South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-03


purchasing some city supplies, laxity IN the police
department. and other features not in strict keep
ing with modern ideas of city government it must
race advances IN cost of nearly all needed sup
plies, etc, etc"
And the mayor complains of our PUBLISHING
stories that indicate that the city is broke" We
deny that it is "brOke"-yet. The above is from
his own little organ-vocing the assertions of his
Lobbyists" and seeking to justify them in their
quest of few transfers of coin
Isn't it sad? What was it Shakespeare said
about the whining school boy?" But children.
you should attend to your mathematics first or
else destroy the arithmetic and the blackboard.
and consign all statistical records to the CRATE; in
fact burn up the old red schoolhouse on the hill
If you expect to make your whining do its want
ed work
M AYOR CARSON received the city into his
w hands IN the best financial condition IN its
history; this with the exception of single year
previous, that too, under the Keller regime. Il
was IN the best condition, not only actually, but
comparatively, that any South Bend mayor ever
received it.
Why not be honest about it? IF there was
temporary need of funds to be borrowed from
other funds upon which there was less strain; why
not meet the issue fairly and Squarely, tell the
truth, and if need be, shame the devil"
Are the Carson administrationists reaching the
point where they feel within themselves their lack
able to make good after the fashion of previous
administrations already beginning their camou-
hage operations-calcuated to mislead the public
into believing that their immediate predecessors
are all to blame for it?
Upon entering office the mayor had great
deal to say, in public statement, about having
in his possession the designations of all his APP
pointees, and that he would accept them upon
evidence of any inefficiency.
Assuming that the statement of past city f.
employed by the Lobbyists" and the ad-
ministration organ, in working the council up to
those recent fund transfers. was as reported the
work of the city controller, how about his resig-
nation, Mr.. Mayor? Or, in your sense of honor
and fairness, do you call the preparation of such
misleading and mtruthful statement, efficiency?
Z INALLY does our mayor hold the resignation
of his administration organic be accepted
when its ineficiency shows up? If so, in heavens
name let the public have IT and free us from its
defensive prevarication, its politically subsidized
idiocy, and its sop"
Do you, Mr. Mayor, call it journalistic eff
cheney of an administrative supporting order for
newspaper to call attention TO the city property
about to go under the hammer for taxes" when
so much of such property advertised, IS that of
two of your most prominent appointees?
Glance back and re-read the quotation from its
editorial columns-and stop trying to blind
with such sop anent modern business methods
OF purchasing some city supplies" and "laxity in
the police department, at least until you have
shown some Improvement.
1t isn't to be had in your purchases of fire hose
or plans for water meters-and the South Bend
public will hardly accept mfallible, a police
department that takes its orders from Tony"
Barrett and discharges prisoners awaiting trial
simply because he doesn't want them held.
These merely incidents. We mention them
in passing, only because they significant of the
seeming modus operandi of the Carson admins
-failio in iSe1Ie here
set forth, the miserable humbuggery employed on
the common council making former Mayor Keller
the goat" and showering his predecessor with
enconiuns; anything to make desired goal
Among Aesops fables Is one about the boy that
''cried wolf wolf wolf, when there wolf, r
and there is another one by George AIDE about
buffer who bluffed and bluffed until there
more people who would buf-the moral to both
of which fables is that 'the liar makes him
self unworthy Of belief even when he speaks the
truth"
Democratic councilmen may well learn from
this incident that Carson lobbyist" enconums
sho~ered on Mayor Goetz probably CUFF may
well beware of any praise bestowed upon a an
ocratic administration by republicans, of crit
cism from the same source, for their inspiration
when directed at the Keller administration
against which all democrats presumed to be
prejudiced. The praise on the side and the
criticism on the other, are more than likely de-
signed for a two-edged sword expected to cut
both ways; the design of knavery.
"The kissSs of enemy deceitful" and
beware of those seeking favors on the wings of
hatery" To the more particular friends of the
Keller administration we would say Of the ex-
mayor as quoted IN the text from the Pastor of
the Mountainside; while the public; we'll the pub
lie already knows pretty well how much the Car
son administration organ Is to be believed-when
IT has an AK to grind and lie viii ITS puT-
pose better.
Ii always has an AK to grind on ex-Mayor Kel-