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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
Why THE FUTILITY?

1T - perfectly futile 20 think that there will never
be conflict when we stop to consider that in 1000
years OF Christian civilization and 1000 years OF
Pagan civilization we have only 10 civilized
OF warfare and that does apply TO all
nations"
This IS the discordant note in the address OF Pres
ident Harding 10 the members Of the War College in
which he pledged that armies would not be
called into any in which its members could
not enter with zest as American citizens.
The truth IS that no warfare Is civilized. The
business Of soldiers Is to kill and when they are
called into action. all civilization slips away and
there IL left but the matter Of self preservation.
The frghtfulness OF Germany with its attacks
upon unarmed ships with undersea monsters. with
SIS bombing OF unfortihed cities. with its use o:
deadly Easses was answered in kind.
That a matter Of necessity.
The public was told that our chemists had
pleted arrangements for the making OF gases so
deadly that few drops would kill regiment
So much for civilized wars.
If experience teaches at all, the tremendous cost
OF the last in men, in money. in sacrifices, will
make the world slow TO again take up arms
no nation viii enter upon conflicts unless it be-
Heves that it win. only defensive wars con-
Quoted by those who do carry the burdens o.
huge ornaments
That Pagan and Christian civilization had not for
5000 years. stopped men from debauching them
selves with liquor did spell futity to the forces
which finally banshed liquor from this country.
That Pagan and Christian civilization had not in
5000 gears developed the OF electricity.
transportation self government represented by
this republic. did futility those who
made these things possible
Because the world has always had its and
it's conflicts is 70 believe that there mus
always be
No ideal that IL based upon sanity human aspira-
lions. the fundamental emotions of mankind, is
futile.
The world Will be as good a Ilace as the dreams
within the hearts OF men.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
ANOTHER SIGN OF THE TINES.

The Press Congress Of the World, composed Of
editors and publishers meets this year in Honolulu
"An business sessions will be held in the greet
throne room Of the royal palace of the Hawaiian
monarchs" is the announcement Of those in charge.
The real downfall OF all monarchies began when
Gutenberg invented the movable type in 1850 and
made printing possible.
Men then began think. Up that time learn
ing held in leash by the few. Thinking men
demand equality. not sovereigns
An editor holds away over the greatest republic
Of all times
other editors will discuss the problems of the
world in the room where once courtiers bent in
humble servility to the slightest wish royalty.
Next!
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
PROLONCING HUMAN LIFE.

25 years, the average human life in
United States has been increased four years
So reads the statement of insurance experts who
before them statistics for about 100 years.
This has been accomplished despite the fact that
there thousands of deaths each year due auto
accidents that the multiplication OF machinery in
factories has claimed many victims that the shift
from an agricultural 10 industrial proponderance
OF population has taken men of the open
housed them in cities
The explanation given is that wide teaching Of
hygiene and sanitation has cut down the ravages
of disease.
Open plumbing and bath rooms in every home
have helped
The average age of man is still below what
It should be.
Biology shows that the average of animal life
to reach the age of reproduction This should make
the average life of man 14O years
When mental hygiene. normal methods of Efe.
abolition of all excuses are general and common,
men and women who live to be $50 will not be
unusual
In the meantime centenarians continue to be mat
tiers of news
That step TO success isn't a side-step.
Men who SLEEP on the Job never get up.
tons.
cultivating ones voice usually raises a protest.
The married man says United we stand-many
things"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
MEAT FROM ALASKA.

Thirty thousand pounds OF dressed reindeer meat
from Alaska landed in San Francisco marks the be-
ginning OF a new industry in the far north Sorle
so years ago our government stocked the Alaskan
plains with 1900 reindeer 10 food for the
Eskimos whose wild caribou and sea animals We're
fast disappearing. The reindeer have increased 20
200. 600. OF which 10000 owned by the natives
and the remainder by white men, The latter have
established slaughter house and refrigerator plant
near Nome and have begun shipping their meat 10
Seattle and San Francisco. Reindeer meat is de-
scribed juicy and tender nearly free OF the gany
flavor and tastes a good deal like yearlng beef.
What were considered few years ago as desert
in Alaska found be good grazing
lands. The plains tundras spread out over many
millions OF acres. producing abundant vegetation IN
summer. In winter the animals feed on the lichen
or reindeer moss common in the Bering AM
Arctic coastal regions.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

(The sending of U. S. Marines ended
the threat Of war between Pan
anna and Costa Rica.
A couple-a spigotty countries
Was gonna put on a war,
But we sent down a bunch-a leather
necks
An they SEE to them guys, What
for?
What for are you gonna be fghtin %
An the spiggotty lads they spoke,
Jaw lissen. you mister L. s Marines
That war, she is joost a joke!"
Marines. thass all,
Give 'em a call
An the tUmult an shoutin' cease;
In spiggotty land
They take their stand,
Keepin' the well-known peace!
They knock the Marines in Haiti?
SO I have heard an seen,
But Haiti was onct a sink of filth
An now it is sweet an clean;
An the cacos amt KILN people
The way that they done before,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
DISARM FARLEY
is TO BE "WET"

WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.-Prohi-
bition officials viii make no attempt
TO keep the forthcoming disarma-
ment conference dry" il was an
nounced officially az the treasury de-
partment today. Prohibition officials
hold that liquors for delegates 70
the disarmament conference must be
permitted because OF diplomatic i'm
munity and all recommendations Of
the state department for permission
for liquor 20 enter the L. S. will
have the approval or the treasury
department
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
dust FOIRs 81. d69 zzzsEz

And many to do what another has
done.
But to blaze a new trail there are
only a few;
It's the commonplace things that
are easy TO do.
Don't ask for the easy and common
place tasks
It's the difficult problems which
bring men to fame,
Rejoice in the courage the days
trial asks,
For If you succeed men shall
honor your name.
Be glad in the choice which has fall
en- to you
To battle with something not easy
10 do.
Copyright, 1920
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
DIFFICULTIES.

Stick TO it, Boy. when the battle is
hard,
Stick TO it. Lad, when the going is
rough,
The proof of the Fighter is how he
IS Scared,
To vanquish a Coward one blow is
enough.
Just keep this in mind as you see
the task through
It's the commonplace things that
are easy 10 do.
The thousands can follow the path
way of one,
The millions flock in when the
fight has been won.
There are many 10 go where another
has gone
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

land. Grover Bergdou should have
been you will probably agree that the story Is not
yet fully written.
The final chapters must include the return OF the
millionaire Stacker and the punishment Of Ameri-
cans who took his brides.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
out.
NO KICK LEFT IN HIM

A swarm OF bees in Yolo county
California, killed a mule the other
day. They would never do that to a
Missouri mule.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

For can that stuff" says the Leath-
ernecks;
An'-there's peace on the Haitian
shore!
Marines. thass all,
Give 'em a call
To any old kind Of scenes;
An life grows calm
Like placid psalm,
Thanks to them tough Marines"
Sure, they're q hard-bQiled outfit,
Husky an rough an brown,
But it amt exactly a kissin' game
Putin them ruckshuns down;
An wherever they go, I notice
The trouble is over soon
An the savage don't stab his neigh
Dor
Under the tropic moon.
Marine, thass all,
Give 'em a call
An the trouble an rows decrease;
In various scenes
You'll find Marines
Keepin' TIE well-known peace!
Copyright, 1929
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

The Akron Kid is having a Won
derfG, time floating about the lake
on Goodrich inner tubes. According
10 the present plan of operating
Thorpe floats about the lake dis
guised as a water lily and as he
comes alongside the various fishing
smaks delivers a fast canvass.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

IN Japan books are bound with
the edges in: the readers begin at
the back and go forward, and they
read vertically instead OF horizon
tally
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

Among our guests at the resort
last night was South Bends well
known shoe man. Lester Hurwich.
who was doing a mean bit OF tod
ding for the benefit OF the natives.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

We heard about a blonde widow
who said that the latest proposal
she had was from a widower named
Beard who has had seven little
I shavers
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
More Truth
0Than pOQtru
6)Q James = MONtd6uO =
GALNsAYING y SCIENTIST.

A French Academician asserts that
there is far more crime in summer
than in winter
We've little followed the pursuit
OF scientific erudition
So who are we, that we dispute
A learned French Academician?
Yet when he says that winter time
Invariably brings abatement
Of all the best-known forms Of crime
We're sure he cannot prove his
statement.
In summer time the hobo basks
Beside a stream, nor thinks of pill
lage,
When he needs food he merely asks
- hand-out from the nearby VII
lage.
But when the winter breeze blows
cold
And when the stream no longer
gurgles.
His hunger in him makes him bold,
And, moving into town. he bur
giles.
In summer time the sun delays
The hour OF the shadows falling,
And so the footpad hnds the days.
Too long 10 ply his risky calling.
But when it's dark at half-past five
He has abundant time to work in,
And you and 1 must look alive
To dodge the corners he may Turk
in.
Heat stirs the blood and makes men
act"
Declares our wise academician.
Which isn't IN true-ln point OF fact
II takes away a mans ambition.
In warm and kindly summer time
When fields are green and skies
are hay.
The crook is indisposed 10 crime
OF any sort-he feels TOO lazy!
Copyright, 1920
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

she-"Doesn't the moon look en-
gaging?"
He-"Yes there's a ring around
Il"
They VIII be married In the early
fall
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
y

The materials are soft
and rich in texture and the
colors have a tendency to
follow the autumn shades
- Niger brown, nut
brown, a dull henna, and
.maroon-rich blues and
.of course there is black.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

REVISED PROVERBS.

Former celebrities we never hear
of now are the Great AUX and Thorn
as W. Lawson
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

Residents at the lake are all
wrought up over note found
pinned 70 a tree with a stilletto.
A wel-known man is under suspi-
cion. The letter is written in the
language OF Barron Lake and trans
lated is as follows:
"A certain gent from the News
Times staff sojourning at Barron
Lake and talking about anyone hav-
ing the fish trained so he could not
catch them. should come here in
the spring with his way Of fishing.
The month Of July would be fine for
him. as then he could catch them
when they are out eating the tender
grass by getting Bill Reds ball bat
and knocking them on the head"
There is very little ice skating on
the lake at this time of year.
A fellow up here at the lake has
just completed a budget which
shows that It is possible to live on
$3.50 a day. Here's how it's done:
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
ThQTOwor gfBabQl s.
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.c7Y Bill Armstrong =


News-Times Least Wire.
BARRON LAKE, Mich, sept. H.
Things were very peaceful here
Wednesday until along about noon
when the Spiro store appeared on
the shores OF the lake with Emil
johnson at the head OF the process
sion. a feature OF the day was a
ball game in which the playing OF
Hart, Schanner and Marx was un-
usually good.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

II at hrst you DO succeed, look
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
Umbrellas

Women's ring and
leather handle umbrel-
las, club ends, black,
navy, brown, purple,
taupe and green, heavy
pure silk-$5.95 and
$685..
Silk Hand Bags
Heavy MORE bags,
new designs in black
and color. Value $5.95
at 1896.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02

Collars and sleeves are
decidedly different. Col
lars must fit snugly about
the neck and sleeves are
most eccentric. Perhaps
light and slit to the elbow
or very full-nearly al
ways heavily banded with
fur or exquisitely en-
broidered.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
Specials on Dress Goods

33-inch Natural Color PONGEE
Sl00 quality at 79c.
4O-inch SATIN RADIANT in black
brown and taupe at $3.50 yard
36-inch PALETTE DE SOLE in
black, Saturday only at $l.59.
40-inch self colored striped GEOR-
GETTE, Saturday only. at $l39.
36--inch silk POPLIN. black and street
shades, Saturday at 69c.
36-inch TRICOLETTE, ali good col
ors. Saturday at 5 20.
81 inch all wool STORM SERGE, re-
markable wearing quality, Sl2o.
40-inch FRENCH SERGE, fine ali
wool quality-Sl.39.
Store Now Open Sdtu
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
Domestic Specials

OUTING FLANNELS. 36-inch. as
sorted stripes and colors-l5c yard.
UNBLEACHED MUSLIN. high grade.
yard wide. Exceptional at l0c
LONG CLOTH. fine quality, beautiful
soft hnish-l5c.
BED BLANKETS. of best staple cot
ton. tan with colored border. Slightly
imperfect) Regular price S2.l9 value
at $l.39.
COTTON BATS, full three-pound
cotton bait size 1880. SlO0 value at
79c.
lay EUenin9S Uutil $50
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-02
Going to School Tuesday?

School days are here again. Are you all ready
for them? Have you enough dresses, of Bingham,
serge, lnen9 Have you plentiful supply of stock
ings? Of hankys2 OF undergarments?
We are all ready to supply you with whatsoever
it may be that you have forgotten A linen Bob
Evans, wool jumper dress, serge dress, stock
ings, underwear, hankys, boomers, middies.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-13
New Hampshire Roads
(St. Adams Messenger.


The Manchester. y. H.. Union tells
It's readers that all the money the state
has expended in constructing highways
to and through the White Mountain re,
gion will have been lost unless steps are
Immediately taken to put them back in,
to condition. 1t declares that the
mountain trip now is devoid of all
pleasure because of the pad roads and
that it will take the state some time tC
recover from the bad advertising that
has come to it this year through dis
gruntled visitors.
1t is Just another instance of the diff.
hculty of building roads that WIKI stand
lp under the traffic. New Hampshire
has spent vast sums of money on hard
surfaced roads and now she is worse of
tEan Vermont, it would appear. Moth
IIg Is worse to travel over than a hard
surfaced road that is in a state of dis.
solution. 1t jOlts the motors out of the
ears and the patience out of the motor
lists.
The gravel road of Vermont. kept in
condition, is to be preferred to the hard
surfaced road that is not kept in alb
solute repair. Give the motorist a good
gravel road with a dust laying prepare
ton applied and he will, in a majority
OF cases, like it better than even the
hard road. 1t rides easier. All of which
Is said by way of pointing out that Yer.
mont is in better condition than the
Granite state on the score of roads at
this time. New Hampshire was ahead
OF us for while but she drops behind
with thump when her permanent -
roads go to pieces.
We have much to do here in Vermont
even with our gravel roads. The time
viii come when these will, on the main
routes, be displaced by hard surface
construction, but it must be of a very
different tyne from that employed in
New Hampshire. The advent of the au-
tomobile and the truck has focused at
tention of road construction and there
will be evolved a type OF highway that
viii stand the strain. IT. i not TO be
denied that Vermont has been foTtu-
nate in letting the other states do most
of the experimenting
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-13

Cotton in the first year of the war;
when the foreign market was cut off.
went begging at 10 cents a pound. On
the crest of the war boom it rose to 40
cents. and higher Then. with a bumper
crop and hard times, it dropped almost
to 10 cents again. with no proportionate
drop in production and living costs. Nat
uralIv that spelled calamity to the cotton
belt and the whole south. and aggravated
national depression. Now. with cotton
-.lf-ng around 20 cents, which is some
-,. g., near what it is really worth, grow
ers are rejoicing and the whole South
feels the stimulus in reviving business ac-
tivitv. while the northern states are fav-
orably affected by il.
1t is a curious thing that a short crop
should bring better times. We have he
come accustomed to the economic dictum
that prosperity is necessarily based on
plentiful production. There is not, how
ever. any necessary contradiction.
1t is to be observed that there Is no
real shortage of cotton. Seven million
bales means a short crop, but there Is
enough hold-over from last year to bring
the total up to the average yield and up
to the worlds normal requirements. All
that has happened. therefore, is rcstor-
alton of a normal price for tllj~ great
staple. which win cave its producers from
ruin without infiicting any necessary
hardship on consumers.
The South seems likely to gain a half
billion dollars or more from the market
rise The cotton-users of the world can
easily absorb that, if it is passed or to
them without extortionate increase. In
deed, so little comparatively has the cost
of raw cotton to do with the price of
most manufactured cotton cloth that
there is said to be small reason. in most
cases, why this rise which means sal
walton to the South should affect the re
tail price at all.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-13
Today Events

Birthday greetings to General Per
shing, who is 81 years old today. ..
The Service Star Legion of War Moth
ers is to begin its fourth annual conven
ton at Cleveland today.
Gov. Henry ]. Allen is to speak on in,
dustrial problems before the Philadelphia
Chamber of Commerce today.
Democrats of the fifth Virginia district
meet at Danville today to pick their CON
gressiOnal candidate to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Representative
ameS.
Primaries are to be held in New York
city today for the nomination of candi
dates for mayor and other offices to bo
| filled at the municipal election next No
vember.
In the sixth congressional district oil
| Massachusetts primaries will be held to
| day for the choice of candidates to sue
coed Representative Lufkin, who resigned
to accept appointment collector of tn,
| port of Boston.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-13
In the Days News.

Major Fiorelle La Guardia, who is
seeking the Republican nomination for
mayor in today's primaries in New York
city, is a former Italian immigrant lad
who has risen to the position of president
of the board of aldermen in the American
metropolis. When Mr.. La Guardias par
ents landed in New York with him as an
infant they did not settle down but pro
ceeded West, first to South Dakota and
then to Arizona. Thus the lad grew up in
the virile, unconventional, typically Ameri
can western country. and he became g
lOyalist of the most pronounced type. Sin
gularly gifted as a linguist he easily found
his way into the diplomatic service, and
later into the consular service with post
at Fiume. Returning to New York. he
studied law and in 1916 ran for congress
and surprised politicians by winning OF
the Republican ticket in strong Demo
cratic district. During the World war ht
served in the aviation corps.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-13
THE OVER-AGE PUPIL.

Special classes for average children
are to be opened in each school district
in one of the larger cities. This is an
advance in educational understanding
worthy of attention.
There are great numbers of these chill
dren in the schools of the country. Prob
ably no building. large or small. is with
out its quota. Their condition may arise
from any one of a number of reasons.
They have been started in school later
than the average child. They lack the
mental or physical ability to keep up
with mates of their own age, or they
are uninterested or lazy. In any event.
each one should be a special case. The
attempt to solve their problem by plac-
ing them in the grades with younger chill
dren is unfair to the average child. to
his younger classmates and to the
teacher, whose time is all too short for
her normal charges.
In the city referred to. the cause of
each child's backward estate will be as
certained carefully and his training
planned to overcome his handica Us
without undue delay. Frills and in
tricacies will be discarded in favor of
simplifed education. following plain.
practical lines which have to do with
everyday affairs, marketing making
change and the like. Domestic science
and manual training will be given prom
inence.
Under such a plan as this, a class of
children who too frequently profit but
little from the agonized efforts to give
them the conventional education should
make fair progress along all essential
lines. Instead Of being turned adrift fl
nally, menace to themselves and others.
they should emerge fairly competent and
reliable citizens with eS>ugh practical
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-13
Today's Anniversaries.

1S46-Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender.
escaped from France to England
1S5S-Nearly 800 persons persisted in the
burning at sea of the emigrant
steamship Austria.
1S59-Senator David c. Broderick of
California mortally wounded in a
duel with Judge Terry near Lake
MERGED. Calf
1S69-Germany celebrated the centenary
of the birth of Humboldt
1SI4-Alonument to Gen. Lyon, killed al
the battle of Wilson's creek, inaug-
urated at st. Louis
1SSS-Act prohibiting the immigrant OF
Chinese into the United States. ex-
cept officials, teachers, students, OF
merchants
S9S-Lorenzo Snow was chosen president
of the Mormon church to succeed
MILFORD Woodruff, deceased.
1919-PreSident Wilson and Secretary
Daniels reviewed the Pacific fleet
at Seattle
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-13
Today's BIRTHDAYS.

Maud Ballington Booth. famous for her
work in the reformation of criminals. born
in Surrey, England, 90 years ago today
Gen. John J. Pershing, who commanded
the American troops in France. born in
Linn county, Missouri, 81 years ago to.
day.
George s. Graham. representative in
congress of the second Pennsylvania dis
trlct born in Philadelphia, Il years ago
today.
Duchess of Brunswick. only daughter
Of the former German Kaiser born at the
Marmoor palace, near Potsdam, % years
ago today.
Gen. Sir William Birdwood. The Soul
of Amaze" and one of the most decorated
generals in the British army. born 5G
years ago today.
George NJ. Bowers. representative in
congress of the second West Virginia dis
trict. born at Gerrardstown, w. Va, IS
years ago today.
Rev. Charles W. Gordon Graph Con
nor }, moderator of the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church of Canals.
born at Glengarry, Ont, 81 years ago to-
day.