South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-04-23

making criminals OF the by keeping them in
the army Now we are making criminals OF them
by letting them OF course these hypercritical
parents do not mean their own sons; only their
neighbor's sons-should have been kept IN the army
or navy Soldiers who have sweat blood for months
to get OF the army join the ranks Of the
critics, their status having changed, insisting that
the army should have been kept intact. releasing
men only as they could be sent directly 70 a forge.
such inconsistency such lack Of intelligent efforts
at truthfulness PIRATES from an innate dishonesty
say the leas-. It utter seIashness; whether
political personal, matters only litte,-but it
is significant Of the lengths to which people and
particularly politicians will go 10 find fault stir up
dissa tlsfacton even to become menace If it viii
but their selfish purposes. Thus in the army
and the navy. the told that it is ad-
ministration trick TO keep them there, and after
they are out. they We're told that they ter
ribly defrauded because they were not all fixed up
for a job at wages that would put them at
pedestal with the bloated /bond-holders Talk
about promoting bolshevsm in this country. No
soldiers and sailors councils forming
I'm some parts of the country. TO damn the gov
eminent and threaten insistence upon revenge and
reward for what these crooked politicians pour
ihg into the soldiers sailors
It is not the fault of the soldiers and sailors,
but designing. unprincipled civilians. crabbedly
emitting their personal impulses and preJudlces,
never minding the public welfare much of any
thing else The antidote intelligent. honest
selfish Americanism. Perhaps that sounds impossi-
be-too Utopian-and even un-American to those
whose personal peeves interests and politics rise
above everything else. but unless America
10 appealing 10 the souls OF men more, and their
selfshness less-the trouble that turks around the
corner, between the extremes OF selfshness, may
eventually crush all that lies between them.
The man or politician too blind that the
masses Of the people do distinguish perma-
nently between political parties in power but when
inspired damn the government. do regardless
party distinctions and become in fact anarchists
rather than partisans; such man or politician too
nearly resembles the bat for blindness and louise
breeding to deserve standing-room in respectable
society.
The most damnable thing about the entire world
war so far as Americas part in it is concerned,
has been the administration flibuster at the
close of the session OF congress,-the ground
Of pretty much every present trouble that the
administration forces are encouraging soldiers
and sailors complain about. That flibuster closed
the employment bureaus of the United States. for
instance; practically all Of them-put end to
that nation wide plan Of bringing the man and
job together calculated solve that very prob
lem. Likewise there appropriation for pay
ing the soldiers their bonuses to finance the
war risk insurance-now being taken care of, far
as has gone. by order OF the president, out of
the presidential emergency fund.-but what is the
use? Gods wonderfully elect divine dictators-
Gods own P-arty"-is at the helm just
and only can nothing be done right but every
thing must be wrong