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South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
MAY II. 1921
HOUSE MATERIALS MUST DROP.

with the bricklayers carpenters. and other wage
scales reset one thing more in the building world.
and lower for which so many have prayed,
may begin TO put in their appearance. 1t is eco
nomic law that Is all The tenants can't beat It,
and neither can the landlords. Lower rents are
impossible in South Bend. or anywhere until the
cost OF building material. we'll labor. has forced
them down
Prices Of building materials still average. ma
tonally. twice high in 1915. This Il shown
IN a report issued a few days ago by the engineer
ing firm Of O'BrIen-D -Ds5row Co. and the Dow
service daily building reports In the face Of this
pther wholesale prices average only 80 percent
above pre-war levels Gays Bradstreets and
OF living is only 81 Iercent above pre-war.
says national industrial conference board
Labor formed so percent OF building costs dur
ing and Immediately after the war. says the
o'Brien- -Disbrow-Dow report. but It adds Small
house specialists put the present ratio 35 per-
cent. The for this It PORTED out is that
labor is giving a larger days work for money
ceived"
At the price peak during war. 5OO-pound
bale Of cotton in the New Orleans spot market was
worth $2O7.5O. Today the same bale is worth about
S56. because II can be replaced for that amount.
What has happened in cotton will repeat in the
case Of residence buildings erected when prices
were peak.
when building material rrces follow other
modify prices and crash downward-as they will
a building going 10 be worth exactly what It
will cost TO replace f. Replacement value is the
basis OF Go ask South Bend banks what they
are loaning on first mortgages. compared with a
year ago. You1l find that they are loaning about
fifth less. anticipating the first step squeezing
out OF water"
Your landlord probably tells you that he re-
duce rent and make profit his investment but
Eventually he Will have do like business men who
got caught with big stocks in their warehouses;
write off his loss due falling building costs
The average landlord figures on a gross income Of
Il percent his investment Thus. If his property
him $4,000 when he acquired It at top prices
ne wants 500 month rent.
Suppose building costs follow other costs and re-
treat to pre-war level. Then another could dupli-
that $4,000 house for $4,000 He could rent it
for $50 month and get the Of income
II Eercent-on each dollar invested. And thereT
be plenty OF landlords thatH build at s5.OOO-when
prices drop. 1t takes dead market force prices
down. For that reason present inactivity IN build
ing may prove the rent-payers best friend
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
THOSE IRRECONCILABLEs.

II must be painful 10 those irreconcilabes in the
United states senate: the manner after which secy
OF State Hughes continues the pursuit OF the VII
sonian international policies and without the least
sign OF check from the white house. The president
spills every and then. with words that
might reassuring 10 the irreconciIable SEN
ators but somehow the state department goes on
functioning. and without much seeming regard to
the impressions that the PRESIDENTS remarks leave
What the secretary OF state may have in mind
IS not known but Il is known that no is entirely
out sympathy with the extreme isolation policy
which he has found by experience to be prac-
ticany impossible. BY his recent statement and by
his handling OF tho communication from the Ger
man government he has exorted a great and most
helpful influence in the reparation deliberations
His Representations on the mandate question his
protest against a japanese mandate for zap. and
his insistence on the rights of America as par
ticipator IN the war. all indicate a total lack OF
sympathy on the part Mr.. Hughes with the isola-
ton policy both undesirable and roSsible The
general condemnation Of the Knox resolution. and
the opposition that is being shown TO the idea of a
separate peace certainly serve to give some refec-
zion OF the public mind.
Two things however. are clear The adminIstra-
tion is determining its own foreign policy as It
should. and is conducting the foreign affairs OF the
country. IS proper The other thing that is clear
is that the irreconcables have altogether lost the
strategic position that was theirs when the Yer
sailes treaty was before the senate and during the
campaign OF last year The republicans are in the
saddle now ne bridge that threatened 70 split and
preoipitate tne party the abyss or defeat has
been crossed and Messrs. Johnson. Borah and the
rest. seem approaching about the same considera-
tion for their campaign support. has been ac-
corded De Valera and viericl-thanks to Pres't
Harding and his secretary OF state.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
Ignorant Essays
By ]. P. McEVOY

ward. In fact. we have almost quit
looking forward. The most popular
step these days is the side step. If
we are up we will not only look
forward and backward and sideways
but we will also look downward and
no doubt we will see our successors.
whatever they will be. crawling
around on the ground, scheming
their petty schemes and drea ming
their idle dreams. We will laugh
at them with superior condescension
and occasionally fling cocoanuts at
them.
What n beautiful life to lead! No
one 10 uplift us-we will be uplifted.
No one TO hold Us down. If you
can't keep a squirrel on the ground
certainly you can't keep a monkey.
Kipling says that the monkeys
have their regular highways over
the tops Of the trees; even so, even
IL our trails are marked and trOdden
there will certainly be more variety
and allure to them than the flivver
ridden highways we now infest /
nope 1IOls MOlldiAdAA - - H. a mp
we are going back. 1 am sorry 1
won't be with you when you get
there, but I shall do my part now.
This reforestraton project gives
me a chance. SO that there will be
plenty of trees TO climb. L shall sup
port the movement now afoot to
plant some more. This very day ]
shall go out and plant a tree in the
yard. Who knows but that in the
top Of it's Observation-Disclosures.
my great great-grandchildre will
be swinging gaily by their tails and
discussing matters Of infinitely more
importance than prohibition, income
tax. immigration, and Blue Sunday
Laws.
Copyright, 1929
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
More Truth
Than Poetry
By JAMES ]. MONTAGUE
As GOOD AS THE SOIL.

AS GOOD AS THE SOIL
A Yale professor contends that
Yale is falling off in athletics because
the impoverished soil OF Connecticut
raises inferior vegetables.
Silas Jones of Middlebury
Didn't fertilize his soil;
Silas wasn't ever very
Keen for any form OF toll.
All the spuds he dug last autumn
Turned up kind o. gaunt and pale
But a wholesale grocer bought 'em
For the football squad at Yale.
Weren't like real potatoes should be,
Didn't look or taste the same;
Weak and watery as could be;
That's why Princeton won the
game!
Henry Smith. just out of Groton,
Thought old ways were good
enouh;
Henry didn't seem 10 cotton
Tofhe scientific stuff.
Sickly looking were his squashes.
Like a child that's nourished
wrong.
But the young New Haven froshes
Bought and ate 'em, right along.
This mistake in dietetics
They adhered to as a rule
Till their rank in frosh athletics
Was theme of ridiclue.
Jasper Hoskins Of East Haddam
Wasn't smart by any means;
Knew about as much as Adam
OF the way TO raise string beans.
/ Crops were never alternated,
Thin and droOpy were the vines,
And the beans weren't saturated
With the needful vitamines.
Notwithstanding Jasper sold EN-
In New Haven. for the crew;
That's why Yale could never hold
'em
When the rooters told EN- 10!
Copyright, 1929
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
OtherEditOrS Than Ours
PRESIDENT AND SENATE.
indianapolis News.l

It is in no way surprising that the senate should
find It difficult to realize that it is not charged
with the conduct of foreign affairs 1t held that
view strongly during a considerable part Of the
Wilson administration, and than at
tempted TO make it good. The authority which II
asserted attempted to assert during those days,
the senate is reluctant to lay down. When Pres't
Harding elected it assumed that he,
former member Of the senate would accept the
senate theory Sen. Penrose. il will be recalled said
that it did not matter who was secretary OF state,
since the senate, its foreign relations commit
tee, would say what the nations policy should be.
But it appears that senator, when he
takes W his residence in the white house. ceases
be senator and becomes president. Mr.. Harding is
no more disposed 70 submit 10 senatorial dictaton
than was his predecessor He and his cabinet feel
that Is of the greatest importance that the legis-
iative branch Of the government shall not be per-
mitted encroach in any way the executive
branch" and they propose TO see that the proper
relationship between the executive department and
the legislative department is maintained" Mr..
Harding has made il clear, in polite way. that
ne Will insist the same freedom for himself in
executive matters that he willingly comedies 10
congress in legislative matters And he holds quite
rightly. that the management OF foreign relations is
executive function. he asks that the question
of disarmament be not considered since il has
important bearing the present EurOI sit
uation and our relation thereto. II is believed also
that he would prefer that consideration OF the
Knox peace resolution be postponed till the repara-
tions question Is settled and then that the
policy declared shall be that is in accord with
the state department program.
IL is not easy for the senate 10 understand the
situation. For instance, Sen Lodge said in the
last Saturday that IL had been found impractical
BILE 10 separate the League OF Nations covenant
from the treaty. Found impracticable" by whom? a?
The impression that would get from these
words is that the president had found this imIrac-
ticable. This may be so. but the senator had
thOrity for such statement. So II seems that this
attempt u force the hand OF the president
n least TO commit him a policy OF his
making The country viii be glad 70 know that
Prest Harding intends to maintain the full au-
thority Of his great cice. the authority conferred
by the constitution. The senate is going through
educational process from which IL should II sufi-
cently humble. derive much profit
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

from participation in matters OF distinctly Eu-
ropean concern. il deeply interested the
proper economic adjustments and in the just
settlement Of the matters OF worldwide i'm
pCrtance which under discussion in the con-
ference. and desires helpfuy 10 cooperate in
the deliheration upon these questions
The government OF the United states notes with
pleasure your expression OF the belief OF the
representatives OF the allied governments
sembled in London. that American cooperation
IN the settlement OF the great international
questions growing out OF the world war will
be OF material assistance
In other words because of local fiction. which
must maintain for American consumption. we
have traditional policy OF abstentation in mat
ters OF distinctly European concern."-our pretense
for remaining out OF the League OF Natons.-but
we are gradually discovering our interest in the
proper economic adjustments and in the just set
tlement OF matters OF worldwide Importance"
wherefore, II we can way in without
suming any responsibility. other than advice, watch
us do IT,
The note is a confession that despite "tradi-
uonal policy Of abstentation." even Prest Harding
is beginning feel It somewhat antquated. and 70
realize that 10 stand aloof from the great inter-
national questions means our international suicide
Accordingly what doing now is virtually
sending an ambassador to represent in the coun-
ellis Of the League OF Nations. Not being a Iart of
IT, we still have deal with it. and the next thing
know will be entering into treaty agree
ments with it. something Of that kind; either
that or indulging secret UNDERSTANDINGS rev1ving
the old diplomacy with audacty which none Of
other powers could. for the present, in
dulge.
The moral influence Of American representation
at the councils. though it be unofficial
merely speaking for the president. the like of which
crime in the Wilson days,-wil be great. Eu-
rope will least know something of wishes.
and the administration at Washington will be ap-
prsed more directly OF the sources of the councils
conclusions While will have vote will
have a voice and while will not be bound we
will be there hear. Maybe this is the "as-
ISOLATION Of nations" which the president has
been referring; the League OF Nations with the
United States unoGicially associated
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
JUST FOLKS
By EDGAR A. GUEST

EQUALITY.
I hold TO this: that if a man be true.
If he will live unto his spoken
creed.
1t matters not the work he finds to
do
Nor what his garb-of him the
world has need.
There are degrees of skill and wealth
and fame.
One may grow richer than his
neighbor can,
But if TO gain. another stoop to
shame,
The honest toiler is the better man.
Who stands to duty patiently by day
And gives his best, no matter what
the task,
Who meets with faith the cares
which come his way.
Is doing all that God shall ever
ask.
The chance Of one fingerprint be
ing exactly Ike another is one in
Ga. 100000.
Sugar cane waste Is now being
made into a board suitable for lining
building walls.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

The proposed "overturn sales tax according 20
its opponents, would give big business unfair
advantage over small manufacturers. Take the case
of a small concern making steel products. Here's
what would happen to it.
Mine sells iron ore to jobber-and pays sales
tax
Jobber sells 20 blast furnace Second sales tax
Furnace sells pig iron 10 jobber Third sales
Jobber sells pig on to small steel mill Fourth
sales
Mill sells steel billets 10 small manufacturer OF
steel products
Mine sells coal to jobber Sixth sales tax.
Jobber sells coal TO coke oven Seventh sales tax
Oven sells coke to blast furnace. steel billet maker
and manufac acturer of finished products Three
sales taxes 10 sales taxes in ALL
They are passed to the small manufacturer OF
steel sheets cold-rolled shaftlng. etc. While he in
turn passes them to his customers still these
10 sales taxes become part of his production costs
and increase the minimum price at which he can
sell.
On the other hand. take outfit like the U. s.
Steel corporation. large part. it and mines
its own coal and iron ore makes its own coke pig
iron, steel billets and finished products No sales
tax would appear in L. s. Steels production costs
Result: u. S. Steel could undersen the small
manufacturer whose costs would include at 10
sales taxes.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
WE ARE TO BE REPRESENTED.

Pres't Harding's decision to accept the invitation
OF the allied powers. and TO participate. though
oficiaIly the deliberations OF the supreme coun-
cn Of the League OF Nations the council Of am
bassadors and the reparauons conferences will meet
with Iopular approval But the language in which
the president accepts the invitation Is more or less
puzzling 10 the layman unaccUstomed to diplomatic
verbiage. The president IN a note 10 the British
prime minister says
THE government OF the United States while
= maintaining the traditional policy Of abstention
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
BACK TO Tile TREES.

THE human race has reached its
highest development" says DIR.
James John Monahan, of Chicago,
"and now It's going back" In a few
hundred thousand years. according
TO the doctor, We will all be back up
in our trees again. leaping lightly
through the branches, swinging
gaily by our tails. throwing cocoa
nuts at each other with great good
will.
hope the learned professor
knows what he is talking about.
hope he is right. If what we have
all about US is the highest develop
ment of which the human. in some
respects, perhaps, race, is capable.
then the sooner we get of the
ground and up into the highest at
mosphere Of the trees, the better
off we will be.
If, according 10 the old adage,
there is plenty Of room at the top"
that must also hold good for the
treetop, and we should have stayed
there. Instead Of that we came
down and became part OF the earth
earthly and in many cases the dirt
dirty.
We have heard a great deal OF
the back 10 the soil movement -
This looks like a back to the tree
movement. Some will say that this
is revolution, that paradOxically
we are going down by going up. but
is this true? Is II too much 10 hope
that the wide, far regions of the
tree top-top world will bring us a
newer freedom? Will il not ex-
pand our horizons? VIII il now
bring up new vistas? Will II not
make of us three dimensional crea-
lures instead Of two?
Now we look forward and back
ward and sideways, but never up
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
HERE'S A LITTLE PUZZLE FOR
OITR READERS.

Sam Schwartz wants TO know why
a revolver full OF bullets IS like
Ernie Piowaty's pair Of dice a
used typewriter ribbon will be
awarded 10 the person sending in
the first correct answer 10 this i'm
portant question.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
The Tower of Babel
BY BILL ARMSTRONG

The government hasn't any money
for the bonus and It hasn't enough
10 take care OF the disabled soldiers
properly, but 81 can always dig up
a few hundred thousand TO continue
the hearings with reference 10 the
well known escape OF Grover Berg
doll.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
A SnDernan.

Ring Lardner asserts that Pres't
Harding always counts his strokes on
the golf course, which is a bigger
boost than even his campaign man
ayers ever gave him.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
SOMETHING NEW IN ALIRIs

When a mans late in getting home
at meal times. we've just uncovered
a corking good alibi for him Tell
the wife that you met George Platt.
the we'll known clothier, and had 10
listen to a couple of new stories
about Georges boy.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

William Colfax Bryant Barlow Bee Beauregar1
Johnson Robert Edward Lee Humphries is plaintiff
in court action at Greenvire. S. c. And probably
everybody calls him Bill.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
Pnnfnnnd NINsferN.

We don't see many clothing manu-
facturers' ads in the Dearborn Inde-
pendent.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
UP-TO-DATE SIDEWALK CON
VERSATION.

Where are you going?"
"Oh, lets go down TO the Audi
torium and tame that woman
they've got down there"
NJ. A. Donahue Of the Gas COM
pany is the latest column conductor
to make his appearance in South
Bend. He Of the Swedish name is
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

Frank Jefferies. the realtor. was
in the Office today wearing new
straw hat. To our customers we viii
say, il is not necessary now TO wait
for Andy Weisbery TO officially open
the season as Mr.. Jefferies has taken
the lead. Mr.. Jeferies' hat is about
the color OF an orangeade, and IS
shaped like a ten cent plate Of Vel
vet ice cream. not including war tax.
Charles B. Sax is preparing a 16-
page closely typewriter opinion on
how the Jack Dempsey Georges
Carpenter fight IS going 20 turn out.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

An Italian statesman has Just
died at the age OF 102 years. II an
American statesman lived 10 be 1O2.
he wouldn't have friends enough
left to have any pallbearers at his
funeral
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

DO you remember when movie theaters had
phonograph horns sticking out the sidewalk
playing 'Bedelia" and I'm the Shade of the Old
Apple Tree?"
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

The wool grown on different parts
OF an animals body is Of different
streng1hA
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
Tha,.II Do 1t Fast Enough.

Apparently the only way 20 reduce
nayies is 10 have another war.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

writing what he chooses 70 call
Hitch Your Car 20 a Star" and 1t
appears each month in the Cham
Der OF Commerce magazine, South
Bend Today" To give the column
more OF local atmosphere, we
would suggest in place OF the title,
"FIitch Your car 10 a star" that O.
pitch Your Car On the Niles
Road"
II the Chicago Tribune's slogan.
1927 VIII Reward Fighters, holds
good. we know OF one married
couple in this town that Will be able
10 retire at the end OF the year, mil
lionaires.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

Einstein says time Is never identical in any two
parts OF the universe. He must have lived in
Daylight Saving town and tried to figure out when
the trains arrived.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

Mayor Carson will turn over the
keys OF the city TO the Eagles OF In
diana sometime today.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

To Tom Brandon-Thanks for
them kind words you wrote with
reference 10 The Towers second
birthday on Thursday.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11
BRIEF NEWS OF THE CITY.

Joe Grand Leader was seen q
smile for the first time today sine
Gov. Cox was defeated.
South Bend news-times., 1921-05-11

Thank goodness. we've got an
other opening we can attend tomor-
row. II we have the time.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-07-06
MAsoN-HoDGEs

News of the marriage of Miss May
Hortense Hodges, youngest daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. C. ]. Hodges of Hick-
DRY Island, on the gulf, to Mr. Ray
mond R. Mason, of Orlando, which
took place at the home of the brides
parents, Wednesday afternoon, June
10Th, Rev Bowyer officiating, will be
received with much interest in Ocala,
where the bride has on a number of
occasions visited, in the homes of her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. Paul Durand and
Mrs. Lanier Robertson. The bride, a
very pretty and charming young wom-
an at all times, was unusually so the
day of her wedding. She was becom-
ingly gowned is travelling suit of
dark blue with accessories to match.
After a motor trip, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mason win reside in Orlando, where
the groom is in the automobile bust
ness. Mr.. Mason is popular in Or
lando, both socially and in the bust
ness world.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-07-06
PLEASANT EVENT AT PALATKA
CPaIatka News)

The big porch of the Smith apart
ments on North Second street was the
scene of pretty little party yester-
day morning. Miss Florence Smith
was entertaining the members of the
Wegotem Club, and had used pink
crepe myrtle with charming effect IN
decorating for the occasion. The
guests gathered at the hostess home
at ten o'clock, and spent the morning
with their sewing. Some chose to play
bridge instead of sewing, and for
these a table was provided. Refresh
ments consisting of potato salad, dew
lied eggs, pickles, tomato sandwiches
and iced tea were served by Miss
Smith to her guests, who included:
Mrs. J. B. Darby, Mrs. d. V. Loop,
Mrs. R. E. Macdonald, Mrs. C. w.
Terrell, Mrs. C. E. Anderson and
Misses Aloe Everton. Priscilla Hamm,
Irene Yelverton, Dorothy Merriam
and Mildred Williams.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-07-06
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