South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-19
MAN IN THE STREET

ought 10 be able 20 owe enough 20
escape the income tax. anyway.
II wasn't a diamond robbery that
drew the crowds 70 The window OF
Van RE the well-known jewe,er,
Friday Van had on exhibition a
dozen wine glasses filled with port
OF the vintage OF 81.
Every girl as much az three years
Old mas powdered her nose. but no
old lady OF so has ever done so.
A Chicago deaf mute is asking a
divorce from his wife because she
used rough language 20 him by the
sign language. She must have had
a rolling pin in her hands. although
we confess we really never heard OF
man being walloped with rolling
pin outside Of the comics.
You wonderful mani" was the
admiring message in one OF the love
letters the late William Desmond
Taylor received. There never was a
mutt who wasn't wonderful 20 the
girl who really loved him.
Jazz music has been abolished
in the Cleveland public schools"
But there is no such thing as Jazz
music. Jazz is merely a wiggly
frenzy Of sound.
Margot Asquith had to throw away
.
she concluded this is not a very free
country. That is an unwarranted
. accusation against the United States.
7 One can do almost anything except
what one wants 10 do Could any
thing be freer than that?
Carl Laemmle says only few OF
the film stars are bad. The worst OF
it is. some good stars are bad and
I some bad stars are good.
Times are normal when a man IS
willing 10 put in six days work a
week instead Of seven days talk.
When movie artists act scandal
+ ously they offend the people in pri-
yate life. who claim a monopoly on
the right to cut up.
We take it that the advertising the
film stars are getting in that latest
film tragedy was not arranged by
/ any press agent.
The oklahoma women shoot as
though they believe bullets go right
along with ballots.
According to the eugenists, un-
/ less something is done the future
+ race is TO be an insignificant affair.
But our notion is the eugenists
would be far more effective if they
followed plOughing as a profession.
1t is said 500. 600 Methodists have
agreed TO give a tenth of their in
comes TO The church. Whether the
church gets much or little out OF this
I tithing depends upon whether the
. government gets 10 the income first.
Now that Mishawaka has gone in
20 the boxing game 'rjth some heart,
we expect 10 see the Century theater
crowded next Tuesday. The events
to be pulled off would certainly seem
to warrant the hanging out of the s.
/ r. o.. 10 minutes after the doors
are opened.
They say Henry Ford is mentioned
ofteuer in the press than any other
person. and John d. Rockefeller
next
John d. is merely cussed and
Henry is cussed and discussed. but
taken together they certainly clut-
ter up the news and paragraph col
umns a lot. without seeming to know
there are advertising columns they
might occupy.
VoIiva of Zion City declares tnr
earth is flat and walled in by ice and
that the sun is but 40 miles az 7ss
and only 900 miles away. 1t would
distress us greatly to ascertain that
N0liva is a democrat. Our party has
boon suspected frequently I'm the
past of entertaining peculiar views
. on astronomy like these.
The lesson Of that Taylor tragedy
in Los Angeles for the popular young
stars who are figuring as witnesses
u.s. humanity is now so flighty It isn'i
safe for a nice girl 70 be anywhere