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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
Other Editors Than Ours
ON SHOOTING ONES DAUGHTEft.
Nov York Evening MnIil

Down on Staten Island on Sunday there was enacted
little tragedy that should think.
tried to kill his child failed and killed himself He
maniac. just victim of the economic system
in which live system of the devil take the hind
most When sickness came upon him, he was one
of the hindmOst. SO the devil took him.
His name was Thomas Newhort and his daughter
Agnes years old. He told her in the early
morning that if it wasn't for leaving her alone in the
world. he would end il all She frightened. So
from his bureau drawer she fed from the room. lie
fired shots after her, missed He had decided
not to leave her alone the world. When she came
back with policeman. her father dead
The the plain. the the hive the ants
i'm hill all together IL is the wolves in the
pack who turn upon a fallen comrade and rend him.
Is modern society much better than that? Thomas
NewhOrt had fallen victim TO rheumatism, which had
compelled him to his business. \ ago he
ing Of Distress but the aid did not Surrounded
oy demonstrations of the vast organized power OF
society he left unorganized individual to fight
alone at a time when his earning power was gone In
the blackness despair. the abyss Of he
told struggle with disease alone.
Think OF the mighty power TO fight disease which
we possess today Shall that power available only
for the wealthy classes Baths and scientific treatment
would have restored Thomas NewhOrt health. 1t
would have given him his back, his earning
power. Agnes would have grown up in a home with
La father to guide her The treatment which Thomas
Newhort needed should have his out of
charity. 1t should have his a rightfu return
for the contributions which he. his earning days
made for social insurance fund designed for
just such things
Not only Thomas Newhort has failed. You and
ana All VINO ought 10 nave been organized 70 hep
failed The social organization failed
Is time for drop this selfish aissez faire
policy of the devil take the hndmost?' If have
leadership capable OF rising 10 meet these problems
the leadership have will be repudiated like many
leaders of the past.
cruelty of this social order turned Thomas New
hort's love for his daughter into attempted murder.
Because he loved her he chose leave her alone
in the world he voluntarily quitting If are
careful other natural sentiments will be turned
their opposites in of Thomas Newhorts class.
country belief leadership in religion
IN fare and upffN ont
system which treats the worker like orange
Ito be sucked dry and thrown aside
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
OTHER PEOPLE MAY THINK
THE SAME AS YOU.

Do you estimate people from the
point OF their greatest merit or the
point Of greatest deficiency?
If you are looking for the weak
spots. YOU have poor eyes, indeed, II
YOU do not find many.
The weak spots become holes
with very little poking. sometimes
II YOU think that so and So" has
rooms TO rent in his brain store
house. il does not so far toward
helping To supply his need by tell
ing about il.
Everybody is looking for a chance
10 better his or her condition by
filling a vacancy--in fact, it is much
easier TO take advantage OF the lack
in another than TO make an oppor-
uunitv out OF whole cloth
Instead OF scanning every one YOU
meet for the imperfections, try find
ing the positive virtues.
Things even up in the long chance
and sometimes the one whose in
stability seems most apparent al
first. on acquaintance proves the
falsity Of the estimate.
Look deeply before YOU dare %
make an estimate OF anyone.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
Can You More Easily Turn to Left
TT II Dill
Than to the Right

ht-handedness, or a slight differ
ence in the length, or vigor. of the
right and left legs. If there is a
cause of this kind operating. / would
suggest that il may arise from the
situation of the heart on the left
of the median line of the body
II is inconceivable that this one
sided location of the driving engine
Of the body may have some effect
upon the guiding mechanism. We
see i'm all natural phenomena the
enormous importance of "A delicate
balance Of forces and how the lack
of such balance. or an eccentric dis
position of the parts, leads TO the
most unexpected results.
But there is still another influence
at work tending 10 make things that
move in a circle round 10 the left.
if they are on the north side OF the
earth's equator, and this is the ro-
tation of the globe on its axis.
would by no means assert that this
curious force is responsible for the
peculiarities of animal locomotion
that We have been talking about,
and yet, almost infinitely, slight as
its influence must be in such cases,
that influence certainly exists, and
you are at liberty 10 ina CINE. if you
like. that a delicately organized sys-
tenn may uncOnsciously yield 10 it.
The force in question operates in
opposite directions in the two hem
| ispheres. swaying moving objects 10
right in the northern hemisphere,
and TO the left in the southern This
may seem a fiat contradiction of
hat has been said above concern
/ ing the tendency TO turn TO the left
north OF the equator. but a little
consideration will show how a right
| hand shift produces a left-hand
circIing. This is best seen in the
case Of cyclonic motions Of the at
mosphere. which swing round 20 the
left, or against the hands OF a clock,
in the northern hemisphere.
although the DETECTION produced by
the earth's rotation is toward the
| right.
/ Make a diagram Of a complete
circle or in-blowing winds tending
| toward a common center, and each
| diverted TO the right. and you will
see at once how the combination OF
/ right-hano reflections produces a
left hand circling of the entire sys-
( tenn OF winds. In an imaginary ap-
plication Of this force to explain the
| left hand circling OF a lost man in
the woods. which / suggest simply
| because OF its theoretical interest
We may suppose the right-hand
| throw" Of the rotatory force 20 be
| instinctively resisted by the muscles
so that the footsteps are gradually
/ curved away i'm the other direc-
ton, the resistance assuming the
function OF the raised outer rail OF
q railroad curve.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
MEXICO AGAIN.
Indiana TiuPSO

Reports a renewal OF strife in Mexico are par
ticularly ominous this time and if Carranza
is wise he will proceed vigorously against Villa and
his bandits which reported Saturday encr-
cling the city JuareZ the river from FL
United states will hardly feel inclined again
the forbearance toward Mexico il displayed in
the days when aSsiduously attempting 70
keep of with Germany, yet never knowing the
day when we would be compelled 10 enter that war.
OF course do wish TO take any hostile action
against Mexico now. The necessity Of curling those
unruly people would be diverted from the
French front a considerable body Of troops and we
need all the soldiers train 10 defeat Germany
the time IL may become absolutely neces-
sary protect southern border and that protection
may take the form OF punitive measures only
against villa. but against Carranzs we'll
altogether probable that Vii has secured out
side assistance in this latest foray il is extremely
other than German We have known for a
long time that Mexico honeycombed with German
agents. Many have he'd that country from the
United States especially since the declaration OF
and undoubtedly they have been active there. II
unreasonable that they have aided Villa with
counsel and with money and the result is apparent
the strengthening OF his forces which makes his
onstration against Juarez possible
While certain German agents working with Villa
others surrounding Carranza with poisonous
and feeding the flame of MeXicos sOcaed injured pride
the end that diversion be created that would
rebound 20 Germany'S benefit The United States. for
tunatey. ably represented Mexico City and If
German plans succeed will be because the
American representatives have bestirred themselves
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01

being poisoned by spies it is something to be thought
about and thought about with eyes open rather than
talked about with eyes shut South Bend is not ad-
vertisng for panic for stampede. Keep a
level head" said Priest Wilson early in the and
it is good advice still War Is a game This is
a in which everybody must play part Who
heard Of sp putting anything very meri-
torious by losing his head?
There is theory, and this too quite practical in
peace times that by keeping the public well-nformed
be made part Of the public service and that
theory the public might be taken generally into the
confidence Of the city officials this water question
but and if there be enemies in our
camp you can't very we'll keep the public generally
informed without keeping the enemies guard also.
That is why We have press censorship in war times;
voluntary censorship the main. this country. but
censorship just the same, patriotic censorship
all the more.
However, that the cat If il be cat, is out Of
the bag suppose that the thing that the
public do is keep its eyes and ears open, and
watch for the cat,-if it be
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
LITTLE B OBBIE'S PA.
By William 4. Kirk.

Pa took Ma X me in d ottomobeel
yesterday We had a long ride bee
hind a truck Pa was thinking of
buying the ottomobeel but not now.
Pa called the ottomobeel; l. w.
w; il dident work
| may buy this car. sed Pa. wen
we started out for our ride. 1t bee
longs TO old Bob Footbraik. sed Pa,
he had a milyun left to him < he
left it to Broadway, sed Pa He
needs a littel change now. sed Pa,
and / may buy this car.
I hoap you will think twise sed
Ma, beefoar you buy second
handed car. l have often thot. sed
Ma, about the first new car that you
were going TO bring rolling up TO
the house. I dident ever dreem
that you wud buy a used car
Well, We will see. sed Pa. WHARF
wur you & littel BObbie like to go
this p. m?
We mite so out to Brewster & see
Caroline. sed Ma, l have been want
ing TO see her for sum time.
Brewster it is, then sed Pa. & he
toald the driver to talk US to Brew
ster
The car went fine for little
while & Pa was talking all the time
about how butiful is mater. Fill
yure lungs with air. Bobbie. sed Pa.
& look at them golden feeds of
waving corn. sed Pa. II was in jest
such feeds that I worked wen a
boy, sed Pa. & got this fine pourful
frame of mine. strong & rugged as
this car, sed Pa. & then the car
stopped.
Now, Robbie, sed Ma. YOU can
get good look at them golden
feeds of corn. We will prubly be
rite here for quite a stretch sed
Ma if ! am not grately mistaken
We will be on our way i'm a min
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01

nit. sed Pa. it is only the spark
plug. Pa sed. Wen | put in new
spark plug we VIII be flying rite
along aggenn, sed Pa.
Are YOU sure that is what ails
this chariot? sed Ma; il seemed tc
me. sed Ma. that it went to peeces
all at onst * nothing fust. sed Ma,
like the old one CD horse shay
Do not borrow trubbel. sed Pa.
Keep cool.
That is about the eesiest thing
we can do. sed Ma, setting out here
i'm this cold fall air Bobbie. sed
Ma. do you think yure father will
rise 10 the occashun?
doant know, 1 sed / wish q
other car wud cum along.
Well, master mechanick. sed Ma
to Pa, after we had waited about
hour. how il old 999?
OF what are YOU speaking Of, sed
Pa.
The gasoleen ghost. sed Ma, that
you brOt US out in. How does it look
for Citing hoam beefoar winter
fassens its icy clutch on the land,
sed Ma
Be silent, sed Pa; can't you see
that l am faice to faice with a
crisis, sed Pa. This is no time to
jeer. sed Pa. wen | need 10 have my
wits about me & fix this here car.
K then a friend Of Pa calm along,
he was driving a big truck & he
put our car behind his truck &
brot US back TO town
All the way back Ma was laffing
about what a CRATE car our car was
& how nice it ran wen il was rum
ming after a truck.
] think it will be nicer, sed Ma
to Pa. il we buy a fonygraff & lis
sen to sweet musick insted of what
| Bobbie & me had to lissen to, sed
Ma, when you was fixing the 7. w.
w.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01

indianapolis. Nov. IS. 1917.
Editor News Times:
a statewide war conference will
be held in Indianapolis on Dec. Is
and II. This is i'm pursuance to
suggestions originating in the coun-
ell of national defense and the COM
mittee on public information at
Washington.
Ii will be a most important occa-
sion. The program is being COM
pleted and will consist of a mass
meeting at Tomlinson hall at ,
o'clock on Thursday afternoon, Dec.
! 13, which will be addressed by a
speaker of tn very highest national
reputation direct from the front. At
/ this meeting also a member Of the
national council will speak who will
be able TO give in detail the defense
program. Late that afternoon there
Will probably be sectional meetings.
At o'clock that night Thursday
there will he another mass meet
| ing for which we have been prom
| ised as a speaker a member of the
cabinet.
All day Friday, Dec. II, sectional
meetings will be held of each de
partment in the war work, includ-
/ ing food production and coHserva-
/ ton, fuel medical. Red Cross. etc.
At these sectional meetings there
will be representative of the Coun-
ell of national defense, any one of
whom would be of sufficient force
10 have addressed the joint mass
meetings OF the day previous.
The occasion will be epochal i'm
| the history of the state, and direct,
first hand information will be given
all war workers. and the entire de-
I Tense program of state and nation
/ discussed in detail.
/ IL is necessary that each county
/ take steps Immediately to have as
\ large a membership as possible
! present on these two days. The
/ entire county council should be i'm
attendance if this is at all possible:
also. the war workers generally
/ should attend from each county.
/ II is really most essential that all
I the leaders of every community in
| all of these war activities be pres
ent. Nothing in the immediate fu-
ture is as important as "A large at
| tendance of the war workers at
! these sessions.
/ The announcement of the speak
ers will be made in a few days. Sug-
| gestiOns received include DR.. Henry
/ NanDyke, former American minis
ter 10 Holland; Bishop Williams OF
! Detroit, who was sent 10 Europe
by the Red Cross and has just re-
turned, ct al. other and exact an
nouncements will be very soon for
warded.
Please give this all the publicity
possible We hope 10 have ar edi-
/ tors meeting on the second day to
which all the editors of the state
will come, and have wired George
\ CreeI himself, chairman Of the
committee on public information. to
see if he can not arrange 10 be
| here.
INDIANA STATE COUNCIL OF
DEFENSE.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
GETTING TOGETHER

IL a graceful little speech that Lloyd George
made I'm honor OF the American commissioners at the
international war conference in historic Downing st:
1T is source of great satisfaction my
colleagues and myself that this gathering Of
two nations equally educated the COM
task Of defending the liberties of the
world should take place in the very
which the statesmen of earlier and less
HEhtened period committed the bunders
which had estrangcd them
10 indeed in that very that prime min &.
lister of a half-crazy German king" committed tho
tyranncaI and understandable acts which drove tho
American colonies to rebellion and independence.
The most enlightened British statesmen or that time
recognized that the colonies right did not
fear 90 defy their usurping and declare
truth before parliament. They pointed out that tho
colonists merely asserting traditional rights
OF Engshmen. All Ensishmen who know anything at
all now accept that view a matter of course And
the British government and public alike typfy the
same spirit which animated the American revoutionsts
1875.
That's why we get along $ well today with our ira
donal enemies whom school histories have rath-
or over-zealously taught and hate We our
selves have had birth freedom and the Brit
ish have caught up with u.s.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
e @z &f&4z Z~
DECEMBER I, 1917
THE WHOLE World on THE JOB.


Nearly the whole civilized world is experiencing an
educational upheavaL From unrest has de-
veloped realization sound education neces-
sary the further progress of civilization and that
many OF the former systems of education have been
unsatisfactory. The forced home England and
France the need for educational reform. Our own
characterization problem is only phase the newly
felt need for general and thorough educational
system this country that will reach every citizen.
The uprooting of old and inefficient methods is not
confined to the hemisphere with its western
civilization. The orient has felt the for bigger.
better educational system Dr. Oshima professor in
the University Of Toxic. has expressed the Japanese
feeling and perhaps the world feeling His country
has been in its educational purposes. ne
believes. II longer be content with trying to
make good japanese citizens simply. II must teach
boys girls Ito be exemplary citizens of the
world"
Education is ne biggest force OF democracy In max
ing che world safe for democracy we must make it
sound i'm education. There are a good many problems
20 he faced right military governmental and
socia! But the educational problem is far from the
least OF these. and it soon the whole
world get down tho serious business its solution
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
Editor News-Times:

Editor News-Times:
An incident that shows the value
OF the war work which the govern
ment has placed in the hands Of
the Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION comes to US from Elk
hart.
young man enlisted in the army
in a Pacific state and. while there
in training learned of the ready
service given by the Y. W. c. A. to
all relations of the soldiers. When
the time came for him TO leave for
France he wrote 10 his mother that
his train would stop briefly in Elk
hart, Ind, the nearest point u Ter
home in northern Michigan He
told her Of his great longing 10 see
her and speak with her once more
before he went out on the long.
perilous adventure Of war. She was
not used TO travel but with a moth
er's love and courage she TOOK the
long journey 10 the strange town
and had just four minutes time TO
talk with her son. Only four
minutes. but worth all the trouble.
the expense, the planning, a thou
sand times over
The Elkhart Y. w. c. A re-
ceived the tired, little woman, kept
her over night and saw her on the
hOme-bound train at 6 a. IN. the
next day. Somewhere on another
train hurrying east, a young sol
dier's mind was easy. for his moth
er was receiving the attention she
needed as kindly given as if he
had been able 10 render it him
self. That's why the boys are hop
ing for Y. w. c. \. hostess house
in every cantOnment.
EMMA BURNETT HARRIS.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
THE MELTING POT
Come Take Pot Luck With Us"
No LACK OF INFORMATION.

They say the other half
slum
habitat
help up the working pamphlets
adv
Ialapop a vanderwhoops nignt
Descriptions of the wedding when golden unions
guests
keep quite
The trouble Know well
tradesmen tell Is % to
The mad because they're the they
breaking every one
The either
We ali how the others lvewe alas
Brook
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
RELEASING THE CAT-IE III BE A CAr-

RELEASING ] HE CAI-lF III BE CAT.
II occurs To that it about time to get this
Wholesale talk about German spies or pro Gernanism
being responsible the condition south Bend
water supply. this even though it be true Why put il
into the head of irresponsible crank To indulge in
some such enterprise We object Mayor
Keller Supt Toyne of the water department having
such idea their head. but they ought keep
there, least, give publication No
harm. would say. i'm letting reporters know
what in their minds conhdentially
Germs the puolic-and editors ought be taught
judgment than slip their
desks more than once.
Yes let the reporters know and let the press know
conhdeuually and with confidence requested the
newspapers have quite habitual keeping such
things under their hats these latter days They sup
press about twice much they print-of good
Besides these reporters such bad scuths
sometimes. They know lot more about things
than their editors and the press of the city
cooperating with the police might be considerable
in ferretng things il for the lack
90 police cooperation and decided lack Of common
sense.-on occasions numerous.
or course the basis of the old theory, quite
pratical that the less you know the more YOU think
you know" TO oe expected that a police de-
partment which thinks it knows all mainly bscause
Il dumb ass Is going concede the possibility
OF anyone else knowing much OF anything. This ques-
Of poisoned water be solved 10y police
service. with such aid of the public be
oonndentally depended upon we would say, rather
tnan BY wholesale Distribution the idea with the
suggestion "cranks" of mischief open their
indulgence.
As for ourselves we take this pro- Germanized water
a grain salt According to guess. Is
cross between the present board seeking TO &c;
from unds responsibility the condition Of the
water and the republican of the next admins
raon throwing out the lifeline with bait it TO the
uubc excuse water hazard that is to
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-01
CHAOS

Most OF the describing conditions in
Russia have made free Of the terms anarchy and
chaos" and many readers may have imagined state
confusion with the orderly processes of indus
try and commerce stopped with crime and starvation
rampant; with the nation changed a vast weller Of
amless helpless humanity; with public and private
life broken down and nothing going usual.
And if so, the readers have probably about 90
percent wrong For t..ings don't happen that way.
rational correspondent of the New York Times writes
the supposedly hopeless chaos Petrograd
Life goes in unntellgible way, defy
ing bold plots and amazing negations cheating
all prophets and battling all calculations
Trains still run, the electric light still burns
tradesmen still hand goods in return for
scraps of paper that called money and
the postman does his daily round"
It's the way with mankind. Even amid the terrors
and confusion Of the French revolution if look in
to calm histories Of that event find the bulk of the
population Paris right in che of il, eating
and sleeping and working and buying and selling and
marrying and dying naturally in their beds. to
prising degree. Any revolution talk than any
thing else