South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-03

They are again discussing the
question. When is a man drunk ?"
The old Kentucky rule. according 10
Friend Curry, was, When he is
fat on his back reaching upward
for the ground" And it was never
misapplied.
Another reason why we think
ITALY ultimately IS going 10 see the
virtue in Pres't Wilson's position in
Fiume is that Italy is wanting TO
borrow 81 900. 600. 900 in the United
States.
1T is easier TO be good than devil
ish. announces a Kentucky Baptist
minister In Mishawaka, a prac-
ticed saint can be devilish three
times for every time a republican
can be good once.
II bachelor is wealthy. his nep-
hews and nieces will always make
much of him. But if ne is poor. ne
is about as welcome as flock OF
billy goats at a Miami cub tea
party.
Some of the frying Pan-German
papers contend the kaiser has never
abdicated. Well, he absconded,
anyway.
Much of the discord and dissatis-
faction of life results from the in
evitable failure to beat the game Of
life without working.
Some OF the Shantung comments
cause us to suspect some OF our
statesmen and newspapers are for
mulating their Shantung policies
before they know whether Shan
tung is peninsula, ptomaines or
prune juice.
A Chicago doctor says that stom-
ach troubles are increasing. We
personally know this TO be true. but
we are still hoping that conditions
may ultimately enable all of us to
get enough 80 eat and thus remedy
the aching void which constitutes
most OF the stomach trouble in
Mishawaka.
Young people who marry in air
planes going at 80 miles an hour
are not quite as smart as young
people were in our youthful days
and even at that we wouldn't have
IL understood that the youth of our
generation had much sense when 1t
was in the grip of the love bug.
Human progress is not so rapid
as ii might be- In spite OF centuries
/ ing on Sunday. We saw half a
dozen shameless sinful friends HE
ing themselves 10 the fishing holes
at Barron lake Sunday P. S.-We
wonder if they caught any fish?
!
Henry Ford said he didn't know
the meaning OF "esoteric" That's
all right. Henry. Very few people
do. and IL doesn't mean anything
| important 10 anybody who is wortll
I three pinches of salt. Drop ESQ
teric" from the language and the
only result is to simplify it by so
much.
A strike may be defined as a ces-
sation of labor in order TO get more
I of that which only labor can pro-
duce. And it's a fool move.
The little tin prophets who are pre-
/ dieting that wooden shoes will soon
come into vogue are crazy. They
haven't read the lumber quotations
recently.
We grieve to contemplate the
\ shock and disappointment of those
dear souls who think that the mil
7 lennium is about TO dawn or that
+ the vision 10 be realized is that
which Pres't Wilson has Interpreted
as that Of America. They may out
talk us and outvision US, but We are
standing pat on the proposition that
I human nature is still unrepealed
and full of hell yet
Another thing you must remem-
/ Der. professional reforming is fire.
quently more profitable and less
irksome than work.
If you have a rumor on your per-
son tell it TO Chief PfeHder. re-
Numbering at all times that idle
rumors are dangerous because they
are so blamed busy.
our idea of a poorly balanced
nut is one who owns and operates a
pleasure automobile about six hours
a day. but doesn't make sufficient
I salary 20 buy enough 10 eat
1t is very difficult to inspire the
/ people with a lofty and bounding
/ idealism when bacon costs 20 cents
pound and eggs so cents a dozen.
Apparently. there is quite a clear
understanding OF the League of Ma
tons covenant in a Kansas town.
The postmaster is for il because he
wants 10 keep his office; a republi-
can neighbor is against II because
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