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

OF more food by the members of the commun-
ity at large. Do not have your attention too
much distracted by the small and negligible
number Of people in this country who have
too much to eat The great mass OF the people
Of the country have not enough 70 eat, and the
consequence is they cannot produce half as
much they could If they were properly fed.
Then We must prepare not 10 eat less meat
but to eat great deal more / do not insist
on the commodity meat, but We must get more
sustaining food of some kind Then we must
spend more money on our sanitation than be-
fore, because it is Of very great Importance
that the community should be healthy. We
have heard already that one OF the brilliant
suggestions for economizing has been not to
water the streets of London and. may add.
not to sweep the streets of London.
Any man who supports that proposition in
the name Of economy is an enemy Of his coun-
try. He is a man who is deliberately working
TO force on US in addition 10 all the other hor-
rors in which we are plunged the horrors OF
pestlence which we have hitherto been spared
and II there is any member of any local
authority who advocated such a course hope
that that man will be declared, by an Act Of
Parliament, incapable of sitting as a member
of public authority for the next seven years
and only then. at the end OF seven years, IL
he produce a certificate showing that he
has passed some sort OF examination that an
ordinary sanitary Inspector has to pass before
he gets his job.
would go further and suggest that the
police, making use of the Defense of the Realm
Act. should carefully examine that mans
papers and banking account, in order to dis.
cover whether he has lodged to his credit a
check for e 80, or a check for &100 signed by
William Hohenzollern. because If the Kaiser
wanted to invest his money he could not spend
II better than in bribng borough officials or
borough councils and county councils who ad-
vocate this stopping Of sanitation in the name
of war economy.
Now, there is another matter in which we
must not economic. That is in the matter Of
motor cars, motor bicycles and railway trains.
We have sufficient locomotion whereby we can
get goods and commodities of business and OF
pleasure very rapidly from point to another
and consequently men are now able to do in
one day work which perhaps in the past has
taken them several days and sometimes a
month fsa e quite obvious to those who
dEnE-rZss-- "a; enormous advantages OF loco
motion. 6dt 1 PA the other day stuck up on
the walls, ~-Huv uSe motor car for pleasure"
and If one goes own to the east end of Lon
don it is astonishing to see how the walls are
placarded wi. the notice; Don't use motor
car for pleasure"
That notice hatters the poor man enormously.
Nothing hatters him more than that notice,
Don't use a motor for pleasure" now
say, Why not use my motor car for pleasure?
l have beer working hard up till Saturday and
! have been working so hard In the public serv'
ice that | want good freshening up, and 1T Is
necessary for my health to do ii. Why should
/ not use my motor car for pleasure? Why
should not our motor cars be used TO give q
wounded soldier a jaunt in the country?
Although people say Immediately that We
must expect the soldier to have a trip in a
motor car, they entirely forget the civilian who
is not wounded but doing work, very import.
ant work for his country. You don't get good
work from men by keeping them at it the
whole time and, therefore, you must not take
this ridiculous explanation that pleasure and
recreation are wasteful. That is really
very important productive outlay.
Now, we come to education. | have read in
the papers that the chairman of the Education
Authority for the Isle OF Wight In announcing,
az usual. they we're going to cut down further
expenditure on education, said: ut Is more
important that England should be free than