South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-12
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MAN IN THE STREET

Mishawaka paid tribute 10 its ma
tive sons. resident in the court
house, South Bend. primary day.
OF course, We knew all along that
, George Raab, Art Wolf and Sam
Schwartz could not possibly be
! beaten by any combination OF cir
cumstances opposed 70 them. These
I boys are all right and we take more
/ than ordinary interest in their sue
! cess.
We congratulate John SCHNEIDER
on the clean and gentlemanly con-
test he conducted. Everybody who
knows John knows that he has ex-
ceptlonal merits that well nj him
I for the wearing Of the ermine. That
pronounced judicial temperament
with which he is favored will un-
ldoubtedly sooner or later place him
on the bench. With youth on his
side ne can we'll afford TO wait a
little while longer. In any case. II
is no heart-break to be beaten by
such an old-time political war horse
as Chester Montgomery.
BY nominating Ernie Beebe for
county commissioner for the east
ern district we have done one OF the
best things Of the campaign. Ernie
will be elected and will lend his
every energy TO the breaking up Of
that combination Of political game
sters who would dare to raid Art
VOLTS treasury whenever il suited
them. 1t is TO the successful can
didate's credit that he piled up a
majority Of 1900 over his Oppon-
ent. while all the electiOneering he
did was to insert two small adver-
tlsements in The NewsTimes
We note that Constantine Papa
theodorokoumunduigiotomichalakou
pulOs has bought 5000 Liberty
bond Bill Peers has been study
ing the almanacs all week in order
10 find out what IL means. Constan-
tine didn't buy his bond in Mish-
awake otherwise Stanley would have
had two columns in the papers
about 1t.
Sir Edward Carson tells the world
that the government has evidence
that the Sim Feiners. those men
OF vision and OF love"-of them
serves. are in alliance with ger
many. We have known this all
along They haven't changed a bit
since the days Of Easement. and are
even now giving comfort to the COM
mon enemy.
We are delighted to know that
Dist. Atty. Swami has put a stop
TO Lord Aberdeen's activities in be-
half OF some utopian scheme by
which TO take money out Of the
country We know his lordship, and
IL there was ever an old mOnOcled
mollycoddle. he's certainly cit"
George Senger evidently believes
in rushing things. His was the first
straw hat 10 be out in the cold this
season.
While we like to hear the jingle
of a little change in our pockets we
would hate 10 be so fond Of money
as TO sacrifice the respect OF our
friends by the methods some people
use to obtain IL.
Johnny Friedman, lieutenant in
the ordnance department at Water
vliet. has sent us a few verses which
we consider good enough to print.
Here they are:
We build the guns TO beat the Huns.
We men Of Watervliet,
Ten hours a day, for dam small pay.
We stand upon our feet
At board and lathe and bench and
shaper
We turn EN- down and cut each
taper.
To bed at ten and up at FIVE,
We scarcely know we are alive;
We fold our blankets, make our bed.
And sweep and clean and then are
fed
From seven TO six We work all day
This leaves us three in which TO
And shine and read and write and
all.
Before we hear the bugle call
But when the war is fought and
won.
And Kaiser Bill is on the run,
Who gets the credit for the fun2
It's not the men who made the gun.
I'll take that bet at ten to one
But after all what do we care?
In love and war they say all's fair
At least the sages all declare
SO when the germans start retreat.
And run away with heavy feet.
Wen know the guns that have them
heat
Were made by us at Watervliet
Two more Mishawaka boys have
been given commissions in the army
and both OF them graduated from
The News-Times. Fred Grimes and
Earl Reeder got that lighting habit
when they were but cub reporters
on our staff. II was necessary then,
as il is now. when people with
grievance insist on taking their
grudEe ont on the man at the type
writer Its well for us that we
learned the manly art while still
young. otherwise we would have
been dead sundry moons ago.