South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-31

years. Think Of the long struggle we had to
make the community sensible enough to pro-
vide place for these children at the schools
These gentlemen seem TO think that this war
Is a savage struggle. and therefore we should
all become savages, whereas the fact is that
the moment We are az war we should become
more civilized than we were before the war.
Then there are appropriations for the IN.
employed. If we take these away from
he becomes a loafer, he becomes a cadger, and
stands at street corners: he takes to drink
and pawns his furniture and becomes trouble
TO everybody. The absurd Committee Of Pub
lie Retrenchment imagines we are retrenching
by throwing our unemployed men helplessly
on the streets with their families.
Then there are the road appropriations. For
these they say substitute loans. If they do
that you will find that number OF the poorer
neigh borhoods will let the roads go TO wrack
and ruin because they will not be able TO pay for
the making up Of the roads, and then when
we are bringing large bodies Of military from
one end of the country to the other there will
be considera delay on account OF the con-
dition of the roads.
What are we to do with these committee
men? l say send them TO the front; and on
their way to the front let them be taken over
the worst roads possible.
Now come TO what Mr.. Asquith said to the
workingmen. Mr.. ASquith said: Don't ask
for high wages" / have the greatest personal
regard for Mr. Asquith, but for Mr.. Asquith to
ask workingmen not to ask for high wages
1
that Mr. AsQuith does not know what wages
actually are. When a little complaint was
made concerning a professional colleague, the
Solicitor General or the Attorney General, Mr..
Asquith said: We'll, Parliamentary barrister
expects 500 900 a year, and he really cannot
do with less, but at pinch he could do with
$500 a year in war time. Evidently Mr.
Asquith really does not understand that the
people in this country have not wages enough
and have not enough to eat. He gives exactly
the opposite advice
Then Mr. McKenna, who is supposed to be
a remarkable economist. says! AL increased
expenditure sends up prices That is a very
extraordinary statement. All increased ex-
penditure, when spent capital and organiza-
ton, sends down prices and thus che2penS
production. For instance the reason We can
buy many pins now for the money we would
have had to pay for one pin many years ago
means that there has been an enormous ex-
penditure in the production of pins He also
said: Save in order to show yourselves
worthy OF higher wages" Believe me, If you
save in the sense in which he uses the word
you show yourselves worthy of wages at all.
Now, / want to say one or two words about
real economy. The Daylight Saving bill was
real economy. great many people. think.
really objected to il because they felt that a
real economical daylight saving bill would be
a bill that would reduce the quantity OF day
light That is strictly according to the logic
which they are applying to everything else. But
the real economy OF this measure is that 1t
provides more daylight and have not to
pay anything more for it.
There are other Things not quite so simple
as daylight saving. Have you ever been into
country town. If you go to any country town
and look around one Of the things that will
strike you is that there are too many shops.
You find that an ordinary small country town
is OF such size that every shop in ii is within
easy reach OF practically everybody in that
town. That is not the case, as you know. In
London. In the country towns the multiplicity
Of shops selling the same article and compel.
ing with one another is pure waste and there
is no occasion for it at all. We know perfectly
well by the long experience Of cooperation in
this country that 1t is quite possible to estab.
lsh excellent stores. providing all the things