South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-17

Duncan Campbell 10 Frederick
Won Muller: "Only from the weaz-
ened soul of a political pot boiler
could come such an effort TO make
partisan capital out OF the anxiety
and anguish OF the fathers and
mothers Of our soldiers / am of
I the Tribune for life"
Duncan this isn't a solo by any
means. There's anxiety and anguish
enough i'm the local office OF the pot
boiler. Watch US grow!
A Long Island society leader is
suing her husband for a divorce be-
cause ne refuses to sleep with her
I pet dog We can understand it. but
= never explain it. A boy loves 70
sleep with his dog until he reaches
the period Of wearing night Shirts
and buying bon-bons for Lizzie
/ After that. the dogs have to sleep
out of doors and even one flea will
run him almost wild.
American troops. including those
! from Mishawaka. are holding
sector Of the French front; they may
be holding a much greater sector by
May. BE cautious in the purchases
/ of gewgaws. Don't prepare too
much for hilarity. Don't be a glut-
ton for show or luxury. 1t is a Sc
rious summer ahead. Increase your
usefulness in every possible way.
Former Pres't Taft is a wise man
and a good democrat in all things
save voting the ticket.
/ The contemplation of peace is
very sweet but 70 put it in PLAIN
words the United States need not
waste its time talking about peace
until it has everlastingly damned
hell out Of something.
An Osceola subscriber says he is
going to send us a rabbit pretty
soon. That is what we would call
downright malevolence. for the
same amount Of express money
would pay freight on a rooster, a
catfish. or a crow. or something
tempting 10 the appetite.
What does it mean to interpret
a food price," asks the inquisitive
Mishawaka hotel boarder. We can't
tell exactly, but every time the com
/ mittee interprets the dealers hist
/ the prices.
Sunday lecturer in Boston de-
clared there is no hell, and there
could be no justification for burning
a human soul throughout eternity.
We would like to ask this man what
is to become Of the creatures who
gouce the soldiers. or those gossip
mongers who strive to ruin the char
acter Of their neighbors, if there is
no he'll?
Many Il highly intelligent man in
this country thinks the people are
not really capable of self-g govern
ment because they have not picked
him up bodily and set him down in
a big fat office. But he is dead
wrong about it.
A town boy learns TO sleep in
night shirt before a country boy
I does. but the country boy who is
ambitious doesn't mind that, be-
cause ne knows the circumstances
will enable him TO beat the town boy
for the legislature in after life.
Our spiritual adviser, Rev. L. c.
! Rogers. caught US with a cigar be-
tween our teeth last Sunday. OF
course We were outside the church.
+ which helped some, but the rector
/ had inferred from paragraph in
this column on that very day that
We had quit the weed. We had 70
explain we merely discussed the eff
fects OF the fragrance of tobacco
from a theoretical and not from any
practical standpoint. our eXpiana-
ton. we are happy TO say. was quite
satisfactory to the dear brother Of
the cloth.
The girl of the old-time would
say. 'I have nothing TO wear" and
then rig out in chemises, pantalets,
three petticoats. a skirt dragging the
ground and a waist with a collar
climbing over her ears. The girl
OF today saws. Il have nothing to
wear and if she is really up-to-
date. she is telling the truth about
il.
a Mishawaka friend wants 10
know what Nethodism has 20 do
with republicans and democrats il
country where church and state
are separated. Absolutely nothing.
except that a republican can't 5e
entirely bad if he is a Methodist
and a Methodist can't be entirely
good unless ne is a democrat.
There is very little domestic fric-
ton in congressional circles in
Washington now. The old lie about
sitting no with a sick friend now
has a substitute in. BILLY Sundays
meeting held a little later than usual
tonight. my dear" Telling the truth
about a poker game Is one Of the
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