South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-15

who has lived in the principal cities
Of Europe and America.
Mishawakai Christened by the NJ
ami Indians as Swift Waters. II
might better be rechristened as the
city. nesting on the eternal waters
haps had David Grayson had the op-
/ portunity 70 pick his location ne
would have chosen this beautiful
=, city. nesting on the ertenal waters
OF the picturesque St. Joseph. for
his Adventures in Contentment."
\ Certainly no other city in two con-
tinents ever had so many happy
blending OF contentment, but a con-
Itentment that spells progress, native
I American ingenuity and achieve
ment
/ Legend has It that Princess Nisha-
waka. the last Of the Miami prin-
cesses, only daughter Of Chief Elk
hart, made the supreme sacrifice and
was drowned in the ST. Joseph river
during an ancient tribal Miami rite
so that the city Of Mishawaka might
thrive and progress. This daughter
OF Miami royalty, from her tepee in
the Happy Hunting Grounds, must
know the peace Of great content. for
+ Mishawaka, once a tract of wood and
wild vegetation, now resounds 10 the
trip OF the hammer. the Uhir-r-r Of
machinery; thriving business has
supplanted the historic trading post
I Of pioneer days; beautiful dwellings,
I the peer Of any have seen in many
an ambitious metropolis. have come
/ into being where once stood tepees
I in primeval forests, and the murmur
OF well-ordered community life is
now heard on broad, well-paved
streets, instead OF the sharp crack OF
rife or the wicked ping Of the red
mans arrow
/ Coming into this beautiful ely at
the end OF a thousand-mile journey.
could not help but be impressed
with the quietude, the undefnable
air Of peace and content which SEEM
ed to fairly radiate from every
dwelling, from the big shade trees;
from the sturdy men and graceful
women. No sooner did the North
Side car gain the corporate limits OF
AIishawaka than felt or rather
sensed the difference.
The car was crowded. II was past
5 o'clock. Years Of residence in New
York. London and other great urban
centers and constant travel on the
great traction systems had taught
me that politeness, chivalry and
courtesy were drugs on the market,
but IL remained for Mishawaka men
and women to prove the contrary.
New York, London and Paris may be
the seats OF finance and OF big bust
ness. but the heart of chivalry and
the bedplate OF hospitality is found
along the Main Street" Of interur-
ban America.
I carried two heavy bags. Hold
ing on TO a strap with one hand I
managed the two heavy bags With
the other. A pleasant faced woman,
who might have been my mother.
got up and with an engaging smile,
said: i've been sitting down all
day. You seem TO have been travel
ing. Please take this seat" An
other passenger. wearing overatlS,
jumped up and very CALAMITY ten
dered his seat TO the pleasant faced
woman. A passenger in the crowd
ed car smiled The smile was con-
tagious, and caught like a train Of
powder. and It was a smile that sent
a little electric wave OF better feoi
/ Ing throughout the car. That was
my first introduction TO Mishawaka.
1t was twilight when I stepped
of the car at Second and Main.
The lights had just been turned on
at the Lincoln and Century thea
, tiers. Dozens OF cars were parked
along Lincoln way W. and adjacent
streets. The real America, tae
America which has built this
mighty country. was represented IN
the men and women that walked on
the quiet, we'll paved streets, In the
boys and girls that sat in the Ice
cream parlors slipping cooling
drinks and gaily chatting. in the
children that laughingly played on
lawn and in yards.
How peaceful and beautiful /;
seemed
7 thought OF the maelstrom OF
hatred and strife in Virginia where
thousands OF armed men. desperate
and out OF work, were masSe i.
ready 10 dispute the federal gov
eminent.
7 thought Of Boston Common. his
toric old Common-where only a
few days ago Urban Ledoux, a mis-
guided idealist. gathered a few score
unemployed and stripping them 10
tha waist tried 10 auction them off
for work and food
I thought OF the great army 81
unemployed in New York Of the
wrotched. squaud tenements in
lower Manhattan, just a stones
throw from the sub-treasury and
Wall ct: Of hectic Broadway with
its Cay White Way. its sham ana
pretence, its painted women and It's
Gargantuan waste OF money while
millions sought honest labor and
food.
thought Of hungry Russia; o.
the countless millions in Central
Europe who for seven years had
known naught but misery and SUI
fering.
murmured a prayer OF devout
-hankfulness that I was in Misha-
waka city OF progress and contenN
had my first meal I'm Mishawaka
il a small, we'll kept restaurant on
Lincoln way W. I think il was
Ross and enjoyed a seasonable
1aIatable meal for a sum that the
bell boy AZ the Biltmore would
spurn as a tip.
I thought OF the millions in Grea,-
er New York who believed in the
fauacy that the western boundary
Of this country was the Hudson