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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05

discovered America what you wrote; but
il it was someone else put in number to complete
this A horse
Write yes matter whether China is in Africa or
not and then give wrong to this ques-
ton: How many days are there in the week? Write
any letter G in this space then write No if
day. but il not make a
circle here else square here
Notice these numbers, s. s. II heavier
than water, write the larger number here but IL
iron is lighter. write the smaller Show by
a cross when the nights are longer in summer? &.
in winter? Give this question:
Does uphill and repeat your answer
here
do nothing here 60 plus equals) unless you
skipped ;he last question but write the first letter of
your first and of your name at
the end of this line"
No, this isn't absurd rigmarole from Alice in
Wonderland. the Numbering of an inmate of an
insane asylum. It's part the examination man
the railway of Dallas Texas. According to
the Popular Science Monthly represents last
practical psychology as applied testing
tai efficiency. The street railway system en-
ployes with nimbe brains The superintendent believes
that who lot of questions like those
quickly and correctly may trusted emer-
gencies that up in the handling of his car re-
ducing accidents. saving property and promoting pub
lie safety.
1t would be interesting know how many merchants,
bankers. doctors. lawyers and could get a
perfect" mark in this test.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
A BASKETERIA.

Batavia. " Y. has an enterprising ex-alderman who
is running a grocer that is expected knock
living locality grocery is a bias
keteria", perhaps the first of its kind.
Customers wait themselves, they do in a cafe
terra" serveself lunch The groceries are ar
ranged in bundles packages. that customer may
easily pick up what she wants Buyers enter the
through turnstie door pass along the
aises of groceries selecting what they want then 90
the cashiers where their purchases checked
and paid for before they through only
exist.
The is a cash basis and the proprietor
expects TO make money himself as we'll as TO save
money for his customers With the absence a corps
OF expensive delivery system and goods sold
only cash certainly ought down expenses
And with the customers selecting their own purchases
he'll be to keep his goods up a high standard.
Altogether this basketera looks like an experiment
that will last
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
ONCE-OVERS

Too fellow"
fre freque to the
habits of his
lay learn that his wife has that than he
begins think for him hold his we'll
would be
anything
Copyright, 1917 International service)
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
Fiue Minute Talks
By National Leaders

any of the taxes laid on account Of
crime.
The direct cash cost of consump-
ton paid out of taxes is a tidy sum
about s2OO,OO annually. The
health cranks could and would save
this if our practical business men
would bear down upon our practical
legislature and make it come across
with the authority and means which
would be necessary to do the work.
About 10 percent OF the amount we
spend from eur taxes annually on
account of consumption would save
the remainder.
Through the practical application
of hygiene (Which we will practical
ly apply when we become sufficient
ly practically, we would, in saving
thousands and thousands, increase
our morality, efficiency and happi-
ness.
What we need is healthier, strong
er men. How shall we get them
How many such will consumption,
typhoid, syphilis, diphtheria, etc,
etc, bring into our state?
Let us have a hygiene machine in
Indiana-one as good and up TO
date as the last machine gun. Then
let the people cooperate and then
will begin the benefcient reign OF
hygiene. When this is done, sans
much mental disease, sans much
crime. sans syphilis with its train
of horrors and murders.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
MARCH 5, 1917.
PAINLESS PICTURES.

\ process worked by a New York photographer
promises 10 make the task of getting ones picture
taken much painful. 1t is adaptation of the
motion picture idea The operator movie camera
for the catching the subject in natural pose
There the usual please look pleasant bust
ness The sitter IS encouraged to act normaly-to
smoke talk laugh. read work, according TO his own
taste while the camera clicks away making record OF
all his shifting positions and expressions.
When the negative is developed. the photographer
makes a positive film and throws a screen for his
patrons inspection out Of the hundreds of
pictures patron choose from he selects the
one he likes best and the photographer proceeds to
make al enlarged print
The process said he artistic well pleasant
The prints the harmonious effect that is so
much in vogue among leading photographers today.
how this smplifes the almost impossible task of
getting a good portrait of the ever-movng baby!
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05

indiana Director of Public Health
Work.
Fully one-half of all taxes go TO
pay for the results Of Sickness and
disease which in a higher state of
civilization we would not have.
Now, there is insanity. Mental
disease is the term the doctors now
prefer. Where does it come from?
Why do we have mental disease?
But first as to its cost to Indiana.
In round figures we plank down in
cash $4,000, 900 annually TO care for
the insane. But that is not all the
cost. for there are 5000 insane, all
adults and all withdrawn from pro-
ductive life.
If each one earned $500 per year
and this is a reasonable estimate
then the loss TO the state is s3,-
100000. The total loss due to in
sanity is, therefore. S5,O00,0O0 each
year.
Now, here is where il comes
from, and we are as stupidity in
different to the cause and the loss
as we are 10 smoke and its loss.
twenty-five percent of insanity
comes from syphilis, 20 percent
from alcohol poison. 80 percent is
heredity and the remainder is such
poisons as typhoid poison. tuber-
culosis poison, diphtheria poison,
scarlet fever poison. food poisons
and drugs.
Please observe each cause may be
largely controlled. Turn the prob
lens over 10 the health cranks,
keep the practical politicians at
bay, and the fearful annual loss
would each year grow less.
After one generation, under
health-crank management, we could
close one or two of our five asylums.
and after two generations we would
need only one. The saving would
help cut down taxation.
Then there is crime. II is a very
costly accompaniment of civilization.
or perhaps il would be fair 10 say
our stupid management
The health-cranks would prevent
crime by preventing sickness and
disease. for out Of these rs percent
OF all crime is born.
Munsterberg said. Hygiene can
prevent more crime than any law"
He was unquestionably right. Only
through hygiene can We throw of
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
THE MELTING POT
COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.
THE SAD ESMAN


The salesman is circular whose business is
The printers a fact
With clarity and fOrcefulness. with mCdesy
: prospects Inhabited by
Until the salesman deity o
He forms L into and phrases
golden illumined
radaes scintilates
his clnching
But after. the
He wash 10 sell
wish o
wouldn't hard in throwing he bunk
I'll and tell the
And that I'm health the wind"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05

DR.. J. n. Hurry, director of public
health work in Indiana and one of
the most widely known men in his
line of work in the country, was
asked by the international News
Service TO answer the question: us
the return from money spent in
preventative health work measur-
able in terms of money" He re-
piled with the following from his
pen:
TAXES AND THE PUBLIC
HEALTH.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
III Our sun Had Luminous Com
paniOn the Stars Would BE
Virtually Invisible.

To see what the effect would be,
imagine that there were, in our sys-
TEN, a secondary sun. half as mas
sive as the principal one, but only
one ten-thOusandth as bright. and
situated in the place now occupied
BY the planet Uranus, so that the
center of gravity would be thrown
out beyond the orbit Of Jupiter. Ii
would give many times as much
light as we get from the full moon,
so that when il was above the hori-
zon at night 1t would cause so much
illumination as to render the stars
virtually invisible.
The force of its attraction upon
the earth, when the latter was be-
tween them, would be about one
eight-hundredth as great as that OF
the sun, but upon Saturn. in a SINH
lar situation, il would exert a force
about half as great as the suns. As
Its attraction upon the various plan
cts. always considerable and at times
great. would continually vary both
I'm intensity and direction. il is easy
to see what serious source of dis
turbance and disorder il would be.
Even now the planets pull one an
other about enough 10 furnish lively
occupation for mathematical compu-
tors who try 10 lay down their exact
paths. but such a body as that in
troduced into the midst OF the sys-
tenn would upset everything.
If ii were still nearer say at the
distance of Jupiter from the sun IL
would produce such confusion and
disarray among the planets Mars
Earth and Venus that they might
lose their heads" and actually rush
10 destruction.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05

"Loyd-Ge acts in potato crisis says a news
paper heading. So do We so right out in the
kitchen and beg Mary peel thinner.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
MENTAL TESTS.

If Christmas comes in March. make cross right
here but II not, pass along the next question
ana tell where the sun rises II you believe Edison
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05

The Tennessee governor who signed the bone dry"
prohibition bill named Rye. no doubt he signed
Il with a WY face
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05

Anyhow. this excitement puts Tom Lawson on
back page with the lost strayed stolen ads.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05

Jewillikns New York's got to listen Billy sun
day. with big net right across her harbOr mouth.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
ENERGY. ECONOMY

Vote No. IL. Republican Pink Bal
lot, Tuesday Primaries. Adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05

NICELY FOR MAYOR.
Vote the Pink Ballot. No. If. for
Claude r. Nicely, Tuesday Primaries.
Energy, Economy, Efficiency. Adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
Sun Sirius Big
Satellite Comrade
Astronomy Wonder
by Garrett p. serviss.

by Garrett u. Serviss.
i read that the companion OF Sirius
Is as bright as the sIz or magnitude.
and its period OF revolution Is about 80
years. | assume that Sirius Is a sun
WITH a planetary system. and ] would
be Interested 10 learn how this compan-
Ion affects life on the planet ih that sys-
tenn that corresponds To the earth I'm our
system, and what appearance IL makes
In that planets sky-IRENE MACDOW-
ELL"
The companion of Sirius is one OF
the most remarkable bodies known
To astronomers. Ii is the attendant
OF the brightest star in the sky and
is almost half as massive as its brill
liant corlrade. which nevertheless
outshines il in the ratio Of about
10000 to l. The mean distance be-
tween them is not much gr eater than
that separating our planet Uranus
from the sun. and is nearly a thou
sand million miles less than the dis
lance from the sun to the planet
Neptune.
We may call the distance between
ClrluS ana It's companion 2 ,0O0, O0O,-
OOOmiles, that between Neptune and
the sun being not very much short
OF 3,OO0,OOO,0OO miles. The distance
OF Sirius from us is about $4,000
OOO,0OO,0OO miles. or say $4,000 times
as great as that which divides ii from
its strange companion.
The two together are something
less than three and one-half times
as massive as the sun, but the inten-
sity of the light of Sirius is so great
that IT outshines the sun in the ratio
of nearly 90 TO 1. on the contrary,
although the companion is somewhat
greater than the sun in mass, the w.
tensity of its light is relatively so
feeble that the sun outshines it in
the ratio of about 200 10 1.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
In Planetary Stage Ii Would BE
Million and Half Times the
Earth's Size


Million and Half Times the
Earth's Size.
From these facts it would seen
that the companion of Sirius must
be a gigantic satellite In course OF
evolution, or devolution, from the
stellar, or solar, to the planetary
condition. If ii were entirely cooled
OFF at it's surface, so as TO have
ceased 10 shine by light of its own
production. and if then its size were
In the same proportion as its mass,
or weight it would be a world about
million and one-half times as
bulky as the earth, and considerably
larger than the sun! But, in fact. it
mas not yet reached the true plane
tary stage. since it does still shine
with its own light, although so faint
ly that If we were as near 10 ii as
we are TO the sun we would receive
only one twO-hundredth of the il
Elimination that the sun gives us
We can hardly doubt that the time
Will come when the companion of
sirius will nave ceased 70 give forth
any light of it's own, and then il will
half as massive as its sun, whereas
the greatest planet i'm our system,
Jupiter, is thousand times less mas
sive than its sun. while the earth is
1900 times still less massive than
Jupiter
All of our planets united are able
TO produce but little grayitational
effect upon the sun, the center of
gravity of the system being located
sometimes deep beneath the suns
surface, and sometimes a little way
outside its surface, according to the
way the planets happen TO be group
ed around it in their ceaseless rev.
olutions. but Sirius is grasped with n
mighty hand by its great gloomy
companion, and is swung round and
round in space by it, their common
center of gravity being five or six
hundred million miles n ON Sirius.
1t is a curious fact that a large
number of suns possessing masses
not far different from that of our
sun are attended by huge compan-
ions, which in many cases have be-
come entirely non-luminous, so that
their existence is known TO us only
from the effects of the pulling and
hauling of their gravity. Our sun
seems to have been rather lucky in
escaping a cOmpaniOnship of that
kind, because II is an association
very uncomfortable for an orb that
has a brood of small planets to nou-
rish and keep in order. 1t is like
having two masters in a house
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-31
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS TOLD IN TABLOID

Village Improvement society. Money
was raised through sales Of good things
from the ladies' kitchens.
New Leipxig-Amputafion OF q leg
long paralyzed has been found neces-
sary TO save the life of Mike Nutz.
Burt-Fire resulting from hot-box
In the machinery totally destroyed the
local elevator owned by Harvey II
Boknecht. together with 1000 bushels
of wheat and some hax. The loss was
$4,000, with $4,000 Insurance.
Carson--Carson, first county seat OF
North Dakota's newest county-srant,
severed last fall from Morton--is now
an incorporated village. with III. IT. Alt
man, George Olson and CD. Endere
forming the village board.
Carson--Believine in business as
usual, Carson will spend more than
$4,000 in new building this year, pro-
portionately greater amount than
contemplated BY any other North Da-
kota town.
Kuln1--A critter which objected to
being dehorned went to the mat with
Otto Hillius. The COW still has its
horns. and Otto has bad foot and
ankle
Ku1m--The construction OF a modern
brick home for the First National
Bank of Kuhn will begin in few days.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-31

Andrew is a studious, thoughtful
boy Of IL, who lives on Highland ave-
nue.. He has a vein of humor In his
composition that unexpectedly shows
itself. Last night was one OF these
occasions.
wished to emphasize the point Of q
story, when Is a man brave2"
"A man is brave" replied Andrew,
when he stands within ten feet OF
anything woman throws q stone
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-31
FROM FUTURE SAVINGS"

If the Liberty bonds can be bought
with the future savings of the people,
it will be best for the banks, best for
the government, and best for the peo-
pie themselves.
The man who goes into a bank
pays down 81 or 50 and buys $50
or 500 bond. agreeing to pay for 1t
out of his savings at 81 or 81 a week,
Is buying that bond in the best way
for all concerned, and creating the
least disturbance in the country's
financial affairs.
There are several ways in which
money may be diverted into Liberty
bonds. The person who has been
boarding money in a stocking or a
sugar bowl and pays it out for Lib
erty bond, is doing a patriotic thing,
but the amount bought in this way will
be small, for the sugar bowl, as a
bank, has lost standing in these mod
ern times.
Heavy Withdrawals from savings
banks to buy Liberty bonds would
compel the banks to sell securities. and
these in turn would have to be alb
sorbed.
The prospective buyer might plan to
sell securities which he already owns
and place the money in the bonds. If
this were done in any large amounts,
it might depress the market for secur-
tiles in the same manner as if the
savings banks sold.
The prospective buyer might borrow
from the bank, but If this were done
by the wholesale, it would initiate the
whole situation, increasing both the
deposits and loans Of banks beyond
normal and forcing them to carry larg-
er reserves.
The ideal way to handle the bonds
is by diverting new sources of wealth
into the government treasury. These
new sources of wealth are dividends
and savings. The total savings of the
country in a year. even in normal
times, would be sufficient to handle
the entire issue of $1,000, 900 in
stead of just the s2,o00.oO0,o 900 now of
fered. If the bonds can be ABSORBED IN
small amounts, by millions of buyers
each observing some newly learned les
son in thrift, the issue will create hardly
a ripple on the financial sea. There
will be no shortage of money for le-
gitimate business purposes or crop
movement and no undue imitation. II
Fargo would handle $1,000,00O of the
issue in 500 subscriptions, each bond
being paid for So weekly, it would
strengthen the city financially rather
than weaken it. 1t would create 10000
weekly savers, and the habit of thrift
once learned is not easily forgotten.
In a year the bonds would be out of
the banks hands entirely and both the
banks and the 10000 savers would be
ready for another issue II it were
needed.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-31
IN THE OPEN FORUM


Recently a speaker at a public meet
ing in Fargo said that there were no
Republican or no Democratic loyalists.
The Mandan Pioneer expresses the
thought thusly:
The people of America have a
right to expect more Of public men
in crisis such as the one in which
we find ourselves involved than to
have them trying to make political
medicine out Of the situation. Poll
tics can only hinder the progress of
the war, and only muddle the machin-
cry of government during a critical
time, and IL the political charge is
true, 1t is high time that the men
who are said to be playing politics
should cast politics aside and be
Americans during the period that is
necessary to settle our international
difficulties"
The Crary Public Opinion hazards
the remark that another result of the
war is that diplomatic embassies have
become accustomed to work.
The Bismarck Tribune man has dis
covered that the United States will ex-
port chewing gum worth $1,000, 900 to
Europe this year, and eXclaims:
Another war time proposition that
stumps us. Here's the foreigner down
on his knees praying for our bread,
and yet he's going to buy all of that
gum which fflleth not neither the stom-
ach or the skull. However, we pass
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-31

Mohali-About $50 attended the dis
trict gathering OF Masons here.
Minot--About fifty have so far regis
tered here under the federal conscTipt
act
Dunn center-Alf Q. Nelson has pur-.
from the Tuttle Land Co., and has al
ready donated sites to the city for an
auditorium and fre hall.
Miltcn--Bert o,LaushIin may not re-
cover from injuries received in falling
fscted, and he is partially paralysed.
Minot--Bids will be opened June 12
for the new steel viaduct the Great
Northern will build here.
Towner-The McHenry county Non
partisan league picnic will be held near
eral LANCER, Governor Frazier and Sem
ers.
Bismarck General sTharal-
son Is at Ft. Smelling: confsrring with
military officials anent the handling OF
the North Dakota National guard.
Minot--Mlnot will vote June. rs. on q
$1sb,000 bond issue the money to be
used for new city hall, street i'm
provemerlts. new reservoir in connsc-
tion with the water plant. and hre
fighting apparatus.
Minot-Dr. Andrew Carr, former Mi
not man. Is here for a few days visit
with his parents, prior to his depart
ure for France. whore he Will be con-
nected with a medical staff as an eye
specialist.
Grand Forks--Memorial day was flt-
tingly observe dhere. At noon, mem
bers of the w. r. c. entertained the O..
A. r. at dinner.
Grand F'orks-charles Smith. colored,
only criminal case for trial at the court
term opening next week.
Grand Forks-University commence
ment exercises will be held June Is.
Williston-A celebration on conscrip-
tion day is being planned by Willis
ton. with. several patriotic bodies, in
cludinG the Williston company of the
national guard, participating.
Grand Forks-The annual county
farmers picnic will be held near Ar
day, June Q.
wiIliston-over 100000 in loans
have been applied for by farmers of
Williams county of the federal farm
loan bank in st. Paul.
Bisparck-Pres. F. l. Mcvey. OF the
state university, will deliver the com
mercement address at the Bismarck
high school graduation June z, when
thirty-one will receive diplomas.
Kensal--Farmers drove in with six
cylindsred cars from radius of twen-
ty miles to buy seed potatoes from
tubers rode the cushions home.
Kensal-A public hall, community
center and little country theatre is
planned by the Lyon Township Farm
ers' club.
Linton-A. N. Drake. of Minneapolis,
heavily interested in Emmons county
realty has shipped in a large herd of
cattle from Canada. which he will feed
on his big ranch near the Missouri.
Mof1t-One of the prettiest club
houses in North Dakota is "The Bunga-
low, planned, financed and built by
Mofit club women. members of the
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-31
OTHER MEMS VIEWS.
An Editorial That May or May Not
Square With The Forums
Opinions.

ST. Paul Dispatch: The Department
of Justice labels it "seditious con-
spiracy'' when two or more people, ow-
ing allegiance to the United States,
promote plans to interfere with the
military registration or the subsequent
draft. And it proposes to deal relent-
lessly with all such persons.
This is straight to the purpose. Anti
draft and anti registration plots are
aimed directly at the success of the
governments military plans and de-
serve the most drastic and exemplary
punishment. The sooner the hand OF
the law falls upon the shoulder of
such ccaspirator and the more swift
ly the prison bars separate him from
society," the better 1t will be for our
war position.
There Is reason for suspecting alien
influence behind this conspiracy--en-
emy influence Of course. Aliens in this
country are subject to the law the
same as citizens and will feel its sever
ity in the same way. The serpent of
sedition must have its head bruised
as a salutary example and in protec-
tion Of tha nation.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-31

A man who was famous for his en-
joyment of socialibilities lasting far
into the night at which he used to
produce the best stories, surprised an
admiring circle at his club one evening
by preparing to leave much earlier
than usual.
why this haste?' said one Of his
friends. THE night Is still young"
II know" replied the great man,
"but promised my wife to be home
by 10:S0 tonight, and if / miss the
last train / shall catch it."