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The Benson signal., 1916-01-01
Laura Martinez
Will Leave Post
Office Service

Tomorrow Miss Laura Martinez
will leave the service of the local
post office, her resignation having
been handed to Postmaster Redield
some time ago.
Miss Martinez will leave for Tue
son tomorrow where she will spend
a week with her sister, Mrs. Bryant
She will then visit her brothers in
Twin Buttes mining district for a
week aud after that will leave for
Los Angeles where she will take a
course in the Los Angeles Business
College. The course will be short
one preparatory to taking the civil
service examinations.
Miss Martinez has been employ.
ed ia the local post, Office for near
ly five years and has rendered most
efficient and valuable service to
Postm aster Redheld and the Office.
Her congenial disposition and ever
willingness to perform any little de
tail that would better serve the pub
lie in her official position has won
the admiration Of everyone and her
departure will be greatly regretted by
Benson people. She has also been
very prominent in the affairs of
young society in which she is a fa-
vorite. Everybody, young and
old, are emphatic in wishing her
success in any new field Of endea-
vor.
Miss Josephine Castaneda will
succeed Miss MARTINEZ in the post
office.
Free Space 1T San Diego Fair
A telegraphic offer Of space at a
nominal cos5 and probably at no
cost at ALL has been made by the
officials of the Exposition at San
Diego to all Arizona. The wire con
tanning the offer was received
Thursday evening and special
meeting of the directors of The
Chamber of Commerce at Phoenix
was held and action taken at once
A resolution was adopted thanking
San Deigo for the offer and calling
upon all commercial bodies to send
representatives to q conference tc
to decide on plans and work.
The conference will be held or
Saturday, January IS, at 10 a. m
and an urgent invitation is extended
to all organizations to be fully rep
resented. The resolution adopted is
as follows:
RESOLVED, That the liberal Of
fer made by lhe San Diego Exposi
ton officials for space for installing
| an exhibit from Arizona be receiv
cd with thanks, and be it further
| RESOLVED, That the officers o
! Chamber ofCommerce invite all th'
commercial bodies in the State t(
attend conference at Phoenix ear
ly in January whom details for cary
ing out the plans for an All All
IONA Exhibit can be arranged, ant
be it further
RESOLVED, That the Presiden
Of TIE Chamber Of Commerce be re
quested to ascertain full particular
regarding space and cost for install
lation and maintenance Of such ex
hibit for the consideration of tn
conference.
The Benson signal., 1916-01-01

nted-Copper, lead and brass.
Watches and jewellery repaired and
keys fitted. Gem Second Hand
Store.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
AMERICA BEING REDISCOVERED
AND 1T IS WELL.

America being rediscovered. Because the great
Europe has stopped the regular pilgrimage to
foreign parts and because OF the California exposons
and lastly. eastly because returning prosper
ity is providing many with travel money people
crossing the continent today than before in
the history Of this country The railroads report
largely increased travel and promises
ending procession OF automobiles both going the
Pacific returning tnerefro1. Americans are
seeing America for the first time. They have known
in a vague way that this country boosted Grand
Canyon, a Yellowstone park. petrhed forest and
other scenic wonders but only Of the number
that scenery of the most enhancing and majestic
character is so Of the Mississippi that
little Of it is This year transcontinental
tourists getting acquainted with their countrys
bypaths
The automobilists making many and charming,
side journeys. The railroads even. are giving lay
overs permit travellers stop of at almost
any point take flying motor trip heretofore
inaccessible points interest These will return home
tell their fri nds OF the wonders they have seen.
With great transcOntinental auto highways and
of good roads branching therefrom.
America promises to become almost as we'll known to
Americas wealthy globe trotters is Europe. 1t is
devoutly be wished that after the war ends,
travel through wonderful may grow more
and common. Anglophoba and Europeants are
expensive twin diseases. with which America
long inflicted should be sufficient ourselves
or at least more than have been.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
CLOTH FOR BELGIUM-NEW
LIGHT ON FOOD.

Cloth" says Horace Fletcher of the vital economics
department of the commission for relief in Belgium
is economic part of the food supply,
for the that produced within body by
food radates quickly into air that it imposs
bic sometimes to maintain healthy body-temperature
without clothing to hold it in"
Il have recently left Belgium AID the north of
France" says Mr.. Fletcher. "hastening America to
tell the people that there suffering
the latter part of this cruel winter all during the
spring, up to midsummer, and menace of pneu-
and death if cloth clothing 5 steadily
forward for the of these countries make
up into suitable covering for the conservation of the
warmth necessary life"
Mr. Fletcher also states that Chief Herbert c. Hoover
the commission kept administrative Of
the work down to about per (the usual per
centage of philanthropic administration being
times that), bringing not only susenance but
unusual good health the population reducing
the death-rate to nearly one-half thet New York
city"
Contributions by the way. should be made to the
Commission for Relief in Belgium 12O Broadway
New York. not 10 individuals
There is a lar which forbds the importation of used
clothing into Belgium 1t is cloth which the peo-
pie need
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
THE REAL WOMAN.

(Memphis Commercial Appeal
Ii was on the east end car line.
She was beautifully young, fragile
and sweet to look upon. In her lap
lay a little one-so helpless, so
smothered with raiment, and so in
teresting. Il almost died" she ex-
planned to the elder woman with
her. but here he is and I am so
happy. wish 1 had a hundred
more like him.
Here was a real woman. A wom-
an who was willing TO wade
through the shadow of death and
obey the Lords command to marry
and multiply.
OF late years the old-fashioned
belief in motherhood seems 10 have
fallen into disrepute. 1t used TO be
thepride OF woman TO point to her
children, the jewels of her mother
hood.
Today there seems to be a hest
fancy about bringing into the world
these treasures that God gives and
is willing TO give every good wom-
an.
Children are Gods apostles, -
serenely sighed the poet Lowell.
They are sent forth day by day
10 preach of love, and hope and
peace" God sends children for an
other purpose than merely to keep
up the race They come TO us to
enlarge our hearts and TO make us
unselfish and full Of kindly sympa-
thies and affections. They come to
give our souls higher aims: to call
out all of our faculties. TO extend
enterprise and exertion and to bring
round our firesides bright faces,
happy smiles and loving. tender
hearts.
There is an old German saying
which should echo pleasantly in all
human hearts. God could not be
everywhere, a" it declares, land there
fore He made mothers"
The mother in her office holds the
key to the soul She il is who
stamps the coin Of character The
dignity. the grandeur. the tender
ness. the everlasting and divine sig
nificance OF motherhood is but too
family appreciated.
The little mother who sat so Sc
renely happy in the street car with
the frail little bundle in her lar
had fulfilled the mission Of the real
woman. She had suffered. she had
walked with courage and fortitude
through the valley OF the shadow OF
death. in order that she might add
her blessed treasure TO the worlds
riches. She had felt the unheralded
throb Of the little one. and had left
the tender. palpitant kiss of the
baby's lips on her breast. Here was
woman who had lived up to the
instincts Of her sex who had full
filled her mission as a woman. The
mother should be crowned queen
OF the world.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
THE WAY OPEN IN WHICH MAYOR
KELLER WAY REDEEM HIMSELF.

r Mayor Keller has any ambition 10 redeem him
self from the shameful disrespect that his ap-
pontees TO the board of education shown
public will. The opportunity is open him
never before. With the elimination \. l. Hub
bard opposng member of the board through his res
ignation and that Cf L. J. Montgomery. who had
already been summarily kicked out from the end Of
his school year it would be than meeting the
public nalf wsy for the mayor To call his appontees
ask tor their designations also Respect public
opinion ought 40 induce Messrs RupeI and Glenn TO
meet Il that nearly. by ressning without the mayor
having ask 10.
Efforts to make themselves believe that there is no
public opinion opposed the action the board and
that there is loss of confidence in the remaining
board members viii not proht them much if it does
anything Neither will it profit them much to seek
make it appear tha an the opposition to the
boards action been that OF the newspapers At
least how about the go per Of the teachers in
south Bend and the 31f4 parents pupils who made
their protests known. far the point where the
school board refused receive and order them
destroyed trust the face an this insistence
upon this being newspaper hsht alone viii not 40 so
far Go necessitate informing the public the in
nuences that have been brought 10 effort to
turn the face-of az least one newspaper-ther way.
But iet this pass. temporarily anyhow. The main
issue IS have the school situation Strengthened out
possible men placed the school board
n whom the public believes and who be depend
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
SUNLIGHT AND FRESH AIR.

NCOlum bus, o., DlSpaJcn.
1t has at last been discovered that
sunlight and fresh air are as good
for dumb animals as for human be-
ings Writing Of barn architecture,
Prof F. w. Ives, of the Ohio college
Of agriculture, says: Light is
cheaper than feed and more bene-
fetal than gallons OF germicides.
Every barn should have at least four
square feet Of window space TO each
animal. and in dairy barns, this
should be increased TO six or eight
square feet" Windows were proba-
bly, left out Of barns that the lat
ter might be warm. but as that OBJ
ject was achieved a health danger
was incurred There is a real pre-
ventive medicine in sunlight and
fresh air for all living things. and
il should be nationally employed.
They are a free gift, but they have
been too often rejected
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
WHAT MUST GEORGIA DO
TO STOP LYNCHING2

There about IS ynchings in the United States
last year, and one-thrd of them committed in the
state of Georgia The full measure of Georgia's dis
grace revealed in the statement that her mObkings
equalled those of any other 16 in the Union
combined. if TO make bad record still
Georgia started the year by lynching eight more
negroes in January.
The state whole has not participated in these
They have nearly all occurred in half dozen
counties. Georgia sentiment general has condemned
the lynchngs. and progressive and enlightened news
papers such the Chronicle have abored
ceasngly eliminate lawlessness good
of the state. But somehow public sentiment has
made itself effective in state administration.
There is hope that this defect may be remedied.
The respectable majority is aroused against nchng
before. A campaign is for the nomination
and other officials, law-enforce-
the leading issue Every other joins in
the hope that Georgia may redeem herself by
example help in Kidding the country of national dis
grace
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03

ed upon pay Messrs Rupes and Clem's grudges.
- satisfy Messrs. Weidlers and Keler's thirst for
through the distribution school positions It
is a simple matter II Mayor Keller and his-what We
believe be mere dummies" the board OF educa-
tion.-Only care 20 see ii that way
However. doubt very much. lest the is
che public forgetfuness in this matter
or will blow he wont assume
it will whenever opposition 10 him anything arises
He says he has been belittled n the re-
could YOU belttle anything already so
infnitesmally small? The mayor is merely proving.
size his littieness in this matter. His
demption is in his own hands
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
To The Housewives
of South Bend

We solicit your patronage for Runkers Cocoa adver-
tiSed in The News-Times and beg to recommend it to
you as pure heahfu food drink for every meal of the
day.
c. H. Baird, 9O4 Portage Ave.
Bell & Longshore, 500 N. Gushing St.
c. E. Brady, I'LL S. Michigan St.
Bright's Grocery, 643 Laporte Ave.
Brotherhood Grocery, 230 N. Main St.
Brodbeck Bros, Colfax Ave. and Main St.
N Budnick, 8O3 S. Chaplin St.
c. w. Crofoot 755 S. Michigan St.
East Side Bargain Store, 518 E. Lasale Ave
J. c. Fox, 627 E. Jefferson Blvd
Frepan, Burmeister & Frepan, 811 Lincoln Way ".
D. Glasgow, 1O15 Corby St.
l. Coebel, 1913 w. Colfax Ave.
Jos. Grunwald, 1924 S. Michigan St.
Gross Bros, 1920 Catalpa Ave.
Gross & Gross 435 Chaplin St.
J. N. HiveIy 241 Dubai Ave.
L. Hummer 7O5 Lincoln Way E
c. J. Johnson, III S. Chaplin St.
A. j. Korpa 325 s. Walnut St.
E. J. Mccartney, 7O2 E. Jefferson Blvd.
II Marciniak 1901 w. Division St
H. J. Martin Alp N. Lafayette ST.
F. w. Mueller, 1876 Lincoln Way E
c. A. Muessel, lib N. Main St.
Mrs ]. 7. Murphy, COZ Francis St.
NJ Newmark, 416 N. Eddy ST.
O. K Cash Grocery, 325 S. Michigan St.
Fred Rostiser, 731 Lincoln Way w.
L. H. Schuster 1902 Leer ST.
Geo Sommerer, 534 E. Colfax Ave.
H. c. Stegman, 502 E. Wenger St
H W. StriebeI, sol E. Ohio St.
South End Market, 817 S. Michigan St.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
EDUCATION.

ogden. Utah, EXaminer.)
The great trouble with educa-
tionaI efforts is to draw the line be-
tween learning and practical appli-
cation. A man may be top heavy
with textile may have his bonnet
so full Of theories that it bulges un-
til the strings break and at the same
time his purse may be as light as a
feather And the fellow who has a
head full of theories is apt to want
theoretical pay before he will con-
sent to lower his dignity TO prac-
tice. In other words he wants pay
for what he thinks he knows in
stead Of what he can do. In nine
cases out Of ten a man gets his edu-
cation in his chosen work after he
takes it up and not before. The
man who hires him takes a long
chance and generally pays more
than he rs worth in the beginning.
Later when experience has toned him
down to a useful basis he is apt TO
forget that it cost his employer
money to give him his educational
opportunity. The ability to do
things well. to get in the producing
class and make money is the recOg
nized basis of education regardless
of all the fine theories advanced TO
the contrary The man who knows
seven languages and talks art but
fails to make a good living is not
as we'll educated as the man who
can hit the same place twice in sue
cession with a hammer and earns a
little more money than he spends.
And there will always be a demand
for this class of men as long as
novices expect to be paid on the
basis of what they are going TO do
instead Of what they have done.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
THE CULTURE SEEKERS.
(Chicago Tribune. }


one of the most pitiful things in
American life is the eagerness with
which we have sought as a people
to attain culture We have been
pursuing culture more vigorously
than any other nation has ever
thought Of doing. We have gone in
droves to Europe and bored our
selves amid vast picture galleries
and stared hard at statues and con-
suited guide books. In colleges we
have been set 10 masticating the
classics Of literature, and at most
only a few have succeeded in swal-
lowing them. The rest of us hold
them in our mouths, not daring to
spew them out. And all our lives
we belong to some culture associa-
ton or another. whether it be a
Browning circle or a Brahms so
ciety. seeking to appreciate the mas
terpieces. Every one does some
thing, if it is only to buy a set of
o. Henry
The chautauquas have taken care
of those who do not go TO Europe
or TO colleges or who have no OppOr-
tunity to attend the opera or the
symphony concerts.
And yet we know that in spite of
all this money spent and this elabO-
rate machinery Of learning that we
are not an artistic nation. However
much we strive we are scOlded by
those who have striven harder. We
see groups of promising people
breaking away into lowbrowism, a
defensive cult dedicated to the com
monplace. and as deeply hypOcrit-
ical as the organization Of high
brOws 1t seeks 10 counteract
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
AND NOW THEY WANT AMERICAN WOMEN
TO "WEAR SIMPLE COL ORS"

The "WOman's National Made in l.. 5. A. league" has
appeal urging all its members to wear
simple colors during the coming spring and summer.
turers.
The purpose is an excellent But as a matter Of
fact to matter little whether the
take such movement not No matter how they
feel about it, they will probably wear simple
colOrs just the same. For the supply of dye stufs is
running low. and many OF the usual shades are
already unobtainable and substitutes in general
undependable that the public must necessarily rely
chiefly whites blacks and grays and very few
simple anihne tints which American manufacturers are
making successfully.
Women can do a real service however. 10 tradesmen
and manufacturer 10y frankly recognizing the
and not insisting impossible coors
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
GUARDIANS FOR JAYS? ENDLESS
OPPORTUNITY!

An Iowa farmer who had accumulated $40 GOO. wan
dered farther west and by the police
from a gang of men. just as he was signing a
check for the ten thousand. Now. the application
of the police and the farmers protest,
the insist appointing a guardian him.
II every sucker who bit the fake con game.
this did. had guardian appointed the supply
o guardians would be quickly exhausted Anyway it
would appear that any who wiring ten thou
whole dollars OF the soil Iowa any
soil for that matter entitled 10 convert il into joy
and pour it down a hole If he to- This
guardianship business sounds fshy. We do hope.
though nobody will suspect the police force of
mean and improper designs
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03
REPRISALS.

The advice of Lord Bryce is in
fnitely better than that of English
newspapers that call for reprisals
upon Germany on account of the
airship visitations There are very
few cases where reprisals are in any
measure justified. If one side in the
war is practicing a policy Of fright
fulness il will not be deferred by
reprisals. If one side wages war
brutally the adoption of that policy
by the other merely doubles the
brutality. 1t does not deter from
repetitions; it stimulates them. The
visit of allies airships to Karlsruhe
was justified by some as a reprisal.
but the only effect upon Germany
was to stimulate a counter demand
for reprisals. And so the appalling
race TO see which side can be most
savage is pretty certain TO be slim
ulated.
The threat of reprisals is occa-
siOnally effective. But. if ineffective,
the commission of the reprisal
merely infuriates the enemy and
Germans charge that the survivors
Of a submarine were shot in the
water from a British ship. and they
threaten reprisals. The British
charge that the airship raids are
nothing but malicious mischief and
wanton killing of nen-cOmbatants,
and they demand reprisals.
Of In
OF civilized warfare should be cher
ished and not thrown TO the winds.
The reprisals demanded in England
can not possibly stop the German
use OF airships The only effect
would be more attacks on open
towns and more killing Of working
men and of women and children.
Furthermore. there is a moral
advantage in being right, and in the
long run moral advantage counts for
something. even amid arms. If the
English have been more scrupulous
in their methods of warfare than
the Germans they will not be with
out their reward in the regard OF
the rest of the world They will
gain nothing worth while by adopt
ing the methods they have been de-
nOuncing.
If one side should slaughter its
prisoners there might be some ex-
cuse for the other side resorting TO
the same barbarity with the pur-
pose OF leading the former 10 desist
But 10 is extremely doubtful if re-
prisals would be effective even in
such a case. and they would GER
tainly lower the more humane ma
ton 10 the leveT of the other The
favorable judgment of mankind dur
ing the war and after il is worth
something 10 any nation. Its own
self respect the consciousness of its
own honorable conduct. is worth a
great deal To any people. Ii is
worth more than killing a few score
of non-com batants or destroying
considera BILE property.
Undoubtedly many acts OF saw
agery by individuals have occurred
on both sides. The governments
have not been convicted Of counte-
nancing these. But reprisals as a
policy would be a government meas
ure and would be a deep stain on
any people Both sides should en-
deavor 10 keep military operations
within the limits OF civilized war
fare. and II one side fails Ia this
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-03

tional projection OF novel theories IN
government sociology. finance. and
religion are not among the func-
tons or privileges Of those men
whose profession and whose duty re-
quire them 10 diffuse knowledge.
A few of our greatest and best
universities have avoided these insti-
tutional blunders. but many power
ful and populous seats of learning
are already culture beds Of class
hatred. visionary altruism and i'm
practical socialism. There is no
need 10 question either the learning
or the sincerity of these proponents
Of new. untried and revolutionary
tea chings
The point IS that their special
lines Of activity outside of the text
books and the laboratory are OBJ
trusive. impertinent and, very prob
ably. malefic. The so-caned free
thinkers have, we may we'll admit
a perfect right to their own
thoughts, their own personal adven-
lures. and their own individual afili-
atoms. but they have no right TO
inject their notions into the class
room nor to thrust their speculative
vagaries into lectures delivered 10
student bodies.
Political economy as a study prob
ably includes a review of anarchistic
theories; just as the study of psy-
chology involves much reference to
hypnosis. But it would be as great
an educational crime for universities
to promote anarchy as a doctrine
as TO teach hypnOtism. Such topics
are wholly outside Of the scope Of
legitimate education.