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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-07

before their eyes, to admit its existence would be TOO
much like pleading guilty themselves.
OBTAINING The town is it, that the people should
know The truth OF their surroundings? That has been
the vail of crooks and the hshworm-spined from the
beginning Of time. r. was the wall o. the real estate
sharks when it was suggested that south Bend improve
certain of its housing conditions. Vow It is that these
conditions may prevent the government establishing
on army training school here. Let no one think for a
minute that Uncle sam is blind. South Bend doesn't
deserve an army training school until IL makes itself
liz FOR one. and the man who PLEADS silence with refer
ence 10 these conditions. is pleading protection for the
gang that il exposes. and is no better than the gang.
The Interstate fair must be seriously Interested IN
this matter. So is the government with reference 10 the
training school that is wanted. II is time for the city
TO- wake up. emerge from its lethargy, and purify itself
at heart a little, 1.-THE stead OF its brazen hypocrisy.
Even fairs and government training schools aside. We
can scarcely anord to sit idly by, and let these vices
gambling. prostitution, Bookkeeping and various brands
Of thievery. TO hoU' .sf under our rect, continuing too
blind 20 observe them, and too indolent TO stamp them
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ISN'T IL roc BAD2
w ashington, Ia. DemoCrat.)

Our republican friends are losing a good deal Of
sleep because Prest Wilson refuses 10 turn the gov
eminent over 10 them. The Webster City Freeman
Tribune is the latest 20 have spasms because Wilson
did not suggest that the governor OF South Carolina ap-
point a republican successor 20 Sen. Tillman, which IS a
good Joke. but illogical.
We honestly think that Woodrow Wilson Is more con-
cerned about winning the war just now than he is
about any other thing under the sun. lie i going 20
Win the war during his term. and whatever benefit
history VIII give Eii1, is his. and what blame fr having
done things wrong. VIII accrue 20 him likewise. The
Ice done with IT,
There has been Ho playing OF politics or boosting or
iavoring under the present control OF the war depart
ment. Gen. PersLing was selected for his high COM
mand absolutely or his merits. The same principle has
guided -hc -eiccrou and promotion Of all other officers.
Political considerations have been entirely ignored.
What e wonderful departure This has been from all past
practice can re appreciated c1s ~ studying me his
tories of our previous wars
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-07

BY various mixtures Of al these
elements "a vas variety OF COM
pound substances is formed. bu-
the atoms do not lose their ideu-
tity. FOR when the combinations
are broken up out they come again.
IS pure a before This is WHY
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-07
CONTEST OF INITIATIVE.
Ashland. o.. PrnSs.l

The present war is merely a contest OF initiative, and
as a consequential result is bringing new men and lead
ers 70 the fore. men whose latent genius and abilities
was heretofore not recognized. Promotions were never
SO rapid. either in the business or military life as during
the past two years. The demand OF the world is for the
man who thinks for himself, who stands above the
crowd Of followers. the man who knows what he is
doing, and goes about IL with determination.
one OF the greatest barriers Of human progress is
precedent 4 man must have courage and initiative
If he is 10 ACT contrary 10 precedent, which is 80 dear
10 the crowd. But this is merely the qualities OF d good
leader. a leader who can see the benefits 10 be de-
rived by repudiatng some set custom, and supplanting
i'm its stead one that more httingly meets the demand
of the occasion.
No better illustration can be founG than in the case OF
Josephus Daniels. secretary OF the navy. Many Of the
Anticipated systems he eliminated or discarded, as the
promotion by seniority and the formal letter writing
between heads or departments. Former prejudices and
red-tape were eliminated. The result is known to every
American.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-07

oniy Assoelstsd Press Morning Paper in Northern Indiana
pr Only Paper SIMPLIFYING the International News Services In
F1te bend-TwO Leased Wires: Day and Night. =
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-07
CONVERSATIONS.

The philosophie automobile owner east OF the Mss
issippi may reflect that there are sundry compensations
for the deprivation OF sunday riding.
For example: tie won't be obliged to tinker around
AN m-smelling garage. filling grease cups and screWing
up nuts. He won't have 10 take a%nybody's dust. His
engine won't stall 'steen miles from home. He won't
have to lie OF his back under the car for hours, in a
muddy road. 40 tires will blow out. no battery go dead.
He won't have 10 appear in police court on Monday,
FOR speeding. And with the money he saves, he can buy
Thrift stamps. or coal for the winter.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-07

OFFICE. 30 ". COlfsI Az.
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-07

2S2.42. uranium, 1855
This may look like 4 dry table.
but il takes on q different aspect
when We remember that Il is a lis.
OF all known families Of atoms. Al
element cannot be an element unless
i. consists exclusively OF its OWL
particular kind Of atoms. The
matchless distinction OF rank held
~ an element Is due 20 its posses
sion OF such atoms. which no other
element can share with =.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-07

A slamese ship, built in Siam. reached san Francisco
the other day. with a cargo Of rice. That is one Of the
f~rst-fruits Of that far country's participation III the
war. Siam is as big as spain and Portugal combined.
she has large resources and an enlightened ruler, and
shows signs of such an awakening as that which started
in Japan half a century ago. She may yet prove herself
an ally 10 be proud OF.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-07

When the elements are arranged
with regard TO what is called their
atomic numbers which depend
upon the electrical charges carried
by the nuclei of their atoms. there
are indications that the creates.
possible number of elements may
be g. and no more.
But when We go beyond the range
o. terrestrial experience We begin TO
get indications OF a different state Of
things. II seems possible that in the
sun some OF the elements are per
manently changed or broken up, al
though the s-pectroscope gives evil
dence of the existence of SO or more
of them, showing characteristic quail
ties. in the solar envelopes.
But there seems to be in the
suns corona an element. called
coronium, unknown to US on the
earth, while in the vast formless
clouds Of family luminous gas that
lie in various directions in space.
another element apparently exists
which we find nowhere except IN
these nebulae. and which, It has been
suggested, may be a kind OF mother
element. whose atoms are capable
o. changing TO form those charac-
terizing the elements known 70 Us.
This, in a way, would accord with
the theory that such uebulae are the
germs OF future suns and worlds.
The name Of this mysterious elc-
ment is nebulism.
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full chivalry, that animated them one and
all in the first few months of the war.
Quartermaster Paul Lintier, struck and
killed by a shell March 10, 1916, at q
place called Jeandelineourt, has expressed
in his journal, Ma Piece, published in
Paris, 1916: "But then, one would rather
fall, rather die, because one feels that
should France perish it would be worse
than DEATH" France comprised for him
and his companions in arms all the charm
of life, all that was worth living for in
this world, all the delight of heart and
brain, the JOY of existence.
1t is well that Mr.. Gosse has written for
us in English some account of their leave
taking, letting them whenever possible)
speak for themselves, for, as have said,
youth is wofully misunderstood by those
who have grown YEARLY wise and disil-
lusioned through experience This war
was brought on by the follies and mis-
takes of our fathers, but it is being fought
and will be won by the young of to-day.
Nv LHtus lildJ TIE Young
will be the spirit that rejuvenates the
world.
How far different was the philosophy
of the preceding generation a general
opinion stated by Maurice Maeterlinck
will show: Courage, moral and physi-
cal endurance (if not abnegation, forget
fitness of self, remuneration of all COM
fort, the faculty of sacrifice, the power to
face death), belong exclusively to the
most primitive, the least happy, the least
intelligent of peoples, those which are
least capable of reasoning, of taking dan
ger into account" This was, as Mr..
Gosse knows, a common hypothesis among
nloralists, the premise of paeifsm. 1t was
argued that since mems nerves grow more
sensitive and the means of destruction
more sure and terrible, it will soon be i'm
possible for any human being to endure
the strain of battle. Germany relied upon
The truth of this belief when she inau-
gurated her policy of frightfulness; she
believed fear to be the most universal
and the strongest of mans emotions; she
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and many another will tell you)
old fashioned and futile; he delights
in the charm and beauty of a quiet
and digni6ed world; there is moth
ing of the rebel about him; he has no Tx
ing for anarchy or the destruction of
century old monuments and traditions.
lie is properly gifted to record the love-
illness of fading flowers. The glamour, the
blaze of glory in which the first defend
ers Of France marched into battle has
passed. In the wear and tear of this in
terminable struggle, it was inevitable that
it must pass. Mr.. GOsse is the ,sympa-
thetic historian of that now almost for
gotten mood of sacrifice. Lest in the rush
of new passions the memory Of those
young Rolands be trampled into oblivion,
he urges you to consider for little while
the secret in their hearts.
THREE FRENCH MORALISTS AND
THE CALAMITY OF FRANCE. BY
EDMUND GossE. Charles Scribner's Sons.
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thought she could terrorize the world into
a submission TO her rule. But youth
knows, as Mr.. Conrad's Lord Jim knew,
that once let fear become the dominant
note in life, and death is q million times
preferable to a continuance Of existence.
1t was youth, upsetting all the savant's
calculations, that went singing into battle,
youth that rushed forward unhesitating to
meet the Hun horribly arrayed in imple-
ments of unexampled torture-liquid fire,
poison gas, incendiary bombs, mines, sub
marines and airplanes-youth, presum-
ably lawless and stupid with dreams, that
kept the peace of the world THAT died to
defend the peace Of the world) while
aneients plotted the rape Of cities not
their own.
l can assure you that Mr.. Gosse's es-
says are well worth reading. 1t has been
the part of American criticism for some
Years past TO sneer at Mr.. Gosse; he is .
(Mr: Frank Harris, Mr.. Phillip Little
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These the Gods Loved
BY GEORGE GORDON.
SNoUTH," said La Rochefoucauld,

WIN oshu La hOcneIOuClQlu,
sis a fever of the soul" It is
not, as Sir James Barrie would have
you believe, n flirting with fairies, nor
is it, for all the evidence adduccd by Mr..
Leonard Merrick in his novels and short
stories, an amour with the young lady
who understudies Gertrude Cameron on
the road. So far as I know-and being
young l speak with some AUTHORITATIVE
glamour of youth has succumbed to the
arts of maturity but once in our genera
ton, but once sat to age for its portrait;
and the tale of that sitting is recounted by
Mr.. Conrad's NARROW in the most vivid
and arresting of modern romances, APPLY
and rightly titled Youth!
But to itself youth is no scdcntary
enigma propOunding riddles-as the early
work of Mr.. Rudyard Kiphng, our lau-
rcate, amply attests-and the letters Of
French officers, quoted by Mr.. Edmund
Gosse i'll his essay on The GdItdntrx Of
France, rrove again and again.
TLey understood themselves, those
young heroes, and the sacrifice they were
making. But France was worthy thes
rifee and they went joyously to meet the
enemy. Loving France, they were re-
markably calm in the face of the Prus-
slams guns Leo Lanhl, who was killed
early in 1915, writing TO his parents
shortly before his death-he was but %
said: "All our sacrifice will be of sweet
SAVIOR if it leads to a really glorious vie
tory and brings more light to human
souls" Mortally wounded, the poet Leon
Guillot babe his comrades describe him to
his father and mother as fallen upon the
field of honor, happy in that he died
for his country" Emile Molly, leaving
for the front in Lorraine, said to fellow
officer: "What does the life of any one
Of us matter7 All that is essential is that
France should live, should be Victorious
This was the spirit, q rare and beauti
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The Superman and the Lady Novelists

unconventionaltics of Charlotte BrOnte, if only
because the equal in both admitting con-
ventiOns, if not exactly the same'eOnventiOnS
Elizabeth really more independent of Darcy
than Shirley ever was of Louis Moore. Mr.. Brlmley
johnson says of Fanny Price, the somewhat too
mild heroine of Mansfield Park, that she could
never become a general favOrite until We again
dealiSe humility in woman | am not one of the
partisans of Fanny Price, of whom Mr.. Johnson
speaks, for she suffered from the materialism or
rather irreIigion of Jane Austen's age. Her hui
mility is too much a worldly humility in being
a recognition Of worldly pride.
Jane Austen People.
But it may surely be said that nothing will go
right until We again idease humility, not only in
woman, but in man. Now man, under the JxRe
Austen conventions, was not of time or type for
positive humility. But at least he was under some
restraints in the matter of positive insanity of
pride. He was conventional because he
cvilised, and he could not be mere bully because
he could not be a mere barbarian. Fanny Price
may have been slave, but Edmund Bertram was
not tyran:. He was merely simple, selfish, self
respecting male. And the most emancipated
modern might well admit that Mrs Bertram would
live her own life rather nationally than Mrs.
Heathcliffe
The truth is that the mid Victorian revolt and
romance in this respect, led the Brontes to do in
fiction something of what Carlyle did in history.
In form it proclaimed liberty, but in spirit it led
to slavery. When Carlyle said we should reject
our sham superiors, but revere our real superors,
he really meant that should cease to respect the
signs of civilised authority and merely submit TO-
the signs of savage power We should cease to
salute the colonel of the regiment and merely
tremble before the bully of the regiment
In the same way the more romantic and revolu-
tonary female novelists boosted that their heroine
did not merely behave like lady, but preferred
to behave like a woman. But at least lady had
meant free woman, and a woman too often meant
a bond woman The wild apotheosis of the guards
man in the romances of Ouida was at once a sequel
and satire. but it was but the parallel in fiction
Of that mad militarism which overShadowed Europe
and which. we may now hope, will fade with the
very name of Prussia. G. K. CHEsrERToN.
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unreal people Of great fiction, and IN this case the
critic knows them with more than critical i'll
tmacy. He has the double talent of detachment
and enthusiasm.
Thus he appreciates the Brontc atmosphere with
out making the mistake of making it more I'M
pOrtant than the Brontes. He shrewdly remarks
that Charlotte and Emily have been too much as
simulated in art by the mere influence of biography
that a mere background of gray moOrlands and
grim traditions do not really indentify pSychOlOg
zeal comedy like VHlette with mere inspired night
mare like W0thering Heights. The former was an
original kind of novel; the latter might be called
an epic but it can hardly be called novel at all.
Nevertheless as Mr.. Brimley Johnson is the first to
agree, there a certain spiritual assumption com
mon TO the great sisters and it is one which think
of as a curious ethical interest in the history of
feminine literature.
Women as Fictioneers.
After all talk of convention and uncOnvention it
is really clear that there were female novelists
almost as soon as there were noyests 1t is always
suggested that the first lady writers had to violate
a decorum or even adopt disguise. But it seems
clear that the decOrrIm was very theOretic and the
disguise very thin.
If Fanny Burney had really been engaged in a
Bohemian prank, she would hardly have found her
self encouraged to fresh gambols and capers by the
personal patronage of DR.. johnson. Jane Austen
playfully defends the frivolity of novests, but
she is not specially conscious of the profanity of
lady noveliSts. In truth the eighteenth century
was full of sort Of convention well exempifed in
the powdering of the hair. They were conventions
that were not >concealments They were too arti-
fetal to answer the common aims of artifce; they
were decoration but not disguise What they
preserved in the sexes dignity, but any student
of the eighteenth century knows that it went along
with very real love of liberty.
Feminine Freedom.
Now what strikes the reader of a clear and COM
pressed record of the evolution of female fiction
such as the book before me, is that it is by no
means certain that the more modern emancipation
really increased the liberty let alone the dignity.
The conventions of Jane Austen protected some
forms of feminine selfpossession more than the
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Copyright, 1918. Al rights rcserced.

Copyright, 1918. Al rights reSerred.
CONSIDERING the derivation and definition Of
~ the words, it may be counted almost the
duty of democrat to catch an epidemic Without
any high moral effort on my part however, l have
managed to catch the influenza; and it is at least
broad, brothcrly and human experience uniting me
with the masses; it is not special ease appealing
to the pride of the oigarch or even a new disease
such as might fater the vanity Of the progressive
| share it as | proud to share that other
democratic disease which the pacfsts always de-
scrlbed as the war fever" have not survived it
through any taste for mental healing or higher
thought, or any of the hypnotic new religions
which make select few superior TO the more comic
tragedies of mankind | do not like that new cult
OF health; that bodiess optimism which asks US in
the abstract IL submit 10 a mind or a will If |
nave to choose between Influenza and Influence give
me influenza. They both come | believe from the
East, and they both as inhuman as the east
wind.
Bring on Your Novels
The experience does not leave me, therefore, with
any appetite at the moment for new books about
new PHILOSOPHERS or new religions 1t leaves me
rather with an underlined desire TO read all the
novels in the world at once
Most OF us have had the dream that such books
might burst their covers and mnglc their charac
ters as all the characters in village might meet
at village mn. Most Of us have imagined club
at which Major Bagstock and Major Pendennis
might talk typically in the smoking room Many
OF us may have conceived medical consultation be-
tween DIR. Sawyer and DR.. Watson
Perhaps the nearest approach to the pleasures
OF such vision is to read a new book about old
novels, especially when it is good book about good
novels One of the best 1 have come across for
some tlme and one fitted exactly to this mood of the
moment is Mr.. Brimley johnson book on The
Women N0rctists, recently published by Messrs. w.
Collins.
People We Really Know.
Gossip is great human art and accomplish
ment, so long as it is talk about people we really
know with other people who really know them
There are no people really know so well as the
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People We Really Know.

GOSSIP is a great human art and accomplish
ment SO long as it is talk about people we really
know with other people who really know them
There are no people we really know so well as tn,
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-03
HATFIELD CITIZEN IS
 HANDICAPPED IN COURT
Charges of Disloyalty Made Against J. .. Hoheimer Were Shown to Re
 Utterly Without Foundation.

Tho he failed to secure conviction of Capt. Frank Wells on a islander charge, J. c. Hoheimer furnished ann pie evidence in Justice Burnett's court Tuesday that the itinerant's as- sertions of disloyalty against him were without foundation.
 Witness after witness testified of long acquaintance with Mir Hoheim- CT, who is manager of the Watkins Mercantile Company at Hatfield, and all agreed that there was no basis for the grave charges the travelling preacher had made against their neighbor. Evidence was also given that Hoheimer had been a liberal subscriber to Liberty Loan bonds, the Red Cross, Y. M. c. A., War Savings Stamps and other national activities.
 Wells admitted he had made the charge against Hoheimer largely be- cause of information given him by a village gossip. Wells could produce but one witness to support his side.
 Because of a technicality Wells could not be held over to the grand jury on the islander charge, but it is likely that steps will be taken to pre- vent him from making further at Jacks upon the character of loyal cit izens who disapprove of the peculiar combination of patriotism and collec- tions he advocates.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-03
LANSING DELIVERS TO BERLIN
 DEFINITE PROMISE OF ACTION
Any Execution of United States Sol diers for Carrying Shotguns Will
 Be Met With Prompt ReprisaIs.

Washington, Oct. 1.-The Ameri- can government, in reply to Ger many's threat to execute American prisoners of war found in possession of shot guns, today gave notice that if Germany carries out any such threat suitable reprisaIs will be talk en.
 Secretary Lansing's reply. made public yesterday. declares that the use of shotguns is sanctioned by The Hague conventions, and that in com parison with other weapons now used in modern warfare, the shotguns used by the American troops cannot be the subject of Legitimate or reasonable protest.
 If the German government should carry out it's threat ill d single in- stance" says Secretary Lansing's re- ply "it will be the right and duty of the United States to make such re- prisals as will best protect the Amer ican forces, and notice is hereby giv- en of the intention of the government of the United States to take such re- prisals."
The Mena weekly star., 1918-10-03
TERMS OF THE ARMrsTIcE.
Bulgaria Agrees to Demobolize Army and Surrender Means of Transport.

London, Sept. 30.-The armistice concluded with Bulgaria by the En- tente Allies is purely military con- vention and contains no provisions of political character.
 Bulgaria agrees to evacuate all the territory she now occupies in Greece and Serbia, to demobilize her army immediately, and surrender all means of transport to the Allies.
 Bulgaria also will surrender her boats and control of navigation of the Danube and concede to the Allies free passage thru Bulgaria for the devcl- opment of military operations.
 All Bulgarian arms and ammuni- tion are to be stored under the control of the Allies to whom is conceded the right to occupy all important strate- gic points.
 The Associated Press learns that the military occupation of Bulgaria will be entrusted to British, French and Italian forces and the evacuated portions of Greece and Sergia respec- lively to Greek and Serbian troops.
 The armistice means a complete military surrender and Bulgaria ceas- es to be a belligerent. The armistice will remain in operation until a final general peace is concluded.