South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-20

!. finding "the touch that transforms
the disappointments OF yesterday
into the fruition Of tomorrow" We
should like for the president 10 cite
an example Of what he means. il
sounds fine. but we can't make much
sense out Of It.
Having ruled that beer may be
prescribed as medicine. IL is strange
the department OF justice doesn't
I enumerate the maladies for which It
may be prescribed so that the people
can contract them.
It is said that Lillian Russell
kissed Harry Daugherty after the
latter had taken the oath as attor-
ney general. It's all right with US,
/ Lillian is fair fat. 81 and repub-
Hcan. we'd bet Mary Picllford
wouldn't or Madge Kennedy.
Utah bans cigarettes entirely and
prohibits smoking in public places.
At that rate it viii not be long be-
fore reformers viii have 10 leave
Utah or starve to death. Wonder If
they tolerate the toothpick2
William Randolph Hearst wants
I all foreign propagandists TO go home.
Go? They ought 20 be flung out with
tin cans tied TO their tails. There IS
scarcely one who does not violate
the hospitality Of the country.
Moving picture reformers OF Bal
timore want to limit movie kisses 10
three feet Of film. or two seconds.
/ Why. thriU-kissing doesn't reach
the eye-sbutting stage in less than
liz feet OF film And cave men stuff
should be barred altogether.
Far be II from us 10 want 10 start
anything, but just as a matter of
curiosity we'd like 70 know what the
ladies OF the new cabinet think OF
each other by this time. or perhaps
this is yet too early for their final
judgments TO be formed.
George Christian, secretary to the
president, was formerly a democrat
AS for that matter there are many
3 in our party who would abandon the
faith for an Office any old time.
Atlanta has voted a municipal
bond issue of SS,5OO,O0O for schools
sewers. viaducts and water works
Eternal bond-issuing is the price OF
municipal progress. No live city
ever gets out of debt or permanently
, reduces it's debt.
Now that physicians can prescribe
] beer for their patients, we look fol
. the physicians to have many cases
and for their patients 10 have many
cases.
Anne Rittenhouse says girls who
are to come out next season vii
wear waists that are not pronOun-
cedly decollete. In other words, a
girl making her debut viii not be
coming out of her clothes so far.
The trouble about the tradesmen
who never has what you call for but
something equally as good is that
he hasn't.
Another family broken in New
York The wife who chewed tobacco
and smoked cigars offered TO quit il
the husband would give up cigar
= cites. He wouldn't DO it. She didn'
= offer enough. She ought 20 have
. flung in rouge. garlic, boiled cabbage
! and Florida water.
What men may do as individual!
is one thing; what the law may dc
is quite another. When the law at
tempts to discriminate in favor OF
7 one class of labor as against al
other labor and vocations the Re.
= public is headed for the rocks.
AS to the readers of all the de-
: tails of the Hamon scandal and muir
: der trial, with only a few scattering
! precincts to hear from, the wome eli
have a twO-thirds majority.
The leakage continues, a recen
case being the missing of 16000l
gallons of booze from a bonoeC
warehouse in Trenton, n. J. It's
]
great preservative, but it doesn't pre-
serve the whisky in the bonded
warehouses.
Another society has protested tC
the president against his smoking
cigarettes. If Mr.. Harding deems
3 improper for him TO make a suitable
q reply 20 these folks, why in the mis-
chief doesn't he get General Dave.
10 tell them where they can so?
The typist who can write 254
9 words a minute on an Underwood
machine writes faster than any mar
L and some few women can talk.
Thomas r. Marshall was an unu
sualIy popular Y. p. because he had
sense of humOr enough 10 appreciat,
the job.
of course. If the Ions skirts really
come back. as the latest bunch in
dicates that they viii, we fear We
slv old frauds and impostors who
] have been excoriating the abbre-
. waited garment Will stand completely
exposed.
The airplane thief IS reported
p from Kansas City We knew this
] variety Of william would appear, bu
S we lost our bet We gambled tina
. Chicago would produce him.
e The United States Chamber o.
% / Commerce says that the Colder
Rule" in business will restore con