South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-16
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New York reports another soft
drink with a kick. They multiply
like feas II it's a beverage. the citi-
zen wants It so he can take the
count with the fifth sgig
\ New Idea.
old Doc Holtzendorff butted into
an electric light pole opposite the
North Side bank the other DAY He
did ~ several times with intention.
and when Motorcycle Cop Smithy
interfered afraid lest the pole
ondeavoring TO straighten the bum
per Of his machine which had got
ten badly twisted.
70 was a wonderful thing to have
parts Of the country silent for two
minutes Armistice day. But it was
pretty hard for men like William ].
Bryan. Jim Reed and Hiram John
son to remain inarticulate for that
long.
1t will be just like the people Of
the United States TO get together
next year and elect a president who
will adjust a spike in the toe of mis-
boot and proceed 20 kick the trouser
seats OF some Of the little swell
headed bosses. grafters and ny
phenates.
Akron claims a landlord who
hasn't raised rents in six years. How
lonely ne must feel in Ohio. There
IS q Nfishawaka landlord who claims
ne hasn't raised rents but twice
since the war started. but he is
probably some conceited nut who is
trying to make himself conspicuous.
A Tacoma woman who gave a toe
aud a piece of jawbone toward the
physical reconstruction OF her war
shattered husband is now suing him
for non-support. Maybe she has
been giving him some subsequent
installments of jawbone he didn't
relish.
Old John D. has given $4,000. 900
more for medical research. Some
thing will have to be done to in
crease the seven diseases durable by
drugs or somebody will have to get
a job at the Wooden Co.
Local Baptists are going to hold
a dry banquet. When the Baptists
become dearidihed in this way. you
may know there Is no chance for
/ wet heather 10 upset things.
If you are really interested in op-
( timism. it is we'll enough to know
! that it is not merely a state of
mind or sight, but rather a matter
Of conscientious work.
Collier says the "Old Oaken
Bucket generation passed 90 years
ago, ard now it's the ragtime era.
No. no. Collier A goodly remnant
Of the generation is still here, and
the wrath of the moss covered
bucket still swings from the myth
( cal crane over the rockbound we'll.
/ The trouble is that you can't get
LIQUID notes when the sources OF
inspiration are dry.
( 1t is said Louisville Jagged IN the
/ Red Cross drive. Judging by the way
I Louisville acted toward the sublime
idealism OF an imperishable democ-
I racy recently, Louisville was more
concerned in the double cross than
| IL was in the Red Cross,
/
Another reason why the average
! man wants the railroads returned to
4 the owners, IL Will be so nice to see
/ the ticket agents in the railroad
centers smiling at you again, AS it is
now. old-time courtesy, such as be-
longs TO mike" Gill. is about to
I take the count.
sts
Kansas has gone over the top with
her $500 600 war memorial fund.
say, how do they do it? Do the citi-
zens just come across or are surgery
and anesthesia required?
Don't ask us how Kentucky feels
in the shame OF her latest disgrace.
in a moment OF dark temptation she
turned her back upon the true, the
beautiful and the good and consort-
ed with the sirenical and jazzy Jade
OF an impudent republicanism.
The coal miners who have been
trying TO freeze the people are gen
tlemen and scholars compared with