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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

CTION by organization like the Chamber
"A of Commerce. here in South Bend. pleading
u for increase of the municipal budget and
a commensurate tax rate, is indeed something new.
kind OF life has been injected into
from somewhere. 1t perfectly natural. Judging
the future by the past that when the city admin
istration announced its budget of a million
dollars, certain individuals who always anticipate
the popular chord and then seek to champion it,
should have made the mistake of jumping in the
wrong direction
Neither is 1t surprising that having taken the
Jump and discovering the mistake, hurried effort
should be made TO get under cover; effort
to appear TO have jumped differently than really
the That is always the way o, the band
climber; always the way OF the whose
opinions vary with the popular acclaim. or what he
conceives to be the popular acclaim-but the main
point is that South Bend. in anticipation OF
enormous growth is getting its old parsimOny,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

and We note TO Germany and say take back
your kaiser and go with your war" Indeed op-
position the League. IT has been advanced
quite throughout in that same directionZan
opposition that distinctly uphods German rather
than American ideals: the ideal in particular that
might makes right" and that If have the might.
and the egotism to that the world should
be under dominance. have the right TO
put her there.
We either fought for the rights Of the weaker
peoples, and must safeguard them fought
hypocrites-but perhaps the silliest, and for that
reason, maybe, the most dangerous. of the objec-
tfons advanced the ratification of the League, Is
that other preyarcation that brought before
the senate the other day. protesting England's
six votes to one"-and demanding equality. The
Stiffness and the danger lies in the falsity Of it,
and in the demagogc appeal to anti British and in
consequence, prO-German prejudice.
1t is that Great Britain-Engand Australia,
Canada, India, South Africa and New South Wales.
all sgnatories OF the covenant but both
the assembly and in the council. one vote is just
good six all matters in the appoint
rIent of committees. America, therefore, reduce
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

place with regard to the popular wants as we'll as
the popular necessities. That is why the Chamber
OF Commerce is urging adoption of the administra
ton budget, at least after manner to secure for
the funds desired. though not all to be collected
by taxation at once.
municipality is a great big family. That is the
point that South Bend is beginning TO 1t Is
more a place for than is the home but the
community life. its conveniences. improvements.
linking the homes together, is not waste-and all
within the community equally entitled to its
blessings. The in the outskirts. paying city
whether indirectly through the rent collector.
or directly the tax collectors Office must have
those conveniences and improvements taken to him
just fast possible.
Evidently have approached the time when
we can give up counting city expenditures IN
dimes and dollars-but in thousands OF dollars. We
learned that TO be great city must do
big things and do them in A big way
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

going about him he sought to definitely and
fully understand and that served the basis OF
his imaginative wonderngs In other words he mix
ed them with He was accordingly logical,
and better TO depict the truth. He neither
n traveller, nor great reader, but with the things
about him as basic, his mentality belted the world.
end even explored the heavens and the hells, and
eternities.
Rants experience is illustrative We mention It
institution like the Interstate fair
would. have been a great boom to a like Kant
but he probably enjoyed opportunity for
such schooling. The South Bender, the Mishawakan
the citizen from anywhere in St Joseph
rounding counties for that matter, who ignores the
fair about the wonders Of else where.
chance to be merely exposing their ignorance.
Let US get acquainted with home town
That is what the Interstate fair, in the MAN. IS
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

THE Interstate fair this week bids fair to
maintain the record Of former years. not
only agricultural and industrial exhibit
and in exhibits of livestock. the fine arts. and at
horse racing, but week of general relaxation
and entertainment for the public. This annual af-
fair is q peoples affair. 1t has been recognized
maintained, and patronized such from the day
that it first opened its gates.
II has been among the things that South Bend
Nishawaka and st. Joseph county have long need
ed; annual week of popular schooling in the
knowledge of our productions.
Too many of know too little of what is going
about OF what neighbors making
farmers growing, our industries manufacturing
We too likely TO think of everything wonder
full and grand as being accomplished in other towns,
and lands and chimes.
Some of us foolish enough TO look only on
the dark side OF the things about us and imagine
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07
Indeed Yes Teresa HE Kept Us Ont of War; and He

president again as they listened 20 him three
years ago when he was doing all that human
could do-"loeeping US out of war" 1t IS a fear
that the people will insist, having learned the
truth, that United States senators, both repubH-
cans and democrats, carry out their platform
pledges upon which the president reelected,
going as far as h,nnsnly possible-to make
forever hereafter impossible.
Ii is that same fear that lifted their voices IN
horror upon the presidents going to Europe as
a peace delegate; anything to prevent the "paci-
&c settlement, of international disputes, the
establishment Of a world court for that purpose"
or the realization of "the principles that should
be he object of any association of nations formed
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

popular support for the treaty and the league N
sst that he should stay IN Washington, where
they say he Is needed because of labor troubles,
because Of the high cost Of living, needed IN the
work of reconstruction and readjustment-just as
they hypocritcally opposed his trip to France in
much The same Technology
But it Is not labor troubles, the high cost of
living, readjustment or reconstruction, at ALL that
is worrying them. On the contrary it is their
Prussianized minds, as Prussianesque as the minds
of Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Hndenbwg, Won TIr-
pitt, Treitschke or Neitzsche,-egged on by the
protests Of our own war prohteering lords.
Ii Is their fear that the people, republicans,
democrats and socialists alike, will listen to the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

world court for that purpose"-which the repub-
leans IN 1916 said they were In favor Of
I'LL
\ ATURALLY this does not set very well
1 with those Prussian-minded gentlemen
for instance of the Lodge-Borah- knox-Johnson
on-Brandegee-Ne w-P enrose-Reed school,
who would convert Americas wartime preten-
Sions into hypocrisy, and who still quite appar-
emily believe t,-that after all it is might that
makes right" instead of fright, might" and trat
there is higher law, than the law of force and
crookedness.
Or yes, they terribly opposed to the presi-
G.nts swing around the country in quest of the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07
IEREAFTER America Is

7 7 EREAFTER America Is to have some direct
knowledge of the progress of European d.
pIomacy such as has been provoking European
wars keeping the Balkans In a turmoil, and tnal-
" exploding into world conhsgration-for US,
though separated from it by mighty ocean, to
have to step in and help extinguish IN order to
save ourselves. We propose to have something
to say about that diplomacy.
The Paris treaty and the League Of Nations
covenant constitute the machinery proposed to
that end They mean a new system of world d.
plomacy-and European diplomacy IN particular
No two powers can again enter into a secret
treaty-such as provoked the world war,-vVith-
out mourning the dSfavor Of the remaining family
of nations.
So much Misrepresentation, so much untruth-
fulness SO much fraud has been perpetrated by
the Prussian-minded opponents to the league
that is why the president is touring the country
to carry the truth to the people, exactly the thing
that it is not wanted they should hear.
Exactly the reason, too, why ant-admnistra-
tionists say he should remain IN WashIngtOnj why
thew said he should not have gone to ParIs-un-
faithful as they are not only to America, but IN
their super-partisanship even to their own party;
bowling IN their PrussianeSqueness to the cam
paisn contributions CT the preparedness and the
war urofiteer, with whom Gold is God and Greed
the Great High Priest
We owe it to the rest Of the world PARTICULAR
y the lesser powers, as wen as O 10 see 10
il that some machinery is set up that will forever
eliminate the old system of intenationallSrn, up
on which wars have been bred and have thrived,
while the agencies OF war have grown rch,-and
because of which the patriotic and innocent alone
have suffered and bled and died.
That is why Pres't Wilson Is making his tour
man of the world and man Of the people,-and
his admonitions Needed, all of mankind will rise
I'D and say of him, for years and years to come,
as did his constituents IN 1916-"He kept out
of war"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

Read them both, and over again, and that re-
publican plank in particular, and if you find
anything in it that appealed to the president to
get into war" criticising him for keeping
us out" save that it presumes that the republi-
cans would have done it differenty-probably
less Extensively to the German-Americans,-
are welcome to all you can find.
Wilson was accordingly submitted to the peo-
pie for reelection with a slogan-'he kept out
of WARN perfect keeping with what the
publicans said in their platform they were for
peace the peace of justice and right" and
maintenance of "a strict and honest neutrality"
Charles Evans Hughes, never throughout his
campaign, dared assert that he would have
plunged into war-it might have alenated the
German-American vote,-only he would have
kept out by the Rooseveltian bombast instead
of the WilsOnian ''phrase-making and perform
in language"
Pres't Wilson accordingly so far as tie prin-
cPles involved IN foreign relations is
cerned, for reelection in 1916 as much on the
republican platform, upon the democratic, and
when he returned from France with the League
of Nations covenant he brought with him the
machinery for that pacific settlement of inter-
national disputes" and the establishment of
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
I'VE desire Peace, the peace
Of justice and right. and be-
Iieve in maintaining "a strict
and honest neutrality" just
n bid for the German Amer
lean Voto) between the bel
Isgerents I'm the great war.
We must perform all our
duties and insist upon all our
rights as neutrals without
fear and without favor" lt,erc
"a lot more bait for the Ger
an-Americans about al
Legged MilsOnian "shifty eN-
pedients. phrasemakiBg and
perforulance= in Language.
md theu;l we believe In
the pacific settlement Of in
fernationai disputes. and
favor the establishment Of a
world court for that pur-
unse"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

Copies morning
by
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The democratic admins
tratiOu has throughout the
present war scrupulOuslN
held 20 the old paths
of neutrality and peaceful
pursuits which states
men Of all parties ard creeds
have subscribed for
America since the beginning
OF our history" (Here fol-
lows recital OF aims and
certain hardships encountered
not very inviting to the
German Americans. aud
thenl The present admin
i-tratiOn has consistently
sought in its conduct
Of foreign affairs 20 realize
the principles that should
Ice the object of any nssocia-
ton of nations formed to Sc
cure the peace OF the world,
etc"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

to secure the peace of the world pledged IN
both the republican and democratic 1915 plat
forms
If there is any sincerity IN the pretense that the
president needed in Washington in January,
that he Is needed there IN September, because
of internal affairs, then the republicans plead
guilty to a senatorial and congressional campaign,
last year, of the most gigantic humbuggery,-
and America never showed less political sense
than when it gave the republican congress that
they craved
They told US that by giving them majority
power, would have congress of vision"
not "rubber-stamp" congress, but congress
that would be ''alive TO our reconstruction prob
lens and would solve them without presidential
dictation''-in compliance with which, after be-
ing in session since mid-May, they have actually
repealed the tax soda-waters and killed
the daylight saving law.
The president needed in Washington? 1t IS
confession of lack of constructive brains on the
part Of those who plead it; indeed, tribute to
the president, mconSciously and therefore all the
more httngy bestowed by his enemies.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

henchmen Notwithstanding -Pres't Wood
Wilson IS pursuing his tour of the nation in
behalf of the Paris peace treaty and the covenant
of the League of Nations. He is taking his mes
sage to the same people, who by 363,612 plural
ity, reelected him to the presidency In 1916 be-
cause he kept out of war"-yes, kept out
of war" up TO that time and with honor,-and
who with millions additional now believe in the
program that he is championing for keeping us
out of war; in the future.
Yes, che kept US out Of war;" for nearly three
years, employing every diplomatic power at
Americas command, to end the European con-
fiict without becoming a belligerent-just
America by that 363,612 plurality apparently
wanted him to do; and just as every American
president had done with respect to all our wars;
Mckinley, Lincoln, Polk, Madison and the col
onial fathers-never taking up the sword until the
last diplomatic expedient had failed.
When patience ceased to be virtue" and
Germany, encouraged by American anti-admin-
istration criticism, launched her campaign of ir-
reconcilable endurance, even to indulging
ntrigues IN violation of our own territorial in
tegrity-and it seen that there could be no
more peace,-the nation accepted the alterna-
tive of war; still believing the president that it
would be part, for the extermna-
ton of wars,-to confirm which is the purpose of
his present hanscontinental voyage.
That was the American understanding when a
state of war declared against Germany; that
choosing,
own making, but war which European intrigues
not only the part of the triple alliance but
the entente,-had precpitated and drawn us in
to. We would fight not alone to squelch the ag-
gressor but to squelch further intrigues-not
alone on the part of our enemies, but our allies
that would tend to draw US into another such
bloody vortex.
The Paris treaty and the League of Nations
covenant are the settlement and the machinery
that have evolved from the struggle-intent up-
on carrying out that American understandings
which was understood by England, France, Italy,
and the other seventeen associated powers as
we'll
Armed with these documents, the president is
again going to the people with a cure this time
for that for which they thanked him by 363,612
plurality, three years ago, for his temporary sue
in preventing.
He kept US out of war;" yes, just as long as
European intrigue would admit of it. He re-
turns with the documents bought with
American blood, forever shelving that intrigue
to keep us out of war" again, and again.
il
(WHICH serves a gentle reminder! Re-
w duced to purely political proposition
there is political party in all America, existing
at the last presidential election, that has a leg to
stand IN opposition to the presidents peace
program; yea, not even the socialists. They
all for peace IN their platforms of three
years ago-and all for some sort of League of
Nations, none, however, presenting definite
program.
Even the slogan employed in the Wilson CAM
Paign-"he kept out of war"-~as justified
by the hopes expressed in the republican platform
well in the democratic. Get them side by
side:
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-07

T ALLURE of the United States to ratfy the
/ Paris treaty and join the League Of Nations,
would make of America an international YAM
urc. false pretender, a Stacker and a fraud. Ii
Is different with US today than it before.
AS long as we kept out Of the world war, main
tanning strict neutrality, which privilege
and our right-until our integrity and our honor
had been placed IN jeopardy,-our splendid $50
Iation" was beautiful but henceforth TO maintain
it would be to take the aspects of the hideous.
We never owed It to any European power to
shed one drop of American blood IN their behalf
I'D to the point where the beast Of Berlin whom
European intrigue secret treaties, balances OF
power spheres of influence, and preferential
trade relations, had driven to uncomfortable
madness,-seesnedt to have them on the run, and
his rage was also threatening US.
For mind you it not at ali German intrigue
tAst allied Europe. Ii was horse-race between IN
triaues-EngIand France and Russia indulging IN
It, even from the days Of the Crmean war, well
as Germany, Austria-Hmgary and Italy. What
allied Germany was that she went crazy when she
saw the entente making the wire and leaving her
In the rear, and instead of making clean hight
which she probably could not she forSook all
rules, made self-conceived necessity and ex-
cuse, and turned international bandit
Neither did the entente intrigues stop with the
beginning of the war. Italy was bought over with
a secret bribe-the promise of Fiume,-and
Japan, with the promise of ShantUmg. Germanys
greed for power scarcely less hIckIy ad-
vanced than that of the entente, but Outwitted
in it. she lost her head as she to have long
feared she might, and following her years of
preparations to meet the emergency, she chose
force instead of laying her cards clean on the
table and asking the verdict of mankind
Ii was because of such mutual thickness; be-
cause of the American sense Of the fact that the
European war, it started was mere falling
out of thieves"-she aggressor at fault but goad-
ed to it,-that encouraged us to maintain the
strict neutrality that we did, UP to the last mo
ment of poSsibiEty,-and then when we were
drawn into it, insisting that as reward, at the
conclusion of peace, the old diplomacy must go,
this as an insurance to America, at least against
probable" repetition.
The diamond drill., 1919-04-05

Someone has at last seen the light
and brought back Mabel Normand In
the kind OF a role that fits her. II you
knew Mable in the old Keystone days
when she would just as lief fall OF a
roof or take 60-foot dive as smile,
20 to see her In Mickey" seven
reel combination OF laughter and
suspense.
The story opens in the west where
Mickey" is as harum-scarum a hero
Inc as could be desired. There are
many cunning scenes before the ac-
The diamond drill., 1919-04-05

ton is removed to the east where the
disreputable looking Mickey Is wilied
on an aristocratic aunt.
Unlike "peg o My Heart Mickey
As put to doing housework until her
western mine strikes pay ore, then she
is "ail it," 1t then takes spurt into
melodrama and there is a horse race
that for suspense and climax has
that we'll remembered picture. The
Whip" beaten.
Not content with keeping the audi
ence on the edge OF its seat for the
race which follows an interesting pur-
The diamond drill., 1919-04-05
ARTHUR C. FISHER
Rasneros de- I.aoAon.
hante Gar0nEe France
February 60 1918

February "a. 1919.
Ny PAl Mother;
Wei, dear. Ne pulled inso this
place last nigh; and wili spend foar.
teen days here On our leave Rude
and are Al inc Hotel Continental
with the RS, 81 the band. and can
safely say Ne eot the best hotel in
the city !, is a erand hotel and our
room Is the finest have ever been in
There are twin beds and every cOu.
fort IS made possible for us our
room is the one marked with a cross
On tho postal We ca, IN the dining
nom tast oS where the mAn stands
in tAe picture. Mieaty good food ioc.
II sAe army was like ihis al Tie time
would never rei bach. guess
We are supposed 20 he down herv
N aaiy. Sat tAtrc arc tAc&iers and
everything else to entertain tAe soi-
&scrs, - about al we VIII have tc
30 Is play few short concerts now
ard iAcn. We NA-a3cd tAis raoTninr
ard riayca in front q headquarters
saa 90 iti ihem kroU We are here
era 81 carse ws t-t risf t, 9'sy at
The diamond drill., 1919-04-05

suit by the william in which quanti-
ties OF hardknocks are given and TAX
en- and many risks. too.
Mabel Normand is altogether de-
lightful and Louis Cody as the william
Is the outstanding character OF the
supporting cast.
The diamond drill., 1919-04-05

Tais Is the last call before election.
am san = candidate Tor Justice u
the Peace and yoGr vote at she polls
next Mo1dAy. April Tn. wiii Ne great
" appreciated The iis0e Aine star
ia ihe window Is Ali sAe world 10 ne
w.K DAVIDSON.
The diamond drill., 1919-04-05


any time. because II keeps our lips
In shape.
The average leave down here Is z
days. but we are getting our two
leaves together which makes It very
nice.
Luchon itself Is located In the Pyr-
ennese mountains and Is noted for its
baths and scenery. We are only n
short walk from Spain and we will go
over there on a little concert excur-
sion some OF these days and we Will
not be interned either. / am sending
a big bunch OF postals from cities
along the line and some from here
which will be added 10 the big col
lection | have already sent home.
The pictures will be very interesting
TO look at when | get home.
Just as we were taking the train
at ST. Nazaire our mail came in from
Epinal. but we did not get IL as the
carrier took Il out TO another camp
Believe me, we were sore bunch
because our mail Is nearly two
months delayed. Not letter from the
states in nearly two months. There
is plenty OF mail for me / guess, but II
never catches up. AS soon as the
mail gets near me l move TO some 9TH
er place with new address. Some of
these days I'll so to an address in
the United States and then l don't
care whether It catches up or not.
This leave OF absence is wonderful,
mother. Uncle Sam pays for our
transportation: gives us rooms and
meals at only the very best hotels and
furnishes entertainments OF all kinds.
The hotels the boys are staying IN
are the biggest summer resorts in
Europe and we take room exactly
as a guest would take Il. The proprit.
tor and landlady met US at the door
as we came In and they are doing
everything they can to make us at
home.
Although we are in mountains II Is
warm, In the vosges mountains il
was always cold, but here It is warm,
and | am surely enjoying myself. We
have breakfast from $500 to $3.50 a
m, but can sleep until noon II
want 20. l surely slept sound last
night, because was tired after two
days riding in small car.
] am writing this letter on real
marble top dressing table. The table
is located by the window directly be-
hind the fan-shaped sign in front OF
the hotel Can you imagine your
boy right now9
or course, everything seems most
wonderful now because l have been
away from real home comforts so |
long. but our room Is probably no
better than the poorest rooms In the
LaSalle, Everything IS very clean
md the sheets on the bed are a bless
ng Our room is attended TO each |
morning by chambermaid- clean
owels, etc. We have electric lights
md all conyeniences, except running
water. So for two weeks, mother
lear am going TO be king and en-
oy everything possible. l only wish
.ou were here, my dear, to enjoy Il
90
I'll write whenever l can, but on
ny vacation l am going to Ne real
AHy ahou; writing
Your loving son,
SGT. c. {. BUENGER.
Goth Engineers Rand. care Sectional
ners. once. A. Il. o. 7ol.