South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-10
NEWS OF MISHAWAKA
MAN IN THE STREET

ONLY One-third OF the inhabitants
OF Chicago are American. Does this
circumstance explain why the re-
pubicans are claiming they will
carry the town by such heavy ma
Jority?
The automobile manufacturers are
reducing prices. but We are strain
ing our ears 10 hear something from
those who deal in turnips, cabbage
and pants.
Returns from the Chicago grand
jury room indicate that the Chicago
White Sox ball team has gone re-
publican.
Relatives OF the mayor of Cork
I say he is being sustained By spiritual
aid. Well, British law. we believe,
is liberal in that respect.
Sometimes we are in doubt as to
I whether the heart Of the world is
T broken or the belly of the world is
merely empty
Anyway. we wouldn't give our
\ faded and faded straw hat for one
OF Mr.. Hearst's freshest straw polls.
The most Encouraging incident of
! the downward movement that Henry
/ Ford started that we have noted
\ thus far IS the reduction in silk
shirts.
! II old Bill Taft can't see that the
only way he can vote for the League
I OF Nations il TO vote for Cox. he
needs somebody to lead him about.
While the old ticker used 20 make
men drunk. this current bootleg
variety seems 10 make them liars
With 5000 republican spellbinders
on the stump, Truth would be fool
lsh TO rise again. They'd crush her
I right back 20 earth again and might
/ snag her complexion and cave in her
beam
Another reason why We bank on
the intelligence OF the electorate is.
we feel sure that one voter in every
5000 has read the League OF Ma
items covenant.
An Eskimo papers yearly sub
tCTlptlO0 rate u one StdlShlh anu
single copies an egg each. Anyway,
there is one editor whose wife can
sport a sealskin.
There is room for coal now in
most OF the cellars. but there isn't
so much coal.
judging by the time wasted and
anxiety manifested. several hundred
able bodied guys in South Bend seem
10 think that their entire furture is
hanging on the result OF the ball
series.
The tyranny of fashion is tough
proposition. but the longer skirt
mandate can not be enforced with
out a penalty. except among those
whose drumsticks are about the size
Of a toothbrush handle.
In Mobile the election booths will
contain mirrors and powder puffs.
The men who conceived the idea are
chumps. No woman would think of
going 10 the polls without her snoot
outfit.
A man naturally likes 10 get a
day off casionally and spend II IN
the woods. where he can eat full
sized onion without encOuntering the
wicked glare OF members of his
household.
! Unless you are a stickler for de-
tail. Just put IL down that everythins
good a democrat says of Cox is true
and everything republican says a
Harding isn't. Politics IS politics.
Dorothy Dix says marriage de.
veIops the best and the worst tina
. is in people. Every wife knows that
. IL has made her a saint and hel
husband a selfish and self-centerec
rascal.
We suspect if our democrati,
donkey would bray less and cough
7 more the campaign would function
faster. We are the stingiest lot o.
patriots that ever ripped a "Hooray
or elutched a post office.
The turnip crop is at the tulltid'
. of glory. requiring only slump II
prices to give il the standing o
chrysanthemums and American
Beauties.
Bill HosfOrd says euchre is Z
? poker what checkers Is 20 chess
) Still. there was some excitement II
J euchre in the olden time. At the enc
OF each game, the porter. unable q
restrain his curiosity any longer
W ould blurt out his inexorable ques
% ton. Gentlemen, v,hatll you take -
We suppose il whiskers ard nous
taches should ever come into voCu
again, razors would still be usefu
IN cutting ham slices for the rCstau
rant sandwiches.
This October is going 10 be differ
ent from the last in another respec