South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-22

Strong for Bonus.
DO they deserve "A bonus from
/ those Of Us who were nationally
saved and financially profited by
their going away 90 hSht2 I'll say
they do, Shall they be paid by a
, sales tax which viii compel them 10
I help pay their own reward every
+ time they make a purchase Never,
Shall those who made thousands
and millions while the war was rag
/ ing be let off with the same bonus
I contribution as those who did the
I fighting or gave their time 20 wal
service 4 thousand times. no,
n 70 must be sales tax on pur-
4 chases i'm the name Of patriotic con-
I sistency exempt those who made vic
/ tory instead OF money out Of the
: war IL will never he right nor
/ honest 70 pretend 10 reward those
/ who saved our country and our
I liberty 10y taxing their own needs
I TO do And neither will Il be fair
or just 20 Kermit that the big profit
| makers Of war times and OF now
pay no more Of the proposed reward
! than those who carried the rifles
/ or titled the soil or worked in the
! shops 10 win the war.
Lord God OF hosts be with us yet
I lest we forget lest we forget"
/ IF another war ever besets our
country, which Providence forbid
/ let those who declare war conscript
| every man and woman in the United
States, including themselves. TO per-
form their fun duty in winning the
war at lesser compensation thar
/ those who must do the lighting
take the profit out OF war for the
! stay-at- homes; and substitute ma
! tionai justice for national selfish
ness and the misery and destruction
! and following hardships of war will
soon vanish from the earth. II can
/ be done and for the sake Of human
ity and happiness and prosperity il
will be done
Why? not only that life and pros
! perity shall not be wantonly de-
| strOyed and misery and expense
avoided but that politics shall moi
/ follow war time disaster with goul-
/ ish purpose. Here we are, almost
/ four years after the war is over. still
I iddlinS with peace terms and delay
I ing action i'm order that one or the
/ other of the leading political par.
+ ties may win the offices by tactics
\ which put the well being of the PEG
I pie in hesitation and peril. Business
\ is uncertain in the grip of heavy
1 taxation and our prosperity halts
under all sorts of Interference 10y
/ political Juggling. The war profiteeI
glories in his new wealth and. Oliver
/ Twist like. passes up his plate foI
\ more The rule Of even handed
! justice is endangered and legisla-
/ ton for special interests is the ON.
| NOUS cry of the hour. So these
young men who served and sacrificed
at their country's call are not really
/ mustered out Of service. They are
I only transferred to the public re.
serve corps, subject to the call al
! ready here TO serve heroically a.
/ citizens of "A great republic. that the
| nOnor of our civilization, the safety
/ of our liberty and the blessings OF
! good law and order shall be pre-
| served.
People Give Freely.
Even though the World was de.
/ velOped some latent characteristics
1 of selfshness and disloyalty among
a comparatively few who are Shy
/ locks or agitating disorder. human.
/ ity is i'm the ascendancy. Never be
fore have the people given 50 liber-
ally for the betterment OF Others
than during and since the war
. Charitable and benevolent enter
prises have never before been blessed
with So much .helpfulness and the
result will eventually be a tremend
/ GUS Improvement in the general
+ condition Of people both here and
abroad. Increased love of country
and increased love of neighbor are
building a wholesome sentiment ia
/ take struggling humanity by the
| hand and lift it up rather than 10y
/ the throat and choke il down. And
even though we see greed and dis
| loyalty 10 the public welfare more
! plainly than ever before, the church
and the school and the fraternaI
| spirit are stronger than ever and
when the causes of profiteering and
I AtiNi l'ANtiN fAiltAA Nife tilF ~ NltdA ~ ut-
fined. as soon they will be. that
wholesome public opinion can defn-
itely get at them and correct them,
it will be done, not by infammatory
agtators or politicians but by the
/ great equalizer-justice- administ-
cred by the common sense Of COM
mon humanity
10 may be that the millennium can
never come as long as men and wo-
men are human and liable TO err
( but If we are industrious and pro-
I gressive in our education. honest and
. patriotic in our regard for the rights
1 of other people and other countries
/ and consistent and practical i'm our
application Of the principles of the
Golden Rule we will not drift into
/ riot and ruin but the best elements
I OF all peoples Of the earth will COM
I bine in a world wide drive for larg-
+ er possibilities, for righteousness
and humanity and the international
song OF this earth will be. Joy o.
( the World the Lord Is Come"
TEMPLE
Charles Ray in The Midnight
Beu' will be shown at the Temple
/ theater today for the last time This
/ First SatiOnal attraction is one OF