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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-29
NEED LAWS FOR
BETTER HOUSING
Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon
Discusses Importance of
Proper Home Conditions.

Nine years ago Mrs. Albion Eel
lows Bacon Of Evansville. Ind. be
gan a fight 10 protect the life. health
and happiness OF thousands Of poor
people in Indiana by advocating
better housing conditions. Almost
single-handed she has worked
steadily during these years and has
succeeded in having placed on the
statute books strict laws relating to
housing Her last success was in
the recent legislature, which passed
a law 70 protect foreigners in the
Calumet district Of northern Indi-
ana. Mrs. Bacon has been called
into many states to assist in secur-
ing housing legislation
BY Mrs. \. Il. Bacon.
In only a small number Of states
have tenants a legal right to sun
light and air. Those are the states
that have housing laws. They are
the only states. too, that have any
protection against slums, and every
state. every city. every town has
slums or slum spots.
So il can be seen that those
states winch nave houSlilS laws al =
not especially those which need
them most They are only the ones
that are the most enlightened.
Most housing laws provide not
only for the correction of slums, but
that houses hereafter erected shall
be properly constructed, at least so
/ as TO be sanitary. So il is evident
that good housing comes both by
grace and b. law. Bad housing can
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-29
CHILD
DURING WARTIME
National Committee Warns
Against Breaking Down
School and Labor Laws.

Using Great Britain and other
belligerent countries as examples the
national child labor committee has
issued an appeal to its members TO
oppose all attempts TO relax enforce
ment of school or child labor laws
in this country during the year In
England where they relaxed the en-
forcement of laws they have found
too big a price is being paid for the
output. says a pamphlet just mail
ed TO every member of the commit
Tee. 1t is noted that in Great Brit
ain the school system has been
almost broken down, that at least
$50, zoe children Of IL and II have
left school TO go TO work, that $780,
600 children OF five or under who
were in school have been turned out,
that juvenile delinquency has in
creased "a per cent, and that chill
dren in munition works are en-
ployed as much as II hours a day.
In Berlin il is said juvenile delin-
auency doubled in the first year of
the war In Budapest, according 10
a newspaper report, there are 5000
registered munition workers under
u years of age. And in England,
where a health of munition work
ers' committee was created because
of the complaints of conditions in
the factories, it was found that 1.-THE
munition workers in general have
been allowed 20 reach a state of re-
duced efficiency and lowered health
which might have been avoided
without reduction of output by at
tention TO the details Of daily and
weekly rest" In pointing out these
facts the national child labor COM
mittee appeals 10 America 10 prevent
such conditions prevailing here. In
Great Britain" says the pamphlet,
the committee on health of mu-
milton workers found ii necessary 20
say:
At the present time when war
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-29

ding and is then fitted with tightly Coied
springs. More filling for SoftneSS and final
covering of CloSe-woven, wear-reSiSting tap
eStry gives to the piece the roundneSS of out
line and the comfortable SoftneSS which no
one can resist. And all this comfort for
years to come costs only
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-29

All housing laws in this country
have been an outgrowth of the laws
OF New York. where every phase
has been tested and tried out. and
the laws have been built up, step by
step, out of the experience of the
men who have administered them.
Chief OF these is Lawrence WELLER.
secretary Of the National Housing
a association. No. 1O5 Z. Twenty
second St, New York. He is ad-
mitted 10 be the greatest housing ex-
pert in the world and has given as
sistance 10 the framing OF housing
laws for other states. the best Of
which are adapted from his model
housing law" 10 suit the different
needs. conditions, property values,
etc. OF different localities.
Housing laws all require that
every room must have at least one
window. as the dark. unventilated
room is the worst evil OF bad hous-
/ ing That light may enter these
3 windows IL is necessary 10 prevent
I the crowding OF other buildings
against them. so a certain space
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-29

be controlled only by law. and hous-
ing laws deal only with the most
vital essentials necessary to decency
and safety
There is no housing law in the
country that requires more than the
minimum standards necessary for
safety, as conceded by sanitarians,
architects, legislators and property
owners. They all craze the danger
line, and everything below is a
menace TO the community.
Above the line of the law is a
great deal of bad housing, including
every variety of discomfort and in
convenience. to say nothing of other
things abhorrent to the architect,
that untouched by law, can only DO
prevented or cured by grace.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-29

The area devoted 10 the cultiva-
ton oftobacco in the United States
in 1915 was 1,36S,400 acres. The
production of tobacco was 1,O6O.-
$4,000 pounds, and the farm value
on Dec 1. 1915, $96,O41.O
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-29

The individual builder. the public
sentiment, the civic spirit of the
community, must be looked to for
all housing betterment that cannot
be dealt with by law. Public senti-
ment, however, needs a great deal
Of education. and a great deal Of
prOdding, 10 stand for even the
lowest essentials, and to demand the
enactment and enforcement of hous-
ing laws Wherever they are found
IL shows n triumph of public senti-
ment.
What must we think, then. Of the
states that have none?
Even in the states that have
housing laws only a limited part Of
the population is protected. Only a
few OF our large cities have a mod
Ell housing law" covering every
place of human habitation. whether
a single detached house or a ''mul-
tiple DWELLING" The others are
tenement laws, and most Of these
apply to cities of a certain class.
In Indiana our tenement law
takes in houses containing two or
more" families in our 100 cities. Il
has not yet been extended to our
towns. The law passed by our re-
/ cent legislature applies TO every
I place of habitation in the entire
state. If it be unsafe or insanitary.
but does not deal with the construc-
! ton Of houses hereafter erected.
Still. as il covers every inch q In
diana soil. IL gives protection the
/ entire population.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-29

A novel treatment Of the
end of the living room is OBJ
tanned by arranging the fire
place beside the stairs, and
placing seat or a coat
closet at the other end of the
mantel. The home contains
seven rooms, with bath, a
welI-lighted attic, ice room,
combination stairs from
kitchen and living room,
basement under entire house
and grade entrance to the
basement. The second floor.
containing three rooms. is
optional. no changes being
required upon the exterior.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-29

Perhaps it's speak the value artistic
everybody admits it. But everybody that
too saves time cleaning and strength Old matted
hold o a crisp prevent
the small particles setting These rugs have the all wool
nap that gives both elasticity strength They
firmly that good The cOlOE
used chosen for their original beauty and for
lasting qualities Of
will harm them patterns
this grade o
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-29

bedroom necessity; yes and JOY But when the
contains pecoSter bed dresser chere and dressing table
when carefully fashioned rich dull rubbed
mahogany the pleasure yet greater We call attention
the exceenceS We will do that when you in
Just dressing with its hapy legs and exquisite
triple These the points that indicate the good of both
the cabinet maker and the buyer.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
MARKET NEWS

Liverpool, March 20.-Wheat mar
ket very firm with America. General
demand better with arrivals moder-
ate. Corn strong with light American
offers and scarcity of Argentine Of
fers. Consumptive demand good.
Oats strong with good demand for
spot Arrivals moderate and conti-
mental absorption large. American
offers very firm and Argentine offers
moderate offers and the advance
abroad. Supplies inadequate with ad-
mixture arrivals decreasing.
Worlds visible: Bradstreets -
Wheat decrease 4.823,O00 bushels.
Corn increase $4,000. Oats decrease
Argentine-Weather unsettled in
parts Of the south and this is favora-
BILE for corn. Wheat offers are light
and strongly held with the cash situa-
ton acute. Oats are not offered as
holders are very reserved: freights
strong.
Russia-Weather and crop advices
favorable. Stocks are reported light
in all accumulative centers and Ia
mine exists broadly.
Italy-Weather unfavorable, wet
and cold.
Germany-It is reported all neu-
trail supplies are decreasing rapidly
and the prospects for new harvest are
none too good.
Austria = Private advices report
food shortage acute.
Chicago, March 20.-It was said
some of the big eastern speculators
have been caught short on wheat and
corn and have been covering for sew
eral days. 1t is also the floor talk
!! that one of the largest of the eastern
traders who has made large profits in
cotton has not started to cover, on
the old theory, a bull market on Mon
day is likely to be followed by bear
winter wheat market. There was
sc, 100000 bushels wheat in the Unit
ed States March available for export
the next four months and the carry
over into the new crop as estimated
by B. Frank Howard.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
PRICES ADVANCE
ON SETTLEMENT

Chicago. March 1s.-Decided ad-
vances today in the value of wheat fol-
lowed the railway strike settlement
and the supreme court decision that
the Adamson eight-hour law was con-
stitutional. Prices closed strong, 1-2
o. 1-sc net higher, with May at
$1.sS S@1.ss 1-S and July $1.58 1850
1853 1-2. Corn gained / 71S@3c;
oats S-4@78c, and provisions 27c to
$1.15.
Demand from would-be purchasers
was checked by uncertainty over the
increasing destruction of American
shipping in the war zone.
One of the factors which in the last
hour lifted the wheat market to the
highest level of the day was an un-
confirmed rumor of serious disturb
ances IN Germany. A substantial de-
crease in the United States visible sup
ply total counted likewise in favor of
higher prices.
Corn advanced to new high price
records. Oats rose with other grain.
Southern call for cash oats was keen.
Sharp gains in provisions accompa-
MED the improvement in the rail situ-
alton. Scarcity of hog arrivals form
ed another stimulus to buyers. May
pork, lard and ribs went to the top
most prices yet. e.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
lIMPLY? we'll, DON'T Be!
People Notice 1t. Drive Them Oh
with DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

A pimply face will not embarrass you
much longer if you get package OF Dr.
Edwards Olive Tablets. The skin
should begin to clear after you have
taken the tablets few nights.
Cleanse the blood, the bowels and the
liver with DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets,
the successful substitute for calomel-
there's never any sickness or pain after
taking them.
which calomel does, and just as effec..
tiyely, but their action is gentle and
safe instead of severe and irritating.
No one who takes Olive Tablets is
ever cursed with "a dark brown taste,,".,
a bad breath, dull, hstless, mo good
feeling, constipation, torpid liver, bad
disposition or pimply face:
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets are. a
purely vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil; you will know them by their
olive color. .............
DR.. Edwards spent years among pa;
tients afflicted with liver and bowel
complaints, and Olive Tablets are the
Immensely effective result. ..
Take one or two nightly for a week
See how much better you feel and look
ioc and Csc per box. All druggists.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
A DAGGER
IN THE BACK

That's the woman's dread when she
gets up in the morning to start the
days work. "Oh! how my back
aches!" GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil
Capsules taken today eases the back
ache of tomOrrow-taken every day
ends the backache for all time. Don't
delay. What's the use of suffering?
Begin taking GOLD MEDAL HARLEM
Oil Capsules today and be relieved to-
morrow. Take three or four every
day and be permanently free from
wrenching, distressing back pain. But
be sure to get GOLD MEDAL. Since
1896 GOLD MEDAL HARLEM OIL has
been the National Remedy of Holland.
the government of the Netherlands
having granted special charter au-
thortzing Its preparation and sale The
housewife Of Holland would almost az
soon be without bread as she would
without her Real Dutch Drops" a.
she quantity calls GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules. This, 10 the
one reason why you will find the
women and children Of Holland 90
sturdy and robust.
GOLD MEDAL are the pure. orig
inal. Harlem OIL Capsules imported
direct from the laboratories in Haar-
lem. Holland. But be sure to get
GOLD MEDAL. Look for the name
on every box. Sold by reliable dru9.
gtsts in sealed packages at 2sc, 500
and 800. Money refunded II they
do not help you. Accept only the
GOLD MEDAL All others are imi.
tations-Adv.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
Why We Have Tired,
Worn-out Nerves and Thin
Blood in the Springtime.
(By DR.. s. w. Bower.)

(By DR.. 8. w. Bower.)
At this time of the year most people
suffer from a condition often called
Spring Fever. They feel tired, worn
out, before the day is half thru.
They may have frequent headaches
and sometimes "pimply" or pale
shut up within doors. eating too
much meat and too little green vege-
tables. one heaps fuel into the sys-
tenn which is not burned up and the
clinkers remain to poison the system
"a clogging up of the circulation,
with inactive liver and kidneys.
The best means to oil the machin-
cry of the body. put tone into the
liver, kidneys and circulatory sys-
tenn. is to first practice good house.
cleaning. l know of nothing better
up Of May apple, leaves of aloe and
jalap This is commonly sold by all
druggists as DR.. Pierces Pleasant
Pellets, and should be taken at least
once week to clear the twenty-five
feet of intestines.
For an invigorating tonic which
will clarity the blood, put new life
in the body. sparkle to the eyes, and
a wholesome skin, nothing does SO
wen dS Rlycerlc nerD extract made
from Golden Seal root, Blood and
Stone root, Oregon grape root and
Wild cherry bark. This can be had
in convenient ready -to-use form at
all drug stores, in tablets or LIQUID,
and has been sold for the past fifty
years as DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. BY reason of the nerves
feeding on the blood, when the blood
is pure the nerves feel the effect
and neuralgia or other nerve pains
disappear because such pain is the
cry OF the starved nerves for food
Adv.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
Good Old H0r,e-Made
Family Cough Remedy
/ Much Better than the Ready.
Made Kind-Easily and
Cheaply Prepared.
|
Observation-Disclosures

If you combined the curative proper
ties Of every known ''ready-maded cough
remedy, you would hardly have in them
all the curative power that lies in this
simple Nhome, made. cough syrup which
Get from any druggist 21a ounces Of
Pine1 $50 cents WORTHY, pour it into q
pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain
granulated sugar syrup. The total cost
ls about "a cents and gives you a full
pint of really better cough syrup than
you could buy ready made for $3.50.
Tastes pleasant and never spoils.
j.. This Pinex and sugar syrup prepara-
tion gets right at the cause of cough
and gives. almost immediate relief. It
!oosens the phlegm, stops the nasty
throat tickle and heals the sore, irri-
tated membranes that line the throat.
chest and bronchial tubes, 60 gently
and easily that it is really astonishing.
A days use will usually overcome the
ordinary cough and for bronchitis.
Group, whoopinR cough. and bronchial
asthma, there is nothing better.
Pinex is most valuable concentrated
compound of genuine Norway pine ex-
tract, combined with guaiacol and has
been used for generations to break up
TO avoid disappointment, be sure to
4sk your druggist for ."2h ounces of
Ptnex" with full directions, and don't
accept anything else. A guarantee Of
absolute satisfaction or money prompt
II refunded, goes with this preparation.
The Plnex Co., IT. Wayne, Ind.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
HIGHER PRICE ON
KILLING CATTLE

South st. Paul, Mimi, March 1s.-
Estimated receipts at the Union
Stock Yards today:
Cattle. 100; calves, 800; hogs. 81
900; sheep. 200.
Cattle-Prices on killing stuff were
generally. a, dime higher than the
close of the week. The embargo on
live stock put into effect last week
markets. .~
Hogs-A wonderful recovery in
hog prices was effected on the mar
ket here today, values being boosted
20 to 80 cents. Two loads Of good
heavy stuffs cashed $14.70, 15c higher
than the previous best mark. SASS,
paid on March 10,
Sheep-Two decks of feeding lambs
and load Of fat lambs. comprised
about everything in the local sheep
house today. A few odd head Of
sheep sold at steady prices compared
to last week.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20

London, March 19.-Lieut. Gen.
Jan Christian Smuts has arrived in
England to represent South Africa at
the coming imperial war conference.
General SHUTS was recently made a
prtvy councillor.
The imperial government acceded
to South Africa's request that Cen
eral SHUTS be sent instead of Gen.
eral Botha, owing to the necessity for
the latter's presence at the ap-
preaching session Of the South Afri-
can parliament.
According to General SHUTS, the
campaign on the east African front
is virtually at an end. He declares
that after the rainy season in March
and April the Germans will be OBJ
liged to surrender or enter Portu-
guese territory. where the Portu-
guese are ready to deal with them.
The new privy councillor also says
that he shudders to think what would
happen II any part Of the territory
taken were given. back to Germany.
The native population has stood by
the British throughout. All the Afri-
can colonies would be aghast, he
says. at the idea of returning the ter
ritory and British prestige would
suffer materially.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
SLIGHT DROP IN
MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT

Minneapolis. March 2o-May wheat
3-8c lower, July wheat 1 1-Sc low
er. September wheat lac lower COM
pared with yesterdays final quota.
tions. The wheat market has been
Of a scalping character all through
the session and some sharp changes
within rather narrow limits have TAX
en- place. There was show of
its appearance and all Of the bulge
was lost with final trades from to
3-8c below yesteeday. Commission
houses bought some wheat on the
setback. Political news serves to
keep the market very nervous and
traders are apprehensive and watch
Ing developments very closely.
Clearances Of wheat and flour were
liberal equalling 1,214,000 bushels.
There was a better demand for cash
wheat and more mills were operating
with switching service considerably
improved.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
TRACY HEARING IS
DELAYED FOR LAWYER

Seattle, WASH. March 1s.-Carl
Clapp, superintendent Of the Everett,
Wash, water department., has been
called to the stand as a witness for
the prosecution in the trial of Thomas
H. Tracy. charged with the murder Of
Deputy Sheriff jefferson Beard, when
the noon adjournment was taken.
The afternoon session was cancel
led without warning because George
F. Vanderveer, associate counsel for
Tracy, had been called to testify in the
federal court as q witness for Mayor
Gill, under trial for conspiracy. Clapp
will go on the stand again tomorrow.
Tracy was a member of the so-call-
ed ''Free Speech" expedition sent from
the Industrial Workers Of the World
headquarters in Seattle on the steam
er Verona, to hold meetings on street
corners in Everett, where such meet
ings had been forbidden by city ordi
nance. The men on the steamer and
the sheriff and posse engaged in a
pistol fight at the city dock, and sew
en- were killed.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
NO SPECIAL CORPS
FOR MACHINE GUNS
in THE JAP ARMY

Toxic, March 2o.-Although the
use of machine guns has been adopt
ed in the Japanese army since the
close Of the Russo-Japanese war in
1905. there exists at present no special
machine gun corps. The Japanese
army authorities having recognized
the importance of special corps for
machine guns have decided to or
ganize nine such corps, to be attach
ed to each army division, a corps be-
Ing provided with eight guns. Com
pared with the systems of the French
and German army, where each regi-
ment Is provided with nine machine
gun corps (each corps with six guns)
the present plan is inferior in
strength but the army authorities ex-
pect eventually to bring the corps up
to the European standard.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-03-20
METHOD
WORKS SMOOTH
No Unavoidable Delay is Made
in Dealing With Neutral Ship
ping in English Ports.

London, March Correspond
ence of the Associated Press. t-The
government committee appointed to
inquire whether any avoidable de-
lay Is caused by the methods adopted
for dealing with shipping" in exercis-
ing the belligerent right Of search
and inspection, has just made its re-
have been unable to discover that,
consistently with the effective exer-
else of belligerent rights, there is any
avoidable delay caused by the existing
methods Of dealing with ships and
cargoes brought into port under the
order in council of March IL, 1915.
and we have no suggestions to offer
for the Improvement Of those meth
ods."
The report tells just how the ma
chinery of search and inspection
works in the case Of neutral ships.
Most OF this machinery is in the hands
of the admiralty committee for the
diversion of ships in war time. This
committee is notified promptly of par
ticulars concerning the arriving ships
and Of the quantity and nature OF the
cargo to be discharged or examined,
and assigns the ship to the most suit
able port.
THE system, though elaborate and
complicated. in practice works
smoothly" says the report of the in
vestigating committee. "It originated
in the fact that methods of search
sanctioned by usage in the past are
now impracticable, and that the evil
dence which, in the shape of docu-
ments carried on the ships, the neu-
trail shipowner and t.ader were re-
quired to provide, has been robbed by
changed conditions of much of its
value. Other evidence or guarantees,
therefore, must be forthcoming If the
rights of the belligerent are to be
preserved.
This system has been so construct
ed as to furnish facilities by which,
If he is disposed to avail himself Of
them, the neutral can provide such
evidence or guarantees, and so be as
sured of the minimum disturbance of
his trade.
ut was not to be expected that a
system which has developed as the
necessity arose should have worked
we'll from the beginning. Until it was
complete there were undoubtedly
stages at which delay took place. The
congestion at the ports Of discharge,
which Is persistent source of delay,
is consequent upon a state of war. So
long as that congestion exists it's ef-
fects must be felt by ships brought in
under orders in council as by all 9TH
ers; but they are dealt with in their
turn and given at least equal facili-
ties"