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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
Women Find Washington Dull at
Night-NOthing To DO But Ride
Along the Potomac.
BY EDNA HUBER.
International News Service Stan
Correspondent.


WASHINGTON, July 23.-War
seems TO have cast a powerful gloom
over Washington. Nights here are
the most boring things ever Re
ally, no one seems TO stir out at
all, and the streets are just deserted
all OF the time.
Perhaps il is summer and not the
war, but anyway Washington isn't
the gay place I had expected TO find.
There is no entertaining at the
White house and that may have set
the example for the rest of the So
ciety here. Everyone is knitting
and no one is dancing
There are four roof gardens in
town One of them is exclusively
for men, and OF the other three
there is only one that has dancing.
There is only one case whore they
dance during the dinner hour and
the city must he terrible dull for
the hundreds Of girls and women
who have been brought here by the
war.
White house garden parties were
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
THAT Explains 1T.

The dispatches say that $4,000 re
publicans are Just outside of Pekin
Mr.. Hughes has been WONDERING
since last November where those re-
publicans had gone.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
LET Us HOPE HE NEVER
SHALL BE

We will appreciate Mr.. Hoover a
lot more if we ever get as hungry
as the Belgians were when he was
over there.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
NO TEMPORARY STRUGGLE.

1t begins TO lock as if lot of
senators had enlisted in the fight
on ,he food bill for the period of the
war.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
NOTHING TO STOP EN-.

No man is a hero to his valet, but
fortunately very few of our boys who
have been called TO the colors will
have Wallets.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
DEADLY AT ANY PRICE.

Whisky may go to so cents a glass,
but il won't be any more foolish to
drink il than Il is now.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
WE DON'T NEED TO EAT EN-
HIST VET

We are glad that the senate ma:
voted to exclude iron ore ana hemr
from the food bin, as we cannot heir
believing that both are highly indi-
gestible.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
GIVE HIM Ills DUE.

There is nothing in the dispatches
tc Indicate that Bethmann-HOllweS
told the kaiser "goodby and God
bless you"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
NOW WE KNOW.

There no longer need be any doubt
as TO the duration of the war. Sec'y
Lane, who ought 10 have accurate
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
Who's Who Behind
the Scenes in the
War Amy
BY GEORGE GARVIN.

NIAJ-GEN. ERASMUS VI. WEAV-
FIR. Chief Of Coast Artillery.
Born in Indiana May 23. 1854,
and appointed 10 the military
academy from that state in 1871.
In 1875 ne was made a second lieu
tenant and assigned TO the second
artillery. During the Spanish
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25
PRETTY MONOTONOUS.

Life in China is just one blamed
government after another.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25

WHATS become OF the Old fashioned expert who
said that Russis was out Of the tight?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25

information, informs us pOsitivel
that il will last indefinitely.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25

oniy Associated Press Morning Northern Indiana
snd Ony Paper Employing the international News service In
south hend-rwo Leased wires Day and Slight.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-25

oaice: 30 W. C5fa1 Az
Home RlOo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

side with experienced men. The regulars
have been greatly increased in numbers;
they include to-day a large number OF
rockies. But they still have their West
Point officers and their old, experienced
non-coms, as we'll as a saving remnant OF
oldtime enlisted men in every squad
enough Of these crack fighters to furnish
wisdom and a steady head and hand IN any
pinch.
Different arms Of the service will appeal
to different men. The man who prefers 10
90 to war with his friends and puts that
consideration first will choose the Guard.
There is much to be said for such service
In all probability the draft armies Will
give him a similar chance. But the man
who doesn't mind making new friends VIII
find no better trenchmates in the field than
he will find in our regulars. Go to your
nearest recruiting station and talk it over.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
The Moral Value of Hatred

Since the declaration of war German
sympathizers in this country have been
forced to put on the mask of universal
brotherly love. Forsooth, it is wicked TO
hate anybody, especially Germany. The
silly charge is made by those who would
make a virtue of their inability to hate
Germany that such hatred has all been
manufactured by designing politicians and
an "Anglophile" press-as if Germany IN
manufacturing hate for herself, needed
any assistance on this side Of the Atlantic.
Right-side-up men do not need any urg-
ing to make them hate Germany to-day.
Moreover, they need not apologize for the
fact If the odious is not to be hated,
morality is no longer a thing of the will
but of pure theory, and the affections have
no place in the distinction of worth If
nothing and nobody are odious, morality has
no meaning. If anything could be intrin
sically odious, Germany to-day is odious.
Her diabolical ingenuity has left undone
nothing that could make her hateful in
the eyes of the world. The memory Of
North France and Belgium, of the Lusi-
tania, of Edith Cavelle's murder, of the
mangled little London school children slain
in the last air raid, of the systematic lying
with which German diplomacy has sought
to undermine the peace and happiness Of
neighboring peoples, Of the stupid national
megalomania which in the beginning
forced this war upon our generation
all will 20 down to the end of time, like
the crimes Of Nero and Torquemada.
There is something mawkish and cheap,
kind of childish moral levity, in the pro
miscuous "brotherly love" which is so
broadcast and thin-spread that it covers
every one alike. That which rains down
on everybody, prefers nobody and excludes
nobody makes no difference to anybody.
It is simply a cosmic mushiness of senti-
ment, lacking the very essence of sound
moral judgment, the power to discriminate
values. 1t is not love; it is only a dogma
about love, and bad dogma at that. What
good is a love that is depersonalized, i'm
partial and Indifferent to the contrast
between the sufferer and his tormentor? A
love which snuggles up to everybody alike
and croons Eyes" to everything might as
well, for all practical purposes, say mo"
TO all. To hate the hateful is just as nor
nal a reaction to stimulus and has just
as much moral value as to love the lovely.
II is moral absurdity to talk about the
evil of hating and have no scorn for the
evil of being hateful.
If nation may act as Germany is act
ing without bringing down upon its head
the righteous wrath Of all mankind, we
might as well dump our moral values over
board and say that whatever is is right.
If Patrick Henry was right in hating tyr
amy, if John Brown was right in hating
slavery, it is right now TO hate with an
Indignation as uncompromising as death
and ms swift-smiting as lightning the men
ace Of Prussianism, along with every name
associated with its evil practices.
Sentimentalists are only deceiving them
selves in the belief that Germany will be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

reformed by the magic OF the love Of its
intended victims. With laughing cyni-
cism, the German only capitalizes such tol-
erance and turns it to his own advantage,
despising his loving enemy as fool.
Prussia enjoys the little joke Of sending
secret agents among other nations to
preach brotherly love, including love tow
ard poor Germany, while the Hohenzollern
is whetting his sword 20 cut their threats.
To the Prussianized mind forbearance Of
Germany is a sign Of weakness. The
meekness Of others, even their decency,
self-respect and trust, is the Germans
opportunity. The Junker has shown that
he understands and respects only one ar
gument-that Of force.
The humanitarian viii say that to hate
Germany is TO descend to Germanys level
Of "strafng." The great difference is IN
the original reason for hating, and IN the
sort of acts to which hate prompts. 1t Is
che thing to reycl in the blood Of the In
nocent; it is another thing 70 refuse TO
clasp the blood stained hand. It IS one
thing for the criminal to give way to
murderous orgies when his plans are
thwarted; it is another thing for the out
ragged Spirit Of Humanity to confront with
burning eyes and stern white face the
traitor against civilization and cast him
out of the fellowship of the human family.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Shall We Eat Shark
- Ia Plarldenee Joarran


It was current talk along the Atlantic coast
during last summers shark scare that sharl;
steak had made its appearance in the market
as swordfsh and that purchasers were sat
isicd with their bargain Whether the re-
port was true or not the statement no"
comes from the American Consul at Alden.
Arabia, that shark fishing IS quite an indus
try Of the Arab fishermen of that coast, and
we are told in detail to what commercial uses
the catches are turned
The flesh, fins, maws, jaws md other bones,
livers and skins all enter into the commerce
Of Alden. says our consul The fresh meat Of
the smaller shark is sold regularly in the fish
markets at very reasonable prices to the
poorer class Of natives. who cannot afford
other kinds OF fish Although the meat Is
pronounced strong by those who are unaecus.
toned 10 il, the natives relish H.
Il is said down on Block Island that there
Is no great difference between the flavor OF
sharks flesh and that OF dogfish, or as it Is
now called, grayhsh. Through the efforts o!
the Bureau Of Fisheries in the Department
OF Commerce the latter fish, which was for
merly considered unit for food purposes, has
been placed on the market. Grayiish is pro-
nounced excellent, and it may not be long be-
fore rsany Of US are converted TO shark meat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Why Corporations Are Suspected

From time TO time some high Official
of a public service corporation breaks
forth in lamentation over the fact that,
though these institutions in this generation
are highly moral-reformed characters,
indeed-the public still distrusts them. The
testimony in two proceedings before the
Public Service Corporation will show why.
The Third Avenue Railroad seeks an in
crease of its rates by way of two-cent
charge for transfers. 1t pleads poverty,
the impossibility of continuing business
indefinitely at the present rates. 1t pre-
sents figures to support its statements.
Included in the outgo is an item of main
tenance and depreciation, entered accord
ing to the orders Of the Public Service
Commission. But when the counsel for
the commission investigates the figures,
counsel for the road admits that it has
been "disobedient child" and has not act
ually charged off for maintenance and de-
rreciation the full amount ordered by the
commission; consequently it is nowhere
near so poor as it has represented itself.
The New York Edison Company is seek
ing to avoid reducing its rate to cents
a kilowatt hour beginning July l. 1t pre-
diets all kinds of calamity for its business
as result of the war. Yet it admits that
it has surplus of nearly S6O,OOO,OOO,
accumulated to meet business exgencies.
It pleads increased cost of coal as rea-
son for maintaining the present rates, yet
il admits some of its contracts, large ones,
are based on the fuctuating price Of COAL
1t pleads an increase Of 10 per cent IN
wages as a further reason for the higher
rate, whereas an adjustment of per cent
bonuses formerly granted makes the wage
increase only 3 per cent.
If an individual were as devious and dis
ingenious in his dealings with other in
dividuals as these corporations have been
in their dealings with the public's repre-
sentatives in their endeavor to accumulate
more of the public's money the names ne
would be called would be quite unfit to
print. Yet public service corporations are
shocked and grieved because the public re-
CARDS them with harshness and unvarying
suspicion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Cheap Buying Bad

It is a pity that our war is to be initiated
by buying horses from the lowest bidder.
which system has in the past furnished the
worst possible horses for army use. The
whole business has been in the hands o. deal
ers for years past, and every one knows what
poor horses have been in the service Of the
army as a result of this cheap buying. In
times Of peace It made little difference TO the
country how much good money was wasted
on poor horses, but in time Of war some
method must be adopted to insure getting to
the front the best horses; for the efficiency
Of the army depends on the efficiency Of the
horses and mules that are provided.
There is relatively less difference in mules
than there is in horses, so the loss Of eff
cheney is less for them than for horses.
Many people believe that because the cav
airy has occupied less conspicuous position
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
An Auxiliary of Prussianism


The Socialist party Of the United States
has deliberately put upon itself the anti
American. pro-German brand. After the con-
ven.ion at ST. Louis had decided TO resist con-
scription. two of its members. winfield L.
GAYLORD and 4. " S.moas, OF Milwaukee, ex-
posed its reasonable, pro-German schemes to
Senator Hustiug For this offence they have
been expelled from the party.
The party has thus definitely proclaimed
It's preference for Prussian autocracy over
American democracy. 1t has made itself an
auxiliary in America of the autocratic govern
men. which murdered Belgium, violated trea-
ties, put in practice reign Of terror ut sea
and which countenanced massacre OF Armen-
ans and Syrians By the Turks; government
which in its own country refuses equal fran
chise to the Socialist workmen, makes rep
rescntatve government sham and shoots
down starving women who clamor for food.
That is the kind Of service 10 liberty which is
performed by the Socialist party.
This war is doing n service to mankind by
tearing the mask of many shams. One OF the
greatest Of these shams is the Socialist party.
II has given US the means Of judging what
sort Of government we might expect in this
country if these friends of liberty" were to
gam control.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
A Great Plot Revealed


An attempt was made some time ago by
hirelings OF the British government 10 kidaap
Mrs. Skeffngton and drag her into Canada,
but the American papers suppressed the
news in the interests OF England When
she arrived in Lawrence Mass. on the even
ing Of her lecture there, the members Of the
reception committee were a little late, but
British reception committee was on hand TO
take care Of her They informed her tina.
she was at the wrong station, that they were
the reception committee. and invited her 10
get on board another train, so that they
could escort her TO the right place. Just at
that moment the real reception committee
turned UP and the British agents promptly
decampcd The train they wanted her 70 get
aboard was bound for Canada, and II she
had boarded IL the Britishcrs would have
promptly drugged her and taken her under
the protecting folds Of the Union Jack.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Army Week

The regular army needs 10000 more
men. 1t should get 5000 Of these men
right here in New York City. II you are
unmarried and between the ages Of eigh-
teen and forty you should consider this
particular appeal TO enlist as Offering one
Of the best chances TO enter the war that
you can find. The appeal is 70 registered
citizens within the draft age, and TO those
Under twenty-one and over thirty-one as
well.
The point that makes service IN the
regular army particularly attractive IS the
fact that you will do your fighting SIDE by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Maud Muller Up to Date

It is pleasant to welcome Maud Muller
to the ranks of laborers who are worthy
of their hire A new race Of Mullers, VINO
do not pose in the hayfelds, but actually
work for hard cash, have overturned all
the traditions of the Westchester country
side and the stock in trade Of midsummer
romancers. What can poet do with girl
who is looking not for judges but for a
davis work in the bayfield,? The natives Of
Westchester, who, according to Dean
Gildersleeve, resisted furiously and per-
sistently the encroachmerts Of the fem
mine invasion, are reported to have sur
rendered and to have sent out humble calls
for help to the Farm Centre.
No one has ever quite explained the
furious" prejudice Of the male farmer
against the female Of the species. Per-
haps his brother men are trying to make
up to the Judge for the unhappy five min
utes given him by the original Maud
Muller. Men are always judging the sex
by the pert Mauds, though any fair-minded
Jury of women would admit it was against
all the rules for a girl to establish her
self, in shade hat and blue frock, just in
the centre of the picture at the time she
knew the Judge would be strolling by.
1t remained for wartime to prove Maud
an exception to the rule and to establish
the fact Of the labor power Of farmer
cites" The feminists in the charge of
the Westchester experiment admit that
they are working to exterminate a preju-
dice as well as to assist in the problem
Of food control. It is undoubtedly the
most pretentious attempt yet recorded to
establish a new stage of evolution, and
it is pleasant to observe how much a few
rules help now and then.
City girls who are employed during the
winter in seasonal trades have been e.
tablished in a charming old homestead
in Mount Kisco, under the supervision Of
college experts, q doctor, dietitian, a
recreational director and an agricultural
supervisor. From this centre approved
laborers go forth with rake and oyeralls
to work on the farms at so much per hour.
The obvious danger that city girls would
cverwork and collapse in the hayfelds.
thus providing a juicy bit Of gossip for
the countryside and establishing once
more the ancient prejudice, is prevented
by the strictness Of the physical director,
who forbids the girls 20 work longer than
Il. ..,.~-.-tl, ,....r,..4~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Japanese Prints
From The Poetry JourrdD
THE CLOUDS

(From The Poetry JourrdD
THE CLOUDS
Although there was no sound in all the house,
| could no. forbear listening for the cry OF
those long white ripping waves
Dragging up their strength to break on the
sullen beach of the sky.
DEAD THOUGHTS
Nv thoughts are an autumn breeze
Lifting and hurrying
Dry rubbish about in corner.
Ny thoughts are willow branches
Already broken,
Motionless at twilight.
MUTABILITY
The wind shakes the mists
Making them culver
With fam. drum-tones of thunder.
Out of the crane-haunted mists of autumn,
Blue and brown,
Rolls the moon.
There was city living here long ago.
Of all that city
There is only one stone left half-buried in
the marsh,
With characters upon it which no one now
can read.
DESPAIR
Despair hangs in the broken folds Of my gar
ments;
Il clogs my footsteps,
Like snow in the cherry-bloom.
In my heart is the sorrow
OF wears Ike red leaves buried in snow.
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
ENVOY.
On Reading the Life of Charles Lister
GAILIPOII

Iron Tie Westminster Ga,ettc)
And in the other years when dark was here,
The curtains drawn on shadows black and
deep,
We two would sit together very near,
And happy in the fretime before sleep.
And. mother, you would read aloud to me
Until the gloom became a golden cline
OF Argonauts who sailed q magic sea,
And called across it "once upon a time"
But yet last night some other tale you read,
And an the little years between rolled by,
heard the shouting of the ancient dead
Greet these last Argonauts who turned from
peace
To sail Egean seas-and then cry
Together we have found the golden fleece"
~ 4.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

and mules for army use, fixing prices to be
paid for the several classes,
Cavalry. ................'. SIo0
Light artillery. ................ l9O
Heavy artillery. ............... 225
and similar prices for light and heavy and
pack mules.
Any one bidding had to put up bond or
guarantee of good faith The bidding was
to be, not as TO price, but as to number Of
horses and mules to be offered that would
fulfil the specifications of excellence
Any one whose bid should be accepted had
to furnish bond or guarantee TO the extent Of
per cent for the total amount involved, to
provide suitable sanitary corrals at the points
Re selected for delivering the horses and
agree to deliver all he offered Of horses and
mules of the high standard of excellence
specified before the 3lst Of July. Failing IN
any particular, the government reserved the
right to rejec, any and all animals offered
and to buy in the open market the horses
specified in his contract and to charge the
bidder for any excess cost above the price
contracted for.
While the rigid selection OF the horses IuI-
filling the specifications laid down would I'M
pose d very great risk on the man furnishing
the horses, yet il was an earnest effort az OBJ
tanning the hes: horses available, and an op-
portunity for the producers OF horses all over
the country TO assemble such best horses
wherever they could be found.
As the prices offered were supposed to be
reasonable they made a guarantee on which
TO proceed The plans seemed well conceived
and workable.
The offers for the number of horses were
to be received June 9; however, on June ;, by
order Of the Secretary Of War, these adyer-
tisements were recalled, and or the 9th others
were issued putting the price in competitions
also, and leaving all the other conditions the
same. the bids 20 be opened on the 18th and
the delivery of the horses TO begin on the
22d of June and be completed on the 3lst OF
July.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Bermuda

Once,
Shoulders bare to the sun,
You carved canoes upon the sea
Crisp white on milky blue,
Like Wedgwood.
Now
You lie listless,
In a robe of green velvet
Gorgeouoly Powered
Fee of the tickle winds.
So.
In a moaotony OF loveliness,
You dream OF the past
An artist
Who conceived masterpiece,
Repeated and repeated il;
And has nothing more to give.
RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Robbing the Red Gross

To the Editor Of The Tribune ~,
Sir: lie. it be emblazoned forth ~ ~
press that he who under his illegal fsNS
appropriates TO his own use his portion !.
Red Cross dividend" is in no sense ues' :,
than the creature who robs the poor pvA n
church. EDWARD D
New York. June %, 1917.