South Bend Mirror, March 09, 1945

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ENBER9 Prove a Second HENRY CABOT LODGE?
Page Bernardo Machiavelli
ELIEVE IT
Or ELSE
MEAT O'  THE COCONUT
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SILAS WITHERSPQON
"DEVIL CAN QUOTE
SCRIPTURE" SAITH
PROVERB BUT THIS
ONE QUOTES TRUER
THAN PAUL PUT IT
AND NEEDS SUFFER
FORiDELINQUENCY"
The office
devil of the
Mishawaka
Enterprise,
quoting
scripture in
his Main St.
column,
serves to out-
devil the devil. By *'tvji$£
graphical* ^t-^
ror" or deliberate intent,
he make^|rCor. 13:8, to read literally as the
Good Xt^i must have intended when He
wari^||^^'letting "the left hand know
^|^i^tie;right hand doeth." "Charity never
raileth," he leads off, "but whether there be
prop^sies they shall fail; whether there be
Jf^IlN they shall cease; whether there be
rfe&ldldge it shall vanish away."
^|phe keenest bits of wit and humorjf'j says
Eli Perkins (old-timer) in his "Kings of the
Platform and Pulpit" (1900), "spring from
blundering t^o truth; plain, unvarnished
truth, -— even when blundering into it purposely." -Xgj^ding- to PerSjjs, "humor is
always ^cu^j|l"; consists of stating the case
so pllSnly and frafSly, that 'even a fool can
read and t*f^erstaneEN|§rK   #S^:^
"Charity never raileth." It doesn't. When
it begins to "rail" it drips a lie from the pen
used in Paul's epistle. For that reason the
word "philanthropist" always bites my
tongue — though the term is frequently applied rather than courted. I have known philanthropists whose right hand really tried to
keep the left hand in the dark. But "lefthanders" are obstreperous. They're always
trying to upset "right-handed" applecarts.
Did you ever hear of a left-handed monkey-
wrench? Well, that is what the Enterprise's
office devil used on St. Paul.
Fussy religionists, etc., all het-up about
juvenile delinquency these days, may notion
to have the Enterprise's office boy placed in
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By DON WHARTON
(In Common.: Sense)
THIS is urgent advice to the wives, sweethearts, parents, relatives and friends of the
veterans who are coming back from war.
The advice is: stop trying to practice amateur
psychiatry on fhem; don't be misguided by the
widely published attempts to tell you "how to
handle" these "changed men." Instead, welcome
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Michigan Solon Notably Subtle in Technique
IF YOU'RE a Theosophist, believe in the transmigration of souls, perhaps we can work this thing
out together; make ourselves believe in the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of post-World War
I ignominy, laying the wires for this World War II, as the metempsychosis of one Niccolo di
Bernardo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman and political strategist, who checked out four" hundred
H WHAT WILL THE HARVEST BE? ■     ^2g£g
of what is going on,
present and prospective, we may be
able to wonder if
Senator Arthur
Hendrick Vandenberg, of Michigan,
is to be a Machiavellian second coming,—Lodge, incarnate ; Vandenberg,
reincarnate.
That the "end
justifies .the means'''
is inherent from the
Machiavellian philosophy, and no difference what else
happens, in consequence of the machinations or immediate purpose, that
is a matter to be
dealt with in futu-
ro, as situations
arise. In a "sufficient for the day"
world, his concept
crept on, the responsibility of each
generation is to its
present-.  There was
(On i'age Three)
Gates Relegates McNutt to Gtegory of Piker
WHEN we headlined The Mirror twelve years ago that the "Platinum Blonde of Bloomington"
had shamed the "Peroxide Blonde of Montecello" into Democratic oblivion, v*e hardly supposed that twelve years later, the Republican party, in full power in the state house, would
presume to correct the monstrosity by going it several better—or worse. If Paul V. ("V" as in "Vinegar") McNutt's administration reorganization act, vesting administrative and patronage power in the governor was vicious, and we have al-
Trying to "Ballawax" Constitution
By NEWTGN W. GOUDY
UNDERCOVER lobbying, somewhat colorful, such as recently has been unveiled in Michigan, and was recently
denounced on the floor of the Indiana senate by Senator
Charles A. Phelps (Rep., Ft. Wayne), regarding the elimination
from the appropriation bill of^^yision for a children's hospital
in .Mishawaka, is enjoying a heyday in Washington. Money
changed hands in Michigan, and accusations of it was made by
Senator Phelps in Indianapolis,—but this story has majorly to do
wi£h what is going on at the national capitol.
Sounds fantastic, but there's an undercover drive under way,
well heeled with heavy money, to slip a destructive amendment
into the United States constitution before the voters wake up to
what's going on.
Objective of the drive is the adoption of what's been well called
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ways said it was, Ralph F. ("F" as
in "Flatulence") Gates and his 1945
assembly, instead of reversing the order, have worse than emphasized it
not only into a one-p^rty, but a fac-.
tion of a party stupidity.
Governor Gates* through his assembly, has relegated to himself powers of which Paul McNiitt never
dared to dream. All these years the
G. O. P. has apparently been studying how they could maikea bad matter worse, and came to the present
conclusion. They tried . it, first in
1943, but with a Democratic governor (Henry F. Schricker), and a
supreme court hardly primed for their
perfidies, it blew up — but from it
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