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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
DECEMBER 5, 1910.
DIRECT VOTE FOR PRESIDENT.


There has been renewed agitation lately for the aoo-
uton OF the electoral college. The matter will be
forced on attention of congress this session Many
newspapers many public men demanding that
the present anquated system be done away with and
presidents be chosen hereafter by simple popular vote
as other elective officials
There is said for the change. The cleo
toral system perhaps the democratic thing in
the the United States 1t was adopted
in plain dstrust popular government The idea was
that the president should selected by a group Of
picked leading citizens OF the various states The
legislatures could designate set of men they
chose and those men could pick any they wanted
for president They responsible to nobody Pop
uIar will could affect them only indirectly
After a few administrations, that changed. The
common people surged up and demanded the right to
elect president themselves The nation kept the
old form but changed the method The people have
voted ever since for Of electors" who merely
register their will. for this that cand
date
There is still no legal compulsion on any elector to
vote for any particular An electoral college
chosen by party elect another partys candi-
date and its action legal Such miscarriage
Of an election isn't likely out it's possibility.
There the absurdity, too of occasional conflicts
between the popular vote electoral vote. Twice
a candidate preferred by of the nation, as
evidenced by his majority has been defeated
by the electoral vote. owing the system by which
the electors from any state in block In pop
uar government where the people profess to choose
their ruler directly they should make of doing
in fact
But what should be and what can be two differ
It viii be long before this drect-vote-
president movement succeeds 1t requires con-
stitutionaI amendment That takes a three-fourths
approval the states. And how that be gained
The southern states will indorse the principle.
it would entail federal supervision Of cleo
tons and they object TO that account of the Ne
groes The small states and the western states
small population viii not accept it. because it
would rob them of half the power they WELD in
presidential The only states that would vote
for the change are the big states. whose population
would enable them, in close contests swing cleo
tions Half ageins and that settles
the matter
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
The High Cost or Living.
"a Study in Figures.)

and commissioner so that dismiss
ais were and are yet practically i'm
possible Then under the high
minded and intelligent leadership of
Commissioner Woods, the natural
decency or humanity asserted it,
self, and the force improved by
leaps and bounds until it is now
proud of itself and its efficiency, and
has good right 10 be, and the pub
lie is proud of it,
Police Course at Harvard.
II is no mere coincidence that par
allel with this redemption and re-
iuvenation OF our greatest metropol-
itan police force should come the
formal announcement of Harvard a
few weeks ago that il was prepared
10 offer a course in police admins
tration. The course is to cover two
years. is for graduates of some col
lege or university. and will lead 10
a certificate. which has the practical
weight and value of a professional
degree. II will probably become the
foundation of a regular POSTCARD
uate school. like those Of law and
medicine and divinity and business
administration. In it will be studied
the broddeSt and most scientific
modern humane principles OF police
administration and control, medical
criminology, the hereditary aspects
of crime. the new methods of prison
administration and the most scien-
tific and up-to-date methods Of trac-
ing and uncovering crime. Some OF
us have a special personal interest
and pride in the new course. from
the fact that for some ten years past
We have been urging and advising
college students and college gradu-
ates 10 become policemen and 10
take UP the field of police admins
tration as their life work. because in
no other is there so wide an oppor-
tunity for valuable and lasting ser
vice 10 the public welfare.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05

scented by the belligerents A flood
of blue, white, pink, and yellow
books may shortly be expected con-
tanning official documents to prove
that il wasn't England or Germany.
or Russia, or France that plunged
Europe into the horrors OF peace.
The chancellories will publish diplo-
matte correspondence TO show that
up 70 the last minute each had
made unceasing efforts to avert the
pending calamity, that they had Of
fered every. compromise and every
concession possible to preserve the
blessings of war, and that il was
only when one ~ the other belliger-
ents had actually begun 10 demob-
ilize its army that they were forced
10 drop the sword and grasp the
plowshare.
1t is, indeed. a terrible indictment
TO bring against the statesman Of
any civilized country that they want
only provoked peace at a time when
Europe was enjoying the profound
est war. that they deliberately and
with cool and cynical calculation.
suddenly and without warning. tore
whole populations from each others
throats and reduced them 20 a state
, Of happiness and prosperity. What
/ did these people know about the
causes OF peace? What interest did
/ they have in il? Because some cOun-
/ Gil of state had decided an oppor-
tune moment had come to declare
peace must these industrious mil
lions who were busily and usefully
| engaged in killing each other leave
their occupations and rush back
| home TO their wives and children
Certainly no statesman is going 10
admit that he gave the word for il.
And yet somebody will be held re-
sponsible. History infallibly will sin
| gle out the culprit and his reward
will be melted out TO him. Europe
is poised on the very brink OF peace,
the bOttomless abyss yawns at the
feet OF its statesmen and rulers and
/ il would require but the slightest
/ push 70 precipitate the warning and
| unhappy populations into its depths.
Let no high personage imagine he
can give that push and escape de-
| lection,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
FATHER.

Used 10 wonder just why father
Never had much time for play.
Used 10 wonder why he'd rather
Work each minute OF the day
Used 10 wonder why ne never
LOafed along the road an shirk-
ed:
Can't recall a time whenever
Father played while others work
ed
Father didn't dress in fashion.
Sort of hated clothing new:
Style with him was not a passion.
He had other things in view.
Boys are blind 20 much that's go
ing
on about EN- day by day.
And I had no way OF knowing
What became OF fathers pay
All I knew was when / needed
Shoes 1 got EN- on the spot:
Everything for which l pleaded.
Somehow. father always got.
Wondered. season after season.
Why he never took rest.
And that I might be the reason
Then 1 never even guessed.
Father set a store on knowledge:
If ned lived 10 have his way
He'd have sent me off to college
And the bills been glad 20 pay.
That. / know. was his ambition:
Now and then he used 10 say
He'd have done his earthly mission
on my graduation day
Saw his cheeks were getting paler,
Didn't understand just why:
Saw his body growing Trailer.
Then at last ] saw him die.
Rest had come His tasks were end
ed
Calm was written on his. brow;
Fathers life was big and splendid
And i understand il now.
Copyright, 1915, by The Reilly &
Britton Coz
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
ECONOMICS AND PUBLICITY.

The food dealers have "A good deal to say about
economic laws when their profits called ques-
ton. They explain volubly how the situation is due
bad crops lessened production. increased demand.
war exports, They insist that the prices
are absolutely and inevitable. that they them
selves wise TO blame, that it's all the result
of the omnipotent law of supply and demand.
And then. just the public becomes aroused
over the matter any particular branch
industry comes under close scrutiny the prices
drop. Publicity always sends them Publicity.
for practical purposes, is greater power than mmut-
able II the food operators
relaxing their hold the food supply. and squeezes
out eNorbitant prices all along the
Public opinion. with rather crude facilities
for making effective. stronger than any group of
gamblers or monoposts. The people only have to
think together, speak out. the forces of
selfish exploitation.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
THE MELTING POT
Conducted by Stuart H. Carroll


feel that
o mills Of
bullying
shores; far they can't
sinOleon
home their daily grind They
seldom their
steadily abundance the bank they mount with
grim TO
lure their pockebook limit account
hey ed
cultivated
of his knoWl
improperly arranged which
delight changed
Arthur Brooks
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
The Message of the Little Stocking

a MOTHER Christmas of
ring nations Of Europe touching
friends of America wonderng
some token or and
not entirely forgotten amid the OF war
In the the anniversary
Christmas Day let
puful helpless victims Of
Christmas
The Little Stocking Relief
Fund We will send thousands of these
phaned War Children OF
fach chlds stocking will contain candies
and Few pennies with the the children
In the package
ms apparel such mitens
Christmas gift bringing viii love
1t
a hoie day of happiness chnds memory
How hhdren happy you
afford $l00 give that and know
by be blessed with joyous
II II only heart
behind It. Whatever Doe the promptly
time is short Seek children
az lttle sacrince that
Do what c~ruizaton sure
other investment 10
the children whom You make happy Christmas
TO
WAR CFILDRENS RELIEF FUND
street. York.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
TALKING United STATES.

one OF the best things, within puryew, that has
happened the educational world for time,
about sixth annual council of English teachers
held recently. when almost whole days discussion
devoted the American language" contrasted
with the English language That they didn't decide
whole cot is not to he English
We do give some words significance that they do not
have England. intonations and voices
different those of visitors from England. But
hardly aater ourselves that have
a language all own.
The differences between English spoken n America
and spoken London fewer than the differ
euces between the kinds Of English spoken in the
various counties of ENGLAND itself The spoken Ian
uages Of the possessions of the British empire too
greater differences than have the languages of
England and America. But we don't hear OF a New
FoundIaud language. an Australian language. a
Canadian Why American
There is nothing To worry about the that the
language spoken differently i'm such widely sep
lands those comprising the English speaking
nations Of the world. The different modes of speech
dialects. either In own country all ADeeri-
cans not speak alike. Prof Fred y of the
University Michigan. whom the purists call radi-
cal said at the council.
American speech at any period will be that
which. with least strain or afectation or waste
OF effort, gives adequate utterauce 10 the hest
that is in the American character. American
speech not DEGRADED plebeian form OF
British speech-it a vigorous hardy onshoot
that is gradually assuming d form appropriate
20 our character and daily needs"
81 Americans would keep to this ideal Of speech the
teachers wouldn't have worry about the English
language and why shouldn't we Why not an Amer
lean language America drst" gettns to some
thing with in these latter days and. it
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05

not possible that in work Of Americanzing the
alien. in which language is important factor i
prove much easier II it the American Ian
guage teach rather than the English
Possibly the alien, many Of whom prejudiced
against England accept freely and read
ily Talk United States
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05

And from this sum 1 put six-fifty in
bank every Monday.
A faint smile played upon his lips
when he came to the page;
Twenty-Five and married a
desk and thirty-seven dollars,
But. strange to relate, ] find it hard
to break even.
With a suggestion of frOwn he
read the words:
Thirty-three and assistant mana
ger twenty-nine hundred
a year.
Strange I am in debt nearly
a thousand and am worried.
And the frown became deeper when
further on he noted:
Manager. with six thousand all my
own ''' house and .
child.
l am nearly engulfed four
thousand TO the bad
Near the end-his hands were
trembling-he dimly saw:
Today forty-five and superinten-
dent = eight thousand in
gold
A lot of money. Will l ever pay the
eleven thousand 1 owe?
/ owe?
1t was the last page his face
was deathly white be-
cause:
Made fourth vice president 8
fifteen thousand every twelve
months.
Success is making me old la
bilities nearly twenty thousand.
He closed the book. His breath came
hard when a wire was put into
his hand.
Cautiously he opened it, read and
then reread il, gave gasp
And cried: For me it is the poor
house. Oh, my wife. my chill
drenr'
And in dead faint he fell upon the
floor. the telegram beside him.
He had read that he had been made
president the salary
twenty-five thousand and COM
missions every year.
IT. Scott W. In Coming Tower,
New York Tribune.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
i Wonder ny.


I wonder why, when cOmp'ny comes,
They say How do you do?"
An I'm supposed to say 10 them
"Oh, pretty well-how're you ?"
I wonder why, when some one says
To Dad He's just like you"
That I am not allowed TO say
You said that last time, too"
I wonder why when comp ny
comes
CAS- they most always do
They want 10 hear me speak a piece,
And laugh when l am through.
once. when a big. fat lady said,
He's grown enough for two
Ny Nursey took me off to bed
Cause I said so have you!'
John Lane in Phila. Evening
Ledger.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05

To lessen the shocks a new de-
tachable tandem seat for motor
cycles is equipped with both hori-
zontaI and vertical springs and has
a back rest
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
joys of Peace.

joys of Peace.
CTheocritus)
And. oh. that they might till rich
fields and that unnumbered sheep
and fat might bleat cheerily through
the plains. and that oxen coming in
herds 20 the stalls should urge on
the traveller by twilight. And, OH
that the fallow lands might be
broken up for sowing. when the
acala, sitting on his tree. watches
the shepherd in the open day. and
chirps on the topmost spray; that
spiders may draw their fine webs
over martial arms. and not even
the name Of the battle-cry be heard.
Getting n Cigar.
How blind and how careless pc
destrians are"
Complained the old hobo, Bill
Binger;
Il went out this morning to get a
cigar,
And a passer-by stepped on my
finger" Luke McGluke.
Getting Dinner.
How short and how snappy most
bull doggies arel"
Complained an old hobo, Bill Bin
-ner:
Il went to house after travelling
far
And furnished the dog with his
dinner" r. D.
Sir:
Here's another goat-getter-the
shepherds dog. K. B.
YOUR XMAS SHOPPING EARLY
It was the day after Christmas.
The stork had just visited the
Smiths.
Little Mary-O, another Xmas
present. Isn't that wonderful?
Little Johnnie-Yes, but it's darn
ed poor service. A. ]. NJ.
The High Cost or Living.
a Study in Figures)
A man past middle life sat in his
ornate library.
An open book before him. It was
the diary Of his life.
He read:
am seventeen years OF age 8
can earn eleven a week.
Out Of which sum I save nearly half.
He turned a few pages and his eye
paused at the line:
Twenty-one years old today-am
paid eighteen per.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
Weather Recipes.

Cold Chills-Cool TO a tempera-
ture of about zero. beat briskly with
northwest wind. cover with Il
inches of snow and serve with nit
tens T.. b.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
WITH OTHER EDITORS
THAN OURS
REPUDIATING THE BLAME FOR
PEACE.
Kansas City STAR

The injurious attempts. emanatins
from various quarters, 10 nix re-
sponsibility for prospective peace in
Europe are being Indignantly re-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05
GOING DOWN.

While cost Of living's going up
With many a rauCOus roar;
We notice that the female dress
Is daily getting lower. ]. ]. w.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05

THE NEWS-TIMES PRINTING COMPANY
oalce. 40 ". Colfaz -
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-05

gURsCRTPTIoN RATES. Morning and Evening EdittssS'
Single Copy De- Sunday. Morning or Evening Euon
daily fncndng Sunday. BY NAL. 500 per year Ia adEanc
by south Bend and MiAha"aka SoO -
y=ar I'm sdysace. or 12e By the week
New-York tribune., 1916-02-17
ALBANIA'S FATE
in FINAL TEST
and Bulgarians
Join Against the
Defenders.

London. Feb. 16.-The Anal struggle
for the mastery Of Albania has begun,
according TO dispatches received IN
London. The Austrians and Bulgarlans
have formed a junction, and their com
bined armies are in contact with Essad
Pacha's army OF Albsnians, Montenc-
grin, and Serbians, which is defending
Durazzo.
Thirteen French acroplsnes carried
out a raid on the town ard camps OF
Strumitsa. Bulgaria, yesterday. accord
ing to Reuter- dispatch from Salonica.
The machines dropped l5S bombs, caus-
ing several fires, and returned to their
base untouched, though subjected to
severe bombardment.
The French and British ministers 20
Greece have given assurances TO the
Greek government that the Allies will
pay indemnities TO all merchants and
nrivate individuals who suffered dam
age from the recent Zeppelin raid on
Salonica, Havas dispatch from Atnehs
Saws. Payments are 10 be made after
the Balkan campaign is ended.
A Havas dispatch filed AZ Athens yes
tcrday says the Rumanian Council Mt
Salonica has invited all reservists re
naming in that city 20 return TO Ku-
mania at once.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-17
BRITAIN BALKS EXEMPTIONS
Compulsory Service Applies Even to
Royal Academy.

London, Feb. 16.-An interesting IN
stance illustrative Of the increased Sc
verify wherewith the compulsory SER
vice act IS being administered, occurred
az the Westminster Tribunal to-day
when Sir Edward Poynter, president OF
the Royal Academy, appealed for the
exemption of w r H Lamb, secretary
Of the Royal Academy.
The Tribunal asked whether educated
women couldn't be found TO do the
work. or if members of the Academy
who are not SO pushed as usual" could
not arrange to accomplish the work
among them. Sir Edward Poynter said
that Secretary Lamb had TO deal with
1900 pictures annually, therefore ne
was unreplaceable.
The Tribunal eventually granted
Lamb three months exemption, or un-
iii the preparations for the yearly eN-
hibition had been finished.
Oswold Storl. a vaudeville circuit
owner. made an emphatic appeal for one
OF his chief assistants, without nov
ever receiving a final decision, Whle
q cost clerk for a firm Of art dealers
doing business mainly with America
failed entirely in his exemption plea
Several other applicants, persons mold
ing responsible positions, we're Also re
fused
New-York tribune., 1916-02-17
u. S. ARMS SHIPMENTS
$2,O0O,000 A DAY
Munitions Sent to Europe Since
War Began Valued at
S25O.OOO.000.

Washington. Feb. l6 American
made war munitions now are pouring
into Europe ~ the rate Of nearly 81
100000 worth daily, with the figures
swelling rapidly as production in
creases For a long time after the
war began shipments were negligible,
and not until the middle OF 1913 did
the millions of dollars worth of war
materials contracted for begin TO move
i'm considerable quantities.
Estimates at the Department Of
Commerce to-day put total muniticns
shipments since Europe began TO pur-
chase for the present war close to
$3.50. .OOO. 900. Al the rate shipments
are going now. the next four months
would see this total doubled even If pro
duction remained az standstill. but
production is declared 20 be grown
faster now than at any time since
American manufacturers began con
version Of their plants into munitlor
factories
A great part Of the munitions out
nut has been in the form Of high eX-
plosive shells, more than SlOO,OOOOO0
worth Of which have left American
shores. Powder comes next. with ship
ments estimated at almost SlOO.OOO.OpV
and small arm cartridges are third
with s3O.OOO.O00 Firearms, including
ordnance, exports are put a. less than
$50 600. 900 with small increases shown.
The heaviest months firearms snip
ments we're in January, 1915, when
more than S2,000,000 worth went 10
Euronp
New-York tribune., 1916-02-17
Royal Institute Deputies Sir
Rider to Study Colo
nies of England.
TO STEER RESTLESS
BRITONS AFTER WAR
Authors Report Will Tell How
Nations Lands Are Suited
TO Ex-Soldiers.

London. Feb Sir Rider Haggard
has left England on trip around the
world with mission from the Royal
Colonial Institute.
rebuilding Of the empire after the war
by preventing the emigration to for
egn countries, including the United
States and South America Of soldiers
aud their families. and by directing
steady streams Of these war veterans
10 the British colonies.
Sir Rider. as justice Of the peace
Of his home town in Norfolk. has
studied land settlement. unemployment
and agriculture. and this led TO his
present appointment. He goes first TO
South Africa, then eastward 20 the
Straits Settlements. Australia. New
Zealand. and will be in America and
Canada next summer or autumn.
81 am going to inquire said Sir
Rider, Into the possibilities OF the
British Empire with reference to land
settlement and the employment. Of ex-
service men nfter the war A largo
number Of men will become dissatisfied
with their former employment, espe-
cially at the desk or counter, and will
Moreover, there will be many who
- -, ,nrfil I'm MT
pericnce shows that after every great
war there IL a rush OF en- grafton. |
am going merely 10 inquire and re-
port and to form my own conclusions
from what | see. Ny conclusions will
be embodied in my report TO the Royal
Colonial Institute, and perhaps IN a
book.
"Such men as are being cons idered
as possible cmigrants would, of course,
taken rs whole, be of the very high
est class soldiers and sailors who had
been under discipline and shown them
selves 20 possess the best qualities Of
manhood Any portion Of the colonies
should be proud to see such men. The
empire will cease 20 be so fond of ad-
hitting Germans and other foreigners
within its gates, and viii prefer 20
stick TO Anglo SaXons.
Sir Rider said he was not going In
any business capacity. Lord Curzon
further indicated the purpose Of this
empire mission.
I'VE do not want to send our re
turned soldiers TO America or other
foreign countries" Lord Curzon said,
but We want them TO remain British
citizens, rearing British children, II
British lands. and adding TO the eco
nomic and industrial strength Of the
British Empire"