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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08
COURT FIGHT IS
WON BY PURDUE
Decision May be Appealed and
Carried to Higher Courts.
Judge Issues Mandate.

INDIANAPOLIS. oct. S.-That the
extension department of Purdue uni
versity and Purdue university are sep
arate institutions. and appropriations
for one have no connection with ap-
propriations for the other was the rul-
inc OF Judge W. ". Thornton Of su-
pelior court. when ne decided IN "a
vOr OF Purdue university IN a SUIT
filed by the university against the
state.
The court ordered a mandate TO be
issued against the three members OF
the state board Of finanCe-the gov
ernor. the auditor and the treasurer
for the payment of sums of money
appropriated by the state legislature,
which were 10 be paid annually TO
Purdue for it's agricultural experiment
station. The money has not been pald
because of an opinion OF the attorney
general that an act of March 10, 1913,
which authorized a tax levy OF cents
a 800 to provide a fund from which
Purdue. Indiana university and the
State Norma! school were 10 draw
given amounts each year, repealed all
other appropriations made by the state
legislature.
Ruling of Judge Thornton.
Judge Thornton acid that the legis-
lature declared in the act that the
provisions OF the act were not meant
TO affect in any way any other en-
dowment er permanent fund belong
ing 70. or having been appropriated
for either Indiana or Purdue univer-
sites.
The amounts OF money which have
been held up each year which Judge
Thornton decided should be paid were
annual appropriations amounting TO
S121,OO0 as well as amOunts appro-
priated for greenhouse, new dairy
building. and as much of $4,000 for
the purchase OF additional lands as the
governor might regard necessary. The
appropriation for a new dairy building
was $4,000, and for u new green
house 10000.
The case brought forth n review of
the origin OF the university in 1862,
when the congress gave land script to
several states of the union for the es-
adjustment of agricultural colleges.
Purdue Handicapped.
The appropriations by the legisla-
ture. which were under controversy
because Of the attorney generals rul-
ing included SIS, 600 appropriated in
1909 for the agricultural experiment
station: an appropriation Of $4,000
in 1911 for research and extension
work; a continuing annual apprOpria-
ton OF SIS, eco i'm 1913 to control and
prevent the spread of diseases among
swine. and an appropriation of $1,000
IN 1913 TO make tests in weighing
and sampling milk.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08
WARNS AGAINST CANCER

MILWAUKEE. Wis, Oct ST
YOU bruise or burn yourself look out
for a cancer. And if it comes have it
treated quickly"
This was the warning Thursday
night by DR.. J. b. Murphy of Chicago,
opening a campaign of the state Medi-
cal society against this disease. He
said cancer. unless curbed. meant the
ultimate bankruptcy of the human
race.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08
SAYS 100000 KILLED

WEST POINT. y. Y. Oct S.-Gen
Francis V Green, in an address here
Thursday night before the New York
State Historical association, estimated
the killed in the European war at .
100000 men.
He estimated the wounded at near
~ 100000 and prisoners at more
than 1000, 600. Increased national
Indebtedness among the belligerents
was put at 500, 200. 100000
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08
MRS. DANIELS is ROBBED

CHARLOTTE, y. c.. oct S.-Mrs.
Josephus Daniels. wife of the secre-
tary OF the navy. and Mrs. Page. wife
Of Congressman Page were victims of
robbers while attending the United
Daughters Of the Confederacy con-
vention Thursday. Mrs Daniels lost
"a silver purse and vaIuabIes and Mrs.
Page q diamond brooch.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08

Farmer Brown, while his crew OF
threshers were washing up" one
morning, noticed among them
Swede VINO was not engaged in the use
of water, soap. and towel
well. Harris" said the farmer.
aren't you going TO wash this morn
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08
Athlete Praises Duffy's

Read what Du6y's did for Mr.
James kilrOy:
Last winter had stomach trouble
so bad that all I could eat was milk
toast for two months straight. 1 tried
all kinds of medicines and they an
failed TO do me any good. I went to
several doctors, but got no results I'M
til was advised to get a dollar bot
Tie of Duffys Pure Malt Whiskey.
After using one bottle 1 found great
relief and got SO / could eat a hearty
meal OF meat. potatoes. bread and tea,
and now. believe me, ] would not be
without botlie or Dumy's in the
house. Since using il / have gained
many pounds. Before / weighed but
125 pounds and today [ weigh 154. am
strong as a bull and do a hard days
work. ! want 10 say that I owe all
my thanks to DuTy's Pure Malt Whis-
key. and want the world % know
what 10 has done for NETS q won
derful medicine. 49, Signed) James ].
Kilroy. 1882 Iarrabee St, Chicago, III.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08

"SHUR-ON'' EYEGLASSES S3.75.
Eyes examined free. DR.. PauIs
Optical service. 209 J. NJ. 5. Bldg.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08
CHARGES EAR RING STOLEN.

NEW YORK, Oct. S.-Mrs. Sarah
Rubin. widow of Gus Rubin, the
heavyweight pugilist. was complain
ant Thursday against Mrs. Elizabeth
sherman, a suffrage worker of Brook
iyn. charging the latter with the theft
of a 1925 diamond ear ring. Mrs.
Sherman was held in $1,000 bail by
MAGISTRATE Geismer
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08

VAN HORN, Texas. oct ). - The
Culberson county grand jury Thurs
day Jointly indicted Sheriff John \.
MoTinO and II other persons on q
charge of murder in connection with
the killing of Gen. PasQuale Orozco
recently in Green River canyon. The
case is set for trial this week and
the record is 10 be sent To the state
department at Washington.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08

Relieve headaches and cye-strain,
'Shur-Ons" 1913. 2O9 J. Nj. :. Bldg.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-08

ms
Nav" returned the Swede. "it
don't make me dirty 10 sleep. Ely
erybOdy's.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

German government. Notwithstanding anything he or
they may believe 10 the contrary"
The sincerity Of Germanys disclaimer OF all respon-
sby for offensive propaganda and acts Of violence in
this country need not discussed present Legal
procedure under way will show what connec-
ton II any Berlin has with the conspiraces and
crimes for which German partisans, aliens and
other American citizens. under arrest Ia the
The point that whether the activities
in question were inspired from Berlin not, they
were foolish in and execution. doing Germany
intellectually more harm in a moral sense than could
be compensated BY any incidental material gain
through interfering with the allies war supplies
There question that legitimate advocacy OF the
German cause has suffered grievously in the United
States because Of these plots and propaganda. The
American public has been driven such Indignation
that Germany has had a fair hearing.
There question. either, that German Americans
a class have suffered undeservedly from the mis-
guided zeal a few propagandists and fewer c,tm-
inals There has been any good reason why Ger
man leaders and particularly the German-language
newspapers. which assume to speak for our German
citizens. have uniformly pursued policy Of con-
donement of crime aid denunciatOn OF things Amer
lean that they have fostered this msconcepton and
fastened a undeserved faint their own people.
Now the Reputation by Germany of the policy
which these leaders have openly covertly
encouraged leaves them high and dry Germany s
back submarine warfare left them, after
they had stubbornly maintained the principle of sea
murder and defended the Lustania massacre
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25
WITH OTHER EDITORS
THAN OURS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Lakeland, Fla, Telegram


Here is the way the Tampa Times
looks at it, and practically the whole
body of the southern press and all
the leaders of southern opinion in
public life are on the side Of the Tel
egram in the issue forced by one of
its subscribers. says The Times:
The Lakeland Telegram has lest
a subscriber because it said Abraham
Lincoln was as good a man as Wood
row Wilson. We're southern to the
core, but we believe Abraham was as
good a man as the United States ever
produced. If nine hundred and nine
ty-nine men out of every thousand
had suffered as Lincoln suffered
from childhood to the day of his
assassination, they would have been
as mean as man can be-"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25
HOW JAPAN IS PUTTING THE
SCREWS ON CHINA.

Japan protested against the Chinese republic revert
mig to an empire. The empire has been reestab-
lished nevertheless, under Yuan Shi Kai But Japan
given up her efforts keep the Chinese nation
from attaining independence under whatever form.
According a newspaper account from Tientsn,
Japan before she viii acquesce in the new monarchc
regime insists these concessions:
China proclaim Japan the most favored
nation, and recognize more less definite Japan
protectorate Japan must have'more representation in
the collection OF Chinese customs; Japan must get
Chna's foreign orders munitions; whenever the
Chinese government employees foreign advisers for
purpose they must be japanese; Group Five of the
Japanese demands China last spring the only
group definitely accepted, be taken up again
for consideration"
matters stand Japan with the concessions gained
recently by threats of military compuson has pretty
nrm grip the Chinese government and Chinese in
dustry transportation and commerce. She evinces a
double purpose of keeping China from developing
genuine governmental efficiency and keeping other
tons from doing any business with China.
Both Of these purposes contrary to own
Chinese policy. as created by John Hay. We in con-
junction with other powers. supposed to be
anteeing Chinese autonomy and the open door"
Both duty and interest should impel to maintain
policy. certainly the interests of
the United States have Japan turn ration of 400.
100000 Cinnamon into japanese colony and thus null
tipIy her power and prestige intellectually. AS for
the industrial and commercial development Of China.
that little vet but will be OF import
snce in the future. particularly to Pacific coast.
II beh9oves the American people to keep on
japanese maneuvers in China, and stand fr7x for
Chinese and American rights.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25
Northern Indiana's Greatest Newspaper.
CHRISTMAS CUSTOM OLDER THAN
THE BIRTHRDAY.

Once upon time long before Christ was born there
were people in the far north where the snow comes
early and lies long upon the hills to whom winter was
a hard and cruel time. summer soft and joyful
These people watched the sun in its progress with
eager When the time for it to cross the
line they were very glad and held winter festival
They longed and good in the best
way they could they tried TO show the Providence they
worshipped what they hoped that il would do.
They went into the forest and got green trees
the kind that stay green all yer long. And they
d4cked the trees with bits Of bright color initiating
fruits and that the gods might know their de-
sire for the green and fruitful time.
There came year when a great teacher was born
just after the started the hopeful part Of
its journey This teacher after two thousand years Is
worshipped by millions Of his followers the Son Of
BY millions OF others he is reverenced as the
dvinest Of the sons OF men And this his birthday.
Gentle, bond and free unite to do hin honor
Because whatever ones dogma lack of dogma, his
wisest teaching his the most beautiful vision for
humanity of anyone who has walked the earth
And somehow. through the changing customs of the
centuries there still kept the old Morse custom Of
the green and glowing with which to marx the
turning OF the year though the tree celebrates
the birthday Of Jesus
Last year with world turmoil. IT seemed to
many sort OF mockery to celebrate the birthday Of
him who is called Prince Peace This year with
war and suffering spoken of commonplace. it may
be we have reached truer insight For Infinite In
teligence is wiser than the minds of And as the
burn Of the child who forbidden hurts
and seems unjusty painful at the time and yet serves
a through the child's whole life, so
war and poverty and suffering Of al kinds may be the
means Of the whole worlds growth.
And IT'S not incongruous to decorate the Christmas
tree, but than fitting. It helps to become
as children-even the Norsemen in the childhood
OF the race-to show with Joy and color and peaceful
happiness what hope may day be the portion
OF all humanity easy imagine that wise tender,
Prince OF Peace viewing happily the joy the chill
dren, glad that older children one day at least,
hold his vision good Will to
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

The Rational" Defense league is an organization
just formed Washington 1t does not seem to be
fathered mothered by anybody of great fame or
wealth, and it may merely be intended means
through which people wildly radical on any of our
momentous questions express themselves and their
influence.
When all the excitement both sides and all sides.
of the subjects of war, to come, and peace to
come has somewhat subsidized. a good many of our
people Will welcome any really rational organization
blessed refuge and this league in the magnificent
galaxy of leagues offers this platform:
Taxation Of the rich for preparedness. rather
than the poor. by income and inheritance taxes.
Government manufacture of all munitions.
Government conservation and development OF
all national resources, for national defense.
Mutual cooperation between the republics of
North and South America.
Referendum TO the people. women.
whenever possible, before is declared.
1t sounds rational democratic and comprehensive.
Gentlemen contemplating the building of party plat
forms ST Louis Chicago. June. might well
study it.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25
GUATEMALAN OPPORTUNITIES
New York Press.)

New York Press.)
Among the many openings that
war has provided for the enterpris-
ing business man, Guatemala is one
of the most promising. Germany
had gained there a footing which
was we'll planted. Many of the
wealthy land owners kept their
banking accounts with German
houses: and, since it has been i'm
possible TO obtain funds, these land
owners have had TO narrow their
operations and dispose Of part Of
their holdings. Property can now
be bought from them for one-half
what was demanded little more
than a year ago.
Coffee plantations producing in
1913 35S,353 quintals of 100 pounds
each were owned by Germans at the
outbreak of the war, while the land
Of the Guatemalans themselves pro-
duced only 525.356 and that of the
Americans 1925 quintals. other
nationalitAes showed a range Of from
Is quintals produced by the Chinese
to 57,4O2 by the Spanish. The Ger
mans not only owned plantations
producing one-third of the whole
crop. but had close hold on the ma
tives, having lent them money well
secured at 10 per cent In Guate
mala City alone twenty-five German
houses were represented. with
branches throughout the country,
which supplied funds and acted as
manufacturers agents and import
ers.
There are possibilities Of great in
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25
THE MELTING POT
. COME! TAKE POILUCK WITH US.
By Temple

Now doth the busy bee Of politics
Improve each shining hour,
1t BUNDLES in the brains of men
And makes them yearn for power
Make a Noise Like Tree.
Detroit News,)
This influenza epidemic has so
many people coughing that when
you go to the theater you can pick
out all your friends at various places
in the audience without turning to
look. You recognize their bark
DISTRIBUTING peace in Europe
and sowing Fords in America are two
different and distinct occupations. He
should stick to his job.
THE Knife and Fork club is a
non-p partisan organization, but the
Mt. featured John Sharpe Williams
and the Trib. featured William How
ard Taft.
SWIFT LATHERS is an editor in
Means, Mich. He soft soaps his sub
scribers so gently and with such
dispatch that they don't mind the
shaving.
THE antiquity Of the fox-trot has
been traced hack IA years to the
Cherry Sisters by some relentless
person. Shouldn't the Cherry Sisters
be given a much-needed rest?
When you rise this morning
And look at your sock
Be prepared for surprise
And ultimate shock;
1t may contain nought
But a Big Fen clock.
AGAIN permit us to wish you the
same.
c. n. F.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25
ROOSEVELT VERSUS O,CONNELL

Daniel O'Conne the Irish patriot. wagered that
he could "out-cuss' fshwife without using single
word of profanity and later, when he encountered
Of the abusive OF her breed he only checked
her flow of bngsgae but scared her out of her wits
and reduced her by fercely denouncng her
paralleloppedon isoscelec triangle. and other geo.
metrcal forms and measurements utterly beyond her
ken.
To describe Prest Wilson byzantine logolethe"
mere accountant, literary hack idling bureau
crat wordy an5 amless rheorcian. any of the
other suggested definitions of indefinite TERMS
hardly accurate than characterize fshwfe as
paraelOpipedon; but in the later instance the
earlier the mpresveness of mystery has produced its
inevitable effect upon the uniformed. so Col
Roosevelt, famed manipulation of uncommon phrases
has scored more.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25
PEACE ON EARTH
BIZ Arthur Brooks Baker

Or build banquet table big nations
With food suit their several interpretations
when their stomachs had received proper
OF filling,
The people would be strenuousy killing.
But while the nations pirate of peace with words
and honey,
They yearn TO get each others goods and bag each
others money.
Good win to men. and peace earth" but only on
condition
That competitors shall their hateful eompe-
ution!
Good will 10 men, Good will 70 mem" we gener-
ously holler
But it compromise chance to make dollar.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

on peace on earth, good will to men! If Christians
ar loving,
Why don't they give each other room and quit their
hateful showing?
If Germans want little which Russians have
been blowing,
why can't the Russians give it up without this awful
rowing?
try's border,
Why can't the matter arranged. with dignity and
order? .
The sums the peace-adorers spend for shot
and powder
Would the navies of the world in champagne
cheese and chowders.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25
ACTIVE PRO-GERMANS AS ENEMIES
OF THE GERMAN CAUSE.

II has remained FOR the German government to give
extreme German partisans in America sound advice
which their newspapers and leaders in this coun-
Try ought to have given him long ago
y statement from Berlin 10 the American
public tells active proGermans what the majority Of
Americans have known many months-that violent
efforts in behalf Of the Fatherand only defeat their
purposes.
The German government in this statement docs
most eEphaticaly declare Germans abroad. Ger
man American citizens in the United States to the
American people. all alike that whoever is guilty OF
conduct tending associate its with awlessness
Of thought suggestion deed life. property
or order in the United states is in fact enemy Of
thai ysry and source q embarrassment to the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25
CHRISTMAS.


Though many days must pass be-
tween,
Like pictures thrown upon a screen.
our Christmas fingers through the
year,
Through winter, summer, autumn
sere,
An all-pervading spirit sweet,
Which sanctifies all hearts that beat.
1t seasons all events Of life,
1t lessons bitterness of strife,
And through the discords of the
days
Weaves a potent note of praise.
We welcome Christmas for it's balm,
It's lofty spirit, peaceful calm,
And hail it as day apart
Denoted TO the human heart,
A day with selfshness debased,
A day with rancor, hate erased.
The milk of human kindness flows,
And on each hearth the fire CLOVIS,
Which warns the chilled and
Snrunken soul
And lifts all eyes to the higher goal.
ALL Americans are ordered out of
Juarez. and you sometimes wonder
wotinell Americans are doing in
Juarez. The answer, we infer is
that the American loves to be where
there is something doing. whether it
is his fight or somebody's else.
THOSE Panama canal slides
should make a killing at the movies.
WE see by the paper that the Ger
mans are coming this way again.
THE figures from the Dardanelles.
1922, sound like a lottery ticket,
and, like most lottery numbers, they
are unlucky.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

crease in cattle raising, since land in
use is cheap and, moreover, success
full experiments have lately been
made by the government with the
spineless cactus, first raised by Bur
hank. the wizard among plants, in
California, so that large waterless
tracts, hitherto useless. furnish pas
turage. There is none Of tn, suffer-
ing from cold and cutting off Of the
winters food supply against which
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

provision must be made on our
plains.
The Guatemalan is already crate
full to the merchants of the United
states for having increased our pur-
chases Of coffee SIS per cent, and
later he viii find it possible to in
vest as usual in automobiles and
machetes. Meanwhile we can ex-
tend our influence and prepare for
the future.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

The average salary of Methodist ministers in Ohio
is given S1,254 year, trihe s24 a week.
That's nothing to get excited about from a temporal
and material poirt of view, but it's luxurious income
ministerial stlpends go The average salary of
ministers in New York and other said to be
about equivalent to the wages of competent street
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25
AW, WHAT'S THE USE?

Thousands of democrats to go to St Louis
in June to perform political ceremOny-the
unanimous Endorsement of Pres't Wilson.-New
York World.
clear waste of time. and liquor, and it will
give Bryan chance 10 advertise himself by a fight
Platform? Who demands a platform? The old one
will answer all purposes. would be vagrant
within days Good thing let ST. Louis drink up
her 500, 600 herself
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

Washington jefferson, Madison, Fillmore and Harri-
all married widows; Jackson grass widow. But
Woodrow gets the only widow with Pocahontas blood
in her. There may have been indian in some of the
others but not the rich, royal Pocahontas strain.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

The redeeming feature from the American viewpoint
about Yuan Shi Kais assumption of the imperial
Of China. is that Japan didn't him We can't
help suspectng that anything Japan doesn't want
China to 90 must be for China's interest
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

National Baby Week celebrations hereafter are set
to begin March l. Is that calculated so that an in
coming national admins for all
the improvement in the baby crop?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

Treaties may be mere scraps Of paper, but guess
that the no-separate- peace pact will hold some
time. It's OF hang together or hang separately
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

Now the Episcopal church is establishing pension
fund of all ministers half pay at
6S If this preacher pension business continues there
be rush of from other occupations 10 the min
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-25

zone who has not three and tenths children
failure eugenic member of society,". says east
college professor Now. Tess up-have YOU sir,
madam, your three and seven-tenths?