South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-08


salt Raising Bread day in the
cooking school. They'll be telling us
next that there will be a Beaten
Biscuit clinic. We trust all these
stove pipe dreams will materialize.
II. however. they attempt 20 put on
a hoecake revival. then we ask 10 be
appointed hallelujah leader.
Members OF the board OF public
works are all our friends, at least we
had thought so. But we are old
their attorney threatens TO take ac-
tion against this paper for referring
TO him as a rent profteer. That is
easy. Let him go ahead. The evil
dence forthcoming Will be OF such a
character as 20 forever ALLEVIATE him
from the few friends he thinks ne
has
Being Scotch we are unafraid TO
testify 20 the truth.
Anyway. would it not be better to
hold those board Of works meeting in
a room which has no key-hole? Mr..
Warmers admonition to the mayor
went home. 1t somewhat took the
starch out OF his worship. who has
held the mayoralty reins for the last
time, thanks 20 a public which has
some sense of discrimination left.
Our newspaper friend Of the Trib-
une came rushing to our office Fri
I Il "a
NJ. V. Mix was averse to Bill Dodge
running for the mayoralty against
Gaylor. Since when has Melville as
sumed protectorate over Bill Dodge,
may we ask? He might as we'll die
tate 10 Charlie Bingham because
Charlie is shortly going TO be init
mately connected with an official at
the city hall-not a member OF the
board of public works. however.
Give a man credit when he tries to
rise out OF the mire. If William ID.
Haywood has abandoned the l. w.
w. 10 join the anarchists in Russia.
ne is evidently on the upgrade and
may be reclaimed somewhere this
side OF a sub-statiOn in Hades.
We fancy that investigation would
result in greatly modifying the CEN
sus statement that there are 10000
illiterates in the District of Column
bia. Probably they are Just hungry
city hall and ex-city hall politicians
who can not exactly read their titles
clear to jobs in the public service.
A New York man after waiting IS
years for a kiss or a kind word from
his wife has filed his petition for a
divorce. Why didn't the fool cave
man her? There might have been
some responsiveness about her at
first
While we object TO gambling on
general principles we will not con-
denim you if you lay your surplus on
Bill Dodge, candidate for mayor.
Billy simply can't lose. There is
every reason why Gaylor should.
While we object to fighting a per-
sonal political fight it may be neces-
sary on our part, and To city hall
threats are going to stop us, either.
Don't forget the backyard-it is
there that most OF the filth accumu-
lates. because 1t can hide its shame
from the public gaze. And the own
er Of a filthy vacant lot lacks civic
pride. a sense Of decency, and patri-
otism-althOugh such may grow
mushrooms.
Peggy Hopkins is either pTettier
than her picture or We'll never be
able to understand how she manages
to take the millionaires the way she
does.
over in Arkansas there is some
diamond hunting excitement. they
say, but our guess is the hunters will
| locate "a stills for every diamond
they find
In Missouri they have a 5O-cent
gun tax. Missouri is evidently try
ing TO raise four or five million dol
lars.
III Bill Haywood has voluntarily
expatriated himself by going TO Rus
] STA. it is one OF the most notable
cases II self-punishment that a