South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-05-18
THE LAST STRAW! SEC'Y BAKER NOW
AN ARISTOCRATl LEVIES PROTECTIVE
TARIFF ON WOMEN GOING TO FRANCE


- TRAVIS are in great demand in the ant-admin-
istraton camp just now The latest TO be
~ grasped. and with much apparent effort IS the
one being tangled before sec'y or War Baker just
now incident 10 his order lifting the cid on Ameri-
can women going TO Europe after June To- provided
they can anord to stay for six months so as not 10
take Up any room that might be occupied oy re-
turning soldier during that period
Crime. Terrible.
..rhe fact that none but the rich can take
advantage Of ne opPoTt1nl9 maA5
repugnant Evidently Mr. Baker has tried 10
DO something pleasant ana popular and a.
usual has bIng-
Well what would he have done had ne not is
sued the order Blngled just the same, TO be sure
what can you expect OF an "old nae' so gaunt and
rundown that it grasps even for straws to save
n from starvation. Had he refused the order. it
would have been pointed out that there is plenty Of
room on the ships going over after troops. which
a. true and no reason loo the world why it shouldn't
b sold II anyone can afford it, and VIII not ask 10
ne brought back while important trans
portaton business ne done The critics would have
been long on letting the American ladies Of
wealth make the "trip then. Baker would have been
- 'bolshevik" or something Of that sort but
soh dear: VERY few dOughooys wives and mothers
viii get 10 Paris this year" Only the wealthy and
curious relatives OF officers" can make such a trip.
and mothers Of doughboys could 90 or would want
o. 20 to Paris this year even II they could come
back on the next boat, The bulk of the wives and
,xnothers or the doughboys have about all they
do to stay at home couldn't afford TO make the trip
4 Uncle Sam would pay their way. And who is it
that goes to Paris or Europe for the summer any
how but the rich unfortunately true, out
the less true. that poor have always with
here at home Secy Baker has merely lei down a
Few more Of the bars returning the country 10
pre-war basis-with the one restriction that the
travel must interfere with the finishing up OF
the war. incident to bringing back troops Pro-
tective tariffs OF that order seem to be awfuly
ealamitus.
Criminal isn't it, Yes awfully Simply horrible,
Such bungnng. Isn't IL timely that the secretary Of
war should have 'bungled" again. and Just at this
moment when many wives and mothers of dough
BOYS were expecting 20 TO France and accom-
panv the sons or husbands back home-havins the
money all saved up for trip. of the allow
ances sent home from that $50 per month? But
Furthermore. the straw grab5ers" tell that Eng
land France and Switzerland don't want them. Pos
sibly But is sec'y Baker the guardian England
France and Switzerland? thought he wasn't
even capable of running the department with
out standing at door France England and
Switzerland. to keep people out
Fact OF the matter is however tnat France is
making elaborate preparations for the reception
O. tourists this summer France is in need Of the
tourists She expects to reap harvest from
the exhibition OF her battlehelds- Gab-artists
being trained by the hundreds in all tongues tell
visitors all about the battles Of the Marine OF the
somne OF Cambria Verdun Chateau Thierry. Ar
Eonne Forest and the rest. We wish every mother
and wife OF a doughboy had the means to go 10
France stay six months or even six weeks and pay
4he tips essential To living over the scenes of carnage
enacted at the above mentioned fronts. but
wouldn't advise them to go If they had Why
wreck their systems by such recreation? IF
wealthy and curious relatives Of officers care TO
rsk IT, probably they can also afford the doctors
oils but # IS no place for the wife mother Of
the average doughboy.
Demagogic sop" for the wives and mothers OF the
doughboys that is all there is it. They expect
ed not to see 10 stop think. that they could
not make the trip anyway; just a little imposition
upon their intelligence. that is all and appeal
20 their prejudice against those who afford 10
20 II we were 10 utter monstrosty. the eclat
would rise up and accuse US OF promoting class
hatred" or sowing the seed that grows "bolshe-
visn" but not so when the. organs Of Goods own
Party" join the chorus" eniven along such
discomfort. II becomes the music OF heaven then
on but how they do love the poor and despise the
rich all OF a sudden
or do they Join it because these rich
rich. who afford to go forced stay
Ions making f. additionally expensive. instead OF
bringing them back in the stead or some dough
boy forcing the wives and mothers who can't afford
TO go 10 that much longer. for the sons or
husbands return
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