
WELSH MINE STRIKERS
ORDERED TO WORK
South Wales Federation of Miners Acts
Following British Cabinet
Meeting.

Cardiff, Aug. 2S.-The executive com
mittee of the South Wales Federation OF
Miners yesterday decided to request the
10000 coal miners now on strike TO re-
turn TO work, pending settlement of the
dispute arising over the governments ar
bitration award. Telegraphic notices will
be sent to the districts where the men
quit Thursday and yesterday.
Another dePutation representing the
federation viii be sent to London in a
second attempt to bring about an adjust
ment of differences.
Eight thousand miners quit yesterday
and 1000 Thursday. All mines in the
Byiaina and Nomenclature districts
were closed yesterday.
London, Aug. 2S.-Premier Asquith
called a cabinet meeting yesterday to
discuss the crisis caused by the new coal
strike.
The government will not tolerate the
closing of the Welsh collieries at the
present critical stage of the war. Both
the men and the coal operators were so
informed several weeks ago when the
dispute was carried to London. If the
two sides are unable TO agree the gov.
eminent will take over the Welsh mines
and operate them for the remainder OF
the war.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-28
225, 900 Trained Men in Each
State Is FEEDERS
Idea
NO MILITIA
STRIKE DUTY
Blease's Praise of Mobs Is
Strongly De-
nounced

Boston, Aug. 2s.--Gov. James +. Field
er of New Jersey, speaking to the score
J Of governors comforting here yesterday,
told them that every state in the union
should be prepared at all times to fur
nish the government with 100000 trained
and equipped soldiers.
This question of national defense,
said Gov. Fletcher, "has reached the
point where it has divided the nation
into two parties-one advocating greater
preparedness, the other pooh pooling it..
| take my stand with those who believe
most sincerely in peace, but who feel
that the United States should make
some reasonable preparation against the
happening Of the unexpected.
THE burden of preparing does or
should rest to a large extent on the
state. Personally, do not believe in
great standing army, but ! most
heartily believe that there should be a
large force OF men in this country who
could be called on in emergency who
would know how to handle rife. Every
state could, through proper legislation
and propaganda, train and equip 100000
men.
''The great trouble with the militia or
national guard in this country to-day is
labor's attitude toward it. Labor claims
the militia is controlled by the employ
ers and manufacturers, and in some
unions members are forbidden to join.
This could be eliminated by removing
from the militia strike or riot duties and
leaving it to municipal and civil authori
ties, to whom it rightly belongs.
Most business men believe in insur-
ance. Then, why not insure this coun-
try against the Unexpectedly"
A feature of the forenoon session of
the closing day of the gov
errors conference, was spirited de- |
nuneiation by Gov. Walsh of Massachu |
sets of ex-Gov. Blease's speech.
Il object very strenuously to the def
lition of liberty which was given here
he said that liberty lie lost
% the people if mob rule should be abol-
shed There can be no liberty without
obedience 10 law. Obedience TO law
means obedience to all the statutes which
ociety has adopted for the protection of
Is citizens; il means obedience TO the
lecrees of the courts, il means confidence
md trust in the juries of every court in
,ur land
'The courts are the conscience of the
community, and the conscience of the
ommunity cannot be represented by a
nob"