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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
DESERT OR TOWN.

There is who has beaten the high cost OF
living His name is William Poster. and he has lived
IN the California years In all that time
hs living has not cost him cent
to this country from saxony 10 years
ago because he had heard that America the
land OF opportunity. For he hunted job
and could not get Then he decided TO try living
without money resources OF any kind, took TO the
desert, built shack Of poles and leaves. and pro-
ceedeo fruits and drink water only. BY
weaving baskets he made little money which ne
spent for ticket New York where ne is
advocating Che simple life. and trying to start
exodus TO the great of open land in the
or course way dodge the cost of things is
10 do without them. but pro5ably most people who
are straining every to make a little money in
town the things which the money will buy.
Between the eternal struggle of life in the city
and the opposite extreme OF life in the desert,
void OF every comfort lies the happy medium
tanned by who home and little
land near town. who raises enough garden stuff
vegetables and small fruits to supply his family.
who enjoys the cOnvenenoes possible only where
there modern improvements
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

silk size g. Regular price $500.
Sale Price .............. S3/.oO
Tan French Serge Suit. button and
cord Trimmed, box effect. size 8. Reg
ular price $3.50 Sale Price s26.75
Tan Serge Suit. sizes SO and 40. Reg
ular $500 Sale Price ...SlI50
Tan Serge Suit, button and braid
trims and box effect. size 10. Regular
$500. Sale Price. $3.50
Tan Serge SUIT, size 40. Regular $45
Sale Price $3.50
Tan Serge Suit, three-quarter length
coat size 10. Regular price SOS 90
Bale Prlce .ooZ.0U
Four Copen Blue Gabardine Suits
sizes | 6. 80. 38 and AZ. Regular price
$500. Sale Price ......$I2.5
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
SHOES AND OTHER THINGS.

Any attempt that the government may make, of
course. ferret the igh or things.
everybody 10 sde-ste9png and seeking TO make it
appear that it is George" and not he. who has
been doing the prodteering. always-'if any has
been done"
And so We have retail shoe publication speak
Ing for its constituency, taking sharp and uncom-
promising issue with the charge that undue profit
Is being made in shoes It presents set Of
statistics most OF which have TO deal with the sup
ply Of hides and leather. from which il appears
clear enough that the OF materials has
creased enormously the last few years 1t says
There fewer cattle laughtCred. and
the same time there is increased demand for
leather at home and abnormal export de
mand. The packers 10 seems. anticipate every
demand by raisins the selling price OF
hides The cost OF manufacturing leather has
gone up Naturally. then leather many kinds
costs twice what II did yearssgO. and every
variety hss visen"
Unfortunately the presentation is complete
II is not explained 20 what extent shoe making ma
ehinery and labor have risen. what profits the
manufacturers are making Neither is il shown how
much is made by the Jobbers and wholesalers
There is thus means Of telling how much of the
cost OF particular shoe 20 the retail dealer is
issiUmats Something doD4 10 the manufactures or
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
Other Editors Than Ours
THREE ACRES AND \ COW.
dearborn IndcDcndcDt.

Some years ago one of Joseph Chamberlain's lieu
in the British parliament enunciated the
belief that every male inha bitant in the united
kingdom entitled TO three acres and
The saying excited much ridicule from those who
have. and considerable mutterings from those who
have not. But IN principle IT a true saying, it
is old saving is the fundamental basis OF all
material prosperity
Years before that he Incas in ancient Peru were
saving that every citizen have his piece OF
land. and must produce his SGosi stence from II.
Years before that Europe he tribes. ancestors
of the present netionalities. basing their
group politics individual land holdings
Years before that and a time dim that his
tory is only chronicle. each
auired develop ana hold piece OF land.
Three acres and a COW, Not literal OF course.
one wants only one acre. another i've
man wants chickens not cows, and another neither.
But the principle is undeniable from the recorded
time Of man TO This day; that each should have
his hgurative three acres and COW" where with
contribute something least. the subsistence
himself and his
AL men cannot make bread for the worlds in
dustries demand labor; all make
chimes, for the worlds Children demand bread: but
wherein ne alone is master from the bowels OF the
earth 10 the heavens above MIN. the symbol OF
his citizenship the visible badge OF his ndepend
ence and the birthright OF his labor.
10
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
More Truth Than Poetry
By James ]. Montague
CHEER UP!

When you've paid the last installment the
beefsteak
And have satisfied the mortgage on the pie
Though your bank is lighter. all the
world will seem far brighter.
And the light of hope will kindle in your eye.
There's chance that you may hypnotic the ice
So he will not send his bill around till Fall,
And the grocer may be lenient If payments
lnconvenient,
It's merry life we re living after ALL
Though hat is quoted now at fourteen-hfty.
And hundred is the figure for a suit.
Any headess -four barrel nicely for
So you really do not need to give boot.
Shoes are only made for wealthy malefactors.
But without them you live and breathe and
thrive,
Slap paint for shirts and collars and you'll
lot Of dollars.
So you really should be glad to be alive.
You don't need to waste your change for
incidentals,
Since your kindly Uncle Sam abolished bars
Old discarded wrapping papers, rolled in
cylinders like tapers
Will effect tidy saving in cigars.
We all dispense with soap-the Boches did
Sand is very good to cleanse the hands and
And it shouldn't much distress us if the landlords
disPossess
Yes the world has come to be jolly placel
There is nothing like good solid optimism
o make all our troubles vanish III the air.
If we get vctuals daily we can lift our voices
gayly
In song that chants farewell to dark and care
Clothes and shoes and other luxures what are
they
To such bright and joyous souls as you and IP
When we've paid the last instament on the
beefsteak
And have satisfied the mortgage on the piep
Copyright, 1919.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

jobber might really nelp the retailer he ought
take himself seriously
As far the retailers themselves are concerned
the trade paper in question says;
believe that retail shoe merchants are
making smaller net profits than dealers in other
lines % merchandise. We Of the opinion
that the average gross pTOit OF retail shoe deal
Is about IS percent. This represents the
actual doing business before deducting
the profit The average dealers net profit. the
which ne receives mis- investment, after
deducting the expense Of doing business. will
average about nine percent"
This does not seem excessive. It is evident how
that information is desirable. What is
needed in this and every other line OF industry
is a careful accurate tracing OF and profits
from material down TO the hnal sale in a retail
Take typical pair Of shoes for instance. and
give their history with profits every step
computed in percentages. and compared with the
profits made BY packer. tanner. shoe manufacturer
jobber wholesaler and retailer with the profits for
merly made similar goods When this is done
there will he data understandable by everybody
and sufficient TO serve basis for public action
Maybe when the hide is traced away back to the
COW. it viii be found that here in a number OF
things it is the big 6ve"-the packers with a vir-
tua monopoly Of the hide market.-that is pocket
ing the main percentage of the dough. Retailers,
il they are really making so little should out Of
consideration for their customers and themselves
welcome the high cost Of living probe particularly
to foot back through the leather
ket and do all in their power help it along.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
GEORGE WYMAN 6 CO.
Half Price on Suits

Look to ur
suit and ready to
wear apparel needs
and read over this
list to find your size
and its description.
7 an Tricotine
Suit. size 38. Reg
ular price $85. 90.
Sale Price $3.50
I aupe Poire
Tweed. size 80.
Regular price $45.
Sale Price $3.50
Oyster White
Chinese Crepe Suit,
trimmed in Copen
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
Save money by patronizing
merchants that advertise.
FREE CARS SUNDAY
At 2:10 p. m.

10 show the biggest success in South
Bend.
II of those beauty garden lots
snapped up last Sunday at PortaSe
Gardens.
One is yours for One Dollar down.
then only soc and 75c a week.
Prices S119, 1929, S149 10 Sl95.
except corners. positively the big
gest bargains around South Bend
today.
Two big free cars will leave
Northern Indiana interurban sta
ton corner Washington Avenue and
Michigan Street at 2:1O Sunday.
Cars will carry banners and stop
for passengers along Washington
Avenue.
Follow the crowd Come and
bring your friends. Adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
GENERAL AMNESTY FOR TRAITORS.

there is little reason to believe that the au-
thorities having in charge the fate of persons
rested and imprisoned under the espionage act
during the war. will take much heed of the
ment started 10 procure a general amnesty for
them. vet are to permit 'copperheads'
Mayor William Hale Thompson Of Chicago.
continue publishing mis- Chicago Republican" and
Sen Bob" La Toilette to publish his la Follette's
magazne-and several others.-we do know but
that evenness Of justice and freedom from hypo-
crisy, demands that just such amnesty be
granted.
Eugene V Debs. Or even big BnI' Haywood.
have business in prison with such publications
these running large saying this
not pleading for the release of Debs Haywood
either
Every person imprisoned under the espionage
act taken into custody because his actions in
dicated he was opposed to the laws of this
country and the decisions of this government. He
distinctly enemy the peace safety
OF the United States as he had joined the enemys
military
There is half way business about loyalty The
whose loyalty can be legally questioned is dis
loyal,-but the administration of justice ought
stop with particular political or economic
compilations
n the present disturbed condition of affairs with
riots spreading. with bolshevism and anarchy
but thiny yelled and waiting only a favorable Op-
portunity TO burst forth anew no man whose acts
toward this government sufficiently question
able lead 10 his imprisonment should be set free
without careful inquiry and proof of his innocence
but there is a present continuing menace, in the
periodical appearance of certain publications the
product of Americans. approving and confirming
exactly what these wartime traitors taught a
least in pre;ense-anj governmental silence is Civ
these publications If their dictums
be true. the general amnesty is decidedly in order
You can't squelch anarchy by Furnishing anarchists
for telling the truth and if what these publica-
saying true--Debs and Haywood were
merely their Jonn the Baptsts in telling it,
Never mind. Maybe keep win
by burning our bills
Passing the buck" has long been the favorite
game of the Germans Now it has been taken up by
everybody in the American food industry
|
The Bank of England has turned all
profits to the government Pretty radical thing
bank bulwark OF British conser-
vatsm will be joining the proletarat If it isn't
careful.
What the about anyhow-Germany the
peace treaty?
Are you a spendTRTTffer or a thrift spender?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
- Come sEd Sec Is So

One Navy Blue Messaline SUIT. Satin.
Vest effect, button trimmed. size 8.
Regular sos 90. Sale Price $3.50
Copen Faille Silk Suit Russian Blouse
Vestee, size 49, Regular Price $500.
Sale Price $3.50
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
NOT MUCH MOURNING.

The Germans conducted them
selves in the late war so that their
total extinction would cause just
about as much grief as Smithson ex-
perienced. Smithson went into a
department store and asked:
What are the rules and regula-
tions about mourning"
For wife or near relative" said
the salesman, you adopt full black
even down 10 black bordered hand
kerchief and stationery. For dis
tant relative a black band on the
sleeve is sufficient For a friend a
black necktie is enough"
Smithson thought moment: then
he said: Gimme a skoeace It's
my mother-in law.
Selected.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
The Tower of Babel
By Bill Armstrong

Notice to the trade. Hereafter the
new business manager shall be
known as Min, If some mean per-
son slips reference into the column
in regard 10 us and calls US Andy"
there shall be no objection to this
title.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08
Capes, Dolmans and Coats
at One Half Price

Navy Blues. Tans, and Copen.
Serges, Tricotines. Paulettes. and PORE
Twills-half and full satin lined-price
ranged from $3.50 to $1,000. Sale
Price one-half off or range of price from
SII.25 to $500
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

Frank Allen is not such a help
less cuss-he's got the young folks
writing about Betsy Ross.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

Firemen and pooh room loafers al
ways have a speaking acquaintance,
SEE Andy.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

Jake Heckaman is---but We
guess we will save this until later.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

over at the shop we encountered
an unusual example Of the duplicity
Of Mr. Jake Heckaman. II seems Mr.
Heckaman has advertised far and
wide that he was spending his vaca-
ton at Indian lake or some equally
important resort. He is daily grow
ing tanned and having all the ap-
pearance of a fashionable vacation
list, but Jake's colleagues at the shop
claim that he is sitting in his back
yard each day in bathing suit in
an effort 10 acquire the appearance
Of a tired business man at the sea
shore.
Juice seq il seems awfully hard TO
recall the days before this country
became a desert.
Our idea of a genius taxi cab
driver on Michigan av.
you are under arrest" exclairn-
ed the officer as he stopped the
automobile.
What for?' inquired Mr.. WEIGH
Il haven't made up my mind yet.
Ill just look over your lights. an
your license, an your numbers. an
so forth. l know l can get you for
somethin'"
one sentence that you don't hear
very often nowadays is, Willie. don't
forget 10 bring the change home"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

There haint many things these
days that can compare with a high
powered circus
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

The Bank of England has turned all
profits over to the government Pretty radical thing
for bank 10 do. That bulwark OF British
vatsm will be joining the proletarist If it isn't
careful.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

What the about anyhow-Germany the
peace treaty?
Are a spendthrifter a thrift spender?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

Never mind. Maybe keep next win
ter by burning bills
Passing the buck has long been the favorite
game of the Germans Now it has been taken up by
everybody the American food industry.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-08

one sentence that you don't hear
very often nowadays is, Willie. don't
forget 10 bring the change home. g"
The Washington herald., 1919-08-06
WILSON URGED
TO AID CLERKS
Requested to Open Mill.
tary Stores to Civilian
Employees.

Legislation opening the Army and
Navy Supply departments for pur.
chases by civilian employees of the Fed
eral District government is asked in
a letter sent to President Wilson yes
terday by the National Federation of
Federal Employees.
The legislation is urged "as an i'm
mediate emergency measure, pending
more fundamental economic adjust
ments for all workers" Immediate
relief is necessary, the letter urges,
because OF the continued high cost
of living.
Government workers" the letter
says, in Washington and elsewhere
are receiving as little as $3.50 q year
for full time work. Thousands get
no more than $1,000 a year. Con-
gress has granted the small increas Sc
of s24O for the current year, and the
lower House of Congress has passed
a minimum wage bill WHICH would
bring the lower paid employees to a
minimum OF SO a day. Congress has
also established a Reclassification
Commission which is expected to
recommend a revised salary scale for
employees in the District of Colum-
bia. But the minimum wage bill
is held up by the opposition from
certain senator's" the letter declares,
and the Reclassifcatlon Commits
sion, cannot possibly make q report
in the next FIVE months"
The Washington herald., 1919-08-06
ALL TO SERVE u. S.
UNDER NEW WAR ACT

Secretary Baker yesterday submit
ted to Congress the War Depart
ment plan for permanent universal
military training
The plan was embodied in a bill for
permanent reorganization Of the
army introduced in the Senate by
Senator WaGsworth. chairman of tie
Military Affairs Committee.
The bill provides that boys reach
ing 10 be required to take three
months training and then 60 into
reserve, subject to call, for two
years.
In event OF war. the selectlve ser
vice act as amended during the war
with Germany would come into force
automatically and make all men be-
tween IS and As liable to service.
A peace army with Il maximum
strength Of $4,000 men also is pro-
vided.
The plan was drawn by the general
staff without consulting with General
Pershing. Baker. in a letter to Chair
man Wadsworth. of the Senate Mill
tary Affairs Committee. said he
could not give his personal approval
to any plan until after hearing
Pershing's views.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-06
JURY INDICTS 4
IN RACE RIOTS
Negroes Face Trial as
Autoists Who Fired on
Naval Hospital.

-Four colored men. alleged by the po-
lice to have occupied the automobile
from which shots were fred at the
guard al the Naval Hospital on July
p during the race riots, were indicted
yesterday by the grand Jury on
charges Of assault with a dangerous
weapon.
The men gave their names as Rich
ard Adams. Raymond Lee, Edmond
Thomas and Roger Smith. Others IN
dicted and the charges against them
are:
Nonsupport - Samuel E. Streeks,
Thomas Savoy. Joseph Savoy, Harry
R. Roots, Edward r. Richardson,
Henry F. Rabbit Eppie H. Payne
Arthur G. Meeks, Louis r. Lippin-
colt, George Griches. Frank Dodson,
Wendell Czenczius. Thomas H. Cor
nett. Charles Boyd and James A
Barnes.
Joyriding-Ernest Pons. Philip My
ers, Benjamin 8. Jones, Morris Will
hanson. James E. Taylor. Bernard
Stewart. William Thomas. Edward
Thomas, GARFIELD Preleau and John
Jackson.
Foryery and "uttering"-Alonzo R.
PopIes. Frederick n. G. Wassmsn,
jr.. william NJ. Gibbons. Basil c.
Bowie, Louis Sellers. George NJ. Carr,
George f. Hopkins, Raymond II. Ball,
Daniel A Mshoney, Henry C. Barnes,
IT., and Eugene c. Neville, the latter
also indicted for adultery and larceny
from the United States An indict-
nsnt for larceny from the United
States was also returned against
Henry c. Barnes, Jr.
Assault with dangerous weapon
Jesse Craig. Walter Dwyer. Marshall
Frye, Lenwood Hill and Robert Chap
man.
Larceny from the United States
Bernard Lewis
Grand larceny Garfield Holmes,
Mary A Hensley. Elias NJ. Nesbit,
William G. Gilmore, Charles Mat
thsws and George E. Hopkins.
Psrjury-AuEustus Breitenstein.
Housebreaking and larceny-William
Johnson. Charles Marshall and George
F Pollard. the latter indicted twice
for this oTense.
False pretenses-John T. Wilkey.
MISUNDERSTANDING Bradley.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-06
DR.. Farrand to Address
Junior Red Cross Today

The first session OF a three-day
conference OF the Junior Member
ship, Potomac Division. American
Red Cross. will be held today 5t
1901 ] street. DR.. Livingston Pa
rand. chairman OF the central COM
mittee, American Red Cross, will
deliver the principal address.
The object OF the conference ia
TO bring together the leading edu-
cstional officials of the division
who have manifested interest in the
school work, and especially the
supervisor, who have expert train
ing in this particular vocation.
The conference will continue
three days.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-06
NOT AFTER TOBACCO.
SAYS MIR. WHEELER

The brewers attorneys ought to
hold a melting and agree upon their
conclusions" said Wayne e
Wheeler, general counsel of tn.
Anti-saloon League of America
Mr.. untermeyer admitted before
the subcommittee that Congress had
power to enact legislation to make
the prohibition amendment efrec.
tive and to prevent schemes for
violating the law. He claimed
however. that this did not app,v in
defining the term Intoxicating
liquors
Attorneys Root, Guthrie and
Marbury say that until the eight
eenth amendment becomes effective
Congress has no expressed power
to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of beer whether or not II is
Intoxicating In other words. thev
admit that Congress may define the
term under the eighteenth amend
ment and not under war prohibi-
tion, but deny the right to define
under war prohibition. Both are
wrong. 1t is now we'll settled by
the Supreme Court that II Congress
has the power to enact a law IL
has also the power to enact add.
tional legislation to make the orig
inal act effective and enforceable,
To define the term Intoxicating
liquor is necessary to make the
act enforceable, especially where
courts have defeated it's purpose by
construction"
With reference to the anti-to-
bacco crusade, Mr.. Wheeler said:
This is brewery propaganda to
alarm people about prohibition
laws. The liquor traffic is pub
lie nuisance. 1t is in a class by
itself. The Anti-Saloon League
forces that accomplished its prohi-
bition are not back OF the crusade
against tobacco. Many OF them be-
lieve that the tobacco habit is a
bad habit, hut it Is not public
nuisance like the liquor traffic"
The Washington herald., 1919-08-06
Demands Arrest of Bandits.

Prompt arrest and punishment of
Mexican bandits who robbed George
N, Mcdonald. American citizen, six
miles from Tampico, will be de-
rnanded of the Mexican government.
the State Department let it be
known yesterday.
The American Embassy at Mexico
City has been instructed to make
representations to the Mexican gov
ernment
The Washington herald., 1919-08-06
PLUMBER ORGY
IN BUDAPEST
SO, 900 Rumanians Wildly
Celebrate City's Capture.
Peidl Government Falls.

Paris Aug. 6.-Budapest is in the
nands Of the Rumanian army nearly
gSVo strong. The government OF Jules
feioi' which took power only FIVE days
ago after the overthrow of Bella Kun.
has resigned. All former, Soviet off,
clals are under arrest, and the Ru-
t1ahians mold every government build
ing In the Magyar capital.
intoxicated by their swift and blood
iess triumph. the RumanIan troops
are celebrating the capture OF Buda-
pest by orgies of plunder, and Gen.
Marghasou is finding It difficult 10 keen
his victorious army in check. Alarm.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-06
TRAINS LEAVING
DESPITE STRIKE
Terminal Head Declares
Schedules Maintained
By Bosses in Overalls.

Denying eaims OF the striking
shopmen Of the wsshinston Ter
minal Company, Union Station, the
company declared last night,
through J. B. Warrington, general
manager. that conditions were so
near normal that no official con-
nected with the Terminal Company
had any fear that his department
would be unable TO handle all busI-
ness.
As far as the Terminal officials
are CONCERNED, they declared, there
IS absolutely no change in the sit
uation, except that nearly $50 rail-
The Washington herald., 1919-08-06
Just Wed, He Is Found Dying

Anniston, Ala, Aug. SC. A
Mstheny, as, missing since Sunday,
was found dying at his home here
yesterday. His throat was cut
from ear to ear.
Police went to Matheny's home to
serve a warrant charging aban-
donment of his family. He was
married a week ago to Miss Cora
HiEge nbothan, said to be Il years
old.