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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
WHAT is NORMAL?

nine year old boy. Samuel Reshevsh, travelling
across the country met expert Kansas City chess
players at the same time and beat them all
Chess is Presumed to be the most intricate of
games requiring great mental power and has been
advised as a method of training military minds.
Napoleon got his ideas OF strategy from it.
Betty Jane Hamilton. 10 years old. enters college.
making new record for the part of Pennsylvania
where she Hves
The newspapers call them "prodigies' and COM
ment upon their unusual brain power.
The prodigy OF one generation becomes the usual
in the next and the Of today becomes the
commonplace of tomorrow
The question that should be asked is not whether
these two are superior but whether through failure
30 adopt advanced methods OF training. all other
children are being held back their full powers.
A hundred years ago the who could read
Latin was set apart his fellows SUPERIOR
being a sort OF prodigy. The girl who
college was a curiosity less than half century
ago. Now there are thousands in the different in
sttuuons of higher education.
The average age Of college graduates is decreas-
ing Glass pictures Of those OF the sixties made
up largely of men with boards
Educational methods are keeping pace with indus
trial COMMUNICATING them. perhaps Geo
graphy and history are being taught by moving
pictures. Emphasis te laid individual thinking.
These children who perform the unusual, may not
be prodigies at all They may simply be the normal
who have ESCAPED the usual handicaps or overcome
them.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22

Today body are tramping the woods
fields Of little in Missouri organized in squads,
intent earnest and devoted a single purpose of
protection
A wild beast is large
Mothers shudder as they send their children to
school. Even brave tremble and start unusual
sounds For they know that the beast. a leopard is
a treacherous thing. ready to kill and shrewd in
escaping detection
Tn beast hunt has become a community matter
and every is laying aside. today all his private
affairs and joining in the search to uproot and de-
stroy this common menace.
Bombs being sent to every American ambassa
dor. There snarling demands that two convicted
murderers in America be free. They happen be
Communists and every Communist in the world has
idea they should be released simply because
they hold that theory
Another wild beast is large.
Thy are threatening to march in London in front
of the American embassy in hordes They have
already shown their nature by threats of death to
those who represent America They not trying
to kill individuals They are hurting their challenge
to America itself
The wild beast is large providing. snariing,
defiant.
They are calling America the bulwark OF oppres-
sive capitalsm-and each month hundreds turn
ed away from it's shores by the immigration
laws hundreds who found the old lands place
and privation and who look here for bread
and liberty.
The hundreds know and understand. This strange
cult does know and has given itself over to
the murderous methods Of the beast.
They their friends and associates in this land
men who have beaten in the race OF life, who
do not understand what America is all about. and
who been disappointed because it demands
value for value right for right privilege for privilege.
two about whom the tumut RACES in
Europe were plain bandits and murderers They kill
a Waterman while trying to steal roll.
They were not even in civil warfare, fighting for
a political cause. They n killed
without mercy.
entire political movement takes up their
cause they become sponsor for such acts and applaud
them,
The methods Of those Of Missouri who
hunting the stray leopard today who have de-
termlned to save their homes and their wives and
their children might be studied with profit.
For there a beast in the jungle. 1t has its vic
tim marked for whatever slaughter it may do. That
victim is America
When foreign madmen attempt the killing Of
American ambassadors it is time to be warned-and
hunt
wild beast is ut large.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
THEY'RE HOME TO-DAY.

rbsv are nome today-the boys OF other years 10
whom the city streets bridges the oafing places
the churches and the playhouses the stores and
parks were once familiar places
They have counted on this day for a year planned
for It, thought OF it when alone in the hours that
memory brings back glad scenes.
Next 10 the place of birth the spot where
mother lives. there is no mecca that draws with
greater tugginEs the heart than the alma mater
Of the college years
Under the shadow OF the great dome at Notre
Dame. these boys spent the years when character
was formed and when purposes OF life were clarified
Il was there that they filed their minds with
knowledge their hearts with and their
souls with the determination that has carried them
TO what ever goals they have reached.
Here too they formed the friendships that last
throughout the years today there will be shouted
across the campus nicknames that they have not
heard perhaps. in years.
Some there may be in the great throng who be-
neve that they came TO see a football contest and
to feel the thrill that comes beloved coors
are carried on to victory.
The men who away the longest know
better They know that today they are returning
again to boyhood that this day. of the year.
is consecrated to their youth
They know that. today. their successes and
their failures count but little in the great scheme
of things in their lives and that they are back
again in those days when the most serious problem
OF life was an evasion searching questions OF
an inquisatorial mentor
They will walk around the CAMPUS and revel in
memories They will recall the triumphs and the
tricks the contests and calamites, the professors
that are gone and the pupils who were their COM
panfons-everything that made those glorious
days OF college life.
You will find them-these boys for day-gazing
at the great dome and wandering around the dor
rnitories hunting for relic of school day
adventure
Some OF them bring back fame with them, won
from a world that recognizes merit grudgingly.
Others may not have done we'll as the world
counts things But today neither matters.
They are here to renew friendships, many of them
formed years ago There will be talk o those
who did not come and regret and pity for what these
missing.
They are here too. TO pay tribute to the insti-
tuition which shaped they lives and there will be
new wreaths placed upon the altar of their schol-
astic loves.
great day in life is this in which the years
fall away and men young again. when their
hearts beat high their threats join in the chorus
Of the college yell
The city for which this Institution is the magnet
for such a gathering. should royalty welcome these
boys for day"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22

steadily increasing numbers already being
quent.
out OF 100 American men and women, so mar
before they reach as while 10 the leap
erward and 10 remain single
Divorces among those who have passed as are also
becoming more common. This however is not max
ing a cynical people for the that the
majority OF divorced pepe try marriage at least a
secnd time. many making three four ventures
Figures-which never lie. though liars often figure
show that the span Of life is frightening during
the Jazz Age
II will take several centuries to learn whether or
not this is permanent phenomenon. Possibly it Is
Only temporary tendency
Very often, what people do in their lifetime does
take it's toll for several generations
The probability is. that being carried for
ward by momentum acquired from healthful lives
and habits OF our ancestors They gave us the physi-
que and stamina withstand the metropolitan
geson and nerve-racking existence OF modern times
The strain times gets nerves. Frequently
of the contestants bowls and goes pieces But
on the average the effects Jazz Age will
not show up until descendants OF 100 years or
hence.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22

ON shirkers with Dame Fate before
And so they hurried to his door
And burdened him with woe and
care
Until he gave up in despair.
'Yo Ho"' laughed Fate another day
Here is a man who doesn't play
Of work he never seems TO tire
His cheerful smile helps 10 inspire
The world to higher nobler deeds
1 think a boost is what he needs
I'll call Good Fortune if he's in
And he and l will help him win"
Good Fortune came at once to see
What Old Dame Fate could want.
Said She
This man is working night and day
And wastes no time in idle play
Right manfully he plays the game
Let's place him in the Halls of Fame.
Thus spake Dame Fate. Good For
tune smiled
To think of blessings he had piled
On workers with Dame Fate before
And so they hurried to his door
And with the blessings that they
brought
He gained the goal he long had
sought.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Gov. McCray has problem entirely new to those
who have the power OF pardon.
II year old boy who killed his sweetheart has
appealed to the chief executive hasten his
ton and to refuse any appeals for pardon that
be made.
Every governor has been faced at times with the
terrible decision OF saving human life permit
ting the law to take and the extreme
penalty for killing be exacted.
No other governor It is believed, has received a
request for death.
The letter is it's commentary upon our sys-
TEN Of justice and an indication that there still lin
life was held IN small regard
Less than a hundred years ago there many
crimes punishable by death Now there many
states which have abolished the penalty altogether
on the theory that there is power the divine
which gave life with right destroy life
There little difference in Of crime between
states which have the death penalty and those which
do
What would you do If you were governor of this
state?
The youth says that he killed, that he is guilty
that the provides death penalty for those who
murder.
Has he, under the law, right to demand death
penalty? Has his life been forfeited?
Some day governors will be relieved OF such prob
lens That viii come, years hence, when society
studies the Of crime and takes as much
trouble to prevent them it now uses to runish
offenders
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
(CENSOREDl

Little Red Cd Riding Hood set
out through the forest alone CD one
day with a basket OF cake and wine
CD which her mother had given
her (4) TO take TO her grandmother.
In the forest she met a wolf. who
asked her where she was going
60, and when she told him the
wolf scampered away straight TO
grandmother's cottage, where he ate
up Co the poor old grandmot
and, putting on the old iadys night
cap CD. got into bed go.
When Little Red Riding Hood ar
rived and gave the cake TO the wolf,
thinking ne was her grandmother
90, the wolf ate the cake and drank
the wine (1O), and then Little Red
Riding Hood saw the VOLTS teeth.
and cried, What funny teeth you
have, Grandma" Then the little
girl, after laughing at her grand
mothers teeth Cd. as she sup
posed. discovered it was a wolf ard
ran away in fright. A woodman
came and killed the wolf and took
Little Red Riding Hood home Q2).
CENSOR'S REPORT:
% Red is a passionate color.
Make it gray or blue or some such
cool shade.
(2) Decidedly improper for a
CD Do not mention wine" it is
Illegal
girl to go in the woods alone.
Cd Mother must not give child
wine.
CD Wolves cannot talk. This is
nature taking. Omit it.
co Omit-such a scene not in
good taste.
ca Omit might cap" as too sug-
gestive.
(D All bedrooms are taboo.
Make this the library or pantry.
CO. Preposterous. Girl would
recognize wolf. Cut this out.
GO) More anti-prohibition stuff
Eliminate it.
GD Out. This teaches children
TO make fun Of grandmother's teeth
U2) Woodman not introduced to
girl. This doesn't look right Omit
it.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22

And now my gardens brown and
bare and all my vines are dead.
Yet / have known the loveliness of
roses white and red,
And l have owned a Summer rich
with fragrance and delight,
And Winter, be it cold and drear. is
but the gardens night
Within the walls where 1 have dwelt
sweet joys have come and flown
But they We're glorious Summer
years that once were mine to
own,
And what if now the wfnter-time of
sorrow brings its pain.
Some day another Spring shall come
and I shall smile again.
Copyright 1929
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
.4fter-Dinner Tricks

No. -1ilc AldElicilLtu Dltc.
A pair OF dice are taken and the
five side of one placed against the
five side OF the other. This causes the
dice 10 become magnetized. so that
they adhere to each other II will
not work when any other sides are
used and the spectators are unable
TO do it at all.
The trick is accomplished by Sc
cretly moistening the five side OF one
dice. When the dice are placed to-
gether they will adhere. When they
are drawn apart the thumb quickly
wipes off the moisture. OF course,
it will work with any sides OF the
dice. but by laying the magnetic
power" to peculiar properties" Of
the FIVE side, suspicion is drawn
from the real secret.
fConv~iCht ~ Public LEDGER Coz
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
dust FOIRs By Gasssz
LESSONS OF THE GARDEN.

LESSONS OF THE GARDEN.
The lessons of the garden-oh. I
read them every day
They teach me not TO mourn too
much for the joys that pass
away.
The tangled weeds which choke the
rose till It grows gaunt and thin
Reminds me of the paths of man
which are beset with sin.
Here bloomed some lovely things for
me TO pay me for my toll.
carried ever stone away and broke
the stubborn soil,
guarded them from heat and
drought and learned this truth
That all rewards are measured out
by what man will do
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
VERSE o. CHEER
By Edgar L. Jones
THE sHIRKER AND THE WORK

THE SHlRhER AND THE NORh-
Err.
"Yo Ho," Fate whirled and danced
with glee
Here is the very man for me
He loafs full half his time away
And spends his working hours in
play
I'll call Old Man Hard Luck on the
phone
And ne and I will fix the drone."
She got Old Hard Luck on the wire
And he came over 10 conspire
And plan there in the shadows dim
Just what they ought TO do with him.
He fritters all his time away
And shirks his duties day by day
As carefree as a yearling colt
It's time that we gave him a Jolt"
said Cid Dame Fate and Hard Luck
smiled
To think OF troubles he had piled
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
ONR OWN LITTLE TOWN

NhdlheEIon independent
There are fancier towns than our
little town, there are towns that are
bigger than this; and the people
who live IN the smaller towns don't
know what excitement they miss.
There are things you see in the
weather towns that you can't see
in town that's small; and yet, up
and down there Is no other town
like our little town after all. 1t
may be the streets through the town
are not long, they are not wide and
maybe not straight, but the neigh
bors you know in your own little
town all welcome fellow-it's
great. In the glittering streets of
the glittering town, with it's palace
and pavement and thrau; IN the
midst OF the throng you will fire.
quently long for your own little
town after all. If you live and you
work in our little town, in spite of
the fact that it's small. you'u find
1t fact that our own little town is
the best little town after all.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
therEditors Than Ours
LIBERTIES.
lOklahOma NeMsl

Rise in Liberty bonds makes their value gain 81
$4,000 600 from the years low" That is sad news
for foolish investors who sold their Liberties TO buy
speculative stocks II bitter those who had
sell 10 pay the landlord and butcher Good
news, though. 10 bankers and others who now hold
the bonds bought low and well the upgrade TO par
beyond.
Hang to your government bonds folks Safest
security in the world.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
The Tower y'Babel 8 So 81
.SY Bill hrmstrond sseesS-ssz1es5

Members OF the senior law class
at Notre Dame have voted 70 carry
black canes. and Pat" Welch Is
afraid people will think Mike
o'Keefe is president OF the class, GO
ing about on clutches
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
More Truth
0Thdn pOotru
III James q MONta6io i
THE OPERATION.

THE OPERATION.
When Uncle Ebenezer
Grew wobbly in his gait.
The doctors said. He'll soon be
dead
Unless we operate.
Your relatives condition
Is one that we deplore,
But still the knife will save his life
And make him young once more"
And so they Piled their cleavers
With scientific art,
They cleft his hide and peeked in
side
And took him all apart
And Uncle Ehenezer
Quite quit of his disease,
Jumped out Of bed and scratched
his head
And took TO climbing trees.
We find the dear old fellow
Has changed his habits now
He loves to sway and swing all day
Upon a maple bough
And when a barrel organ
came up the street one DAY,
To our surprise, with chattering
cries,
He followed II away.
The doctors never told us
The nature OF their cure,
They kept II dark with the remark
That II was safe and sure.
But from the way our uncle
Goes hoping to and fro
And tries 70 eat with both his feet
We sort OF think we know.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22

Fridays issue, very evidently was
I taken the day Father SOrin hit
town.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
OUR TOWN; SECOND VERSE

Do you think we would give up
our little town, for the big towns
lights and fancy food, where night is
day and everybody's gay, you said
II, gosh damn right we would.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22

In railroad-labor fight. as in most fights the
innocent bystander gets hit.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22

We Didn't Hear IL Very Plainly.
We hope IL was "Au Revoir" and
not Good Bye" that prosperity said
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
ATTENTION PoSroFFTCE DEPT

(From Notre Dame Juggler)
Insane %
mo, just an International Cor
respondence school student hazing
himself"
A gentleman Is one who can play
the cornet-and doesn't
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22

Welcome back again Notre Dame
grads. South Bend'll probably look
just as natural as of old: except that
we've got more bootleggers now
than we used TO have.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
Paradox.

Business wouldn't be asleep if
more purchasers would so buy.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22

AID "REASONS FOR TAKING THE
NEWS-TMES"
The elegant cut of Mort Reed in
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-10-22
WILD BEASTS At LARGE.

Today body of tramping the woods and
fields Of little town in Missouri organized in squads
intent. and devoted a single purpose OF
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-31
Lenine PrOnOunCqS
 Communism Fam 6
Advocates the Return of Cap taIism and Recall of Poli- ticaI Parties.

Riga. Letvia, May 80 (By the A. P.).- Nikelai Lenine, the soviet Russian pre- mier, has declared that communism is in complete bankruptcy. and has asked the presiding officers of the all-Russian cen tral executive committee to approve the unlimited return of capitalism and the recall to Russia of the constitutional democrats and other parties to aid in re- building the state, according to a direct Moscow despatch received today from in dependent sources.
 The statements contained in the des- patch, said to have been made yesterday, have not been carried in any official bol- shevik advices, nor has anything tending to confirm them been received from any other source.
 The Moscow despatch says that Lenine has submitted the following written pro- position:
 Whereas, in the realization that com munism has came to complete bankrupt cy. and in order to save the idea of com munism for the future and find without took big a change of policy the way out of the abyss into which communism has thrust the country, it is recognized that unlimited freedom must be allowed cap italism and that the constitutional demo- crats and representatives of the real politik' shall he summoned to resume the work of rebuilding the state'' The despatch asserts that this proposi- ton caused tremendous excitement, bu does not say whether it was adopted.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-31
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF
 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Charlottesville, Va, May 50-This gray old college town was crowded to- night with visitors and returning alumni who are to attend the centennial celebra- ton of the University of Virginia. which begins tomorrow and continues through Friday. Graduates from as far back as the class of 1870 paraded the streets while prominent educators from all parts of this country and from abroad were guests at the university.
 Exercises in Cabel hall commemorating the influence of the university in the re- ligious life of the nation will mark the opening of the centennial tomorrow Dr. William Alexander Barr, dean of Christ church cathedral, New Orleans, will be the principal speaker. Governor Davis of Virginia and Dr. Edwain A. Alderman, president of the university. will welcome the visitors and Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton university will preach at veSper services.
 In the evening the new McIntire Greek amphitheatre will be dedicated. The am phitheatre, gift of Paul Goodloe McIn- tire of Charlottesville and New York brings the total number of out-of door Greek theatres in this country up tc seven. The others are located at Berke. ley, Point Loma, Bakersfield and Clare. mont, Cal, CranbroOk. Mich, and Gar. field park, Chicago.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-31

auspices of inc Beta Zeta Tau frsternit: and included addresses by Representa- tives Burton of. Ohio. Kahn of California. and Stiness of Rhode Island.
 Presentation of the memorial wreatf by mhassador Geddes was not a par of the pre-arrsnged programme for the Arlington ceremonies. his request for permission to make the offering having reached officials in charge just before the president began speaking. The Ma rine band seated on the platform. rend- cred God Save the King when the ambassador came forward to speak
 As ambs ssador of my king, King George "" said Sir Aucklanp. "as rep resentative in .his republic of his gov ernments throughout the world in the name Of the people of the United King dom of the British dominions and de- pendencies. Of the Empire of India. oi British communities on every continent and on the islands Of all inc seas; in token Of their admiration for the gal iantry and devotion or Americas son' and daughters in inc great war. in evi' dence Of their sympathy for America
 who today mourns and glorihes her dead and in undimned memory Of tn sacrifices that America has made fo' ; individual liberty. with your permission [ MT. President. I lsv this wreath upof | the flag or America"