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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
THE ANSWER?

eventually will crystalline into
speech and that when he finally does
ummon up courage to voice his SEN
timents he will say:
'Adored little wife, the time has
come when we must understand
each other. No. I'm not
sorry ! married you. I'm not grow
ing tired of you. and l don't yearn
for some one whom you supplanted
in my affections. I am not disap-
pointed in you. No, no,
no. you're not a failurei I love you
and you only but the truth is-Im
hungry! ] want something to eat
Humming birds tongues and honey
suckle salad are not the proper food
for a wOrkingman. l want some
fowl and greens, some ham hook and
cabbage, some boiled turnips and
buttered parsnips. / want corn
bread, string beans and fat bacon.
And an old-fashioned green apple
pie, with lattice work crust and a
busting of powdered sugar wouldn't
insult me a bit Now"
The chances are the little wife
would sob a bit, and pout for an
hour, but in the end she would come
to the realization that what her
hubby had told her was best for
the peace and happiness of their
home and would go TO market to
look for a good soup bone and a
summer squash.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
CURIOSITIES OF PENOLOGY.

Restoration of Thomas Mott Osborne 10 the warden
snip sing Sing prison 10y Whitman of the Empire
state repudiatng the political machine gang that had
ousted him, than done in the
Of ex-Gov. William sulzer. victim Of much the same
clique. has the approval of the whole nation. To os-
borne's better credit too the that the crowd
could maintain their charges against him. while in
the Of sulzer. they did least far enough to
things difficult explain. And
now Osborne has written "a book.
But don't get excited so soon. 1t is none the
Roland Molineux variety Osborne is a real reformer
he writes about or in justification himself
hut about criminals not specifying his recent per-
His book goes TO show, simply how greatly
offenders may De affected under present
egal system by the most trivial circumstances Back
his work ne is again teaching penology.
For Instance the difference of one cent in the cash
value of stolen goods may determine the prisoners
future life. Petty larceny is merely a nisdemeanor.
whereas grand larceny felony and $50 usually
dividing line. Thus the who steals $3.50
way and the who steals $50 goes another
tending be embittered 10y the comparative
severity of his punishment and driven deeper into
crime by contact with hardened criminals.
The author tells of a prisoner who had stolen some
valued by prosecution at SOS MAX
ing him liable penitentiary sentence. His lawyer
got the charge changed from grand larceny to petty
larceny 10y producing newspaper showing that the
store which goods were stolen had advertised
Identical feathers for $40.
The difference of a minute the day Mr..
Osborne shows may determine culprits fate Ger
which only msdemeanors before O'Clock
in the evenns become felonies after that hour and
change back misdemeanors six the next morning.
shrewd burglar in a western state discovering that
burglary 10y daylight only degree onense.
while burglary by night first degree ofense,
changed tactics burgIarized only 10y day He
caught and over again. but always off
with short sentences and back his trade while
operators adherng their traditional practice were
Up for long terms
Such cases AFFORD support for the modern view that
criminals character and tendencies are more
important than the casual circumstances Of his mis-
deeds. and that each offender ought be judged
dvidually. by experts with strengthening him
out, rather than condemned TO undscrminatng pun
Ishment 10y blanket statutes
Such work, by such man. under such conditions,
forgetting reslming old activities with
murmur. is an the justification for his to
ms Office after all the scandal about him. GOV.
Whitman needs.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
BRIDES AND COOK STOVES.
Louisville Times.


We note a number of newly
weds" are writing TO the Helpful
Hint Editor for recipes for various
dainties designed to tickle the pal
ates of their liege lords Some ask
for enlightenment on the subject OF
preparing watermelon cocktail.
others seek advice as TO the making
Of a chocolate layer cake and still
others desire instruction on the
preparation of a fruit salad.
These are worthy sprigs of wifely
ambition and indicate that the June
brides are doing their best 10 keep
their spouses cOntented with the Gull
mary end OF their obligations. Yet
we fear that the midsummer dishes
so asiduously cOurted and so scru-
pulOusly prepared are not the oEiy
articles on the menu worth while
paying attention to. Mere man
likes a bit of dainty food and also
relishes something OF the variety
that sticks 10 the ribs" lie may
be slow 10 speak our while his bride
OF a few weeks is busy with straw
berry sandwiches, peanut cookies,
toasted marshmallows and other
airy-fairy dishes which suggest the
bees knees and gnats knuckles" Of
burlesque stage memory. yet be sure
he is thinking. and that .hought
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
RCRAL CREDITS.
washin gton Post.

The fact that a majority of the re-
publicans in both branches of con-
gress have voted for the administra-
tons rural credits bill is an assur-
ance that the measure will bring
about a real reform in the interest
of the farmers Of the country. The
unanimity with which congress put
through this measure presages the
same success for it that attended the
establishment of the new banking
and currency system.
The rural credits bill and good
roads bill, both which will now 20
10 the president for his signature.
should make the lot OF the farmer
much easier. The farmers have been
obtaining good prices for their prod
ucts and are generally prosperous
but the fact must be faced that the
percentage of farmers who own their
own land without incumbrance is
extremely small
When Germany put her rural
credits system into effect the per
centage of farmer tenants was about
as large as is the case in the United
States. Under the German credit
system. however, nearly 90 per cent
Of the German farmers now own
their own land
With federal al TO road construc-
ton and this new rural credits law
it should not be long before the same
fortunate condition is brought about
in the United States
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
AUGUST ,, 1910.
SHIPS ON PACIFIC AGAIN.

Glory going to disappear from the Pacific,
after all The Pacific Mail Steamship company, re-
organized free the control of the Southern
Pacific railroad has decided TO resume the service 10
the Orient which abandoned a year The fleet
which sold then at liberal profit is being replaced
10y newly purchased ships. saiIings soon
to begin from San Francisco 90 Japan China and the
Philippines.
When the company went out of business last year,
that did because it impossible to
compete with japanese shipping under sea-
mans II explains that the rise in freight
rates has overcome that handicap. apparently
cipates viii continue high enough fcr it
10 reap a profit for tirne
II is unfortunate perhaps. that the seaman's law
could under normal circumstances.
AS matters stand nobody seems to know for certain
whether good may find after the
war In the meantime. the steady growth of mer-
in every is a for national sat
isfaction. thing get aloped pro-
portions immense foreign trade After it
built up. there Will great difficulty in adapting
shipping laws whatever conditions arise
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
Railroads PROVE
Prosperity is Real;
All Roads Busy
BY Willis :. Thompson.


INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. IA net
revenue increase OF s13.13S.737 last
year" says the Indianapolis News,
must tend 10 convince the Southern
Pacific stockholders that the pros
perity is real. however temporary II
may be"
This sign Of prosperity" which
has long ago passed the sign" stage,
is one of the heavy burdens which
the standpatters Of the long ago are
having TO carry. Persons who study
conditions. have always told US that
the prosperity or adversely Of the
railroad earning account is "a sure
barometer of general business condi-
tons. For the railroad is the trans
porter OF business, whether in dom
este or foreign trade.
According TO the June records OF
postal savings deposits. there was an
increase over June 1915 of $500
600. The Associated Press report just
issued on this subject says: The
gains were general throughout the
country, notably in the smaller in
dustrial centers. The increase is at
tributed," the despatch continues,
Ito the countrywide prosperity Of
wage earners."
on this last point. il is worth
noting that the federal employment
bureau at Indianapolis is probably
the largest agency employer of labor
in this part of the country. During
July. the wage standard has ranged
from % 1-2 10 % cents an hour for
ordinary laborers. The scarcity of
labor has increased the wage.
More signs of prosperity. which
have worried the standpat seekers
after office because that prosperity
threatens TO become permanent by
refusing 10 quit. AS Abe Martin has
been quoted on previous occasions,
The newest thing in knockers is
the prosperity knocker." But since
the four millions of Independents
are largely relying upon their own
powers to think and reason. there
is every reasonable indication that
they will prefer to allow the friends
Of the existing unprecedented pros
perity TO nurture 1t into a national
characteristic.
On June so, 1916, so the official
report shows, there were 1901 post
81 savings banks in the United
States and the number of depOsitors
was approximately 100000. These
have to their credit $s6.0OO.OOO and
they would no doubt have more,
save for the fact that there is limit
fixed. All other classes of banks have
increased even more remarkably
than have the postal savings.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02

district one of the properties in that
section-the Cresson mine-was sold
by the Chicago and Ohio insurance
men who owned it, for the sum of
100000. We were surprised to
find that the ore at that mine aver
aged only $50 in gold to the ton In
the gold mining section of North
Carolina. South Carolina and Geor-
gia, this would be considered a low
average. What is known as sec
onds'' at the RudiseIl mine, on the
outskirts of Charlotte, average $50,
while the high grade ores OF the
same mine have an average of 500
in gold TO the ton. There are mines
in the Carolina belt that have off,
cially established averages in excess
of these figures. The St Catherine
and the Capps Hill, two of the more
successful mines of Mecklenburg,
have higher averages than this $4,-
100000 Cripple Creek mine and yet
for several years the gold mining in
dustry in this section has been prac-
tically at a standstill. The mac
tivity OF gold mining in North Car
DINA is not because of the non-eX-
istence of gold bearing ores in pay
ing quantities, but in the absence of
facilities for the proper treatment Of
the gold ores of this section and also
of their abundance. Recently there
has been evidence of renewed activi-
ty and a prosecution of the mining
industry upon more scientific basis.
Some good results are being noted
from the mines where operations
have been resumed and this is no.
tably the case in Cabarrus county,
where ores assaying as high as $3.50
a ton have been unearthed in a con-
stantly widening vein. The Observ-
er made endeavor To interest some
of the Cripple Creek mine operators
IN the Carolina gold fields. At any
rate. this paper remains firm in the
conviction that some day the proper
methods Of handling the ores in this
part of the country will be discovered
and that following this discovery
there will be a revival of the gold
mining industry that will attract the
attention of the entire country. The
gold is here and somebody is pretty
sure TO find a way of going after IT,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
WITH OTHER EDITORS
THAN OURS
INTERESTING THE BOY.

(RocheSter IN. ~ Herald
In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside, an agricultural journal. is
an interesting episode which ought
to set the average farmer to think
, ing. for it points out one of the
weaknesses of the family system
which. if cured. would tend to the
enriching of the country and the
character building as no other infiu-
ence could.
Last spring. a year ago" says the
| journal, 10-year-old neighbor
| boy was given 10 cents L. his grand
mother. He purchased a packet of
/ good cucumber seed with his money
and grew a nice patch of cucumbers
| for the local village market His
| crop of cucumbers brought him a
little more than Sc in money, all of
| which his mother allowed him to
keep and spend as he pleased With
| 81 of his money this boy purchased
few little things for himself, and
with the other s. he purchased a
eve lamb. But this spring his eve
lamb had grown into mature
mother sheep, and she gave birth TO
two lambs. So now the boy has
| three sheep from his investment.
The mother sheep is now worth $40.
and the lambs are worth s. each.
making a total value of $40 he has
earned with his 10 cents in a year
and a half. Besides. he sold the
wool this spring from the mother
sheep for s2.45. which ne placed in
!
bank account OF his own"
There is good reason for the belief
| that the farmers son turns his eyes
/ toward the city as soon as he is
able TO make his own way because
he has not been encouraged in the
way of making money on the farm.
1t is not unusual for a farmer TO
give his son a pig or a calf or a
sheep, and perhaps a colt. but the
boy has a rude awakening when he
comes to make the discovery that
his property is missing. Father has
sold it in his absence and pocketed
the proceeds as "A matter of course.
| We suspect that there are many
/ boys now with heads sprinkled with
gray who can recall experiences OF
| this kind. IL is DO wonder that so
many youngsters have become dis
couraged and disguised just at a
time when they stood at the forks
of the highway of life.
There are many people who in
sist upon the evil which lies in early
| incubation OF the habit OF thrift
uplifters who write and talk about
making young people mercenary
Such teaching is pernicious in the
extreme. for if there is one thing
more important than another. il is
that boy should be taught early in
life the value Of a dollar. and how
il will increase IL il is put to work
as was shown by Farm and Fireside
in the case of boy who increased
Ito cents 10 SEAS in a year and a
half. Something depends upon the
boy. Of course. but If given the op-
portunity. more boys would develop
ha bits of THRIFT and stick 10 the
farm.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02

More war-Hughes attacks Will
son.
Useless articles-A parrot in a
home where there are a dozen
children.
MY WISH
A fairy in the guise of a woman
fish.
once asked me, Sir what is your
WISH"
l hastily replied. In time of need,
All that ! want is plenty of speed.
The Allied troops have quit sing
ing It's a Long Way TO Tipperary".
but are singing, We Are Now at
Picardy."
A "Peeping Tom" was arrested in
New York the other day. but was
released when it was found that the
lady who filed the charges had left
up her blind, which reminds Us that
even Diana of the Dunes had to
le,,ve her happy home after she was
advertised.
There was "A maid in Terre Hut,
Who was counted quite a nut,
For every night,
Shed light the light.
And fail to have the shutters shut.
Carranza is to quit as first chief
and now We understand why he
wanted to borrow that money. He
will need il for campaign expenses
when he runs for president
When Charles Warren Hughes
was nominated. he was notified that
he would be notified that he was to
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
THE MELTING POT
FILLED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF
SPEECH AND SILENCE.

Some people like to let 5 know exactly how
They voice their hasty spiel
They have no pianissimo their shril bazoo:
They loudly tell US what is what well who VIII
ON various occasions they re heartily inclined
To rapidly disburdening their overloaded
Some other people keep their thoughts mehodicalH
Beneath the conscious calmneSs a tightly fitting
They do leah
They often miss golden opportunity speak
They close their facial a
And match the loud loquacy that's
The middle ground exists. but needless said
How slowly the conviction penetrates the human
That silence is but golden when a little
Could add contribution existing earthly joys:
While the other irritates
When setting forth the things
A. B.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02

Bull Jones IS the luckiest man ever
saw"
What makes you say that
Jim Brown and l. took him out fishing
the other day. and be insisted on using
the wrong kind OF tackle and the wrong
kind Of bait. in spite of our advice. and
yet he caught twice as many fish as Jim
ard ] together. ~ Y. World.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02

Now somebody has figured out that the shark evil,
the Previously tropical seas were
thrOnged with shipping and all the ships fed sharks
The has cut down traffic uEt. there not
enough ships produce the refuse needed TO
the sharks hunger. Hence they northward. in
quest of nutritious bathers resorts But
his explanation is correct why hasn't our western
reported a shark invasion?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02

Even the prohbitiOnist convention which might have
been give nOnstration conventional
sobret had its record breaking period of cheering for
its nominee and its frenzied parade con-
vention hall What is there about politics that makes
otherwise temporarily compos mentise
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02

The slowpess of the British advance Mesopotamia
is explained due chiefly weather conditions 1t
rains cats and dogs all winter and all summer the
temperature hovers around 12O degrees in the
where there is any shade And yet Mesopotamla was
the Of hourishing civilizations thousands Of
years. How did the Sumerians. Accadians Assyrisns
and Babylonians ever stand it, or has the climate
changed since their era?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02

we countenance no covert policies. no
trgues. no secret schemes. We are
Tor United states"
The above is from Charles Evens Hughes second
speech ~ acceptance in New York last Monday night
referrinE Pres-t Wilson's handling OF the
European question. ON the face OF 10 az least it is
a. pretty serious insnuanon candidate pres-
dent Of The United states TO hur az president OF the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02

United states won't declare Mexico
for the seizure of William Randolph Hearsts 100000
acre ranch surely fallen chicken
hvered times.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
MATRIMONIAL MXUP.

He-women have no real intelligence.
They show the worst judgment in the
most important matters.
She-That's perfectly true. but think
you ought To be the last person 70 cas- q
10 nv attention
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
GOLD MINING.

Charlotte N. g. Observer
on the day The observer was Wis
ting the mines in the Cripple Creek
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02

be notified OF his nomination. Sew
eral weeks ago he was notified that
he would be notified on July 81. Yes
terday after he had been notified
that he would be notified when he
was TO be notified and had been noti-
fed when he would be notified he
was notified, so everything is love-
Y now.
EXPLAINED.
Gentlemen, said the candidate,
Il am glad YOU came. / am more
than glad you came. The news that
l was nominated is indeed news TO
me. 1 am glad 70 see by the copy
of your paper. now two months old,
that 1 have been selected as the man
20 lead our party to victory. / know
of course that perhaps it sounds
strange that 1 did not know 1 was
nominated, but think / can explain
it fully. You see the paper put on a
new carrier boy on our route during
the convention and he failed to de-
liver my paper"
MY KID.
My young kid. he's only two,
But always tries what others do.
He sure is game, he has no fear,
and often climbs the banister
O.
THE ANSWER?
a whole flock of smart society
people-many of the younger set
came downtown yesterday for lunch
con, briskly set up by the cool lake
breeze.-Chicago Examiner.
Life on the east British coast is
one raid after another.
One place where the cellars the
thing.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02

THE NEWS TIMES PRINTING COMPANY
once 2IO w. Colfax Av
Phone Bell Phone 2los
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-02
MY KID.

My young kid. he's only two,
But always tries what others do.
He sure is game, he has no fear,
and often climbs the banister
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-06-23
AS TO OPINIONS

The folio wing is from an edi-
torial in the Belleville, N. j..
Times, and what applies to the
readers of that paper applies to
the readers of practically every
paper in the United States
these readers do not realize that
a newspaper has a right to an
opinion:
The Times sometimes almost
reaches the conclusion that all
the talk we hear about respect
for the other fellows opinion is
pure bumcombe. At least The
Times family of readers boasts
not a few persons who think that
the minute their newspaper
voices an opinion different from
theirs they should try to punish
it by withdrawing that part of
its revenue which they control
their subscription.
This is curious idea. These
same persons no doubt have re-
peated time and time again
while engaged in verbal discus
sions that every man has a
right to his opinion. But the
minute a newspaper disagrees
with them they seem to drop this
attitude.
Their newspaper has no rights
to it's opinion. Take as an in
stance several editorials recently
published in The Times about
England's execution of the Irish
rebels.
The Times has said, and says
again, that it was a barbarous
act, and that not to abhor it, is,
in The Times opinion, un-Ameri-
can. These men were murdered
for doing exactly what George
Washington did, and England
would have treated George
Washington the same way it
treated Patrick Pearse, and the
others if it could have gotten
hold of him.
Now the Times comedies to all
its readers the right to regard
this matter in any light they
please, and it expects the same
right itself.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-06-23
WOODROW WILSON

At St. Louis last week the
Democrats renominated Woodrow
Wilson for President upon a plat
form of Americanism.
The Partisan has not agreed
with all of President Wilson'S
policies notably that in regard
to Mexico, and we do not agree
with the so-called Woman Suf-
frage plank in his platform, but
Wilson's administration, as a
whole, has been good, and Will
sons 1916 platform, as a whole,
is good.
Former Governor Judson Har-
mon, of Ohio, who was a candi-
date for the nomination for Presi-
dent in 1912, said, in seconding
President Wilson'S nomination at
st. Louis, that while the president
would be renominated as a Demo-
crat that he would be reelected
as an American.
In this statement, as in nearly
everything else, Uncle Jud is
right. Thousands of Republicans
and millions of Progressives will
vote for Wilson this year because
it is unsafe to change executives
while a world war is raging across
the Atlantic
The reelection of Wilson is a
foregone conclusion.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1916-06-23
CIGARETTES

Under the head do Cigarettes
Help" the Lebanon Democrat
publishes the following readers
can answer the question them
selves after reading:
Covering a four-year test, Yale
and Amhest students, who did
not smoke, grew "a per cent more
in weight, AZ per cent greater
chests and rs per cent greater
lung capacity than did the smok-
ers.
In the physical examinations
for the United States Army and
Navy, 1898 of the 412 failures to
pass where rejected because of
tobacco hearts caused by cigar
ettes."
A chemist placed tobacco from
one common cigarette soaked in
two teaspoonfuls of water Under
the skin of a cat. Commissions
followed Immediately and the cat
was dead within fifteen minutes.