South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-02-29

stand that the matter would be fixed up satisfactory
TO the public implying that SaDt Montgomery "ouid
be retained. Down rings the curtain act one
The first OF the second act was great heila-
haoor that We now believe wrggled into the next
Sunday morning newspaper. about numerous indict-
ments that were to be obtained the grand jury,
that would be full surprises for South Bend one
might almost have guessed from the strains of mys-
terry and promised surprises that perhaps the minis
teriaI association had been caught gambling The
townsfolk supposed TO lose their heads and hy
of into space. Some Of them did. sunday and Mon
day we're full Of hushed Questionings TO VITO was
To- he caught the grand jury net-and then Monday
night when everybody have their attention Sc
eureIy fastened on the Investigation the school
board held quiet meeting ostensbly consider archi-
tects plans for school house bat an appendix
to hand the public the doube-cross, and supt Mont
gonery the boot. There you it.
But Mayor Keller his school board appointees
mscalculated the public interest in his anvice cru
SADIE. About the only people who cared anything in
particular those who feared they 10 get bit
scorched. Decent people want the laws enforced. yes.
but there is more than law enforcement mu
nicipaI life Mayor Keller has perhaps found by this
that the OF the people, and the better ele
ments are just bit interested i'm the welfare
the schools than they i'm his law-enforcement
noise and that they decline be further hypnotzed
by that noise. noise the indictments show,
is about all tina. there to it. He gets l3l ndict-
ments meH-it ds big because they are in
dictments-for oenses that any wel-regulated police
assistance that is perhaps with the exception of those
games which the seuths themselves inaugurated. in
viting their friends with them, if in order
that they might catch someone and make at least "A
semi-showing.
before. and repeat it that
when public officials find it necessary promote crime
in order 10 detect It, the community is pretty clean,
and that officials that indulge such promotion.
are morally least accessories before the fact 1t
isn't excusabIe even that "a reform" administration.
such as Mayor Keller's presunles be, may have
something to crow over, or make the people
believe really doing something wonderfully good,
while behind it. it playing its real at some
thing else.
We and prove it enectually the
logic Of his campaign performances subsequent
activities in office prove anything. that Mayor
Kellers entire law enforcement program is a brazen
hypocracy that he would have pursued such
policy for instant. had he not needed it for a
shield. had f. Augustine. president of
his board safety. the clergy of the city. and last
but least newspapers. kept constantly his
back. We do doubt for instant but that he
promised Councilman Miller immunity but that doesn't
matter, that he is enough of a politician
keep his councilmanic support. if possible
And then. ne may have had that Fort Wayne Incl
dent mind when is said to have bought a round
of drinks ION the city Of South Bend'-just little
beer party course develops that of the
gamblers arrested INDUCED just a little card
party. The real downright gambling joints town
have been touched
Wonderful reform wave. Great mayor.