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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-08-01

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newspaper. Say News Times.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-08-01
July 1917 by South Bend Chamber of Commerce.
Facts Worth Knowing
About South Bend

SOUTH BEND located point
Joseph
its South Bend and norhward to
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-08-01

AREA: CITY proper 1914 square miles.
altitude 30 feet
ASSESSED VALUATION. Real estate.
Improvements. personal property S32.15S,72C.
CITY DEBT: Bonded debt. ...,..S449. 500
Sinking fund ..... 4O,2S4
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-08-01

PASSENGER SERVICE steam ana eleC
trio roads provide about lao trains dally-5o
in and 20 out
WATER SUPPLY: The city's watSr suppiN
is drawn from about 100 artesian wells Plant
valuation. $1,000. $4,000 Normal pumpins
capacity for a hours 24OO0.OO0 gallons
South Bend drinks and puts OUT fires WITH
pure cold. sparkling water that is the envy
Of less fortunate cities
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08
MEAN POLITICS.

Charles City Press: The demo-
Gratis in congress voted solidly
against the Roosevelt volunteer pro-
position. 1t is small politics, Of
course, but it seems to be ever pre-
sent even in a crisis. Gen. Logan,
in his review of the civil war, says
that the rebellion could have been
crushed Immediately after the first
call for troops had it not been for
the stubborn, arrogant, jealous and
selfish disposition of General Hal
leck, the war chief. All readers of
history know he halted and hedged
Gen. Grant about even after his
startling victory at TT. Donaldson.
This, of course, was the petty mar
of one man, but when the
solid vote of a party is cast against
one whom the entire nation knows
to possess merit, and the popular res
ponse to his suggestion for volun-
teer army to the French front in an
endorsement of his purpose, then it
becomes purely party politics.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08
Honor To Our Soldier Boys.

Williams Enterprise: The Will
Jams band and large delegation of
our people were at the depot Monday
morning to honor and wish God
speed to the brave boys who have en-
listed in the service of the nation. OF
the four young men who went to
Fort Dodge last week to enlist, three
of them, S. Haggart, Harold Wilkin-
son and Ralph Rolling were able to
pass, Frank Willie being rejected be-
cause of defective knee. As the
boys were ordered to Omaha Monday
to undergo further examination be-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

t h honor extended to these
young men is abundantly reflected
on the parents, brothers and sisters,
whose loyalty and devotion to duty
to the nation enables them to make
the supreme sacrifice. The mother
love for her boy is assuaged in grief
at the parting, but underneath it all
there lies the proud feeling Of hon
or for her brave soldier boy that
nothing else can give. And when the
victory is won, when the homeward
march is sounded, there need be no
fear that the Williams boys have not
won not only honor in the eyes OF
their loved ones, but throughout all
this great nation.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08
MISSING THE POINT.

Davenport Times: Some OF the
congressman who are arguing for the
volunteer system miss entirely the
point in the proposal of the admins
tration. At the beginning, of course,
if the president calls for volunteers,
these will rush forward in great
numbers.
But--and this is the danger-the
volunteers very probably will include
men who are more needed at home,
because of their training for produc-
tive purposes, than they are needed
for the army where they would have
to begin as inexperienced men.
The selective CONSUMPTION plan is
an effort to place the right man in
the right place-to put the man
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08
ENGLISH GIRLS AD-
D|cTED TO CIGARETTES

London, April 25.-Letter to the
Freeman Tribune From J. w. Pegler,
U. P. Correspondent: English girls
are so hopelessly addicted to cigar
cites that psychologists fear the ma
|tion will have to pay the price in a
generation of rickety, weedy chill
dren. The long-bearded sages may
be right in what they say but nobody
seems to care. Falling birth-rate and
the fearful national consequences of
infant mortality impress the public
mind far less than two-cent rise on
a popular brand of cigarettes.
An athletic young woman who
tames American horses for army
|remounts, claims she can quit smok-
ing whenever she wants to. So far
lit seems she hasn't wanted to quit
for she outsmokes her own brother
who spends his time in the trenches.
When this girl began war work she,
was knitting soX for soldiers and it
was not until she began tanning hor-
ses that she fell for the kind the
Grand Duke smokes
No man who knows enough to take
his spoon out of his cup will think
|of passing the ladies when he offers
cigarettes with after-dinner coffee.
He is bound to give them chance
to turn down the proffered pill, if
ANY of them are non-smokers. Women
|smoke as much as men in the restau
rants and in the lounge-rooms Of ho-
|tels.
Maybe that would appear to be a
mere foible of the girls. But it isn't.
Though there is still some natural
timidity about smoking on the street,
it is nothing unusual to observe a
number of girls seated in the subway
smoking-cars with cigarettes at their
lips.
Several government offices and
business firms employing girl clerks
have set aside smoking rooms for
their benefit and in the tea-rooms
scattered everywhere about London,
women patronize the smoking room
almost as regularly as do the men.
Before the war it was the polite
thing to ask whether the ladies OBJ
jected if the men smoked. Today a
physician in munition-making area
reports that fourteen girls have come
to him for treatment for tobacco
heart. His investigation proved to
him that women and girls of every
class are addicted to the cigarette
habit. Munition girls even smoke
pipes and the prevalence of the to-
bacco-craving is indicated by the fact
that in three weeks women munition
workers paid total fines of $3.50 for
carrying matches on their clothing
while at work in dangerous factories.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

fore being accepted, two other young
men, Neal Shane and Howard Hurd,
decided to join them, and the five
left at 10 o'clock that day. Neal
and Howard took the examination at
Ford Dodge where the other three
had to apply for their papers, the
five of them expecting to get out of
Omaha together. The two, however,
found the truck drivers corps already
filled. and as they did not care to
join some other arm Of the service,
they returned on the afternoon train,
leaving only three to resume the
journey.
The boys were sent to Fl. Logan,
about twelve miles southwest of Den
yer, Colo, for training in the infan-
try division. their enlistment being
for the term of the war.
Too much honor can not be con-
ferred on these young men, and the
people of Williams are justly proud
of the step they have taken in de-
tense of the flag. And while Frank
was unable to pass the required test,
no less honor is extended him for his
to serve that same en-
blem.
While it is a heart rending exper-
fence for the parents and near rela-
tives to give up these boys, and while
the sympathy of every man and wo-
man is extended them in their grief.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

where he can do the greatest service
for his country.
There isn't any fear about being
able to get an army at the beginning
The fear is that in SO doing the very
necessary life of the nation will be
disrupted.
+ When the British tried volunteers
they discovered in the army at the
front men they had to have at home
to keep things running in the right
way, and they finally sent them
home,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08
ANOTHER DANIEL.

Franklin County Recorder: "Whis-
key is a good thing in its place." says
a judge of the supreme court of Mis-
sissippi in an official opinion. There
is nothing like it for preserving a
man when he is dead. If you want
to keep a dead man, put him in
whiskey;if you want to kill a live
man put whiskey into him." A Dan
iel come to Judgment.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

Bro. Fuller of the Lehigh Argus
has just added fine new linotype
machine to his office equipment, the
paper heretofore having been set by
hand, The Argus is one of the good
small town weeklies which come to
our exchange table and we congratu-
late our neighbor on this evidence OF
prosperity and progress.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08
ALWAYS IN ACTION.

Times Republican: Better turn
Colonel Roosevelt loose with COM
mission % raise brigade. He'd
raise it in day by telegraph. There
are thousands on thousands who'd
jump to enlist with Teddy; for where
he is there's always action.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

Miss Ruth Mertz, who recently re-
signed her position in the Victor ten
cent store, has accepted the place
behind the candy counter In the
Woolworth store and will begin her
new duties the middle OF NEXT week.
Miss Mertz fills the vacancy made by
the resignation of Miss Martha
Burns, who IL going to Ames TO live.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

What has become of all those sub
marine chasers we have read so much
about? 1t is time they got into the
chasing business with vengeance.
the chasing at present.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08
WHAT TEDDY WAErS.

Waterloo Courier: j. has been
suggested that Theodore Roosevelt
be sent at the head of a commission
to Great Britain and France. File
on your talk! Teddy wants to fight.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08
REAL PATRIOTISM.

Rudolph Blankenburg, former
mayor of Philadelphia, native of
Germany, recently gave expression to
the following genuine patriotic SEN
timents, which, the Freeman-Tri-
bune believes, is heartily endorsed by
90 per cent of American citizens of
German birth or extraction:
"The President has spoken. Con-
gress is about to declare state of
war exists between our country and
the German empire!
''In this hour of stress and strife it
behooves all citizens of German birth
or descent to declare their unflinch-
ling allegiance to the country Of their
adoption, and to show by word and
deed that they are true and unfalt-
ering Americans. Deeply distressed
as we are that the century old
friendly relations between the Faith
erland and our great republic have
been severed; much as we deplore the
circumstances that have led to this
unavoidable step, our duty is plain.
We have sworn troth to the flag and
we shall follow the flag, ready to do
our duty.
"We sought home in the new
world and found it. We are invited
and welcomed under the Declaration
of Independence, under the Constitu-
ton and under the laws that assure
us equal rights with those who had
come before u.s. Now let us show
that we are worthy Of that high
privilege, that we are worthy of AM
erican citizenship h e priceless
boon of mankind.
"On attaining citizenship we fore
swore fealty to the potentate under
whose scepter we were born; feal-
ty which we disowned, for we abhor-
ed being slavish subjects of king or
prince when liberty beckoned us from
beyond the sea and offered us equal
lily among all men. This, therefore,
is our home, the country of our
choice. To its honor and defense. We
hedge our all.
eve still love the country of our
|origin, We cherish the old tireside,
the ties of affection and friendship
bind us to family and home. We
hope and pray that ere long peace
shall return and good will take the
place of enmity and contention in
this war-ridden world. By cordial co.
operation, on the part of all, this
happy hour will be fastened.
ITO the President and to our COM
mon country we send greetings. Our
acts will show how we condemn and
scorn the "hyphen," so unjustly be-
slowed upon us as a class. We are
not German-Americans, But Ameri-
cans of German birth or descent, and
as Americans we shall live and, if
need be, die"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

There is no question but that all
the warning nations Of Europe have
had enough of the fight and they are
all anxious for peace if peace could
only be honorably secured, from the
standpoint of each.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

Judge Benjamin T. Salinger has
sued the Des Moines Capital for libel,
feeling that he has been wounded to
the extent of $4,000. Ben should be
a good sport. He who enters the po-
litical arena should be able and will
ing to accept punishment as we'll as
deliver it-Iowa Falls Citizen.
1t is all right to be sport in
politics and take fair thrusts good
naturally. But the real sport will not
stand meekly by when his charact-
err is assailed.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

It is not likely that revolution
will occur in Germany unless the
army meets a crushing defeat in the
field. But if such should occur it
will be a fierce one and result in
much bloodshed.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

Five year old Raymond Johnson,
who sustained mastoid operation at
Mercy hospital a week ago, was able
to return home to Jewell Friday.
The child's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Magnus Johnson, came up and ac-
companied him home.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

Just one thing stands in the way
of an early peace and that is the
submarine. If the submarine could
be disposed Of the central powers
could not hold out till next winter
This is the Judgment of the best
military critics in the world.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

The Canadian troops on the west
ern front are proving themselves the
best soldiers in Europe. There are
only half a million of them but they
are making big dents in the linden
burg line.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

Recognizing that President Will
sons address before Congress on
April End is a document that will go
down in history among the noblest
ntterances of the worlds statesmen,
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway has reprinted it in pamphlet
form. They shave also reprinted on
a small ones sheet poster the Presi-
dents industrial message to the ma
tion. Both pieces Of literature will
be distributed through the represen-
tatiyes of the railway company.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

The United States can be of little
some method is found to combat the
submarine. The undersea terror is
doing deadly destruction and it will
succeed in isolating England and
France unless a way is discovered to
neutralize its effects. 1t is useless to
talk of building ships as fast as
they can be sunk, because Germany
can build more submarines and un-
less way can be devised to destroy
them it is only matter of time I'M
til they will clear the seas of all sur
face floating ships. This is the great
problem of the war.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

Not in the elamor of the crowded
street.,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the
throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and de-
feat. Anon
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

The fellow who is talking discour-
agingly of the part America is to take
in the war and are saying that our
allies across the sea are no more
worthy of our assistance than are our
foes, is doing something to encour-
age the enemy. This is no time for
such talk. If these men really want
to see the United States lose, and are
too cowardly to help its enemies OPP
emily, they are pursuing a course to
assist in that result, though it will
assist but little, yet little assistance
is all our enemies can hope for from
little men.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

No man can hit the bulls eye ev-
cry time he shoots, but the more sim
cere his aim the surer his game.
High average comes from constant
practice and fixed determination
to succeed. Kept the right thought
back of your ammunition,-A. Boost
ar
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

Oh, how bitter thing it is to look
into happiness through another
mans eyes!-"As You Like It.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

Who in life's battle firm doth stan(
Shall bear hopes tender blossoms
Into the silent land!
j. G. Won Sails
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

General Joffre says an American
army would do world of good in
France. The great soldier does not
believe a big force necessary. 10000
would do. Such an army under the
flag of the United States would
hearten the soldiers who have been
fighting grimly and courageously for
nearly three years. Why not per-
nit Col. Roosevelt to raise division
for immediate duty in France? He
wants to do it and large majority
of the American people want him to
have the chance. Only one thing
stands in the way-the selfish parts
anship of the democratic majority
in the national house Of representa-
tives.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

1t is time to stop slapping traitors
upon the wrist and give them sam
pie of what they would get were
they in the country in whose inter-
est they are sacrificing the interests
of the United States, and should seek
to sacrifice the interests of that
country. The United States govern
ment is altogether too lenient with
spies and central power sympathizers
who are caught in acts calculated
to give aid and comfort to the en-
envy. This country is free only to
the law-abiding. 1t can never be
free in any other sense.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08
DEPORT condition
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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

sacrifices as are necessary to secure
victory. This is not the time to talk
of economy Of dollars. No money
should be wasted, of course. Every
dollar must be made to do one humid
red cents worth Of service and the
dollars must come from the people
in train loads. Great Britain has al
ready expended $20,O00,000,000, or
25 per cent of her total wealth. If
the United States reaches that high
figure it means the expenditure of
better than s50,000,000,0O0. Are
you ready to sacrifice? The Free
Tribune believes you are.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08


1t requires something of a start
ling character to arouse the Ameri-
can people to the seriousness of the
conditions that confront them. Many
are still contented in fancied secur-
ity Notwithstanding the disquieting
reports coming from Russia and from
the submarine zone of activity. If
Russia succumbs to the blandish-
ments of the kaiser, which is among
the possibilities, yea among the
probabilities, the United States will
have to do all she possibly can to
help her allies win this war. More
over, if Germany's undersea craft is
not checked in it's crusade against
the worlds shipping England will
be brought to her knees before an
other winter. These are most Sc
rious problems to be met and the
people of this country must put their
houses in order and prepare their
minds for many hardships and great
sacrifices. If Russia quits the war
the food and supply question of Ger
many and her allies will be settled.
They can get all they need if not all
they want. The situation confront
ing England and France has not been
$50 serious during the war, not even
when the German forces were near
ling the gates of Paris and when the
French government had fled from the
|capital. True, the British and French
are making steady gains on the west
|erh front, but they cannot keep up
the pace unless ways and means to
provision them are maintained and
they cannot be indefinitely maintain
led in the face of the destruction now
being wrought by the submarines. 1t
is time for the American people to
become alarmed over the outlook and
offer every encouragement and sup
port to the government in all meas
ures for defense and offense. Stand
shoulder to shoulder against the en-
envy. This advice is especially d.
|rected at democratic members of the
national house of representatives
who showed by their attitude toward
Roosevelt's request to raise an army
that they are so small that they
cannot bury politics even in the face
of the peril that confronts the ma
tion.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08


Why wouldn't it be wise thing
to send a few regiments of soldiers
from the United States to Russia, as
suming that the Russians would con-
sent? True, the great empire is not
in need of men. 1t now has more
men than it can equip. But a few
thousand soldiers from America in
the uniforms of the United States
would have most salutatory effect.
1t is likely that enough natives of
Russia now naturaliZed American
citizens would be glad to go upon
such mission to make it formidable.
They would be loyal to their adopted
country and could have much influ-
ence upon the people of Russia. Pos
sibly nothing could be done that
would have more far-raaching results
in holding that great country
against making separate peace.
There are thousands of naturalizeG
citizens of the United States who fled
from Russia to escape the tyranny of
the car. They are of the more in
telligent and courageous class and
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-05-08

Round up every I. w. w. inside of
thirty days and put him to work. If
he will not work, take him out and
shoot him. Don't put him in Jail to
loaf away the time and eat up what
honest and industrious defenders Of
the flag must have to live. Give him
q dose Of the destruction he has been
preaching to get revenge on the boss
es. The loafer is traitor and the
average l. w. w. is loafer and a
criminal at that.-Manson Demo-
|crat.
Jack Dalton is rather severe in his
methods to induce the Weary Willies
to work, but there are some who
would accept his treatment before
they would consent to steady labor.
1t isn't right that the loafer from
choice should eat the substance that
rightfully belongs to those who
work. 1t would hardly do, however,
to kill him off He might be seq
regated and fed on cheap rations.