South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-08
Notre Dame News

From "a beautiful old country
estate in the south OF England, L.
/ =. HarI. Notre Dame graduate and
7 former News-Times reporter. in
a medical unit. write. that ne has
nom the first been delighted with
! England and the English. The
beauties Of the country he ays
gully come up TO my expectations,
and the good qualities of the people
pass nay expectations.
speaking of the effects of the wan
iu England. the former News-Times
reporter says: Now these things
only saddeu The visitor. He who
from a. TAR country is set down in
the south of England, needs not 90
farther to realize the terribIeness of
the great tragedy which is taking
I place but q few miles away. Wher-
ever he turns he is reminded OF fl;
Z everywhere is war work ia progress;
i'm the public houses and at every
meeting. the war is the sole top!e OF
: conversation. IL fills the press; ON
every road one meets soldiers, many
of them wounded-nurses, sailors
and women war workers in uniform:
marching columns of men from the
far corners OF the world frequently
cross ones path. one can hardly
wander into the peaceful ruins of
an old abbey sacred to (deleted)
and gentle repose OF bygOne days
without being disturbed in his rev
Y cries by the hum Of an engine of
war flying far over head.
England's Beauties MARRIED.
The war has married the beauties
of Englaud's homes, fields and
forests. but that is a comparatively
small matter. 1t has caused the
children 20 go hungry. and has sent
the aged. weak and manned into the
fields and workshops. but this is still
eudurable within the present bounds.
In the stiffness of the night var has
descended upon the peaceful homes
~slumbering in the moonlight, and
wrought death and destruction. but
a brave people a bear such out
RACES i'm a righteous anger. 1t has
swept down upon the land like the
pestilence Of Egypt. taking the sons
of every household, and frequently
the heads of families. anu sorrow
fully, yet with fortitude. q nation
mourns the dead. But beyond and
above all this. the thing that tries
human endurance 20 the uttermost.
that freezes the blood and bows
down the spirits until the terrible
ness of war can be read in every
countenance. is the fear and I'M
I certainty of the fate of the ode
leted) out there, and the dreadful
/ contemplation of the further mis-
cries which the remaining years or
months OF the war will heap upon
the burden Of the four long. long
years already weighing the nation
down.
All Confident of Outcome.
How long Will il last. is the cues
tiou in every mind. But despite the
great war WEAKNESS. practically all
are bearing their burdens patiently
and doing their work well. confident
i'm the future. America is the source
OF this confidence. and there is i'm
lnense satisfaction with what we are
now doing. But we cannot do too
much 10 bring the war to an early
end. This realize after seeing what
the Wan has done 10 England. and OF
course England has not been so hard
hit as some of the other countries"
Pat is i'm "a hospital unit. U his
fighting race asserts itself when he
says: "Since arriving here I have
felt deeply and have been brought 10
] realize as before tnat the war
must he brought 20 an end quickly.
and ! see but one way OF doing this;
that is 10y defeating Germany. Feel
ing as I do on the subject. / am far
from satisfied with my role in the
war"
Dr. Jose Caparo has accepted the
p-rofessorship OF radio-mechanics at
Carnegie institute. Pittsburgh. Pa.
and viii leave FOR that city Sunday.
Sept. s. Or Caparo has been head
of The department of electrical en-
I cheering at Notre Dame for four
years since the resignation of Prot.
j j.. Greene. Dr.. CaparO is q grad
NUate of Notre Dame. He has won
the doctors degree in q number of
lines. but his special preference is
for mathematics and electricity. He
is beyond doubt one OF the best
mathematicians In the United States.
Or. Caparo Signifed his intention
OF ~resigning last spring but his res
iguation was definitely accepted only
last week. He came first 10 Notre
Dame from Peru. South America.
His successor is not yet appointed.
Rev. Joseph Burke. c. :. c., pre-
feet Of studies in the %otre Dame
high school. was the first 10 register
at Notre Dame under the new regis
tration draft law. Jonn Msnean.
head porter. OF County Limerick.
ireland. was the second. Rev. Der
uard III. registrar, opened the regis
trstion early at Notre Dame, So as 90
have Li~ work completed bv the
time his collegiate work BEGINS