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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10
The GOAT IS RESPONSIBLE.

There is likely to be wave of reform sweeping
through the myriad lodge o. the United States
as a result Of a decision of the United States supreme
The goat is hereafter be held responsible
for his If a candidate suffers injury from the mi
tiatory rites lodge be held for damages
The decision rendered in the of a citizen of
Birmingham Ala. who died the result of a severe
electric shock received when placed on a
branding board" while being initiated into local
lodge SUIT brought by the administrators of the
victims the ground of negligence. The ma
tional officers of the lodge made defendants
along with the Birmingham officers An Alabama court
granted $4,000 damages. The federal supreme court
denied appeal and upheld the verdict. enunciang
principle that any initiation by order,
il horse play" is violent enough death
of the candidate the lodge pay damages just
any other organization person would be Obliged
TO do
Accordingly, the traditional lodge goat will
be much gentler from on.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10

haven't gone marching away Yet.
Wen YOU do so, sed Ma. it will no
dout be at the he'd of a regiment OF
braiv men that will proteck YOU
with thare lives. You reemem Der
that fortune teller. sed Ma. that
toald you you were going 10 die OF
old age.
If l so, sed Pa, 1 will die with my
face TO the foe. * a cheerful smile
on my braiv lips. Pa sed. That much
is a good bet. deerest.
That much is a gamble. sed Ma, &,
doant beleev in gambling. hoap
you will deeside 10 stay at hoam the
first yeer or so of the war. & after
that. if YOU insist on going. / will
20 with you. | can be a nurse. sed
Ma. x Bobbie can go x be a drum
mer boy. lie certingly has had
practise enuff the last few years,
SIa sed. Sumbody always has TO
give him a drum for Christmas.
If we have war. sed Pa. tnay will
no dOut have Bord OF Strategy &
I will no dOut be one of the main
offisers. sed Pa. My strategy in the
Spanish war KEEP a lot of Mister
Rusevelt's Ruffhouse Riders from
Citing plugged. l sent a note to
the Spanish offiser. Sed Pa. telling
him to tell his men 10 use blank
cartridges, & that is what thay did,
sed Pa, sum of them But the
others got excited & shot the real
shells. sed Pa, or we shud have had
a blocdless vicktery. All, well. sed
Pa, Us men that live by the sword
must die by the sword / suppoas
that maiks you shudder. deerest, sed
Pa TO Ma.
No. sed Ma. that maiks me laff,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10
"SANE TO WIN. y

The new motto of the National Housewives league,
which a million women will work for food
servation, a good for everybody 1t is save to
win.
The league is getting posters TO be put in
kitchens dining constant reminders that
there he universal service in the homes of the
nation These posters will show the motto along
with our flag Pres't Wilson's declaration that
women who produce and food doing high
patriotic service
The American housewife has been given to preparing
than enough food for every meal. Lavishness
the table of hospitality and of ability
in the kitchen AS a matter of fact it is of
art prepare enough and at the time avoid the
waste having little dabs of food left
There waste, in the preparation of food that
may seem trivial individual instances but that all
goes the general wastefuness of careless
methods in cooking.
The canning of all surplus perishable fruit and vege
tables. the utilization of ordinarily thrown away.
making every article duty, is part
Of the true saving 10 win.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10
LITTLE 30 BBIE'S PA.
By VILLA mn n. Kirk.

You look sad tonite. deerest Iuv,
sed Ma to Pa wen he calm hoam
last mite
am sad sed Pa, the wurld is
going dippy We are i'm an age of
jams, sed Pa. x the god Mars has
took of his coat & rolled up his
sleeves
Doant let this war eXsite YOU too
much, sed Ma. You were saying
the other day that yure hart felt
kind of nervous < bumpy d / doant
want by nOable protector 10 keel
oaver beefoar payday. sed Ma.
What is the matter with every =
body? sed Pa Is thare sum kind OF
a Microbe in the air that gifts into
peepurs blood and maiks them feel
like slamming thare Majors in the
kisser?
You will not have TO go at first.
deerest. sed Ma. You have seen yure
share of fiteing in yure yunger
days, if yure stories are true. *
now you can hang back q anser the
call of Duty later. wen the nice
men come around & draft you, sed
Ma
I shall prubly not wait To be
drafted, sed Pa, as my wild blood
will leep in my veins wen / hear "A
bugle. ! had planned TO spend my
last days in peace, sed Pa, & TO die
in my country hOam, surrounded by
roses & weeping trends, Pa sed. I
newer dreamed that l wud be found
staring at the sky on sum deserted
battle field.
for you TO git so existed. War is a
dredful thing, to be sure. but you
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10
WORD OF WARNING AGAINST LOOP
HOI rs FOR .CHUD-KILLERS.

= While we are at it, discussing keeping business
showing" business as usual, and the maintenance
of prosperity" along with the promotion of produc-
ton not only factory the farm. and in the
garden there are still other points concern. that
must not be The greedy the bIoodgrafter
the criminals against humanity be permitted
through this process dignity series of oopholes
through which to go plying their cussedness-and
this isn't a case % makeready lambast the liquor
trafnc either.
For
us fine TO have an this enthusiasm gardens
Mayhap it into times OF peace. It's fine
To have the boys and girls get open and
dig 1t will develop their muscles and make them
breathe good will give them the joy-deeper
and purer than any other joy-of watching nature
al her great work of creation
Bat
The serious danger which now menaces the
country is not the Prussan enemy without 1t is that
We ourselves may lose heads crisis and per-
init constructive work OF years be undOne i'm
momen,. We must also conserve humanitarian
ideals our internal Americanism must not be per-
mitted to lag.
1t is a matter O history the canning industry to
name merely exploiting childhood
history which anyone interested can easily verify
looking up reports of government state invesi-
eating By asking the child welfare
at Washington, the national child labor committee
in New York-that hardest nights
the annals of social Improvement had waged TO
free children long. overburdened
hours Of labor at the canning centers The mills
OF the been even worse canneries.
With the passage last year of the child labor bill,
something definite given social workers to
go AT least there a federal law. The next
night will be TO enforce IT,
And II Is noteworthy fact that the legislators who
active wanting schools closed and child
labor laws suspended for the sake of gardens
people who fought tooth and nail against
laws restricting child labor.
Closing schools a OF two early 10 children
set outdoors grow things sounds harmless enough.
gives the eNpIoiters O childhood a loophole II
gives them precedent You let the children can
peaches at home last year" they why should
they work for this year?" The school year
should interrupted
This is argument against gardens. peace.
But Il is solemn warning lose heads.
matters OF humanitarian reform. any than in
war economy. Common sense is even more valuable
in time than peace business usual" i'm this.
All elsewhere Because the flower OF young
hood may have be- sacrificed In the of world
freedom. j. all the necessary that the free
growth and Development OF children be protected.
n IL valuable learn resources and
add 10 supplies but priceless possession
is our children Better 90 without beans mex,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10

Guiding the emancipation of wom-
am, etc.
If we desire the triumph of such
ideals over Prussian militarism. au-
! tocracy and organization. the best
way would seem 10 be TO form an
alliance with the British empire
and act in conjunction with the new
ly awakened democracies Of Russia
and China, as well as with the old
er democracies of France and Italy.
Likewise. We all take a deep in
terest in the preservation of the
smaller national democracies, such
, as Belgium, Holland. Switzerland.
Norway, Sweden. Denmark. etc
our fundamental national policy
is the maintenance of the Monroe
doctrine and the development of our
special interests in the Gulf Of Mexi-
co and the Caribbean seattle
American Mediterranean-int
which have attained a vast impor-
lance for US. especially since the
construction of the Panama canal.
For the defense Of these interests
we have whether consciously or un-
consciously hitherto relied mainly
upon the implied protection of the
British fleet Unless we prefer TO
run the risk Of war with Great
Britain by entering into a rivalry
with her in naval construction. We
shall continue 10 rely a certain ex-
tent upon British sea power for this
| defence.
But such protection involves a
considerable degree of responsible
| ity. and a frank, open arrangement.
( based upon a clear. mutual under
standing, would be more consonant
with our national honor and self
respect than the present vague. un-
avowed relationship
Besides. we cannot ignore the fact
! that England is an important
American power. nor overlook the
vast significance Of our past. pres
ent and future relations with Cana
da
! Finally. we should not fail to con
slider our mutual interests in the fan
east, particularly in China. In com
mon with Great Britain we have
an enormous stake, commercial and
| otherwise. in the future develop
ment of the Chinese empire
The famous 25 japanese demand.
made upon China in May. 1915. in
Dictated an intention on the part OF
Japan TO take the opportunity ar
forded by the great European wal
TO press her position Of temporar,
advantage To the utmost While tn,
more excessive Of these demand.
were soon Withdrawn Though re
served for a possible future revival
Japan clearly showed her cards 4
all the world Whether she viii pla,
them will depend upon the course o.
future events
Japan has shown that under he
present clan -bureaucratic-m ilitaristi,
, government she cannot be fuuy
trusted as IN ally Her subsequent
entente with the Russian autocrac,
made the danger 20 China seen
stm more onlnous. 10 is too soon q,
prefict the effect upon the futur,
destiny OF China If the Russian rev
elrtoo o. The entry Of china int,
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10
THE MELTING POT
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REPUTATION

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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10
Vines Must Climb
To Grow Squashes
With Success

The News Times is conducting
column with the cooperation Of the
NatiOLal Emergency Food Garden
Commission TO inspire the planting
OF more food gardens throughout
the country. Members OF the COM
mission are: Charles LathrOp Pack.
president Of American Forestry as
ISOLATION: Luther Burbank. DIR.
Charles w Eliot Prof Irving Fish
er. John Hays Hammond. Fairfax
Harrison. MyrOn T. Herrick, DR..
John Grier Hibben. Emerson Me-
Millir. A. W. Shaw; Carl VroOman.
assistant secretary Of agriculture;
Capt J. Il. White. L. s. shipping
board; James Wilson. former secre-
tary of agriculture. You should
watch this column every day. Any
questions should be written on one
side of the paper aud sent 10 the
Garden Editor Of the News Times.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10
Fiue Minute Talks
By National Leaders

Prof. Amos S. Hershey of In
diana university a recognized au-
thority on international law. believes
the destiny of America may be ac-
complished best through an alliance
with Great Britain. In the following
article. prepared at the request of
The News-Times, Prof. Hershey
discusses this proposal:
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10
THE POINT OF VIEW

The kind hearted woman stopped
10 reprove the youngster who had
chased a ct up a tree.
you bad boy. suppose YOU were
a cat. would YOU like 10 have anyone
chase YOU in that fashion -
Gee, wouldn't I though. If ] could
climb like that" said the yOungster.
grinning.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10

Every time put up American dag advises
Boy Scout leader. plant beans its base" The
are just willing climb nag pole as any other kind
OF a pole and the nag doesn't mind
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10

WEDDING BLOSSOM PERFUME.
Finest and Sweetest Odor Made,
Buy your Girl a Bottle. i0c-9 &C sec
sl.Q0 Bottles at COONLEY'S ADV.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10

DR.. p X. Mullany moved TO Title
Bldg. Ia y Main -. Home 1907:
Bell 4717 Adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10

deal more justly with China than an
autocratic Russia or an oligarchic
Japan
However. This may bee. the best
guarantee for the maintenance Of
the Independence OF China and the
preservation and development Of our
Interests 40 the far east would un-
euesti raoiy De an alliance between
rrtish empire and tire Dniteu
states.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10

And everywhere that Mr. Bryan goes promoting food
production the scotsman raises prices
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10
MOTHER SHIPTON AGAIN.

may have been guessing rather looks as if she
talking about when she
these remarkable lines
When pictures look alive wiz. ements free
When ships like fishes sv-~- Low the sea.
When me. outstripping birds can scour the SKY
Then halt the world deep drenched blood
shall die"
May the old didn't put it in those exact
words We suspect that her utterances were dressed
up bit by somebody with gift for making the
meter come straight. But there Emit much ques-
about the ideas. She seems to have foresee,.
submarines. and airplanes than 500 years
before they
We hope, however that the last line quoted is a
poetic eNaggeration
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-10

winter than open the way whereby child power may
be sacrificed
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-05-24
Ancient Arabic Order MOBILES of
the Mystic Shrine

Hamasa Temple will hold a
a patriotic ceremonial at Meridi-
an, Miss, on June 1st.
More than one hundred have
been elected and petitions are
being received every day. This
will in all probability be the most
freely attended and successfully
handled ceremonial that this live
Temple has had for years. The
usual big p-e-e-rada will be
featured this year with patriotic
decorations, there being more
than 100 decorated automobiles
in line. This will be one of the
most spectacular parades ever
held in Mississippi. There will
be many new and laughable
stunts. A sumptuous banquet
and cotillion will follow. Three
hundred couples will be in the
grand march.
Hamasa Temple is well known
all over this jurisdiction as a
live wire and enthusiastic Tenn
pie, pulling off many big stunts
in the past and having been
visited by many potentates and
Imperial Officers. The Imperial
Potentate, Henry Niedringhaus,
Jr., of st. Louis, Mo-, has just
honored Hamasa Temple by ap-
pointing its Potentate, Allen Nc
Cants, on one of the Imperial
Committees. Put" Stevens.
Imperial Potentate last year re-
cognized this Temple by a SINH
lar appointment. There will be
a large bunch of good fellows
from this section to attend.
Will YOU be one of them?
A. Mcdonnell,
F. H. McGehee,
a S. M. Hodges,
Shrine Executive Committee.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-05-24
McGill Settlement News

Misses Sulu and Jeffie McGill
spent Sunday afternoon with
Misses Ola and Daisy Smith.
Miss Ida May Bedford visited
Miss Blanche Davidson Saturday
afternoon,
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Marler Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Roebuck
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Marler.
Mr.. S. F. McGill visited Mr..
John Smith Sunday afternoon.
Misses Emma and Ethel Reif-
ers and brother Will visited Miss
Ivy Marler Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. waiter Ellis and family,
of Pcntotoc county, spent Satur-
day and Sunday with Mr.. Bert
Ellis and family.
Mrs. John Smith and little
daughter visited Mrs. Gregory
at Pontotoc Sunday.
Misses Myrtle and Gladys
Dallas, who have been attending
school at Bnena Vista, have re-
turned home.
Miss Ethel Refers spent Sum
day afternoon with Miss Ola
Smith.
Miss Blanche Davidson visited
Miss Ida May Bedford Thursday
afternoon. Xxx
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-05-24
oKoLoNA. MISSISSIPPI. THURSDAY MAY "a 1917

course of the United States in
entering and conducting the war
we are now engaged in should
subscribe to the Liberty Loan
Bond issue to the extent of his
or her financial ability.
Every American who sub
scribes to the belief that an
American should stand by his or
her country should subscribe to
the Liberty Loan Bond issue.
Every American who loves
America and is jealous of Ameri-
cas- honor should subscribe to the
Liberty Loan Bond issue. The
real success of the loan is to be
more determined by the number
of Americans participating in it
than by the amount subscribed.
The spirit of the Nation is going
to be judged abroad, especially
by our enemies, more by the
number of its American men and
women who support this bond
issue than by the mere amount
of money subscribed.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-05-24

and in the women's department
sewing, cooking, housekeeping,
upholstering, laundering, and
many other practical things that
help them successfully fight the
battles of life and do something
and be somebody in the world.
From this school a fine moral
Influence goes in the communi-
ty. 1t cultivates the best of
feeling between the races and
fosters a spirit of mutual
helpfulness, t hat always,
gives good results. The gradu-
ates, some of them having been
in school six years and worked
their way through all depart
ments, gave promise of real
citizenship. The State has this
year appropriated money to help
them in their summer Normal,
soon to begin, and is sending
four white professors to conduct
it.
A patriotic vein ran through the
whole Commencement, Wallace
A. battle, president ofthe school,
declaring on the closing night
that SO percent of the negro
race was loyal to the government
and were ready with their lives
to support every measure against
the heartless German govern
ment.
]. M. Haley.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-05-24
Commencement at Okolona In
dustrial School.

Myself and wife and about
sixty other white people of the
town went out Sunday, May
18th, at 2 P. M, to hear the
Commencement sermon at the
Industrial School. The sermon
!! was preached by the Rev. DR..
Frank M. Weston of Rochester,
N. Y. 1t was plain, practical
and pointed. His subject was
Influence and abounded in
instances in which, without
knowing or intending it, influ-
ences have led to some of the
most important events in the
worlds history. He pointed out
that we ought to always keep on
the right track, not knowing
what our influences would lead
to. With him from Rochester,
N. Y, came Mrs. Carrie E. Mill
er and her sister, Miss Elizabeth
Reeder. Mrs. Miller is a very
wealthy widow who has given
thousands of dollars to the
school and had come along to
see if her money was paying any
dividends in the way of improv-
ing the condition of the colored
race in Mississippi. Both Mr..
Weston and Mrs. Miller are
Trustees of Okolona.
They were entertained while
here at the residence of the Hon.
A. T. Stovall, President of the
Board of Trustees, and were Civ
en- the glad hand of welcome by
everybody both white and black.
Mrs. Miller was delighted with
her stay in our town and the
wonderful improvement t h e
colored race is making. We
shall hear more of her kind
philanthropy to the school.
This was the 18th annual
Commencement. Starting with
out money and but few friends,
the school has worked its way to
a place among the educational
institutions of the South, till
now it is considered one of the
best of its kind in the Sunny
Southland, teaching improved
farming, cattle raising, and
many other departments of in
dustry, including carpentry,
blacksmithing, and painting;
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-05-24
Why Liberty Loan?

The 5000, 600, 900 bond issue
of this year is named "The Lib
erty Loan of 1917" because it is
to be a loan from a free people
to be used in freeing the world.
1t is the loan of a liberty-lov-
ing people to be devoted to the
establishment of liberty in Eur
ope and on the high seas.
1t is the loan of the great de-
mocracy of the New World to
redress : the wrongs and sup
port the cause of the democracy
of the Old.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-05-24
81, 900 $4,000, $4,000, $50, 900

$1,000 $4,000, $4,000, $50, 600
and 100000; checks for the
amount of interest due will be
mailed out semiannually to the
holders of these registered
bonds.
What are the terms of a Liber-
ty Loan Bond?
Liberty Loan Bonds of the
first issue of $1,000, 1000, are
to bear date of June Is, 1917,
and to run thirty years, except
that the Government reserves
the right to pay them fifteen
years after date. If this right
is not exercised by the Govern
ment fifteen years from date, the
bonds will run the full thirty
years.
These bonds besr interest at
81 per cent per annum, and the
interest is payable semiannually
on the fifteenth day of Decem-
Der and the fifteenth day of
June in each year.
What special advantages have
these Liberty Loan Bonds?
One especial advantage no
other bonds, National, State,
municipal, or corporate, have is
that if the United States during
the continuance of this war shall
issue other bonds at a higher
rate of interest, the holders of
these Liberty bonds have the
right to exchange their Liberty
bonds for bonds bearing the
higher rate of interest, dollar
for dollar.
They are non-taxable. If your
city, county, an State taxes are
three mills on the dollar, a not
unusual tax, these bonds are
equivalent to ordinary coporate
bonds or other investments bear
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-05-24
ing 6a per cent.

ing 63 per cent.
In addition, no Federal tax
which war condition may later
make necessary will affect these
bonds. The only tax these
bonds are subject to is the in
heritance tax, which applies to
all property of all kinds whatso-
ever.
How are Liberty Bonds OBJ
tanned?
Blank forms of application for
the purchase of these bonds eau
be obtained from the Treasury
e partment, any Federal Re
serve Bank, any National, State
or private bank, any express
office, and any post office in the
United States. Any bank or
postmaster will aid Applicant in
filling out.his blank and the 9TH
er acts necessary to obtain these
bonds.
If these bonds are so desira-
BILE, why is it necessary to ad-
vertise them extensively?
is not necessary to advertise
these bonds to sell the whole is
sue, but it is earnestly desired
that this loan shall be a popular
loan, a loan by and from the
people at large of the United
States, and not alone from banks
trust companies, and financiers.
To that end bonds are to be is
sued of small denominations,
and subscribers for small a.
mounts are to be supplied before
the subscribers for large a.
mounts are granted their full
subscription.
Is it patriotic to purchase
these bonds?
Yes; every American who sub
scribes to the justice of the
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-05-24

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