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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-12-07

emergency service despite
the rapid spreading o. fire around her.
John Il. Moran. :'yrai,::c, Y. Y, who
saw serious a'';. ;n~:,i!r accident, used
his equipment t" rescue two persons,
summoned AID and then by first aid
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-12-07

the week. The regular classes will
be held throughout the school and Wis
itors can observe the work being done.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-12-07

la, East Providence, r. l., who en-
tered Il burning house. rescued small
child, gave aid and comfort to a fatal
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
A GOOD TIP FROM GARY.

The United States steel corporation owns s119.-
Coo, geo worth OF government bonds Chairman Gary
Cd the corporation saws that they not only will
be sold now at loss Of about 10 percent which
would have to be taken that they will be held
until I'VE get as much as they cost or possibly
title more
There isn't the shadow of a doubt that day
these bonds like all the other bonds of.sthe gov
eminent. will be worth 100 cents the dollar.
Probably some Of the issues viii go to a premium
before maturity.
The millions OF holders Of small amounts Of these
bonds who bought them through patriotic m
tives should part with them the present
deprecated market value unless they absolute
~ forced do go by sheer necessity
Whatever ones opinion of the business ethics
of Gary and his fellow steel corporation managers.
there can be no question to their financial
shrewdness
II government bonds are good enough for them
to hold they good enough for the and
woman or small means TO hold
In these days OF uncertain values. those promises
70 pay Of Uncle sam. whatever their present mar
ket value contain an element of certainty the
future. which no other form of investment in the
world even approaches
Take Gary's tip. Hold your government bonds
The fact Of your holding them will
Tortant factor in increasing their value.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
TONCUE-TIED BUSINESS.

South American papers pokng lot Of fun
ct American catalogs and statesmen getting the
Spanish Portuguese languages balled One
Jester in Buenos Aires calls 1.-The tOngue-ted ex-
porters."
The trouble with foreisn-language study in Amer
schools has been that languages have been re-
garded primarily mental discipline" erred
It's in the course of study rather than as useful
commodities Of trade.
Students in other countries learn to think in for
eign languages In the United States the student Of
a foreign tongue generally is parrot, with the
primary object of getting a good mark in his
studies rather than mastering the language so it
v.ill be OF real to him.
American consular agencies repeatedly POINT OUT
our lingual handicaps. We must have only one Ian.
guage home. but must also earn-and learn
correctly-the languages of possible customers
abroad. Trade supremacy in the worlds markets
may go 10 the salesman who can best talk MS
potential customers language.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
Other Editors Than Ours
A LUCKY KICK
CBy DIR. William Il. Barton

in Pittsburg recently. and bought a news
paper which told OF a collision which had occurred
the night before. A riding motorcycle
and he into a street His machine
hurled against an iron lamp post and ne was thrown
Under the wheels OF the car
TIE he struck rails the stopped.
It's brakes were set. II was found that an angie
cock the air tank had been turned. setting the
airbrakes instantly
The motorman had not had time set the brakes
and they not set from the platform. just
What happened nobody could be sure. but 1t was
believed that the motorcycle riders foot hit the
ahgle-cock and instantly stopped the
IL would not do 10 put story like that into a
novel The reader would declare that IL was against
all human probability. It might for a grotes-
tale in the movies in which the hero heroine
seed certain death in every scene and came out as
good through ingenious cont:ivsnces of the
camera man.
Life - more wonderful than any OF the things we
invent about IL. The everyday world in which We
i've has in Il or the tragic and comic. Of
the Iathetic and heroic. than any OF the plots in
any Of the plays.
j should not advise anyone who rides motor
cycle 10 head il into moving street the
chance that he might make lucky a kick did
the man N Pttsburg II might work next time.
There - a great deal OF kicking actual and
meta phoriCal and very little effective as
that which this incident records
But life Is full OF strange and improba BILE happen
ings. The who kicked the valve taken 70
the hospital and found have only few superb
cia bruises But his motorcycle Jared II did
not succeed in striking any valve that softened Ks
collision with the lamp post.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
THE CANDIDATES AND THEIR NON
PARTISAN SUBTERFUGES.

Strange that all the candidates running for
mayor should be so strong for non-partisan gov
eminent: ready 10 promise that elected they VIII
serve the people regardless Of party. not build
PARTY machine and on-and yet of them
want the people TO have the assurance Of that
or thing legal The reason they talk that
OF stuff Is that they know partisanship in city
government IS thing that binders the best sort
OF city government; that the people want get rid
OF IL. and they hope to fool the people into be-
Heving that they the remedy The people have
been fooled often enough
II has been heard here in every municipal cam
paign since South Benz became a city and yet what
have had? From w. G. George 10 Franklin
r. Carson. II has been politics. politics olitic,;
shat quite only. and that continually. Instead OF
setting out TO give the people the worth Of Their
money that they pay in taxes. the next campaign
has been the goal with expenditures here.
there and yonder. best TO keep the wheels
Of the political machine creased and the boys in
the wards good natured Especially during the past
eight years the city has fallen far behind Is
growth. spending enough money but the people
getting but little In return.
Economy even where praeticed has generally
been a false economy made rather for show tn IN
for the purpose OF saving. When Mr.. Eli F. See
brit, camI aigning for himself states that the city
manager petitions Tile with city Clerk Binski
are there as protest against the Carson regime
Re speaks well. but only i'm the that the car
son regime 5 elimination. a sort Of climax to
previous sdministrations-even il IL is not anti
climax. II Is the result Of system: a system that
courts that sort OF thing and which as ne wei
knows. makes 4 well nigh impossible TO administer
the c3ty's AFFAIR with results much less deplorable
Mayor Carson did find South Bend 'spotIess
Town" when he took hold Of IT, and for much the
rame reason that his successor. whether it be
CT city manage. will not and t. "spotless" Ii was
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

politics And so you might trace the thing on back
through Goetz. Fogarty Colfax sohaffer. even %
George the first
Why shouldn't have a for South
Bend. a city manager business manager. II yoG
please whose business IT attend TO the bust
ness OF the city. and whose business It is not 70
monkey with politics at all? Really. under the In
diana system. the city manager doesn't take me
place c. the mayor; Is a business manager. 'n-
stead OF a political manager. We would still hcve
a mayor the chairman 81 the board OF commls-
sioner for ceremonial purposes the titular mead O.
the city. Neither Is he permitted muddle in poE-
tics but the ONT illustrates what the city manager
IL: the business manager. just the general mai
oger Of any corporation takes hold and manages
SIS affairs.
It makes little difference how good mayor NJ
seebirt or any of the others might make. mayors
run under the present system. they cannot with
division OF their their private affairs
and the claims OF their party. do well a city
manager would do devoting all OF his time TO the
city's business. trained for the service and having
no political retainers consider. We mention Mr..
seebirt in particular merely because he has
tured 10 touch on the subject-whch he knows
he ought giving his support. There isn't
leg for the opposition to the city manager plan 10
on except partisan interests and the personal
selhshness OF the candidates. their greed for Office.
the emouments. and the power and influence that
election under the old system might afford them.
Mr. Seebrt compares his promises of today with
thooe of Mayor Carson years ago. They not
SC very much different; indeed. quite similar.
Mayor Carson hasn't made good, and this desIits
the fact that Seebirt told in several speeches.
after his clique had been defeated in the 1917
primary. how Carson would make good and in 1t
he had the sanction OF large number OF those who
are his supporters. Why did they do it?
For sake OF party anything for the party.
The answer is get rid of the system, clean the
slate and again. all They fell so fac
short Of the truth in their advance recommends
ton Of Mayor Carson, that well, know the
story Of the boy and the wolf.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST

HUNBLENESS.
What Is there in skill that should lift
you from menu
What is there in fame that should
build up a wall
Between you and your neighbour. that
never again
You should welcome him in when
he ventures TO call?
What is there in greatness that you
should deny
Word OF good cheer to the friend
who goes by?
Stay down upon earth through the
months and the years.
For all you possess shall remain
when you go;
Nor all you have come 70 shall save
you from tears
Nor all Of your greatness shall keep
you from woe,
And statesman. or painter, or gifted
of pen.
Muse live OH their yeas on tlis
earth AMIR, men.
What is there "a fortune or fame
that shOI.I change
The nature God gave at the day
OF mans birth?
Why should success make a great
man grow strange
To the neighbors who gladly re-
joice at his worth?
Be humble, be gracious, be kind 10
the end,
The humblest OF men is worth while
as friend.
Copyright. 1920
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
More Truth
Than Poetry
By JAMES ]. MONTAGUE
TO A RORIN.

TO A ROBIN.
Let other poets chant your praise
When yearly you come northward
winging.
And boost. in free and flowing lays
Your habits, vestments charm and
singing.
Let them declare how sad and long
The weary winter seemed without
you.
But l shall sing you no such song,
Because 1 know too much about
you.
l know. for Darwin I have read.
The earthworm, bright and early
riser,
Eats all the leaves the trees have
shed
And turns them into fertilizer.
And you. while thus around my lot
At useful labor l employ him.
Eschewing other food have got
To fall upon him and destroy him.
Mosquitoes. which at every turn
Arouse my soul TO sore disquiet
I notice that you always spurn
As any portion OF your diet.
I The caterpillars gulp my seed
And spoil my vines and infinitum,
! But 20 these brutes you pay no heed.
You never will so much as bit EN-.
I Although it's well within your power
The most efficient aid 10 lend me
You hop around here and devour
The only creatures that befrlend
/ me.
And then al dawn your voice you
raise
To rouse me from my blissful
slumber.
Y Let other poets chant your praise
For ] will not. I've got your num-
Der!
Copyright. 1920
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

THIS WAY LIES PEACE.

There IS to get excited about the rath-
troversy between the United states and Japan over
the island Of zap. The suggestion OF the possibility
OF settle this controversy preposteroUs
for words The we get over the habit OF
thinking and talking about every time gov
eminent and another government have a difference.
better of we shall be
The unraveng OF the zap tangle presents annoy
permitting the tange to occur during the two years
that government didn't function because the
senate and the executive engaged in a death
struggle But the difficulties not great may
appear the surface unless the governments and
peoples OF the United States and Japan have gone
crszy-which, in spite OF hysterical tendencies in
certain quarters, hasn't happened.
The very fact that this government has spoken
frankly and courageously to Japan and the other
nations about the zap business, and that Japan
las answered with equal courage and frankness. is
a good rather than a bad sign This sort OF dip'o-
macy leads toward good understanding and peace.
rather than toward misunderstanding and
Note the opening paragraph of of Mr.. simms'
interesting articles from Japan:
There a rising tide OF sentiment in Japan
against and I'm favor of peace And this
peace party looking 10 the United States TO
take the lead and give the movement direction
United states best the lead in this
matter by continuing deal with Japan frank
" and courageously as we have begun to do n
respect Of zap.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
MOVIES IN YOUR HOME.

Soon you may have movies in your home.
The invention of a moving picture disc has been
announced. by the of which, movie pictures
lie shown a in the home just easily
records played the photograph.
The claim is made that 12-inch disc carries
enough pictures surface be equivalent to
the length OF the standard film, 800 feet. this being
made possible through the use of microscopic
lens ii the taking.
The story that the projecting machine viii
cest the home owner about s25. as against the
monographs SEQ the movie
ords" expected to retail 81 or less There may
lie wonderful possibilities the idea, with millions
going out the palaces And think of what boon
this invention Will bring to thousands Of places
where there is such thing as a nearby movie
show.
The time may when send
Willie to the drug store to buy-or rent
Il Mary Pckford. Charlie Chaplin or a Fatty Ar
buckle with the same assurance that the bill will
he filed as if he sent for ice cream soda.
Ever notice how happy a clothes-presser looks
a rainy day? What's mans meat is another
mans poison
Speaking of mathematics. do you realize how
many make a million? Very few.
DO YOU remember when you used to see IS gold
pieces in circulation?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
Ignorant Essays
By ]. P. McEVOY

read II right through IL 1t kills me.
HOPE YOU DO. You mean you
hope 1t kills me? Is that what you
mean? Yes that must be IL.
It's just like you to make cruel,
insulting remark like that. Just
because I say I want TO read you
hope Immediately l read myself TO
death IT WAS YOUR OWN SUG-
GESTION AND ANYWAY ALL 1
SAID WAS ] Hope YOU DO READ
1T THR OUCH. MAYBE YOU WILL
FIND SOMETHING NEW TO TALK
ABOUT.
Suppose 1 did find something new
to talk about, who would / talk to.
1 can't talk to the walls. can /? You
never talk to me. you are too busy
reading some book or other. Why
didn't you marry a book? Ono ans
wer) I might as well be talking to
mud fence. Did you hear what
said? Ono answer.) That's the way
il always is Here I try TO be soci-
able and make the evening pleasant
for you at home and you don't even
talk TO me.
Mother is right. She said: Hes
loving and attentive enough to you
now but you'll see-he'll neglect you
like all the rest OF them. Men are
all the same Nice as pie for the
hopeless. When are you going to
bed? Ono answer) What a life!
first two or three months. taking you
here and taking you there, but af-
ter that they come home and crawl
into a chair and they never take you
anywhere except to church on Sun
day, or TO the commencement exer-
cises when your children graduate.
Why don't you answer me? HUH?
WHAT DID YOU SAY? Oh you are
What a llfel
Copyright. 1920
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
TWIN BED LECTURE.

(Mr. Doveleigh is one Of those
husbands who sits around the house
evenings with his nose stuck in a
book. They are very trying hus-
bands TO have. May kind fate de-
liver all US girls from such husbands.
But fate was not so kind TO Mrs.
Doveleigh.)
What are you reading? A BOOK.
l know it's a book but what is Il
about? ABOUT THREE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY PAGES. Don't be so
smart. It's bad enough for you to
cit around the house reading all the
time instead of talking to me- why
don't you talk 10 your wife occasion
ally? Why don't you play with your
children? Why don't you look
around and see If there is something
that needs fixing. One would think
that you were just boarding here.
All you do is dash in at night,
hang up your hat and coat. bolt your
supper and then sit around and read
all night-never a word 10 me about
what has happened during the day
never a question as 10 how the
children were during the day why
don't you sit and plan their future
with me as other husbands do? One
would think you weren't interested
in your children.
All YOU seem interested in Is a
book. Aw LET Me READ. Let you
read? Who could stop you from
reading? That's all you do, why
don't you talk to me? Haven't you
anything TO say? NOTHING. 1
should think if l read as much as
you I'd have something to say. I
HOPE YOU NEVER START READ
ING.
Well just for that I will start.
will start on the encyclopedia and
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
THE QUESTION BOX; QUESTIONS
CHEERFULLY ANSWERED BY
THE DAY. WEEK OR
MEAL

-fAA~4hA4
MISS STEAK-Can YOU tell me
what kind OF weather we are going
10 have on the 4th OF July. 1 am
planning on spending the dav AT
Rum Village and desire TO know Il
l will be safe In going ahead and
planning 10 wear my green dress.
ANSWER-Persona Tender
loin. the name OF that village i'm
presses US. or do you mean that
you are going TO stay in town. (For
reference. see Seebirt speeches). II
you are really going TO Rum Village.
why worry about the weather?
CUPIE COLLINS-Sweeney tells
me there is no Santa Claus. Is this
fact?
ANsWER-outside. you fat head.
and police up the regimental area.
THE KINGS DAUGHTERS
Kindly give US the weight OF Dud-
ley Shively.
ANSWERING are unable 10 get
this data from Mr.. Shively. but YOU
know the Farmers Trust building
hain't any too strong and II holds
him.
Fiji am anxious to secure a
bathing suit for the summer to use
at my summer home at Hudson lake
and 1 am too poor TO purchase one.
What would you suggest?
ANSWERED. you. happen TO be
stenographer. it seems TO us per-
chance that a typewriter cover or
ribbon would solve your problem.
If you do housewOrk, 1 wonder If
you had thought Of a paper nap
kin. If you're a bookkeeper. what
about the windshields from several
OF those open work envelopes like
/ they send statements out in the first
OF the month. Trust you enjoy the
summer.
A. P.-How can 1 rid myself OF
cockroaches?
ANswER-Have you tried white
mule?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
INVESTMENT THAT PAYS

AN INVESTMENT THAT PAYS
When you buy an AlcaLar Duplex
Gas Range. Demonstration and
sale this week. West Side Hardware
Store. 1880 ". washington av.
ssss-22
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
To Paraphrase a Ward.

The Mormons have at last stamp
ed out polygamy. Their religion Is
stln singular but their wives are no
longer plural.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

Evidently Sec'y Christian dfdn't
a SIX Joe Tumulty how he got his pub
Lefty.
Copyright. 1870
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
Hard To Realize
after all
A soft PedaIer.

All pay and no work is. after all
I the ideal state OF existence.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
THERE'S PROBABLY a CROOK
ON THE END OF 1T ALL
RIGHT.

Dear BILL
thought you might be in posi-
ton 10 assist me in finding an
umbrella 1 lost in the down town
section on Thursday. The UNI
brella is easily identified as ii has
a crook in the handle.
Very respectfully,
r. NJ. HUTCHINSON.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

Charles B. Sox is thinkink of sue
ing Sidney Smith. Of Andy Gump
fame, because Sid at the Ad club
the other night draws a cartoon of
Charley and gives him flaring red
necktie.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

Tom Brandon drove up S. Michi-
gan ST. and down Broadway yester-
day D. M, iust 10 keep in practice
for his next New York trip.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

ANSWERING suggest you visit
our big. roomy classified depart
ment. conveniently located at Main
81. and Colfax av., where the Brod-
beck boys used 10 dust off the sp-
pies and pickles. Classified rates
on request.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
The Tower Of Babel
by BILL ARMSTRONG

NOBBY-How can go about 10
raise a mustache2
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

ANSWERED. you mean one like
Charley Kuss OF Mishawaka has; or
one OF the O-Cedar Mop type, such
as Charley Frazier's!
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

ANON, 500. BLOCK CHAPLIN ST.
Since Eli Seebirt began his cam
pagn. business has Increased so
fast we need eight more bartenders.
Can YOU tell US where we can To-
cate several
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

INNOCENCE ABROAD-Al Mac
Donald, of the AID club, smoking a
cigaret.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23
WE Will NOW SPRING 4 FEW
WISE CRACKS.

James Stillman, the banker, don't
need a divorce; what he should
have is a guide book.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

Some of the city's best minds,
politically, are beginning 10 get per
sonal.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

CUPIE COLLINS-Sweene tells
me there is no Santa Claus Is this
fact?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

Try NEWs-TLMEs Want Ads Try NEWS-TIMES Wurt dds
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

ANswER-outside, you fat head.
and police up the regimental area.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

THE KINGS DAUGHTERS
Kindly give US the weight Of Dud-
ley Shively.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

ANSWERING are unable 70 get
this data from Mr.. Shively, but you
know the Farmers Trust building
hain't any too strong and it holds
him.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-23

An unusual offering are
these Handkerchief, hem
stitched with corners en-
broidered in white and col
ors--also some solid color
'kerchiefs. Csc values I8c
each or 3 for SOC.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
PINE FOREST COLONY

on Forest Lake. Berkshire Hills.
Open an year, Hotel and cottages. also
tents for young men; coo acres. private
lake; all sports Of camp life. Excellent
table. hours from city,
IOSEpu MElI.. MINGnAIE "