The Detroit times. [volume], May 02, 1913, AFTERNOON EDITION, Image 12

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I DO RICHES MEAN HA PPINESS>
r ASK TOOK RICH RAMONA BORDEN!
Bamona Borden it 17 years old.
I Her father's name is Gail Borden.
f , GaiJ Bolden it a manufacturer of a BABY food and a very rich man.
I He it many times a millionaire.
Her father being rich. Ramona will be looked upon by not a few.
. mistakenly, as a fortunate girl.
Many young girl readers of this column will wish, do doubt, that they
could change places with Ramona, or. at any rate,, that their fathers were
rich like Ramona's father.
They will think of all the pretty, costly dresses and hats they could
have; of how they could possess an electric cab for themselves: of how
they could have a yacht in which to tiavel up and down the lakes, and
all the other tine things that money can buy.
And then there is Ramona, who could have all of the luxuries de
scribed for the asking, only, but who is far from happy.
Ramona, the other day expressed herself concerning the one thing she
wanted.
And the thing she named was what many a poor girl has; what
many of the girls who wish their fathers were as rich as Ramona's HAVE,
and Ramona has not and CANNOT have
Ramona s wish is that she could change places with many and many a
girl whose father is poor; with the many girls of poor parents whom she
envies and whom she looks upon as blessed more than she.
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Here is the story of Roman Borden:
Her parents have separated, as parents with too much money often
separate.
Ramona was left with her father, who was disposed, no doubt, to
meet his obligation to the child, but who. it must be remembered, had his
• millions to look after, also.
Being rich, and riches compelling first consideration, the parent
looked about for a training school to be a father and a mother to Ramona,
at so much per year.
The father was first brought to a realization of how he had failed
with his money to meet his responsibility, when word came to him that
Bamona had run away from the school.
Let us suggest here that fathers with plenty of money to provide for
their daughters, as the term is used, are oftentimes helpless because they
do not know HOW to provide for them.
Bnying them dresses and hats and shoes and turning them over to
atrangers to be tutored isn’t PROVIDING for them.
If you think it is, follow the story.
For running away from the school. Ramona was put in a sanitar
ium, and from this institution, too. she disappeared.
Search was instituted, of course, and she was found in New York.
.Later in the Belmont hotel in New York, the grandeur and the
oomforts of whose interior the daughters of poor parents will never know,
Bamona was still unhappy, though restored to her father.
• Her one wish; the one thing for which she longed was not yet her s.
' and she said, sadly;
“PEOPLE SAY I AM RICH. BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN I AM
HAPPY. DAUGHTERS OF RICH PEOPLE ARE NOT ALWAYS HAPPY.
“I HAVEN'T HAD A HOME FOR MANY YEARS I'VE BEEN TO
OHS SCHOOL AFTER ANOTHER. WHAT I WANTED WAS JUST A
HOME—A HOME. %
* % “WHEN I BAN AWAY FROM SCHOOL MY FATHER PUT ME IN
A SANITARIUM, WHERE I HAD A STRONG-ARM NURSE FOR A COM
PANION. I BEGGED MRS. WHITE TO TAKE ME AWAY.
“I DIDNj HAVE ANYTHING BUT MONEY. I COULDN'T BUY
HAPPINESS WITH IT. IT DIDN'T DO ME ANY GOOD, EXCEPT TO
lUY TINE CLOTHES '
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Detroit knows the girl whose father is no millionaire, but who is
hippier thin Ramona Borden.
Detroit knows this girl for the movement yesterday of hundreds of
taakads of furnishings taken out of flats, terraces and apartment houses
•nd placed in “real homes"—homes acquired through honest toil and
through co-operation toward happiness.
Homes that know less of ugly and idle riches that lead to separation
•ad the divorce court and fill boarding schools with motherless and home
■iek children, so that rich fathers will not be bothered while making
themselves richer. ,
What poor Ramona wants is to know that she belongs to somebody;
that there is love for her somewhere: that there is an interest for her
in a heart and not simply in a pocketbook. and that is why, with all of
her riches, she would change places in a minute with any foolish girl who
imagines that fine clothes and plenty of money are all..
From a New Angle.
When Solicitor-General l.ehmann
left Washington to pick up the threads
of his St Lotils practice he left a trap
in the ranks of Washingtons otthiil
raconteurs that will not he easily
filled. In spite of the volume ot hi**
work —and a great part nt the govern
meiit's most important trust litigation
was handled by hint before the su
preme court — never l«< ked
time to swap atorlas.
Ou« of bis favorites concerns the
visit of a New Yorker to St. I/nils
Jtldgc Lehmann pointed out. to him
one day the modest house in which
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at the stan of the Civil war. Just
opposite was an imposing residence
built by a man who had made hl«
millions in the meat export business.
That s a curious contrast,” said
l.ehtnann, 'the old home «»f a great
soldier and the magnificent palace or
a man who mad** hi.< money in pork
Fhe pen, replied the New Worker,
was always mightier than the
sword.”
i h*' .'ti'vlnn nororniruni in ;i decree
<<( I ti. 23, 1913, ordered tlist Hour «nd
ti'eal imported into ServM should l.e
exempt from dul\ until further notice.
The exemption is hec.uiSe of * «|,or|.
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Editorial Page of The Detroit Times
BERTON W
"Speak in* us fishes," said the Tar.
"Speakin’ of hub**-’!, near an far.
There un<•*> was a gentleman -Ira k l knowed
As swallowed our am hot fe: a hook
An when lie seen what a L».fe lv♦* and took
Went hiktn off through the sea, an towed
That ship along like a bloomin » hip.
Though she was a regular monster ship
He towed her backwards, mile on mile.
Though the Engines fought him all the while;
lie towed her over the heavin' foam;
lie towed her into the pfor at home.
An' then with many a hump an' shock
He towed that vessel upon the dork;
He towed her up through the city street
At a pare that a rare horse couldn't boat.
He towed tier over The vale an* hill
An' he ne\< r stopped n hit until
The strew got taught in aapreadln' oak
An' the anchor chain an' the hawser broke
Hut the shark k**p‘ on with n grim intent.
Though I never did learn where the monster went.”
There was silence awhile In the village bar
Asa tribute mute to the bold Jark Tar.
An' it looked like the palm would sure he hit
Till old Rill Jackson said, "(lee Whiz'”
I kin tell you Just where yer big fish is;
An' I know the tale that you tell Is true,
’Cause I taught the shark as he hove in view
An' 1 got him stalled in the stable now
An’ I use the < ritter to help me plow
Then the old Tar rose an' he said, said he.
"Hv the Great Horn Spoon, that sure beats me.”
Then his fat e grew pale and lie gave a start
And he fell and died of a broken heart.
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I. for one, have the conviction that
government ought to he all outside
and no inside. I, for my part, believe
that there ought to be no place where
anything »an be done that everybody
does not know about. It would be
very Inconvenient for some gentle
men. probably, if government were all
outside, but wp have consulted their
susceplihillties too long already. It
is barely possible that some of these
gentlemen are unjustly suspected; in
that carte they owe it to themselves to
c(me out and operate in tho light. The
very fact that so much in politics is
done In the dark, behind closed doors,
promotes su iptrion. Everybody knows
that corruption thrives in secret
places, and avoids public places, and
we believe it a fair presumption that
secrecy mearvs impropriety. So. our
honest politicians and our honorable
corporation beads owe it to their rej>-
utations to bring their activities out
into the open
At anv rate, whether they like it
or not. these affairs are going to bo
dragged into the open We are more
anxious about their reputations than
they are themselves. We are too
solicitous for their morals if they are
net —to permit them longer to con
tinue subject ,to the temptations of
secrecy. You know thpre is n tempta
tion iti loneliness and secreev Haven't
von experienced it? I have. We are
never so proper In our conduct as
when everybody ran look and see o\
a<[t\ what we are doing. If you are
off in some distant part of the world
and suppose that nobody who lives
within a mile of vour home Is any
where around, there are times when
\om adjourn vour ordinary standards.
You sa> to yourself "Well, I'll have
u ling this time, nobody will know
"Let There Be Light’'
EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT WILSON S ARTICLE
IN THE WORLDS WORK
Urn v Jcf
V' hi
>y j
Sin
Bh
anything al>oiit It. ' If you were op.
th» desert of Sahara, you would frel
ihat you might permit yourself—well,
say, some slight latitude in conduct;
but if you saw one of your immediate
neighbors coming the other way on a
camel —you would behave yourself un
til he got out of sight. 'Hie most dan
gerous thing in the world is to get
off where nobody knows you. 1 advise
you to stay around among the neigh
bors, and then you may keep out of
jail. That Is the only way some of us
can keep out of jail.
Publicity Is one of the purifying ele
ments of politics. The beat thing that
you can do with anything that is
crooked is to lift it up where people
can see that it is crooked, and then
it will either straighten itself out or
disappear Nothing checks all the had
practices of politics like public* ex
posure. You can't be crooked In the
light. I don’t know whether it has
ever been tried or not; but 1 venture
to say. purely from observation, that
It can't be done
And so the people of the United
States have made up their minds to
do a healthy thing for both politics
and big business Permit me to mix
a few metaphors: They are going to
open doors; they are going to let up
blinds: they arc going to drag sick
things Info the open air and Into the
light of the sun. They are going to
organize a great hunt, and smoke cer
tain animals out of their burrows
They are going to unearth the beast
In the jungle in which wherrthey hunt
ed thev were caught by the beast in
stead of catching him They have de
termined. therefore, to take an axe
and raze the jungle, and then see
where the beast will find cover. And
I, for my part, bid them Godspeed.
The jungle* breeds aoUiing but infee
tion and shelters nothing hut the en
* mies of mankind.
And nobody Is going to get caught
in (yir hunt except the beasts that
prey Nothing i» going to he cut down
or Injured that anybody ought to Avish
preset’ veil.
You know the stor> of the Irishman
who while digging a hole, whs asked.
Hit. what are you doing -digging a
hole“" And he replied. "No, sir; lam
rigging the dirt and laving the hole. ’
It was probably the same Irishman
ho. seen digging around the w all of
a house. was asked, "Pal. what are
>oil doing?” And he answered. "Faith.
I am letiing the datk out of the cel
lar." Now. that's exactly what wo
want to do—let the dark out of the
cellar
Hut publicity will continue to he
\ery difficult so long as our methods
of legislation are so obscure and devi
ous and private. I think tt will btv
come more and more obvious that the
v a\ to purify our politics is to sim
plify them, and that the way to sim
plify them Is to establish responsible
leadership. \Ve have had no leader
ship at nil Inside our legislative bodies
at am rate, no leadership which 1*
definite enough to attract she atten
tion ami watchfulness of the country,
our only leadership having been that
of Irresponsible persons outside the
legislatures who constititte the pol
itical machines, it has been extremely
difficult for even the most watchful
public opinion to keep track of the
circuitous methods pursued. This un
doubtedly lies at the root of the grow
ing demand on the pan of American
communities everywhere for responsl
Me leadership, for putting in author
ity and keeping in authority those
whom they know and whom they can
watch and whom they can constantly
hold to account The business of the
country ought to be served by thought
ful and progressive-legislation, but It
ought to be served openly, candidly,
advantageously, with a careful regard
to letting everybody be heard and
every interest be considered, the inter
est which is not backed by money a *
well as the Interest which is; and
this can I*** accomplished only by
some simplification of our methods
which will center the public trust in
small groups of men who w’ill lead,
not by reason of legal authority, but
by reason of their contact with and
amenability to public opinion.
1 am striving to indicate my belief
that our legislative methods may be
well reformed In the direction of giv
ing more open publicity to every act,
in the direction of setting up some
form of responsible leadership on the
floor of our legislative halls so thjit
the people may know who is back of
every hill and back of the opposition
to it. and so that it may lie dealt with
in the open chamber rather than in
ihe committee room The light must
>e let iri on all processes of law-mak
ing.
Mr. Bryan’s Peate Proposal j
.Mr Bryan has fallen upon propitious
times tor promulgating his world
peace project. He would like to see
the nations leagued in a general
scheme to limit armaments, and then
would supplement that arrangement
with n sort of application of "Jeffer
son a rule ' as it used to appear In
the McGuffey’g Third Reader. "When
angry, count 1U; when very angry,
count loo.” was the .lefTerson precept.
Mr. Bryan wants the nations to
pledge themselves to a procedure that
will compel them to think it over and
cool off before starting hostilities.
Certainly the time Is god for such
a modest project. Germany is bowed
in humiliation at learning how its war
spirit has been commercialized. Aus
tria is almost broken hacked under
its burdens. France and Britain are
ready and anxious to try military and
naval sanity for a change.
The world ought to he ready to lis
ten amiably to Mr. Bryan, and cer
tainly there is nobody who is more
able to slate the case more eioquent.lv
and under less suspicion of selfish,
unscrupulous ulterior motives by our
nation. Nobody could fear we are
aiming to have the great powers di
minish their armaments so that we
might grab their possessions.—Phila
delphia Times.
The Total Vote.
It has been a hard day at the pops.
The addition of nearly a thousand
women's votes to the poll made the
counting a prolonged proposition.
"Well, James," said Mrs. Wallteky,
as her husband returned from his ar
duous labors as a teller, "how did the
vote go?’’
“Nine hundred and two votes lor
Bildad. 753 for Slathers, eight recipes
tor tomato ketchup, four wash lists
and a milliner's bill." aaid Walllcky.
"It wan a mighty interesting vote.' —
Everybody's Magazine
In the hern* of » * “onnecticut man
t her .- ha* been Installed a private mo
tion picture theater, so placed that
quests « »n view ihe pictures, as from
a box. while at the dinner table.
Paul llixou. a St. railroad
clerk. for*ot an appointment at which
he win.s to claim a legacy of JK2..*nu.
Hold Taft Responsible
For Jap Controversy
tiy (Jll,sOS' HA HIPS Hit.
WASHINGTON. May 2. Whatever
i**al danger exists in the present
Cm lifornia-Ja panes**
situation is due to
the changes made
by Mr Taft when
president in our
treaty relations
with Japan. It is
time to tell that
story. It is not
known to many.
About two years
ago—before there
ms any estrange
ment between Taft
and Roosevelt—
Japan applied to
the Taft adminis
tration for a modi
fied treaty touch
ing Japanese immi
grants. Japau want
ed particularly the
elimination of a
provision it; the
treaty giving the<
United States power to legislate
against Japanese aliens on the ground
that they were Japanese aliens This
provision in the treaty then existing
was represented as most offensive to
the Japanese. They were willing to
make any concession to the United
States in order to eliminate that
feature. President Taft played the
Japanese end of the game.
At that time, Japan was taking an
active part In the proposed interna
tional syndicating of a Chinese loan
and the securing of railway conces
sions In Manchuria, and Knox, ass V
retarv *of state, was pressing for
American participation in behalf of
his Wall-st. friends. Japan was in a
position to help in ihis matter, and
did help. In order to secure the co
operation of the California delegation
in congress, particularly Senators
Flint and Perkins and Representative
Kahn. Taft played on the desire of
these gentlemen to secure legislation
recognizing the California exposition,
that being the paramount pending Is
sue They were confidentially inform
ed as to the terms of the pending ar
rangement with Japan and were urged
to co-operate in keeping the matter
quiet and fighting any inflaming of the
"anti-Japanese" sentiment on the
coast, They acquiesced.
While the negotiations were pend
ing and Japan was making promises
to substitute a "gentleman's agree
ment" for si**eific provisions in the
treaty touching alien Japanese. Col.
Roosevelt heard what was going on
and wrote to President Taft a letter
of vigorous protest. He reviewed his
own experience in this matter while
he was president, offering Taft the
benefit of his advice, and urging in
the strongest terms that Japan's re
quest should be refused. He pointed
out the very great difference between
a gentleman's agreement as a subsfi
tute for the specific right, written in
a treaty to legislate on the ground of
alien nationality. With this clause
eliminated from the treaty Japan
would be in a much stronger position
to protest against legal regulation of
her people whether as immigrants, or
as citizens and land-holders.
President Taft disagreed with for
From Another Point of View
Amundsen is going after the North Pole and may find it and come
back on another lecture tour. He won’t run across anything on his
travels, however, colder than Hetroit feet if it becomes necessary here lo
get up another reception committee.
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What our Hall club appears to need most at the present time is rain.
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Another "squealer" against the New York gamblers has been killed.
Somebody ought to be able to do a landoftice business in New York with
the agency for that Maxim silencer.
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A Kentucky lawyer plays six musical instruments, being particularly
masterful, we presume, on the lyre.
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A dry Bryan dinner is Bryan’s own business We are at liberty to
cite the fact, however, that his peace service in California seems to havo
lacked the punch.
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Premier Asquith has had his hair cut, denying the militants tempor
arily. at least, anything like a firm hold on the situation.
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If it is true that they have gone to serting goats for mutton in Kan
sas City, it will be a pretty easy matter out that wav in the future, to get
the other fellow’s.
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"My, but you are thin," observed the sensitive fat man by wav of
retaliation upon the leering elevator conductor.
"Yes." assented the leering e. * ~ "but I'm taking on weight "
m m m
Bumper crops are prominent again for this year, despite the chance
in administration.
•
A man in Sharon. Pa., is awakened regularly at f»;3rt in the morning
by paw pats of his cat. Out our way they have them that don't even In
you get to sleep.
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A tough paper is being made in Boston from the fibre of pine-apple
leaves. Competition at last for the Police Gazette.
Friday, May 2.
1913
GILSON GARUN KR.
mer President Roosevelt and iuform*
ed him that he intended to write the
new treaty and secure confirmation
by the senate ai the earliest oppor
tunity. ’rids he did before Col. Roose
xelt could secure a discussion of the
matter in the senate. There was no
debate and the matter was disposed
of in that hotly in less than two day.*-
This haste Is supposed to have been
the result of the combined pressure
brought about through the two argu
ments before stated—the exposition
an*l the Wall st. pressure. But what
ever the reason, it was quickly put
over before any protest could be or
ganized.
The publication of Col. Roosevelt's
correspondence with President Taft
on tiiat subject at tills time would be
most illuminating. Former President
Roosevelt is not entirely in accord
with Governor Johnsons present at
titude. and he is strongly of the opin
ion that the president of the United
States should adopt vigorous and even
coercive measures if necessary to pie
vent any state raking such action as
is inimical to the general welfare of
the entire nation. It is his theory
that no state has a right to afford an
occasion for war with a foreign pow
er, since the state would not alone
carry the burden of such a war. The
federal government, he claims, has a
right and the power to handle all in
ternational affairs and the authority
of the individual states inivst he sub
ordinated to the greater power of the
federal government.
GOOD FRIENDS, BUT—
A/X p
HI TOR JAt KAON.
To China Unci** Sain extends
An honest, friendly hand.
Blit *into jail a Chink w ill go
If here he tries to lainl
'•huttlas I p * Lawyer.
Lawyer—Have you ever been to tlu«
court before, sir?
Witness---Yes, sir; I have been her*'
often
Lawyer Ha. ha’ Been here often,
have you? Now tell the court what
for’
Witness «slowly c - Well, T have been
here hi bust hulf a dozen time* to try
an«l collect that tailor’s bill you owe
me
Anions the curiosities of the New
Palace. Potsdam. Germany. I* a genea
biKical tree, show inn the name of King
I'HVld engrossed at the root of It, with
that of the kaiser at the top. the de
scent being traced through his moth
er's family.
There is a growing solidarity anions*
women wage-earners in France, and
there is every reason to believe that
the average wages paid will be ma
terially Increased during 1103.
Mrs. llarvey Alexander of Vancoti*
v*-r. Wash., owns a hen which recently
laid a perfect egg weighing only 1'»
grains, the smallest on record.