South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-29
MAN IN THE STREET

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Poland is about TO create a senate.
Just think OF a senate like ours
wheeling away by the year with a
language like the Polish tongue.
with its showers Of ks and buzzing
Of rs. to say nothing OF its skis and
itches.
Herbert Hoover Is peeved because
somebody has started a report that
he made $4,000. 900 during his
early youth. lie ought not TO kick at
anything like that He's lucky thai
they have not accused him Of steal
ing $4,000 600 during his youth
Washington s;es it will aim 10
curb the prOfteers Well. aiming
with that bunch has very little ef-
feet unless there happens 10 be
little trigger pulling along with the
aiming. They tell US that every
time Mishawaka workingmen get an
Increase in their wages these same
Lrohteers raise the price or their
goods TO the equivalent Of the boost.
We fear Mishawaka is d hardened
sinner in this respect.
The IrrepPessiblc Alvin.
Now comes J. Alvin Scott, who is
rusticating in the surf at ST. Peters
Wit too -raF IN ffa
postal card i'm which he is seen as
the hero disporting himself in
bathing scene hemmed in by a bevy
OF pretty girls The photo graph was
taken in the midst of an alluring
game of ring -ring-O-rosy with
Alvin in the center role. II will take
something more serious than
burglary in his residence TO lure
Alvin from that spot judging from
the fascinating smile he is wearing.
The arid atmosphere at the Eel
lowship club banquet the past week
was certainly not conducive TO ar
artistic rendition of Harry LADDERS
masterpiece. "A wee doch and doris"
However under Bob Robertson
masterful leadership and Stanley
McIntosh's ability 10 reach the high
and lurid notes. the sextet saved t.
self from being audibly sworn at.
The banquet was "A splendid one IL
every respect. and were it not that
comparisons are odious. we might
| say something more The speeches,
! the fine spirit of cameraderie. the
music, in fact everything on the
! program was beyond criticism The
chorus singing. under the energetic
leadership of Arthur Shank, was
great. and we hope Will be kept up
/ at all club functions of the kind.
The club has demonstrated tina:
when Mishawaka gets going. moth
! ing can stop her. But she's hard to
crank, lads. hard as H.,
The Mauretanlas experience on
/ the trip across the pond indicates
/ that hereafter she must reduce the
number Of her saloon passengers or
1 increase the saloon facilities.
The way Newberry spent money
in Michigan must have made drunk
en- sailors feel like tightwads.
( It is seldom that the editorial
we" finds its PLACE in the vocabu-
larry OF the better half
If YOU want to make Fathers day
wholly agreeable. just appoint n
night for him. take his hObble Oft
and turn him loose This would be a
real honor to bestow.
One Of Otto Lang's ouija boards
is said to be transmitting poetry
from the spirit of Ella Wheeler vii
cox. The poetry shows that Mrs
Wilcox's spirit knows much less OF
the art of versification than Mrs
Wilcox knew Mrs Wilcox's friends
ought 10 enjOin her spirit from fur
Their literary efforts.
Another trouble about the theory
of one standard for both sexes is
/ there seems to be more OF a tend
ency for the girls TO slide down
ward than for the boys 20 slide up
ward. The theory is not adapted &c
the sliding scale. but is correct only
in an ascensional sense.
II is estimated that the average
young man in Mishawaka earns $40
n week Wei, the average may be
that much by including BARRIERS and
bOothlaCks.
The foreign demand for meat i:
said 10 have subsidized and that
drop in prices is coming. Oh, JOY
We may yet TO live 20 enjoy COW