The Detroit times. [volume], December 13, 1912, NIGHT EDITION, Page Page Ten, Image 10

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MEET CHARLES
PECK; HE’S SOME
CONSERVER
Wants to Conserve Everything
Until There Is No Such
Thing as Waste
CONSERVATION TO HIM
IS GOSPEL OF LIFE
He Has Just Been Elected New
President of National
Congress
LAKEWOOD, N. J., Dec. 12.—The
gardener’s face was all worked up
Into little red welts. He was raking
up the leaves on the lawn. Jus: as
soon as one little patch was clear of
leaves the wind swept swirls of them
back again.
Then Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack
came along. “Say, James,” he said,
“If you would rake diagonally—this
way—you'd have the wind with yet*,
and 1 believe the Job would ease out
a bit."
Half an hour later James had the
lawn at “The Spirit of the Pines’* as
clear as the smooth-lake that showed
through the tree tranks.
Charles LQhrop ack!a* lit tie. 'passage
with “Jamea" occurred-before-he was
officially “interviewed.”' Bht It showed
that conservation with Mr. Pack is a
gospel of life.
For Chafes Lathrop Pack, Just
elected president of the national con
servation congress, Is a real conser
vationist. It was born In him.
“Have a clgaret?” he asks as he
starts the conversation in the old-rose
library cf his magnificent home at
Lakewood. “These cigarets won’t hurt
you,” he sifts. “I have them made
especially for me. I Import the tobac
co myself, and then 1 have it chemi
cally examined. The paper is also
pure.”
This is Pack's second little lesson
in conservation before he has uttered
a single word on the subject.
“And now,” you finally say to Pack,
“what are your views on conservation
—conservation of trees and such
things?’’ —^
“Oh,” laughs Pack. That just a
little piece of conservation!
“Don’t you really guess what con
servation means? Why, conservation
stands for the proper use of every
thing and everybody in all this world,
and is dead against the abuse of any
of them.
"Pretty large order—that —lsn’t it?
But we’re going to All it—we of this
nation. We are surely coming to the
time when not a single one of God’s
people la going to he exploited for
selfish gain. 1
"In the past men have not beeu
No Other Christmas Gifts
So Beautiful, So Durable, So Appropriate, No Matter for
Whom a Gift May Be Desired, or So Surely and Thoroughly
a Source of Pleasure as Musical Instruments
Just as surely as you choose this Piano, you provide your home with an
instrument which will be an unending source of delight and satisfaction—a
VOSE PIANO
Possesses those qualities of tone, of touch, of appearance, of dependability,
which artists appreciate, which musical judges endorse, which those buying for
the home most highly prize; as is definitely shown by its popularity among
music-lovers.
YOU ARE JUSTIFIED IN SELECTING A VOSE—For back of it is a
record of Sixty Years before the musical public; Sixty Years of satisfaction
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that your money is wisely expended—that the beautiful instrument you select
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A line presenting a range of prices to suit the purchasing ability of all. Terms which Issts no sxcuss
for another Christmas to pans In your home without a Plano to add to Its attractiveness and Joys.
Nevsr was the demand for these Instruments so great as now. For Christmas, make your selection today.
VICTORS Sl » VICTROLAS
EDISON PHONOGRAPHS %
lh« rea a pin* lui ou* iu home. The great variety of styles in which they are furnished, the
wide price i a nge, and our very eaey payment terms, afford to all the opportunity of uinklng this the home
gift of Nlnet e»‘o. Twelve- t- an Opportunity which Is being taken advantage of as never before. See our stock;
hear the various models now—we will hold the Outfit, making delivery whenever you say.
■ §
CHARLES L. PACK, NEW PRtSiUtwT OF NATIONAL CONSERVA
TION CONGRESS.
contented with gathering in Just *he
rightful harvests of resources and of
people. They have beeu so greedy
that they have stretched out for more
—and have .destroyed the producing
-agents themselves. -This is what we
kre' to corfSCVr-.we of this national
congress for conservation.
“Only the harvests of growing
things must hereafter be garnered iu.
and only the crops—the legitimate
amount of labor —must be taken from
people. Ityoads m the products of
nature cannot be tolerated much
longer!”
Even Pack’s pastimes are agents of
'conservation with him. Take his wel!
known fad of stamp collecting.
"I collect stamps,” says Pack, “be
cause It saves my nerves. When 1
am tired out with one sort of work,
1 turn to them. They rest me up right
sway.’*
Pack ha% been Interested in timber
ever since be was a boy. When he
and his father went to Carlsbad many
years ago—while Gifford Plncbot was
still in kilts—he got the municipal
forester to explain “the German
Idea” of renewing forests. He return
ed to Germany later, going Into the
subject exhaustively. Almost as soon
as he landed In America once more,
the late Jay Gould gave him a tremen
dous fee for prescribing for bis forest
lands.
Pack used to live In Cleveland,
where he was president of the cham
ber of commerce, before he became
a citizen of New Jersey. His colonial
mansion in Lakewood Is set In what
looks like a primeval forest of pine.
Huslaess-llke Prl*(lo(. No fuss and
no feathers. The plain, neat kind that
looks right. Time* ,*Tl*tlas Cos.. IS
John R -st Ph Main 149S or City Sttt
time throughout the years it is in your home.
Prices and Terms lsfactory as Is the qual
ity. In comparison with the superior worth and standing of
the Yose, our price is moderate indeed. We will be glad to
arrauge convenient payments. Come today and select THE
QIFT for your home. Delivery made any time you say.
Also sole Michigan representatives of ths
STEIN WAY KNABE GRINNELL BROS, (own make)— SOHMER
STERLING HUNTINGTON, MENDELSSOHN, Etc.
EASIEST TERMS-FINEST SERVICE
As Uttls as a Dollar a Week pays
for an Instrument, handsome Recorl
Cabinet and assortment of Records —
why worry over what to give when
you ran so easily present a remem
brance In which each member of
I the family will so • truly share*
With our large stock, our fourteen
sound-proof demonstrating parlors,
and large salesforce, you are as
sured of prompt and pleasing service
tn making selection Let your’* be one
. of tha thousands of homes made mer
rier with a Victor. Viotroki or Edison
Phonograph oh Christmas and through
out the year.
BiA
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GIRL CURS SCOURING
COLLEGE FOR SCOOPS
COLUMBIA, Mo.. Dec 11 —Oirl
“cubs” are scouring Stephens college
for news. The town papers have been
In the habit of “covering” the girls’
school. so Mies Eleanor Kleeman.
teacher of English, Introduced a sub
department of journalism Into her
course.
Each girl Is eager for a oh&uce to
put her “nose for news” to a test, and
wherever more than two girls meet
one is sure tq draw out a notebook and
pencil.
Secrets are supposed to be an essen
tial part of a girl’s boarding school,
but Just now- they are Impose* >le.
It Is a bold copy reader In teed who
dares to put pencil to th* news after
It reaches the newspaper ofdco. Here
is one girl's complaint:
"Why: You folks didn't print the
news I turned In last week a bit like
I wrote It. My name ought to have
been first, and In the newspaper It
came out last!”
MISSOURI MUSEUM HAS
• PAINTING OK 800 B. C.
COLUMBIA. Mo.. I>*c. 1* —Bom. •,>«.
clmt-ns of Egyptian paintings on stone,
executed In SOO B. C., and the head
from an Egyptian statue carved about
1.200 years before Christ, are among
the exhibits tn Vhe archaeological mu
seum of the University of Missouri.
These treasures were presented to Dr.
John Plrkard. curator of the museum,
by an Egyptologist, with whom he was
associated In London.
The Egyptian paintings are steles, or
gravestones and show a procession of
mourners. 'The colors are vegetable
mixtures, which were preserved by the
desert sands and the dry climate so
that while they lack brilliancy they
give an Idea of tps state of pictorial
art of the time.
Most of the political jobs seem to
require men who haven't sense enough
to make good in a business of their
own.
GRINNELL BROS.
HEADQUARTERS, GRINNELL BLDG.
’ Phon * 243-247 "Woodward Arc. 'Phone
Cherry 3600 Detroit Branch, 57-59 Monroe Ave. Cherry leoo
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verse City, Ypsilanti, Chatham, OnL; Windsor, OnL
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THE DETROIT TIMES! FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1911.
a I'^7
POVERTY STALKS IN
INDUSTRIAL CENTERS
S3OO a Year Neceaaary 1°
Family of Five Decently,
Says Profesrtor
PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Dec. 12
“The greatest industrial centers in
the world are also the centers of the
greatest poverty. Poverty exists to
a greater extent In a large Industrial
community than iu any other part ot
the country."
This statement was made by Prc
lessor Scott Nesrlp % , of the University
of Pennsylvania iu au address on
-Financing Wage Earners’ Family.’*
delivered st the weekly meeting ot
the Baptist Ministers’ association. "A
family of live cannot live decently ou
less than SSO a year, but many of our
Industrial workers average much les*
than that,” he continued.
“There are 1,700,000 street car em
ployes In this country. The men
have very little chance to advance
themselves, as there are only about
5,000 positions in the entire street car
system of the country to which they
can advance.
"One out of every 300 succeeds lr.
bettering his conditiou, but one out
of every fifty street car employes is
Injured, and one out of every 125 » r
killed while in the service of the coun
try.”
COST OF LIVING HIGH
1,800 YEARS AGO
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. I*.—Accord
ing to the authorities at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania museum, the high
cost of living end excessive transpor
tation rates were as much a problem tn
Theadelphta. a small city lh Egypt.
1.800 years ago. as they are today In
the United States In an ancient Qreek
manuscript Just deciphered by the mu
seum's experts, a collector of Internal
revenue tells of the graft and excessive
profits demanded by the trust mag
nates and political leaders of those
days. He believed there would be little
hope for future generations In fighting
the combination.
Denver te Rua Dance Hnll.
DENVER, Dec. IS—The auditorium
will be used for a municipal dance hall
this winter, beginning about Dec. 11,
according to an announcement by
Thomas Annear. commissioner of sup
plies and custodian of the building Mr.
Annear plans to have dances ngihtly
and charge an admission fee Just suffi
cient to cover expenses—probably fif
teen or twenty cents a couple. He says
the turkey trot, bunny hug and grlxzly
bear will be barred
Das t epid to a < H »nf-H*ck.."
ASHTABULA. 0., Dec. 13—Separated
twenty years ago after twenty-five
years of married life. Dr. .Job R. Bar
ker of thla city and Mrs. Mary Barker
of Aberdeen. Wash., were remarried
here this week. When Barker, then
not a physician, grew tired of farm
life In Wisconsin, his wife did not wish
to leave her country home. A separa
tion followed and finally a divorce.
Sttt eke* la II to Toagae.
COSHOCTON. Ohio. Dec It.—Chae.
Beach, who hud three stitches taken In
his tongue after he had falen o n a
sidewalk, drtvlng * his teeth clear
through the tongue, will be able to
talk In two weeks. He Is unable to eat
or even swallow and la given nourish
ment through a tube.
I Mi lc
Xbs Times b M a hpet” tts Smbscrlptioa list Is 1> the City Director^
At Grinnell Bros. You Will Find in Each Line Those Makes
Which You Know to Be Best, and One of the Largest and
Most Varied Stocks in the Country.
They can bs purchased at no other in this territory. Consider what one
af these would mean In your home in attractiveness. In pleasure. In musical edu
cation. See them here; play them. They are furnished in both Upright and Grand
form, and at a wide range of prices. Convenient payments arranged.— Supreme
Among Plmyer-Pianos—no home gift more wholly acceptable!
A FINE REMEMBRANCE FOR
EACH ONE on YOUR GIFT LIST
In our vast assortment of Small Musical Instruments and Musical
Goods, of which the following is a suggestion, you will find some
thing appropriate for all:
VIOLIN oat At*. ■■ low ■■ 54.7S
con plot# with (atr, Bow, etc.
UI'ITAR out At*. ■ portal at.... 65.76
State aetata, “Mart I a.” »\%aah
hura.*'
MANDOLINS SS ta 676
••MarSo**or,” “Yoga.” ate.
BANJOS 66 to 6-W»
VIOLIN BOWS SOc to 638
MI'SIC 6TAND s'-61-23
-‘Haaßlltoa,** aaoot popular aaaOo.
With leather .62
9 '\
For Him —or For Her
A PAIR OF THESE /#sl
INDIAN MOCCASINSjUf
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them. Nice, soft buckskin, in plain fringed or bead trim- yN^Jr
med styles—complete range of sizes, and for all ages. /jKf If w
Men's Moccasins , . . $1.50 up JKpj/^W^
Ladies' Moccasins • • . $1.50 up style
Child's Moccasins ... SI.OO up w»
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In every home where music is loved, one of these instruments will surely be
t superb and a welcome gift—a
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The instrument which admits the unskilled in music, no less than the skilled, to the
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Six makes of instruments are embraced in the line^ —the
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In considering your Xmas gift for father, mother, wife,
husband, sister or brother, why not consider their comfort as
well? Surely they would appreciate among their gifts a pair
of comfortable Slippers.
Our Holiday Lines are now at their best and you are
sure to make a pleasing selection if you come here. For ex
ample, we show an extraordinary line of Men’s Slippers in all
leathers—black, tan, chocolate, wine and red—in plain and
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Men's Cavaliers, Red and Tan, $3.00
Romeos, in all Leathers, from $1.25 up
Juliets, plain and fur-trimmed, SI.OO up
Others 85c up
CORNKT Oatflt 61M*
Muole Lyre, Moathpleeo, Casa.
CORNKT Oat6t 6»6
Aaaerteaa model, quick ehaaga.
TROMBONE, Profeaaloaal 66.66
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valve* 7Sc, ftl, ftl.Sft
TOY VIOLIXS ftl, ftl ». ftl-ft#
With Butt, Reala, otc.
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BLOW ACCORDIONS. ftl to ft3
WEISS FLITS, 10 kvra, 3 bnaaea.ftl
New Inatruiaea* | ask to aw It.
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Music Boxes
"Regins,” "Mlrs.” etc.. Used Boxes
going at sl2, S2O, « tc - 12 Tunes In
cluded. Smsll payments.
Cabinets
For Victor and Edison > Records,
Bhest Music and Player Rolls. All
woods and finishes; $6, $7.50, $lO,
•tc.