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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-09

ma estically over the Carso into the
sunset to bomb Trieste.
on the other hand. I saw every
where thousands OF splendid caval-
~ horses doing the grasshopper act.
that is 10 say. eating their heads off,
and absorbing the services of nearly
a third Of their supposed riders. the
other two-thirds being dismounted,
after having been mounted and
equipped 10 ride regardless OF ex-
pense, and used in the trenches as
infantry. And when the ministry
Of food was created in England. and
the people were urged TO use as
much as possible of oats and barley
in the place Of the precious wheat it
was discovered that there were prac-
tically no oats left, because they had
all been bought up by the army
commissariat department for the
use of the cavalry horses in France,
and what few were left were more
expensive than wheat And there
was very little barley. because most
Of 1T had been fed TO the cattle and
pigs and poultry TO make up for the
shortage Of oats and wheat offal
But then no respectable war. Of
course, could possibly be conducted
without cavalry, and il would be
amusing if il wasn't so lamentable.
! TO see the eagerness with which the
generals, the moment that the battle
gets out into the open for few
days, jam a few troops Of cavalry
i IL.
then turn round and proudly re-
mark There we told you they would
come in useful sometime if you
only waited"
There was a story going the
rounds among the TOmmies when I
was at the front. 10 the effect thai
someone had actually had the tenn
Gritty TO ask a bowling swell of
cavalry officer. what use the cavalry
/ had actually been in this war MY
dear boy" said the exquisite. with
an air OF wearied condescension. sit
has been simply of priceless value
/ by giving tone and class TO what
would otherwise have been a mere
vulgar brawl."
But the airplane has forged ahead
/ after a sort, in spite OF its being
/ the Cinderella of the general staff.
| though the darling Of the general
public, whose military instincts are
often surprisingly sound. II devel-
oped certain internal difficulties Of
its own, chief among which was its
astonishing infant mortality, equal
/ ling that Of the vilest city slum.
| From twenty-five TO fifty percent OF
those who were born" into its
realm. dying within the first year Of
flying life. The grimly pathetic
epigram attributed 10 Guynemer,
the ace Of aces" that the success
full flyer won first the Croix de
/ Guerre, then the Cross of the Legion
Of Honor. then the Wooden Cross "
had a most painful amount of truth
in IL.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-09
AN HONEST CONFESSION.

One of the most interesting passages in the recent
series of German is the statement Berlin
that hitherto the representation the people the
German empire has been endowed with infu-
ence on the formation Of the government"
We have this along. the
man editors and professors and all the German apollo
gists in other countries. including many Ger
rnan-Americans who insist indignantly that
Germany the freest country the world" and
more democratic than United states?"
over and again we have seen Germany giving
the lie propagandists. This the crowning
stroke.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-09
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE

A free lecture on Christian
Science will be given in First Church
Of Christ. Scientist. corner Main
and Madison SITS, Monday evening,
Nov. II. at S o'clock, by John Ran
dali Dunno. S. member Of the
board Of lectureship Of the Mother
church. the First Church Of Christ.
Scientist, in Boston. Mass. The pub
lie is cordially invited.
Advt. 9355-l1
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-09
The Position of the AUiator
- BY WOODS HUTCHINSON, Md.

For all its hugeness and complex
ity there is only one really new
thing in this whole world war. and
that is air lighting. Al first sight
poison gas might seem 10 be an
other, but, as a matte OF fact, it is
as old as it is vile. and traces its
malodOrous ancestry back to the
Oriental stinkpots and the Greek
fire, TO say nothing Of the cuttlefish.
the bombardier beetle or stink-bug
and the black and white midnight
ravisher Of our hen-roosts War
has become, not merely terrestrial
and aquatic, but celestial as well.
For the aeroplane has carried it up
into the heavens above, as the dug
out and the mine have carried II
into the earth beneath. and the
submarine into the waters under the
earth
BeinS new. the airman was and
is yet a good deal OF a puzzle 10 the
professional military mind, which
lis running this war. and whose
dominant characteristic could hard
~ be said to be elasticity There
was first OF all great difficulty in
correctly placing or classifying him
as TO the arm Of the service to which
ne belonged. He obviously did not
march on foot. SO he wasn't infan-
try, he did not ride on a gun car
riage, therefore. he couldn't be ar
tillery. But he did ride a steed of
some sort. even if only a winged
one. a Pegasus. therefore. he be-
longed TO the cavalry. Consequent
~, through all the earlier years of
with spurs on his heels. which were
just as useful to him as the power
bal second tail 20 a cat.
This is a straw only. but signifi-
cant. because il is so beautifully
typical of the workings Of the high
official mind. which profoundly mis-
trusts everything that il can't un-
derstand, or which is not properly
equipped with a full set of tradi-
tions and precedents. Which is one
OF the reasons why the airplane
service. just because il is new and
will probably win the war in the
end. has made. on the whole, the
siowest and the most unsatisfactory
progress of any OF the service. In
fantrymen. splendid ones. but OF
the same old brand that have been
used in every war since the inven-
ton Of gunpOwder, have been
turned out by the million; cavalry
/ by the hundreds OF thousands. OF
the type that Attila used, and just
about as useful in the present war
as cavalry, as so many perambula-
tors: cannon, by tens Of thousands;
while airplanes, which are the one
/ chance of doing something new and
! decisive in the war, have, after -four
years war. been turned out in only
hundreds or even tens. although
their cost is barely that Of the use
less chargers required for half a
TROOP OF cavalry.
One Of the few disappointment
OF my six months succession Of Wis
/ its in 1917, covering at least two
/ thirds of the western fronts, in
Guiding the Italian, was that the
highest number OF airplanes that
ever saw in the air at any time. was
! sixteen. and the largest squsdrills
of planes in regular formation and
moving as one was nine. sever
Capronis and two Nieuports sailinI
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-09
GETTING READY FOR PEACE

There IS no question that the ,me has FOR the
United States begin preparing Tor peace. We are
nov ~ thoroughly on war basis that the transition
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-06-20
Daily Thought.

The key to every man Is his thought.
Sturdy and defying though he look he
has a helm which he obeys. which is
the idea after which all his facts are
classified. He can be reformed only
BY showing him a new idea whicba
commands his own. Emerson.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-25

20 feel befter and now I am we'll
and able 20 do most any kind OF
work I have been recommending
the Compound ever since and give
you my permission 20 publish this
letter Miss FLO KELLY, 4I6 So.
18th St. Newark. y. j.
The reason this famous root and
herb remedy. Lydia +. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, was so sue
eessful ia Miss Kelly's case was be
cause 70 went 20 the root OF her
trouble. restored her 10 a normal
healthy condition and as a result
her nervousness disappeared
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-25
THE BED

This Bed Is Of superior quality. made
OF cold drawn steel. has massive two
iEch posts with heavy tube hllers. These
beds are strictly high-class and should
not be confused with the cheap Beds on
the market These beds are finished In
acid-proof lacquer which assures years
This is the chance you have been wait
ing for.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-25

breakdown and
got so weak l
could hardly
stand, and had
h e a d a C n @ s
every day I
tried every
thing l could
think OF and
was under a
phys icia n s
care for two
years A girl
frien q h a q
used Lydia +.
Pinkham S Vege-
table Compound
and she told me
about IT, From
the first day I
took O. I began
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-25

them there until the infantry could
come up and capture them. Home
address. William A. Erwin, father,
Si4 Fine Arts Bldg. Chicago. H.
CPL. ALDEN BUSH. deceased, Co.
g.. 125th MISUNDERSTANDING the at
tacks on and capture of the village
OF Cierses. northeast OF Chateau
Thierry, France, Aug. I, 1915, Cpl.
Bush was fatally wounded. In spite
OF his wound. ne struggled forward
urging on and inspiring his men,
and keeping up with the attacking
wave until he fell. Next OF kin, r.
l.. Bush, father, Rockford, Mich.
SERGT MATTHEW SPAUTZ, de-
ceased. Co. A. 16Sth infantry-For
extraordinary heroism in action
near the River Ourcq northeast Of
Chateau Thierry. France, during the
advance of July A, 1918. While in
command OF his platoon, Sergt.
Spautz showed extraordinary hero
ism leading his men on i'm the ad-
vance. having three times been
knocked down by enemy shells. Aft
or being wounded 10y machine gun
fire. he still continued 10 advance.
He was finally killed while doing his
utmost to advance. Next of kin.
Michael Spautz, Davis av- Dubuque,
Iowa.
CPL HARRY b. MORGAN. de
ceased. Co c. 165th infantry-For
extraordinary heroism In action at
Ferme de Menrky, near Vriers- Bur
Fere. France. July 81. 1918. After
his platoon had moved from an open
field 10 the cover Of the woods, Cpl
Horgan returned 20 the held under
heavy machine gun IRE to rescue a
wounded comrade lying In an eX-
posed position and was killed by
the side Of the man he tried TO
save. Next Of kin, ]. G. Watson,
I Congress Junction, Arizona
PVT =. LEISCHMAN. deceased.
leo X. 115th lnfantry-For eXtraor-
/ binary hsroism In action near Bal
schwiuer. Alsace. Aug. so. 1918.
| After a raid against enemy trenches,
he volunteered TO accompany his
platoon leader into No Mans land
/ To rescue a missing member Of the
platoon who had been wounded.
While engaged in this courageous
duty ne was mortallv wounded Next
| OF kin. Charles T. Leischman, faith
/ or. Chesco Park, Back River, Md.
SERGT FRANK ANDREA. de
ceased. Co g, nth iufantry-For
extraordinary heroism i'm action near
i Crezancy France July 16. 1918
Sergt. Andrea was told by a runner
that an enemy patrol had captured
/ two ambulances containing Ameri-
can wounded on the road east Of his
position. He organized a relief party.
personally commanded it. drove the
enemy 10 rout recovered the am
( buIance and the wounded men and
I brought them back 20 our lines. Next
I or kin. Mrs. Chris Stoen. sister.
Beresford. 5. d.
/ FIRST LIEUT.. JOHN ID. MATHIS.
deceased. gard infantry-For extra
ordinary heroism in action In the
/ Chateau Th.erry sector, France.
June s. 1915 AS a leader OF
\ platoon on the FIRST day of the Chat
eau Thierry battle ne demonstrated
conspicuous courage and ability,
fearlessly going forward al the head
OF his command through hostile ma
chine gun IRE Killed while heading
a gallant charge His daring in
spired his men 20 successful as
saut. Next Of kin. Mrs Evan T.
Mathis. Hooks Mill Road. Americas.
] En--~f-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-25
To THE PUBLIC.
Daylight Saving Law as Affecting
Certain New York Central Pas
Scncer Train Schedules.

~cnGcr 1 ram Schedules.
Conforming with the above Act I'm
connection with the changing OF the
hands or the clock at 300 a. n. sun
day October o.. the following trains
Will leave South Bend on Saturday.
October 20. one hour late.
40. 16 for New York and Boston
4:ST r. m. instead OF 3.S7 p. m.
No. 90 for Buffalo 500 p. m. in
stead OF 1906 p. IN.
No. @ for New York and Boston
.Ss45 p. m. instead OF 7:45 p. m.
No. IS for Buffalo 2:13 a. m. sun
day. October %. instead Of lis a. m.
Adv-S917-2
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-25

Aviator comrades Of Lieut. Allan
J.. Win-iOw Of River Forest, IL, who
was officially reported killed last
August. have received a card from
a German prison camp signed by
Winslow. asking them TO send him
cigarets as soon as possible. The
American aviators are planning to
supply Lieut. Winslow and other
American airmen now prisoners in
Germany with cigarets by dropping
packages over the enemy line ad-
dressed TO men known 70 be in the
various prison camps.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-25

We can store that furniture. stove.
trunk. piano. etc, at reasonable
price Call Home 5516. Bell No. ia.
Inter-City Transfer CO.
Advt sTss-ts
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-25
A NERVOUS
BREAKDOWN
Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Restored
Her Health.

Newark. y. J-"For about three
years suffered from nervous
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-25
THE SPRINGS.

These Springs are all iron
construction with bolted
angle iron frame. link fabric
top with Helicol suspension.
These have proven TO be a
very good, substantial spring
and should give years OF sat
isfactOry service.
Evening star., 1918-08-18

only to Z per cent The capital of
some OF such corporations runs into
the millions. Other corporations en-
gagged In the same line of business.
capitalized at from $4,000 to S1OO, 900.
give their profits as ranging from 25
to 40 per cent"
What makes the difference?" Mr..
kitchin was asked.
water" he replied But" he re-
marked. with more emphasis than
usual. I'VE shall get all of them, soon
err or later"
With the recommendations of the
treasury and tho men of business
before them, and the 1000 printed
pages OF briefs. statements and testi-
MONIES at hand. the members of the
ways and means committee are slowly
getting their bill ready for Congress.
rre4ctions cannot be made as to
what Is likely to be done. except that
war profits, largely, will be taken
away from those who are making
them and that incomes will have to
bear new burdens.
Luxur1es. SO called, will be heavily
taxed: In this list are such items as
SILK stockings. iewelry. perfumery,
musical Instruments cosmetics and
yachts. But the money so raised, COM
paratively, will be small. Eight bill
lion dollars. It should be remembered.
must be collected. Everything in
sight, almost. will be taxed. The
small items will make a respectable
total. but the large ttems-profits.
incomes and SO Forthwith be the real
sources OF the governments war reye-
nues In 1919.
Consumption taxes have been men,
Evening star., 1918-08-18
Castor Beans and Airplanes

pace with the demand made by Eng
land. France. Italy and the United
States.
When the United States entered the
and tho Signal Corps began an invcs-
ttgation Of the castor oil situation.
The result was that the government
entered into contracts with num-
ber Of men, mostly in the south. for
the planting of the beans and the ca
traction OF the oil. The harvest sea-
son has begun and the prospects for
a large yield of oil are reported as
being favorable.
A crushing and extracting plant
erected at Gainesville. Fla. the ca
Dacity of the plant being in the /be-
ginning six carloads of beans n day,
and IL all goes well with the new
industry this will be doubled. The
expectation Of the government au-
thcritios and the. growers is that
2O00,0U0 gallons of castor oil, grade
No. l. will be extracted this season.
Successive paintings were made so
that there may be a succession of
Among the large contract planters
are d. c. Gillett OF Tampa, who has
put under cultivation $4,000 acres:
b. l.. Hammer. general development
way; J. C. Evans OF Charlotte. N. C.:
the firm Of Hetnin & Walker in South
Carolina; g. q. Ware, in the Florida
highlands, and tho firm of Deane. Ma
lone & Lyles, In southern Alabama.
Not long ago Mr.. Gillett came to
Washington for conferences with the
Signal Corps and the bureau OF plant
industrysand brought with him n cas-
tor stalk that had been grown on his
property at Lucerne Park, Polk coun-
ty, Fla. The stalk was four feet tall
and its pike OF beans was long and
full. 1t was placed on exhibition in
the office of the chief signal officer.
The castor bean plant Is sometimes
called the palma christi, but its boz
tanical name is "ricimus." which is
the Latin word for tick" 1t being
given to the plant because of the
fancied resemblance between the seed
or bean and the tick. 1t Is native
of Africa. but has been propagated
throughout the tropical and subtrop-
ical world. Even in regions of the
north ana south temperate zones 1t
has been cultivated as an ornamental
garden plant because of its strangely
beautiful foliage, the leaves being
palmate-peltate and sometimes two
feet In diameter. There are many va
rieties and at least one species which
takes the form of tree. sometimes
growing to n height of forty feet.
Evening star., 1918-08-18

OI ln0
plant and extracting the oil. The
government has let contracts for the
cultivation of 100000 acres of the
plant and nearly all this area con-
tracted for lies in the south, 10000
acres being in Florida.
The government has entered this
line of industry because the demand
for this strange oil has outstripped the
supply, and the price has risen to a
high price OF the article which in
duced such action. but the scarcity
OF the oil. which Is considered as being
essential to the prosecution of the
war. Castor oil Is usually thought of
in terms of medicine. bu, its highest
value to tho allies in this war Is as
a lubricant for engines OF maximum
power and minimum weight. engines
whose pistons work at the greatest
possible speed. For airplane engines
1t IL the best lubricant known. and
that Is what castor oil Is being now
largely used for.
The cultivation Of the castor plant,
which was once quite fiourishing
industry in several Of the states OF
the west, notably California and Kan
sas. and also In some OF the south
err states, languished becauEe of the
competition Of castor beans grown in
India and because of the develop
Inent of the petroleum industry and
tho competition Of mineral oil lubri-
cants.
The chief source of the worlds sup
ply of castor oil has for number Of
years been India. In that vast land
crude qualities Of the oil have been
used for illuminating purposes in
lamps. The finer kinds of the oil
have been exported for use as a lu-
bricant for the fine and fast moving
parts of machinery, and as the air.
plane industry grew the demand for the
oil increased. There was marked
increase In this demand during 1912,
1918 and the first half of 1914, be-
cause Germany multiplied it's i'm
portation OF the beans and of the oil
as though that government had a
perfect understanding that something
was on tie eve of happening in which
castor oil would be needed. Since the
beginning OF the war India, though
1t has increased its output of beans
and oil. has not been able to keep
Evening star., 1918-08-18
Eight Billion Dollars
to Be Raised During
the Next Year-Ens-
lands S Higher Taxes
Mr.. K;tch;n S Warning.
Some Items That VIII
Start1e the Profteers.
Twe nty-t ,Uo Grave
Men.

toned and from high places-thhee
Treasury, for eXample--tea at ~
cents a pound, coffee at cents ana
tobacco at SO cents and beer at $iO
a barrel. All of these except beer
figure spectacularly~ on what the
politicians call the poor mans break,
fast table. The dinner bucket, run
or empty, and the breakfast table are
on the stump, commonly, side by side
with the spellbinders. They are old
pals Of the officeseekers ana almost
Invariably are treated tenderly.
President Wilson, in outlining MS
thoughts with respect to the bill now
under way, has been free to observe
that money for carrying on the war
should largely DO obtained from m
creased taxes on war prohts anu m
comes and from new taxes on lux
uries. Broadly. no doubt. as has been
noted, this Will be the policy OF the
committee on ways and means.
But, 1t is reasonable to think. the
bill will not go to the limit, either
in rates or articles to be Included. II
the war continues, other biiis VIII
have to be written and passed. All OF
the water cannot be drawn from all
the reservoirs at this time. Perhaps
some reservoirs and their contents
will be held in reserve. Anyway that
would SEEM to be eistatesmanshlp OF
practical kind. -,
The bill. however, will be big
enough to startle many millionaires
and profiteers, whose names, prac-
tices and tables of contents are
known to Secretary McAdoo and his
accountants and sleuths.
Eight billions OF taxes. taken frem
twenty-four billions to be spent.
leaves sixteen billions of borrowed
monor. or debt. And for a year. with
a previous year not added and all
subsequent years unestimated. Yet
interest and principal will be paid.
'Those," wrote Macauley. the most
interesting historian that ever lived,
"who SO confidently predicted that
she (England must sink, first under
a debt Of 50 millions (pounds). then
der debt of 140 millions. then under
a debt OF 240 millions and lastly un-
der a debt of 500 millions. were be-
yond all doubt under a two-fold mis-
take. They greatly overrated the
pressure OF the burden; they greatly
untlerrated the strength by which the
burden was borne"
Kitchin and Fordney. the seniors OF
their parties on the ways and meanss
committee. and the spokesmen there
Of, by precedent, II by no other
authority. representing two opposing
schools Of political thought, are In
agreement as to the tabled goose
whose output Is solid eggs of fine
gold--they want 1t to live and func-
tion as usual.
And f Will live, although 1t may
believe that II Is being slaughtered.
Patriotic business will continue to
propsper; unpatriotic business will 20
caught, tied and laid upon the sacrt-
ficial altar.
Copyright. 1918. by James D. Morrow.)
Evening star., 1918-08-18

A MONG the war booms Is one In
~ the cultivation Of the castor
oil bean, and the government
has become a partner In the
Evening star., 1918-08-18
F.: Members Of Ways
and Means Committee
of Congress Are Writ
ing La,o Which win
Bring Money to Wh;6
the Hun-A Colossal
Sum to Be Realized By
Tax on Luxur;es.
Ho,o the Bin Is Made.

BY JAMES B. MORROW.

. HE greatest tax law since tho
world began Is being written
this moment in Warrington
greatest with respect to the
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-07

That the republicans swept the
state in Tuesdays election by majoT-
ties ranging from 5000 for O. A. Lar
ra2olo, 2300 for Albert b. Fail, 1000
for b, G. Hernandez. down to prob
ably smaller figures for some of the
minor state offices. was the declara-
tion made by Chairman George r..
Craig Of the state committee last
night. Mr.. Craig's claim was not
based upon generalities or guess work
but upon returns received from every
county in the state.
An attemnt TO communicate over
the long distance telephone with
Chairman Arthur Seligman of the
democratic state committee at Santa
Fe elected no information rs to
whether he Still claimed the election
of the democratic ticket or conceded
its defeat. Mr. Seligman stated that
he absolutely refused to jot down any
figures until he knew just how each
county had voted. 1t was further
stated last night that the democratic
state Headquarters in Santa Fe had
been closed until two years hence,
which was generally regarded as an
acknowledgment ON the part of the
democrats that they had been
whipped.
According to Chairman Craig's fig
ures the various counties IN the state
will register majorties as follows;