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The New York herald., 1921-09-28

of Norway insisted that the time had
come to end delay and satisfy public
opinion. ''It is vital to the league" said
Lord Robert. ''and the vital test for the
whole cause Of peace is reduction OF
armaments. yet Great Britain and
France do not want anything practical
% be done and want to hold off. If my
proposal is no good let France and Eng
land put forward a proposal in answer
10 the public opinion OF the world. Hnt
hey do not offer anything constructive
and are merely destructive here of all
,efinite proposals"
Not Opposing Disarmament-
Mr.. Fisher seemed to resent keenly
the implication in many of Lord Rob-
ert's remarks that Great Britain was
opposing disarmament.
THE Government has reduced. Is re-
ducing and proposes further to reduce.
but wants achievement on a coynmon.
sensible plan" said Mr.. Fisher. adding
that the treaty plan might please GER
tain newspapers. but would not have
other results, as the world was unpre-
pared and had too many other problems,
and any treaty would be torn to pieces
by the experts and by the general STATS.
You are deliberately inviting disas-
ter" he said to Lord Robert.
By the Associated PreBa.
GENEVA, Sept. 27.-The assembly OF
the League of Nations. while reserving
decision az to whether the council of
the league shall fix the date to apply the
economic blockade az weapon of the
league against nations breaking the COW
enant, adopted an interpretive resolu-
ton of the blockade committee, which
substantially is as ioii0ws:
All cases of breach of the covenant
should be referred to the council of the
league, as a matter OF urgency, at the
request of any member OF the league.
The council of the league Is of the
opinion that in case Of breach of the
covenant all the members OF the league
should be informed, and that all States
must be treated alike as regards the
application of economic pressure.
In case of prolonged application of
economic pressure. the council holds.
measures Of increasing stringency shoild
he taken. The cutting off of the food
supplies OF the civil population of a de-
faulting State. the council believes
should be regarded as an extremely
drastic measure. Only applicable II the
other measures available clearly are in
adequate. Efforts should be made. ac-
cording to the council. to arrive at
arrangements which would insure CO.
operation by States not members of the
league in the measures to be taken.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06

terrible fate-prevented one other murder in Mas
eachusetts7
What has It cost during all these rears to keep
him under guard Is worth the price2 Has ne
gained anything in reform or repentance?
These are a few OF the queries that might be made
as this man starts today on the 4sth year Of living
death.
Having obtained tho answers. they might be COM
pared TO the results OF another prison experiment
established by the United for its barbarc
by adoption.
IN the Philippine group the Iwahig penal col
ony. in operation since 1904.
There Is a guard in this prison. no stockades,
no fire arms no clubs swung cringing heads
There LOO prisoners. They come from the
other islands Of the group. sent there for crimes
that range all the way from the theft jackknives
murder.
In the II years only u have attempted to escap>.
the past nine years no such efforts have been
made.
The prisoners elect their own officers. They work.
The chief crop is cocoanuts and they get all the
profits.
Perhaps between The two extremes-the 45 years
behind stone walls and the chance for a new start
towards economic freedom may be found solution
for what has been deemed unsolvable
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
More Truth
0Than pOQtru
ElY DANES q MoNta61o =
HOW THEY GOT IN.


Young Francis Forthby Fortescue
Has smart relations by the dozen
His face IS long. his blood is blue.
His uncle was the kings ninth
cousin.
Were you a gambler you would bet
That no young man had better
chances
To move in Vincent Astor's set
And be a social swell than Fancis.
Yet in a fat house he repines.
For though these folks are far
below him,
At Vanderbilt's he never dimes
And J. P. Morgan doesen't know
him.
He's strong on breeding. looks and
rank;
He's both gentleman and
scholar,
But he lacks standing in the bank.
For Francis hasn't go. a dollar.
Mike Quinn laid bricks some years
ago
And never heard or a cotulion.
His hands are rough, his brow is
low.
But he has piled up ninety mil
lion.
Just now he's outside looking in.
But don't regard him with com
passion.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
WHAT CAUSES SUICIDE?

One Of the great insurance companies is author
ity for the statement that It's records that
employment - the cause Of many suicides
It's charts show that during the years of industrial
unrest Of panic. Of lack of work, the number Of
suicides increases TO high percentage.
During the prosperous years. it notes falling in
these percentages.
The statistics which IT has gathered would seem
to be almost conclusive on the subject. The COM
pany knows that normally among its policy holders
there will be six who viii take their lives every
year OF these. in prosperous times two will reach
the stage Of black DESPAIR through inability TO work.
When hard times come and jobs are scarce the
company will pay three policies of every
200 900 on its lists.
Work a wonderful medicine for discomfort, for
pessimism. for mental perversity Idleness kills,
whether be the voluntary choice Of the lazy who
die spiritually the involuntary condition OF the
jobless who weakened and dsconsolate, take tragic
means to end their troubles.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
THE PEOPLE IRE GRATEFUL.

When an enterprsing reporter discovered that
Gen Pershing about to lose some southern land
through sale for unpaid taxes, there reaction
which members of congress might study with profit.
One of the first responses from a woman who
sent $40 to help save the old homestead" This
was followed by numerous inquiries and proffers of
aid.
OF Gen. Perslling needs no charitable gifts
He has funds Of his own, an exceptionally rich
father-in-law and thousands of influential and
wealthy associates who would protect any property
from going under the hammer. If his southern
lands sold for it will be because Pershins
does not believe they worth keeping.
The offers TO aid. however. are important for
they show spirit OF gratitude which this coun-
try has for its defenders.
The offers tributes to mighty warrior
but were the spontaneous impulse of nberty-loving
citizens to pay their debts to those who fought their
battles
Congress and the present administration has de-
cared that any system of rewarding the soldiers
who served in the great war would bankrupt the
nation.
The people at the first opportunity. exhibit de-
sire to pay their debts
Future bond issues now in sight. will find much
reader sale among the plain citizens If they know
that some part of it is to be used to reward those
who did the fighting.
Formal dances once meant full dressed; now half
dressed
Modern bad men count victims by notches on their
tenders
Dancers look ike they're trying to reduce instead
OF reform.
Tariff may raise the price Of sausage. The wlrs.
has GOMEZ
-O-
The French are pretending they rich by not
having any kids.
A Judge suggests longer courtshiIs suggest
longer marriages.
Easy Street leads 10 the poorhouse or the jail.
The nations greatest running expenses autos
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
THE OLDEST PRISONER.

F1rty-fve years today the penitentary doors
closed upon Jesse Pomeroy at Charleston. Mass.
and since that time he has been away from the &C
tive world
his life term was the renalty for murder the
killing OF a fellow
a trivial quarrel had grown into a feud and
hatred took possession OF his sou-not the hot pas
sion Of anger but the cold and calculating ennity
that brushes every impulse OF kindness and drove
him plan the killing
he was young when he entered the prison. He IS
old now 50 old that be has no desire for freedom
and offers OF pardons do not interest him Prison
has become his habit There is nothing IN the out
side for which he cares knows how 10 care.
What friendships ne had formed in his early life
have long since been obliterated. It is diferea-
world from the he left.
The hate which filed his soul has long since burn
ed ITSELF away. II Is quite probably that he recalls
his crime only family he dOdders about the
prison. waiting. waiting. waiting
He has achieved the distinction OF being the old
est prisoner in America. That his sole claim 10
notoriety.
Students OF sociology might we'll examine this
and discover what society has gained by nearly
half a century OF Imprisonment OF a human being
1as the terrible spectacle OF his fate-and It Is
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
OtherEditors Than Ours
THE Evil Al THE SOURCE
(Washington SD.

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AS the Star stated the other day, booteggng has
become "a profitable industry" There's millions in
tt Large numbers Of and women engaged
in It. They swapping their fingers at the law.
and. while serious enough about their business are
at the same time making merry at the expense OF
the laws baffled officers.
But we hear overmuch about the small fry
about those who run the ''high- powered machines
racing along country roads who the small
craft that PUT in unobserved at obscure harbors
along the seacoast. Activities be directed
solely at them. and 10 let UP after capture.
Why more attention toward discovering the
men higher up'-the men who are financing boot
Logging. and who give employment 10 the small fry I?
We may be sure that such men exist, and OPP
Grating according 10 carefully prepared plans. To
hunt them down should be leading feature Of the
effort for law enforcement If they can be discovered
and taken into custody, bootlegging in the nature
OF things. can IN large measure, be destroyed.
This course has marked the EFFORTS 70 break
up fraudulent voting which have frequently been
futile Too exclusive attention has been paid the
poor devils, who for a dollar two can be induced
early and often. and little attention TO
the who hire them, and profit, in the way Of
Office otherwise. by their law-breaking. Filling
jails with the tools OF ballot-box corruption and
leaving the real corrupters undisturoed gets no
where.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
TheTower 9<Babel|
cGY Bill Armstrong

onto their lot. more in q spirit of
fun than anything else. What II you
did borrow dishes and other worth
less truck from them and either get
them all broken up or forget TO re
turn them? is that any reason why
your neighbors should always be so
glad when you climb into your fiv-
yer and head for home? I say no.
\ thousand times no, which practi-
caMy settles the matter.
But what started out 10 tell you
about was Bill Reid and his col
lection Of kids. If John D. Rookie
Teller had as many kids as Bill Reid.
the proprietor Of Barron lake, they
wouldn't get a dime apiece when
John D. died and his several filling
stations were closed up for a couple
Of hours during his funeral.
I'm telling you, Joe. this Bill Reid
has got kids-skads Of them. I ask
ed Bill one day how many and he
scratched his head for awhile, and
finally said: "Oh, hi, go ask the
cid woman. I look after the store
and she does the house work"
All Of Bilrs kids work here at the
resort for their old man. There's
so many of them that they get in
each others way. He has a system
Of whistles by which he summons
them, a different whistle for each
kid. Bill figures that it's easier go
ing through life with a pocket full
Of whistles than TO attempt to re-
member a lot of names that don't
mean anything in particular. OF
course all the Reds board at Reid s
hotel on the shore Of the lake here.
When dinner is ready I'll tell you
the regular guests better run for
cover because it's like being STAN
pcded by bufaloes When the din
ner bell rings, Reds. big and little,
show up from every direction. They
scamper from the bath house. They
rush out OF the dance hall. They
pop out from behind trees. They
fall out of windows. They rise up
out of the lake. I got knocked
down one day by George, one Of the
boys, who was in such a hurry he
was trying to drive his Ford truck
right into the dining room.
Everybody knows that has ever
spent any time at Barron lake, that
they better heed the familiar meal
time call up here, Look out for
your lives. Every man for himself
The Reds are coming!"
AS I said, If I can locate collar ?.
I'll be back tomorrow morning. Re-
specially,
Your returning correspondent,
BILL ARMSTRONG.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
sGyISt EOIRS @ua69 5zsscz

Where the laughter Of boyhood
rang.
The heart Of me yearns for the sim
pier things
Which out Of my life have flown,
Let mine be the music which sweet
" brings
Some touch Of THE love I've
known.
Sing of the tears which my C:zz-
have shed
And the hurts which my heart
has borne;
Sing, If you will, OF my lovely dead
And the trail which my feet have
worn.
Sing Of the boy at his mothers knee,
In a glorius minor tone,
But let me find in your melody
Some JOY 1 can call my own.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
THE DEADLY CROSSINGS.

The increasing Number Of deaths and injuries to
those riding in automobiles should call for safe
guards at dangerous crossings.
Someday perhaps. there viii be no crossings Of
highways and tracks or grade. Human life will be
held OF higher value than the cost OF elevated or
tunneIed crossings
II was the knowledge that there and will Re
danger human life IN modern means Of transpor-
tatlon that led The News-Times 10 offer its insur-
ance plan 10 readers
It is glad that the opportunity came to make this
arrangement through a company Of national fame,
stability dts soundness and it's fairness
The day OF state insurance for every worker, Of
unemployment and accident insurance. old age pen
sions is In the future
Until it comes the newspaper which is alert to its
responsibilities as an agency for public service viii
try step into the breach by meeting public needs
20 the extent Of its ability.
This The News-Tlmes conceives to be real service
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06

You soon will read of Michael Quinn
Among the news OF folks Of
fashion.
At Newport there is much hauteour
Among the people who are met
there;
Their as are broad. their RS
they slur,
But It was cash that helped them
get there.
Though wealth today IS not enough
Alone 10 give men social station,
You'u find their neck's were pretty
rough
In Swelldom's earlier generation.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
MN BertOnBraleNSDdily Poem
81 The Dotu1r11

We spent half our time washing
The other half cooking our food;
dishes,
Our lives, you'll concede, were quite
simple indeed;
In fact they were fearfully crude.
I'm lame and I'm bllstered and
bitten,
I'm shy on my sleep and my rest,
I suffered all forms Of discomfort,
Ny outing was rough at the best
And now that I'm here in the city
Where beds and the eating are
good.
Think you I'd go back, if I could,
70 our shack?
Oh boy, you can bet that would
Copyright 1921 by Newspaper Enter,
prisc).
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
BY BERTON BRALEY.

BY BERTON BRALEY.
I'm bitten by gnats and mosquitoes.
twitch and I itch and I scratch,
Ny face is all blistered from sun
burn.
My shoulders are blistered to
match;
haven't a cent IN my pockets
(Though that's not a new dtua-
tion),
I'm broke and in debt and my stom-
ach's upset:
I'm back from my summer vaca-
ton.
I lived on potatoes and bacon,
slept on a rickety cot;
The nights were exceedingly chilly,
The days unbelievably hot
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
BY EDGAR \. GUEST.
GON~r

BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
SONGS.
Sing me song that will light the
eye,
With the Joy Of the long ago;
The orchards trees and the patch
OF sky
From the scenes that used to
know;
Sing me a song in a classic Crrain
From an age that I've never
known;
But sing me the sweet and the low
refrain
OF joys I can call my own.
Sing me a song Of the long ago,
And the song which the kettle
sang,
Sing Of the breezes that used to
blow
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
SECONDHAND.

KaraohL India, prepares for its monster annual
secondhand clothing bazaar. II viii dispose OF
OF peculiar exports. CASTOR clothing millions
Of dollars worth a year.
Hindu dudes greatest ambition is 70 get a second
hand American dress suit SIS q dozen. Old vests
next IN demand, 20 cents each.
What Oriental this winter VIII wear those old
clothes you sold the ragman2
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06

New York nat jewellers can't I'M
derstand why the income tax isn't
collected a dollar down and a dol
lar a month.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
NOW THEY UNDERSTAND 1T.

Mexico has taken up baseball.
What happened in the 1919 series
convinced the Mexbcans that they
are well adapted 10 81
Copyright, 1920.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06

Airplanes are being used in con-
necuon with fishing on a large scale.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
SAFE

Japan agrees 10 open the door in
China now that she has built a high
board fence around Z.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06

The territory OF Hawaii consists
OF nine inhabited Islands, besides 4
number OF smaller ones
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06
RESUAnNG THE DAILY FIGHT
FOR BREAD
Mr.. Joseph VI. Stephenson.
Publisher News-Times.
Enrt4h Dad ID

Mr.. Joseph VI. Stephenson.
Publisher News-Times.
South Bend. Ind
Dear Joe:
Well, Ill be back on the cid Job
tomorrow, o. and also X. again. II /
can find my other collar.
We're moving out OF the cottage
now back TO town again-Labor day
is highland Evelyn just tripped
over a 1y swatter and dropped col
lar No. 1 into a pan OF hot dish
water, hardly hurting the collar at
all. except to dampen il n little
Evelyn was already damp so Of
course II din't make much differ
ence as far as she was concerned.
II the sun stays out long enough to-
day I think can get them both
dried off in time so can be at work
tomorrow at my usual time. viz:
quarter till five. My enemies may
asy you whether I refer 10 a. m. or
p. m. but please don't pay any at
tention TO any propaganda Of this
kind.
You know me we'll enough, Joe, TO
know that when I say a. m 1 mean
a. n. OF course there might be
difference Of several days but I
would bet my last dollar it would be
a. m. when 1 returned. And another
thought just before 1 leave the sub
ject and plunge into the essence of
what 1 want 70 tel you in this let
ter. when a man comes back from
vacation and says he will bet his
last dollar on something or other,
he means just what he says-it is
his last dollar.
Joe, did you ever spend a few days
at a lake and happen to recall the
zero hour, when you have TO pack
up and go back to town and face
your creditors Do you recollect
the hustle and hustle of sweeping the
accumulation Of dust, cigaret butts
and corl1s under the rugs? Can't
YOU recall the last hour feverish eff
fort Of trying TO sell tho collection
Of old bottles to the store keeper
Isn't it easy for you to remember the
hssty packing Of shoes, pickles. hair
brushes, razor blades, tangle foot,
corsets. and peach preserves in the
roll of bed clothes, followed by the
| farewells with the neighbors in
which a spade is called a spade?
Suppose you did play the phono-
graph until O'Clock in the morn
ing and one Of your kids threw bot
tie at their cat and the kid miscal-
culated and the bottle went through
their front window? Maybe you dill
shove a little Of your garbage over
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-06

AS I said, if can locate collar ?,
I'll be back tomorrow morning. Re-
spectfully,
Your returning correspondent,
BILL ARNISTRO NG.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-02-24
WASHINGTON

Carroll Stevens. principal w. H. s.,
visited at his home in Hallowell for
few days returning Feb. %.
The Senior class. w. HI. s., pre-
scented the comedy drama, Just a
Little Mistake" before large crowd
at the Grange hall on Thursday
evening, Feb. IT.. Home made candy
and punch were served during the
evening and dancing was in order
after the play. Music by Overlook.
The class made about $40 clear Of
EXPENSE.
Mrs. Rose Heaulieu Of Liberty vis-
tied Mrs. L. M. Dow for a. few days
last week,
Forrest Tibhetts of Palermo visited
his aunt, Mrs. Nellie Tihbetts, last
week Thursday.
EAST-Miss Alice Light Of Liberty
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Light for q few weeks,
Miss Beulah Overloek Of South
Liberty was caller at 9. ID. Over
locks last Friday.
Elwin Fitch of South Washington
is stopping with his uncle, w. n.
Prescott for an indefinite time.
w. E. Overlook of Razorville was .
recent business visitor In this place.
Mrs. Augusta Overlook is visiting
her sister Mrs. Kate Overlook for q
few days,
Frances Light II passing few
weeks at the home Of her aunt. Mrs..
Herbert Cunningham IN Washingten.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-02-24

Argument" Sophocles; roll call by
current events: music, vocal solo by
Marcia Heath. The speaker of the
afternoon will be Hon. John Francis
Sprague of Dover, State senator and
editor Of Sprague's Journal Of Maine
History. His subject will be. "Some
of Names Great Men and Women"
He begins back with a first NATIVE
Of Maine, Madockawando, the fam
GUS Indian chief" His sketch Of
Dorothea Dix Is fine tribute to a
splendid woman. Mr.. Sprague has
been characterized recently as ''the
man who has done the most to make
Maine history accessible to public"
Mrs. Don Stevens will give short
talk on Conditions in : the Near
East and What is Being Done for
Them" Instrumental music will
close the program. Each member is
requested to invite one guest to this
meeting. The women's clubs of Au-
gusta are invited, as well as visiting
club women.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-02-24
to take charge of the affairs of the

to take charge Of the affairs of the
State and business.
The motion pictures, taken and
shown by Danny Maher of Bangor.
opened with scenes of the House and
Senate in session, followed by the
Governor and Council ard Governor
Baxter in his private Office.
The Fighting Mechanics from Ohio,
soldier boys learning all kinds of
mechanical trades at the University
of Maine, showed the boys at actual
engagement at their lathes. FORCES,
machines and other occupations.
1.-The Teachers Plattsburg." as the
Summer school for rural teachers at
Castine is known, were very fine. This
school Is the only one in the country.
The daily life Of the students from
the class room to recreation was
shown. together with some OF the
beautiful scenery that Castine pro-
duces.
Armistice Day of Nov. II, 1920 at
Portland presented the parade and
the reviewing stand, with the parade
being reviewed by General Edwards.
Governor Milliken, and Mayor Clarke
and others,
A good-sized crowd enjoyed the
program.