The Detroit times. [volume], February 02, 1912, LAST EDITION, Image 16

About The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920

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* f ITS lit# rather have the good will and old of a nowapaper
zmith a circulation of *O.OOO that la takan hom« and road In
than to Hava that of ona with a circulation of a
nftlMi that Id only looked at and thrown into the gutter.—
KtWft dAYNOIt, OF NCW YORK.
MEVREMA A, #5,- AM V UNDER HIM ,
■ w ill tell JOU right now. as I will tell them to then faces, that pay
|| foreman only $35 a week, while a man under me is drawing $45
doean t go down
■ gTbis wt overheard and we were not eavesdropping, either
■ [lt was spoken so loudly that we could not help hearing.
jj§ Looking up we found two men with their heads close together, one
wildly and the other nodding now and then in approval ot
wag Ming said.
¥ *Yo« know how it was down at “ & . the speaker went on.
Hpitaung the name of a well-known manufacturing firm i found out
{||Hnni there that not only one man. but four men. under me were getting
BHtrt money than I was, and I got out.”
I / « < Ai»H you did just right; just what I would ha\e done.' assented the
H * “Eight? You know I was right. Why. there's nothing fair about it.
Dpitliy wonder that capital and labor can't get together, when there is
yank discrimination against one man right under his nose ?
■ | “Vo wonder at all/’ assented the friend.
■ | “Bank discrimination, that’s all it is. That's all it was down out at
A—. All I ask is fair play/’
I . “That’s what every man is entitled to, assented the friend.
nooestities of life and what’s a man got left?''
■ £ ‘lt certainly costs something to live these days.” assented the fnend.
gj j|? **Why I’m in debt right today, and this fellow over whom lam FORE
IBAV, and who is ITVDEB me, owns a lot and is building a house on it."
B I* “That’s the way it goes.” assented the friend.
B ["Wall, leave it to me. I’ll tell ’em one of these days and tell 'em good
Hkd plenty.”
I As for ourselves we were engaged in the midday practice, or habit of
the inner w»an to a bowl of soup.
■ The conversation ceased for a moment, and then suddenly the business
IB|rt lunch was broken in upon by the strains of ’’Where the River Shan
|En plows,” rendered considerably off the key by the $35-a-week foreman.
■Bj|gted by the assenting friend in a supreme and daring effort to supply
Brntnor.
1 r The two were now locked tightly, each in the other's arms, and each
the other np.
I f- It was 12:30 p. m.
I Somewhere the wheels were just beginning to turn, the belts to fly
BfjpMi meohinery to grind on the second lap of the workday—in some shop
factory minus a foreman who drpws $35 a week.
I A easting beside the empty glasses on the bar explained the fact of the
of the foreman down in the city's center.
I / The empty glasses explained the loud conversation, the condition of
[Kg foreman, the agreeable companion and the strains of "Where the River
Hpmnon Flows.”
I v lust possibly the empty glasses explained also why the foreman is
[Sting paid LESS THAN THE MAN UNDER HIM.
I • Out at the shop we pictured a clear-eyed, contented man bent to bis
ipaak, EARNING $45 a week; giving his employer the best there was in a
[ BROVG BODY, a CLEAR HEAD and STEADY HANDS.
| Out at this shop we imagined there was little discrimination or unfair
JKfey against this representative of labor and little trouble between him and
I 1 And ont at the same shop, looking into the future, we thonght we
I Kuld toe two men changing places, one stepping down and ont fiat the
Hnthority of foreman at $35 a week, to a place at the bench, ont of oharity,
IHwrhaps, and a $45-a-week man stepping into the foremanship at no less
Mpa S6O a week
I f We can see the force of a college president’s comparison of his yearly
Bby and that of a jockey.
[ We oan see the -logic of the scientist who gives his life’s work to
[HuMnity and dies poor, in a comparison of the fact and the figure Jack
Hphnson takes down from a few minutes effort in beating a fellow human
Bhfaf into unconsciousness.
I But we fail to tollow the man who stands at the case bar during work
■tif hours, when he is expected to be in the store, the office or the shop,
Kpfrd punctuates his kick against his employer with large drinks of whisky.
Iliere is a better understanding coming about between the man who
B employs and the man he employs.
| |k- The world it becoming more and more appreciative of the great service
■bt is being rendered in the schools, the colleges, the laboratories and the
mlpits, and full compensation will eventually be the lot of those who are
IBServinf ns in these places.
| Bat the problem of capital and labor, with the latter represented at
Him aaloon bar at 12:30 p. m., is one that is far from any adjustment in
Ijator of this kind of labor.
K The only thing unexplained in this man’s case is the fact that he is
JKpn. u.fiereman. -
rAbility Authorship Requires
| Fdix Pahn’s modest opinion regard
Kg the ability required for author
ELfri r was close akin to Trollope s. Llt-
Fg fl t — he wrote In his biography of
Bppckeray, “is a profession requiring
no special education, no
and may be taken np at sny
• Practice, industry, cultl
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vation of taste—and the rest will lend
their aid—will probably be noressary
before high excellence is attained.
But the Instances are not far to seek
in which first efforts have been suc
cessful. A boy almost or an old wom
an has sat down and the book has
come, and the world has read It and
the booksellers have been civil and
written their cheques.” There might
be something necessary, he admitted,
in the way of Inspiration, but the best
of all things was cobblers’ w*ax to hold
one to one's chair.—lxmdon Chron
icle.
Editorial Page of The Detroit Times
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT iRUE.
LRCE CUR MINS'- Lffct
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From Another Point of View
Six weeks more at $7.60 a ton.
• •
In addition to President Taft's other troubles. Nick Dongworth is for
him.
• • • •
Just a bit early, at least, to announce the battery for the opening
game.
o a o a
Birds of a feather.
Quit laying to gather.
• • • •
Outside of the Louisville Courier-Journal the press of the country
seems to be pretty much of one mind about It.
• • • •
On the other hand, Instead of the Republican nomination going to a
dark horse, there are signs that It will more likely fall to an Oyster Bay.
• • • •
The ground hog need not have come out to see his shadow, if the coat
of living for him is proportionately high. He could have seen it in the
mirror in hie dressing room.
• a • •
Bo far as the progressive Democracy Is concerned. Col. Watterson can
choose for that quiet spot the Thousand islands and can stay there the
same length of time a henpecked husbaud allotted his wife—a week on
each island.
A Leader.
The speeches of Woodrow Wilton
are the best now being delivered. *ll
Thomas Jefferson should walk this
earth again today, and should wish
to acquire for himself in the shortest
possible time a clear knowledge of the
now Issues which compose the present
body of political and economic con
troversy, his most helpful means would
be to read the addresses of Woodrow
Wilson at Denver on conservation and
publicity, at Minneapolis, on big busi
ness and the boss, at Kansas City on
the Initiative, referendum, and recall,
at the Kentucky Bar association on
Justice and the law. at the confer
ence of governors on states’ rights, at
Indianapolis on corporations. Gov.
Wilton translates the ancient and
fundamental philosophy of the rela
tions of men with other men Into
terms of the era of telephones, dally
papers, universal suffrage, and bllllon
dollar corporations. His most con
spicuous quality is clearness clear
ness In the use of English words, and
the still more important clearness of
thinking—an unusual quality In a day
when four-fifths of the public men
who discuss the Sherman law know
merely that they are against the
trusts, but have never thought out for
themselves whether the remedy they
want Ilea In competition or licensed
monopoly or a combination of both.
Gov. Wilson's speeches are also more
temperate than most of the current
contributions to political thought, and
reflect a more conservative man than
the picture of him created in the pub
lic mind by his rather spectacular
emergence from academic life Into
politics. The speeches contain less
of argument than of exposition; they
state both sides even when they ad
vocate one. The reading of them Is a
convenient and satisfactory education
for one who wishes to follow with
understanding the coming political
campaign.—Collier's Weekly.
Waar f oaaratalate Faleoal’a Sacceaaor.
ROME Feb 2.— The departure for
the United States of Mar. Olovarsl
Fonsano, the new papal delegate, will
be delayed until he la ronaerrated titu
lar archhiahop of Mytllene. The new
delegate has been the recipient of
many telegrams from the United
Htatee. congratulating him on hla ap
pointment.
Oregon To Vote
on the Land Tax
Thtlquestlon as to whether the Ore
gon home rule tax amendment shall
become effective will be decided by
the people of Oregon at the next elec
tion.
Th amendment provided for county
option on the land values tax, but the
people of Oregon have been in a fair
way to lose the privilege of voting on
the question through the action of the
secretary of state, who, under advice
from the attorney-general, refused to
sanction the putting of the question
on the ballot. The opposition holds
that there is no county machinery for
collecting and administering the land
values tax.
The people carried the question to
the supreme court of the state —and
won. The court has Just handed
down a decision to the effect that the
existing tax machinery is adequate
and ordering that the question be al
lowed to appear on the ballot for 1912.
At the same time the advocates of
the single tax will submit an amend
ment to the constitution provided for
state-wide application of the land
values tax.
Thus the next election in Oregon
will be the first in the United States
to involve, specifically, the land val
ues tax.
Two Famous One-Eyed Men.
There have come out of Edgefield
countv. South Carolina, two brilliant
and famous one eyed men—United
States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman
and I). A. Tompkins, the manufactur
ing genius of the Piedmont section.
While Tillman has done his work
and fighting in the areua of politics,
Tompkins has confined his energies
to manufacturing and the commercial
development of the south.
Asa young man. Tompkins went
to Pennsylvania. and became a
mechanic. After a trip to Missouri,
he returned to the South, and gradu
ally worked tip to his prestige of the
present day. * He is now an eminent
authority on all matters affecting the
trade of the South, and has written
many books on such subjects as good
roads, chimneys. Immigration, child
labor, cooking, manufacturing# and
cotton. —Popular Magazine.
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Can Human Nature
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Robert Stewart was engineer of the
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