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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
BURNING OF WITCHES.

At moro or less regular intervals one hears ref
erences in print public address. to the days
when they burned witches in Salem" 1t is our habit
TO inquire those who make these references how
many witches were burned in Salem, and we invar-
iably find that the men who use these words
hlppantly do not know and have never looked the
matter up but suppose that withdrawing
pleasant and frequent outdoor sport Salem and
elsewhere in the old colonial days.
The fact is that, far anyone has ever shown,
no person was ever put to death by burning, on
charge OF witchcraft, in colonial America. Twenty
people were put to death in Salem, 10 of them by
hanging. and one by compression. These 20 are
more than half of all that legally executed in
the Puritan colonies. The total number of execu-
tions was SO, of whom nine and p wo-
men.
Only two persons are known 70 have been put TO
death by burning in the Puritan colonies. in both
cases the penalty was for murder under peculiarly
atrocious circumstances. Burning people to death
became frequent in the latter part Of the 18th CEN
fury is still INDUCED in; the Purtans never did
IL but twice. and then by solemn judicial process
and under very unusual circumstances
But until 1890, in England, women counterfeiters
were burned death. and Blackstone tells US that
burning was the usual punishment of female
traitors. After 1890 EXCEPT in few instances the
women were first strangled and then burned; but
woman was burned alive without previous strang
ling in Tyburn in 1926 In 1873 woman was burn
cd in England in the presence Of 10000 people, and
there we're other execution Of women by FIRE in 1871
and 1856.
That was the way they did it in NIerrie England
in BIackstonos day in the day of Sir Mathew Hale.
and until after the American revolution.
The American Puritaus were English and follow
ed English law. but they did not burn people TO
death for witchcraft England in the reign OF
Henry VIII. they boiled people 70 death in OIL but
not IN Puritan America.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
MAY II. 1921
BALD-HEADED FOREST LAND.

The ruins OF the biggest fires in South Bend are
replaced by new buildings in a few months. or at
longest in a year or two. But It takes from 80 TO
80 years 10 rebuild ruined forest. Nearly all you
residents experience a primitive JOY those rare
occasions when you get out into the woods for a
picnic or a tramp Your wild flowers, your song
birds and the wood you use in everything-from
your home to pencils ana home-brew kegs-eome
from the forests
Forests are tremendous natural resource. in
valuable for recreation, for natural fertilization OF
the soil and for that practical Of supplying
us with lumber And forests are diminishing. Amer
lea ueeds more elaborate reforestation TO replace
timber taken for necessary purposes.
Also. we need vitality. individual protection
Of forests In the last FIVE years forest fires have
devastated an area larger than the New England
states The actual money loss $S5,OOO,OOO'
Eighty percent the 1000 fires that occur
every year in our country could be prevented by
care vigilance the part Of citizens, according
10 the department of agricultures forestry service
Boy scouts have taken this lesson to heart. one
Of their chief objects preservation Of the woods
An attempt is being made 10 arouse the same in
terest among grown-ups. Forest Protection week
will be observed nationally. beginning May p.
There are wonderful woods South Bend. You
might show the Riddles a good time by taking them
10 treeland for a picnic and tramp during Forest
Protection week. Particularly impress upon them
the necessity OF always putting out fire started
in the woods Better still not to build fire at ALL
And II you can't get to the woods. why not plant
few more shade trees in the brick-and-cement
deserts that make the glazing the most notice
able feature Of many streets
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17

these predictions. We can make full inven-
tory Of the conditions OF time. and of the
most potent forces are unsupported by even the
wisest Of those who undertake TO tell Us things 10
come.
The future undoubtedly holds many surprises.
some dishearting. others encouraging. we do well
not 10 undertake to outline It infinitely But OF
Que thing we are sure, evert good impulse set in
motion in our own generation affects the future
favorably for all time It IS safe TO do our
best and go straight on.
Gibh0n, Burke and Johnson not only did not sus-
pect the careers Of two squavling youngsters born
in 1859. destined to become Napoleon. tho
world menace. and the other. Arthur. Duke OF
Wellington, who was to prove the undoing Of NaTo-
leon at Waterloo. But every Napoleon brings his
own Waterloo with him. and discovers # ultimately.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
PREDICTING THE FUTURE.

The cheapest and easiest thing an orator can do
Is TO predict a great and glorious future.
pYophesy disaster and retrbuton for everything he
does not like History shows Us how futile have been
most Of the predictions of even the wisest Of those
who have posed as men who knew the future Lord
Bryce in his notable work recently issued. says:
I'VE cannot refrain from conjecture. Yet to
realize how vain cOEJectures are. let us imagine
ourselves be in the place or those who only
three or four generations aso failed 20 forecast
what the next following generation would see
Let us suppose Burke Johnson and GipbOn sit
ting together at a dinner of the club in 1869.
the year when Napoleon and Wellington were
born. and the talk falling the politics OF
the European continent. Did they have any
presage Of the future? Men stood on the edge
o. stupendous changes OF those changes"
II We understood the present, We could predict
the future. But no generation understands itself
very well The present the blind SPOT in life. The
conditions on which we FIX our eyes and suppose to
be the ruling feature OF the age may be the almost
spent forces Of the past, and there may be move
ments just underneath the surface that are gath
ering momentum unsupported.
Il Is very easy 10 take note OF a few outstanding
conditions in finance or politics and 70 predict
the basis Of change in recent years what seems
tain 10 occur ia years just ahead.
But many factors OF uncertainty enter into all
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
other Editors Than Ours
THIS INQUIsITIvE AG<.
Chicago Daily NewsJ

II the Juror over Mr.. Edison's QUESTIONABLE
proves anything. IL proves again. up the handle.
that this is meddling age. The flourish OF the in
terrogauon point the memory test. the Bnet test Is
here and row. People have gone daft over patent
fishing tackle for pulling blind FISH out Of their
neighbors' craniunas. Every second meets
has a QUESTIONABLE TO spring.
1t was not like this in ancient Athens. Poor old
Socrates invented the questionable. He instructed
few bright young his system and. win their
help tried il for alshor time his fellow citizens
Presently he before a before
was drinking the hemloCk, They charged him with
oorrupting youth erecting strange gods.
and setting up a questionable.
To ind what a doesn't know takes about
two minutes 20 find out what he does know might
take a couple OF years
For instance, a certain Chcagoan who submitted
recently 10 the OF the QUESTIONABLE did not
know Walt Whitman from Walt Mason, and thought
the formers well known "barbaric yawp" belonged
10 GalI-Curci But presently he began TO talk most
fascinatngly Of strange and exotic cargOes OF
$4,000 invested IN lily OF the valley pips. OF ship
load OF tapioca from Java OF intricate problems in
marine insurance. and strange adventures IN West
Africa and Brazil. This happens 20 be a very
great expert in foreign trade, but Il would take
special questonnaire 20 do him justice.
OF course the QUESTIONABLE has its well
its abuses The QUESTIONABLE OF Socrates had an
celent educational object, although the people %
Athens missed the point OF IL. But not every walk
ing Interrogation point is a Socrates. The average
QUESTIONABLE IS welded in what George Meredith
called AN acrimonious rapture OF pedantry"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
More Truth
Than Poetry
HOW 1T ALL HAPPENED.
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

HOW 1T ALL HAPPENED.
Ere Solomon ruled in his glory,
He went 10 the movies one day
And there was enthralled by the
story
OF a comical bigamy play.
The movie his fancy affected
And we know-for the legend sur
wives
That when he grew up he collected
Some sixty or seventy wives.
When Cassius was nineteen or
twenty,
A terrible movie he saw.
Where Standings and cuttings were
plenty
And no one paid heed to the law.
He watched It with eager emotion,
And now 10 the world it is clear
That there's where he picked up the
That ended ]. Caesars career.
Guy Fawkes went to cinemas daily.
And deep in his memory sank
A scene where two criminals gaily
Put dynamite under a bank.
And later, when thinking Of treason,
He used the impression he got.
And that, gentle friend, IS the reason
He Matched up the gun2owder
plot.
Cap Kidd was caught up by the
glamOr,
And took 20 be utterly true
The things that the photoplay dram
mer
Makes pirates and buccaneers do.
The movies became his obsession,
And craving for power and pelf,
When he grew TO the years OF dis
erection,
Young Kidd was a pirate himself.
Copyright, 1920
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
DO YOU EAT POISONS?

Any noon in a South Bend restaurant you see
indoor workers, who don't get much exercise eat
ing an order of large enough to feed four
bloodhounds in ar Uncle Toms Cabin" show. Bad
business. This is why, says the Red Cross:
There are two kinds of foods-repair foods and
foods Repair foods. called ''proteins" by
tors, include meat eggs, etc. They rebuild body
that have been wasted through exercise and
muscular work.
Fuel foods include bread vegetables. sugar, but
ter etc Doctors call them carbohydrates and fats
They keep the machinery of the body in motion.
and store up energy and heat. You need both fuel
foods repair foods But there's grave danger if
you don't balance them properly
Too much protein decays in the bowels and makes
poisons. This works the liver and kidneys too hard
in throwing off the poison. Degeneratve diseases
Oike and heart blood and kidney troubles)
start this way Eat sparingy Of meats and eggs.
particularly if you sit in office all day Eat
plentifully OF vegetables and fruit And now's
good time to start. The fresh vegetable has
begun.
In our favorite self-serve we see many instances
wherein the services Mr.. Bambino Ruth the emil
nent hy-swatter. might be enectually employed.
The Girl Next Door says that the darker shades
should to be popular for summer front
porch
Fable: once Upon Time there was Para
grapher who did Not try to write Something Funny
about the Einstein Theory.
-o
Another important thing about July Fourth is
that the first roastin usually appear that day.
If Henry Ford jitneyizes the railroads il is to be
hoped that each train will be equipped with self
starter and shock absorbers.
Man has the strongest constitution Of any living
thing No animal could stand the abuse heap
ourselves by overeating, lack Of exercise congestion.
late hours and dissipation.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17

THE INNODESTN OF MOVERS.
Perhaps we should not look for
delicacy in movers. This is not an
occupation that is synonymous with
refinement. The old saying mas it,:
Three moves are as bad as a fire. E"
Perhaps. but three movers are
worse than an earthquake, a tornado
and a tidal wave. Still you must
say of them as Calico did Of the
earth: "They do. move"
There is a certain finality in the
way they do things. They believe in
and practice direct action. Their
methods are complete and conclu-
sive. After you have been moved by
movers there is no question about it
you have been moved. You may
not look the same. but you are not
in the same place. either. You have
gone away from there.
Commendable efficiency 70 be sure,
but how one wishes they had a little
more delicacy. little more refine
ment; that, in short, they were a
little more modest.
You have seen movers in action.
You have seen them hustling the
personal property off the premis y,
cording it in carelessly assorted piles
on the sidewalk. How the Lares
and the Penates ever are sorted out
after the ordeal is a mystery. I am
sure I could never distinguish a
Lare from a Penate or vice versa.
But maybe it doesn't make any diff
ference. People stay home so little
these days they'd never miss a few
Lares or a couple OF Penates. or
would hardly notice whether they sit
down on Lare when they should eat
off it, or go 10 bed in a Penate when
they are supposed TO play on it.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
The Tower of Babel
BY BILL ARMSTRONG

They say this doctor Is very for
getful. We don't know whether this
is responsible or whether the doctor
was tempted and followed the sug-
gestion made to him in the CONVEX
sation a few days before, but the
fact remains that yesterday we ran
a splinter in our finger and after
trying in vain to remove It, we
called upon the eminent physician.
The splinter was removed in short
order. but imagine our surprise
when today we received the follow
ing bill from the doctor:
To BILL ARMSTRONG. Dr.,
Care News-Times. City
For major operation to
finger ........ .....S 20
New floor in basement. $500
New rlunger for kitchen
pump ...... 1900
For asphalt roof on wood
house ............... o5.Vu
Removing oil from crank
case ...-........... %
ooo calzhurg cigars. .., 1000
Prescription ............. 1-VO
Repair OF tail lights. ..... $50
Total ................ Sloe.fV
(Note-A check by return mail
will be sincerely appreciated
Faithfully yours,
DIR. J. w. HILL.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
Ignorant Essays
BY ]. P. McEVOY

Hence the falling off in the sale of
the dear old God Bless Our Home"
wall notices.
In the old days we used to sit
around the fireside Of an evening
and gaze upon the God Bless Our
Home" motto with loving pride and
intense satisfaction. Now we are
out at the movie. Even if we had
such a motto there wouldn't be any
one at home to see it except the cat,
and 1 understand she, too, goes out
nights
But back to the Lares and Pen
ates on the sidewalk and, subse-
quently. on the van. Observe the
immodesty OF your table with its
legs up in the air; the lack Of prop
riety shown by the intimate para
phernalia associated with the noe
turnal repose- the bedding, in other
words; the wanton attitudes struck
by the chairs and couches; the rak-
ish and hoydenish posture Of the
kitchen utensils.
In short no family would think Of
exhibiting. even to their bosom
friends, the intimacies which the
mover exhibits on every sidewalk
and van. 1t is very sinful. It is very
sad. Something ought to be done
about it, A committee should be
appointed and resolutions drawn up.
and a law should be passed making
it obligatory upon movers to erect
screens around the scenes of their
immOdest carrying-on, or carrying
out, as you will. Yes, a law should
be passed, for is not the American
slogan: when in doubt pass a
law"
Copyright, 1929
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
Towels at Prices Of Few Years Ago

1886 Red and White checked Glass
Towels, so dozen, ready for us. 29c
value at .......... I9c
1896 Turkish Bath Towels. good
weight and fine quality. so dozen. Value
-29c, at ............... &c
20x36 Turkish Bath Rug, well de-
signed, woven in pink, white and blue
and white. $1.00 value at. ...... 69c
Plain Turkish Wash Cloths, dozen. .39c
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17

24x49 Turkish Bath Towels. good
weight and extra large. SOC value at 38c
38x22 Turkish Bath Rugs white
Grecian border with Old China Blue cen
ter. Sis value at -----.Sl.45
Ten dozen Pure Linen Imported, plain
henstitched. fancy hemstitched. seal
loPed, Damask Towels. $500 and $500
values at ....--------------.$I69
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17

1900 yards of SO inch English
Long Cloth put up ten yeards to
the bolt yard
40-inch Imported English Wolfe,
stripes and Plaids in white.
Value $3.50 at........ 69c
32-inch Imported Swiss. fine blue
dot on white, $500 value at. S 90
36-inch Gabardine, fine quality
$I.OO value at. SOC
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
BOY. DUST OFF THE TRANSIENT
AMUSEMENT RATE CARD.
From The News-TimesO

(From The News-Times.)
w. X. Lamport of the Lamport-
Macdonald Co, gave a talk on
Church Advertising at the
weekly meeting of the Ministerial
association at the y. NJ. c. A.
Monday morning. Lamport spoke
on general advertising and then
applied it to church advertising
and in conclusion advocated
systematic series of ads for the
churches.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
White Goods, Table Linens, Crash
MADEIRA Linens, Etc.
Wash Goods Voiles, Organizes, Ginghams

40 inch. Belmar Wolfe in light and
dark ground, printed in the new small
40 inch, Providentia Wolfe in a beau
tiful soft quality, all new floral designs
and polka dots, SOC value at. 39c
40 inch Wolfe Elegant. the very best
quality of imported English wolfe on the
market Woven in England and printed
in the Unite Estates. $l25 value at 96c
SO inch, Satin Stripe Wolfe, very neat
design printed in Copenhagen. brown and
navy. $l.25 value at. CSC
80 inch Belmont Percale, both IN dark
and light colors, our regular stock which
means perfect goods always as we do not
carry imperfect goods. 25c value at 7c
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17

There is no war at present. but
there Is always an opportunity 20
warm Up a few sharpshooters on the
Moros.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
send a Man.

Child for Ambassador 20 Toxic
Headline. In view OF the situation
this recalls the story about the oc-
caslon that was no Job for a boy.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
Dangerous.

ct own the world" sings a poet in
the New York Herald That is what
the Kaiser used 10 sing. But he dis
covered he didn't
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
White Goods Nothing so Good for Summer as White

32-inch Fine Madras, value 69c at. .45c
44-inch Newport Wolfe. 69c value at 48c
36-inch Stripe and Check Flaxon,
69c value at .48c
56-inch Lingerie Broche Silk, Sl00
VaIue at OSC
36-inch Stripe Wolfe, 69c value at 45c
45-inch permanent finish Swiss Or
CANDY $l.25 value at .79c
32-inch Crepe Lingerie Plisse. -. zee
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
Crash ToweIing Including Some Of Linen

Two thousand yards of Bleached Dun
dee Crash Red Border" suitable for
kitchen towels, yard. ...........5c
One thousand yards of Unbleached
Crash Red Border used extensively for
restaurant and household purposes. DC
500 yards of Bleached and and IN
bleached all linen welt crash with blue
border ............... I9c
Imported pure linen Irish crash with
red border ................. .Z9c
Extra Heavy Weight Bleached Cotton
Crash ............s.. DC
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
Pure Linen
Crash. Z9c
See below

II inch. Utopia Bingham, new plaids
and checks 25c value at. l9c
81 inch Corded Tissues in a new line
OF checks and plaids about twenty com
binations to choose from. 59c value
at .-.. 4oc
IS inch Imported Swiss, Permanent
finish Organdy in all the new colors. Sill
yer, Bisque, SAKE Blue, Porcelain, Sky.
Coral. Tomato. Peach, Old Rose. Pink.
Orchid, Orange, Apricot. Burnt Orange.
Rust, Cherry, Maize, Gold, Banana. Navy.
Brown, Black and White. Sl.25 value
at nc
b inch Shifting worth from SOC to
79c at .......... 46c
81 inch Crepe Plisse for lingerie, both
plain and fancy. Value 39c, at. .29c
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17
TROUBLE VS.. AN EMINENT PLY
SICIAN.

An eminent physician OF this city.
u we were 10 mention his name
even DR.. J. ". Hill himself would
Aho" mat we were talking about
him' was discussing the other dav 10
an interested GROUP. some of tho
every day problems OF modern life.
1t seemed that the noted doctor
had Just learned he must make GER
tain repairs 20 his home. In coming
downtown. something went wrong
with his Franklin automobile. and
the poor fellow was compelled 10
drie fast 70 his Office 10 keen the
machine from falling to pieces on the
street. The noted doctor. leaning on
a counter in the American drug
store heavily. succeeded in breaking
whole pocketful of expensive five
cent cigars.
As he stepped out OF the drug
store 70 take up the battle Of life
once more, one Of the soles dropped
of his shoe and his hat was blown
on in the mud, completely running
Il. 1t was costly model Of hat.
having been purchased shortly after
the Maine was sunk for the neat
sum Of around a dollar and a quar-
ter.
There was no argument about II.
things were certainly breaking tough
for the doctor!
Just before the doctor had de-
parted on his weary way he had re-
ferred to the fact he seemed to be
having more than his share of
trouble. Appropriate sympathy had
been expressed. One of the young
men, engaged in the conversation
with the eminent physician, had sug-
gested that he just add his various
expenses to his patients bills.
The physician blushed a rosy red
at the mere suggestion Of such a
thing, and proceeded out to his ma
chine. It was about this time that
one of his shoes fell to pieces and
his hat blew off,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17

If Henry Ford jtneyizes the railroads it is to be
hoped that each train will be equipped with self
starter and shock absorbers.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17

Man has the strongest constitution OF any living
thing No animal could stand the abuse heap
ourselves by overeating lack Of exercise congestion.
late hours and dissipation.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17

Half Linen, unbleached, blue border
crash .....----.... ----.--z. l5c
o. nch Mercerized Damask,
.UO value at. 1900 o9c
20 inch mercerized Damask
9l.ZO value at. -a-4-D- -. o9c
20 inch r2ercerized Damask,
$3.50 value at
20 inch pure linen Irish Damask,
SZ.65 value at.
20 inch pure linen Irish Damask,
$500 value at S2.o5
20 inch pure linen Irish Damask,
$500 value at. 1896
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-17

Another important thing about July Fourth is
that the first roastin' usually appear that day.
The Mankato free press., 1921-03-11
old OFFICERS lECTEDREUNDN HANSONFAMlY
Stockholders Citizens Phone
Company Held Annual Meet
ing Yesterday

Due to the inclement weather yes
terday there were but about twenty
seven or twenty eight stockholdeI
present at the annual meeting OF the
Mankato Citizens telephone company
held yesterday afternoon in the base
ment OF the Mankato State Bank
After a short business discussion oi
the company's affairs, an election was
held for the purpose of electing fiv
directors whose terms expired yester
day. The following directors wer
elected to succeed themselves. Franz
Jefferson. M. D. Fritz, H. A. Patterson,
w. d. Willard, and e. Schoyen. I'm
mediately following the election oil
directors meeting of the board was
held and the following officers wers
re- elected for the ensuing year:
President-H. A. Patterson.
Vice President-Nick Peterson,
Secretary and Treasurer-W. ID
Willard,
Attorneys. B. Wilson.
Appreciation of the valuable SER
vices Of P. M Ferguson was evidenced
by the directors of the company In
their reappointment of that gentleman
as manager. This reappointment is
well deserved, for Mr.. Ferguson has
proven himself to be a valuable man
for the company.