South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-23

and keep it going. He's just wasting
his time at Indianapolis where the
statesmen fail 70 appreciate his bril-
liant logic And again, he can't get
anywhere with his brand Of democ-
racy as shown in his solo fight to
have the German language perpet-
uated in the schools of the state He
may be the Beau Brummel of the
legislature, but If that's all. hanged
T If it's worth paying railway fare for.
A Mishawaka soldier writes to his
mother that ne hasn't received a
/ cent pay in eight months. Maybe
they can 'em doughboys because they
we're so anxious to have their dough
and failed TO get it.
The Negro who imported whisky in
( a coffin which was supposed 10 con-
tain a corpse is under arrest. We
hope nobody in Mishawaka will try
this plan. If the impression were to
get out that collins containing whisky
were buried in our cemeteries on the
north side, the alcoholic exhumers
would dig up every grave in town.
/ cit was unconventional 40 years
ago for men to discuss women's
wearing apparel" writes a good
| lady member of the Mothers club
of the east end. Do you know why?
First, men in those days didn't
know anything about it. Such APP
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sold in the stores. Now. by hockey,
everybody knows all about it.
Just to encourage Bargain day,
Schuyler Sprague says he is willing
TO donate a free casket for any one
who dies Wednesdays. The only
/ condition attached, is that the party
who needs it will call for il. How's
/ that for funeralia generosity?
How dry is a bone?" asks Fred
Vogt. Who knows? There are
quite number of boneheads who
are not dry.
They say the multitude Of gallons
of confiscated liquor in this and
other cities at present, are going to
be destroyed. And when the hos
pitfalls want liquor they will pay
about $50 a gallon for it. There
are some idiots in this country.
Whatever the excuse for permit
ting soldiers in France to go with
out pay for months, the neglect is
outrageous and inexcusable and
those responsible for it ought to be
kicked out of service.
Prejudice can not survive knowl-
edge. 1t fourishes in ignorance.
That is why preachers should act
upon what they know, rather than
upon the lack Of information which
they fear the public may suffer.
Mishawaka would do well to kid
nap those South Bend men who had
sense enough to organize a housing
/ CORPORATION to take care OF the in
coming throng. We simply need
men who will do in Mishawaka
what Mishawakans are too indiffer-
/ enI OF TOO llShlWduulSh " w AOA
themselves.
Mishawaka would not be going
| beyond her highest interests If she
were 10 build a 100000 home for
the Y. NJ. c. A.
An Atlanta lady who. has just
celebrated the 50th anniversary of
her marriage says: Keep smiling
and husband will keep on loving
YOU" That's good doctrine. Keep
/ smiling and everybody will keep on
/ loving you.
In the meantime. it is well enough
( for Paris to keep warm feet and
cool head. Old Foch will not re-
lax the pressure on the Teuts suf-
hciently to permit them to wiggle.
Sen. Hagerty told the Indiana
legislature there was no sunshine in
England these days. Just so; the
moonshine of Ireland must have
trickled into it and put it out.
The South Bend housing corpora
ton is going TO succeed. Misha-
waka wants the right kind Of people
! just as anxiously as South Bend
does. but MishawaKa would have
them know, by hockey. that she is
not a houser. However, she rec
ommends her sky very highly. ex
cept that II leaks when II rains.
OF course, nobody is fool enough
/ 20 say that a war between Great
Britain and the United States would
be impossible If the provocation
| existed. Besides. II Great Britain
were not already we'll nigh exhaust
ed she would probably declare war
on us for introducing the Jazz
dances in London.
| Experie nee doubtless will show
I that spir tual forces carries the
{ church forward much more effec-
lively than temporal power. but il
Is hard for the church to hold ut
terly aloof from Caesar. wher
! Caesar is in the vicinity.