South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-14
MAN IN THE STREET

what you have, viii not be SO easy.
This advice is for South Benders.
10 spy menace can be successful
~ removed through ordinary civil
processes. only the iron arm and
Z instantaneous treatment can suf
fee.
A reader asks us if we have no.
ticed the remarkable likeness be-
tween Billy Sundays latest pictures
and 5. W. Schuyler. We have. Sage
not only resembles Billy but is as
deeply religious. and as forceful in
his utterances.
We can do without the Ioaves,
biscuits and pancakes, and even
without layer cake and angel food,
but unless it will imperil victory in
France. we stand for little pastry
in chicken pie time and a sufficient
undercrust to hold up the generous
filing of a gloriously constructed
punkin custard.
The carpenter strike in the ship
! yards at Norfolk is rot hard to I'M
/ derstand. 1t is a traitorous profit
| eering spirit cooperating with the
| German plotter and spy.
Z The United States will be good
going as a fighting proposition when
the folks become actually convinced
4 that the war is not for the purpose
! Of making money. They are going
to be convinced of this, we think
when the present congress passes
I its war revenue bill.
!
But for the British censorship's
attitude toward Hearstism. we sup
/ pose William Randolph would be
entirely willing for Haig's army to
smash Hindenburg's bunch.
It is said plate glass prices have
increased sharply. We can't see
why. Much of the plate mirror BUSH
, ness will fade when water becomes
the universal specific for thirst.
We suspect the Dutch, after they
rant and roar about the seizure Of
( the ships. Will retire TO some Sc
Guided spot where the germans
/ can't hear them. and enjoy a real
good laugh.
! There are in Mishawaka, as else
where. a few pacifists. pro- germans
and pikers who are still trying to
/ prove that war is all wrong, and
that America should not be in the
| fight, anyway. our private opinion
I of the mental makeup of such is a
I bit too strong for utterance in this
column. but the point that does get
/ our angora is the method some of
them use in attempting to make
their point. These slackers. clack-
] ers and back-tra ckers have the SUI
preme audaCity 10 cOncoct a melange
of biblical quotations, twisting the
I meanings of verses taken at ran
dom into what they would have us
/ believe is Divine substantiation of
their claims. There is another one
who uses this same method Of ex-
cusing Louvain, the Lusitania and
the murder of women and children
and against whom American batter
I les are roaring protest. Let us
remind him and his co-propagand-
lists in this vicinity that by the same
method Of Interpretation, the Good
I Book states definitely and in no un-
certain terms just what they should
do Turn TO the book Of Matthew,
chapter p, verse 5, my dear breth-
ern, and read: And he Judas
went and hanged himself" So
much for the precedent-now for
the specific instructions, quoting
Luke. Chapter 10, verse 81, 60
Go. and do thou likewise"
a banker says American currency
lis more elastic than ever before in
its history. 1t is hard to get one of
the dollar bills to stretch from the
/ bread-and- butter set-up TO the fin
ger bowl in Mishawaka.
Sen. Overman wants the presi-
I dent to have authority to cut out
all red tape. Congress won't grant
lit. 1t might throw 10000 sinecures
out Of office and that would be un-
American.
And don't forget. when you con-
slider Russia's plight and the fate
OF her alleged democracy. that she
has never yet answered before the
I High Court of Eternal Justice for
her brutality to the Jews
OF course. if enraged persons