The Detroit times. [volume], August 12, 1913, AFTERNOON EDITION, Image 10

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the Michigan Food and Dairy Commissioner
M>4 the Vigilance Committee of the Associated Adver-
Club* of America In protecting the public from ad
vertising fraud* Any reader having a grievance against
to advert leer In theae column* will confer a favor by
promptly reporting the aame to the publisher.
THE THIRD ARBITRATOR , NOT YET,
H AAD A LESSON EOR THE PUBLIC
The subject of theae few words is “THE THIRD ARBITRATOR.
Perhaps it should be “THE THIRD ARBITRATOR AS DETROIT
l DOWS HlM.*’
i ' There is a difference between the Detroit United railway and the
motormen and conductors of the Detroit United railway over the matter
of wages and hours.
The company and the men tried to get together and tailed.
Neither was disposed to concede enough to satisfy the other fellow,
so they proceeded to arrange for arbitration, automatically the next step
hhder the terms of the existing agreement between employer and employe.
The company named as its arbitrator, Edwin Henderson, one of its
l tinny of attorneys. .
The men named as their arbitrator. Judge Phelan, friend ot everybody
t fcot the lawbreaker.
The conditions call for these two men to choose the third arbitrator
And here we come to “THE THIRD ARBITRATOR AS DETROIT
f KNOWS HIM.” . . .
Or, once again, (wreTl get a subject eventually), ‘as Detroit doesn t
I know him.”
In the first place, his address is unknown.
A search fOT him two years ago was futile.
We already have one street car strike charged up to him.
There are prospects that he is about to become responsible for another.
y iam ~
The empty chase for this mysterious personage in Detroit leads to the
>tonoiusion that no citizen could ask for more, on shuffling off this mortal
than to have it said upon his stone: He was once a third arbitrator
a street railway wage and hour dispute.’
This inscription, as it would stnke us, would be equivalent to an an*
,nounoement that, his fellow man was not afraid to trust him to the extent
> jfg hi all loan or with his watch.
It would mean that of men in his day he was famed for a beatific
temper and a compromising disposition bordering on the supernatural.
It would mean that it was possible for him to have smiled sweetly
kin the face of rotten street car service and to accept with thanks a kick
the car or a tunk on the head with a switch bar.
It would mean, again, that this man was thoughtful enough after
hksving been caught in a pay-enter door to bear in mind that the conductor
•stood between a company order to “hurry up ’ and a duty at home, which
‘consisted of supplying bread and butter.
This inscription upon the stone would mean that there lived a man
who found it possible to occupy the position of happy medium between
X W. W. agitator and pro-corporationist of about the Charles Elroy Town
send type.
It would mean that men of his kind were few and far between, if at all.
The attempt of Attorney Henderson and Judge Phelan to locate this
evasive individual for whom the role of third arbitrator aw aits, is interest
ing to watch.
It would be amusing were it not for the fact that a vital issue is at
stake and the city faoes the possibility of suspended street car service.
The situation is one that serves to emphasize a phase of human nature
which is the same in corporations and unions as it is in individuals.
The company and the men cannot get together on the third arbitrator
because EACH IS LOOKING FOR THE LONG END OF THE BARGAIN.
“Three can keep a secret,” said Poor Richard, “if two are dead.”
You can get a third arbitrator easily enough if you get him before you
•elect the other two. *
And the lesson that is taught is that the state and the people should
decide these quarrels through an agency maintained by the state and the
people.
There should be a state board of arbitration, elected by the people and
composed of men of known fairness and integrity, to settle these questions,
which in a majority of cases involve the publio as the innocent third party.
Wage disputes between public corporations and their employes are
the public’s business and the public should make them its business by
providing a means for their prompt settlement on a just and square basis.
It is unfair that the public should be kept in suspense while theie
bootless searches are made for a third arbitrator —a man absolutely satis
factory to both sides, or the next thing to the impossible.
From Another Point of Vtew
By eating chalk, German scientists claim, it would be possible for peo
'ipie to live 100 years. Now we know whv It Is always referred to aa the
century mark.
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i« we understand it, devotees of harness races follow the aport as a
matter of course.'
r • • *
A Syracuse thief who pawned a stolen sword, later Waited the jawn
gfcop and stole It again. The point seems to be well taken
.. • • •
However, let it not be understood that this hospital demanded for tie*
men ted patients amounts to any Insane desire.
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There being no public fountains where they can drink, muzzle the dogs.
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Peace having been restored in the Balkans, the war- coiuds Dog get
■ynnthar rhnm^
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▲ Chicago hotel register bears the name of Cemlltzenz Swowzelowckz
icke, which Is easiest pronounced, we imagine, with the motlou of eating
/corn on the ear.
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The market is repoted flooded with clever imitations of half-dollars--as
well as of cantaloupe.
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The real Inventor of the telephone died poor, Ail his friends, prob
ably, were busy.
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Rooting for the Tigers seems to have been put under the head of
useless noises. * *
Forecasts ou the organization of Detroit’s weather office prove, also,
to be incorrect.
As an Amusement, “Elizaing-the-Ice” Is a Refreshing Novelty
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NEW YORK. Aug. 12 F*»r 50
rent* a week. Mr. Small Salary aiul
his wife may next winter hear all
the famous operas, sung In one of the
finest opera houses In the world by
artists second only to those of the
Metropolitan and a few European
houses. |
Mr Small Salary may reserve his
seats at the beginning of the season
bv paying half the season’s total In
advance. For 25-cent seats, this will
be $4.50. as there are to be 18 weeks
He will pay the other half Jan. 14
Ills weekly seats will be hts own, su
cred. private property, Just as much
as are Mr lnrge Income's two-ln-the
aisle, down at the Metropolitan, at
sl2 per evening
All this because several publlc-aplr-
Ited members of the City club, a civic
welfare organization, decided a yeai
ago that New York ought to have
grand opera at prices within the
reach of the masses A conference
was had. with the big men of the
Metropolitan Opera house They
offered their cooperation The Met
ropolitan's acale 1* from $6 down to
$1 50 and the demand for the limited
number of $1 and $1.50 seats has for
many seasons far exceeded the sup
ply
So the Metropolitan directors were
for popular-priced opera, figuring that
It would little more than take care
of their overflow. A company was
formed, with a directorate composed
of several of New York's richest and
most influential men. Otto H. K&liu,
head of the Metropolitan board. Is
one of them. They are going to
finance grand opera at 25 cents to $2
a seat.
The spacious and magnificent new
theater, known as the Century during
Its past two years tendency by the
Ideblers, w’aß leased, and is now the
Century Opera house. Milton and
Sargent Aborn, long known as suc
cessful producers of popular-priced
grand opera, in English, were en
gaged as managing directors
Milton Aborn has spent the sum
mer In Europe, signing up singers.
Not that the Century’s artists are to
A Hybrid longue In the Philippines
Ha by talk is a highly developed lan
guage compared to the Jargon Araeri
<*&n housewives talk to their Filipino
houseboys. But It usually conveys
the meaning when accompanU-d by
expressive gestures. At best, how
ever. the performance of the cign
mand speaks well for native Intuition.
Spanish construction o>! English
words Is another twist that our poor
language gets in the Philippines. "No
got” in the Islands Is the most com
monly used expression for " 1 haven t
any.” Similarly “no can do" means
“I can't” and “no want” means ‘I
don't want it.’ Not only between
American and Filipino but among
Americans themselves, this twisted
construction has largely supplanted
the legitimate one.
With the soldier. Anything that be
longed peculiarly to the Philippines
was described as "bamboo.” Now
The Money Question.
Here is one that Congressman Wil
liam E. Humphrey, of Washington
told during a social session the other
night which has an important bearing
on the money question.
Some time ago, the congressman
said, the teacher of a public school
was trying to impress matters of
finance on the youthful mind, and
after questioning several of the pupils
she turned to Jimmy Smith.
•'James,** said she. "tell me the de
nominations in which the money of
the United States is divided "
"I don't know, Miss Mary," replied
James, after much thought and much
squirming
‘Don’t you know, James," persisted
the teacher, how the money your
father brings home on Saturday night
Is divided?"
‘‘•Taint divided. Miss Mary." wan
the prompt reply this time of the
frank James; ‘ mother takes it all.' —
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Meat costs so much In Bavaria that
freight rates have been reduced and
customs duties lowtred.
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be all foreigners More than three
fourths of the people engaged are
American-born, but most of them
were in Europe, where American
opera singers find the going much
better than at home
Four of five prlma donna sopranos
engage by Aborn —Lois Ewell, Eliza
beth Amsden, Florence Coughlan and
Evelyn tfcotney—are natives of the
I’. S. A One, Ivy Scott, was born in
Australia, but is an American by
adoption The tenors Include John
Bardsley. England; Gustav Bergman,
Sweden; Morgan Kingston. Wales;
all colonials use the term The "bam
boo fleet” Is the one assigned ta Phil
ippine waters and the “bamboo gov
ernment” is the Philippine civil gov
ernment in distinction from the V.
S. military.
Among other ' soldierisms" (If I
may be permitted this contribution
to the new language! were certain
pure Malay words. The list Is con
tinually growing and now there are
doxenß of Tagalog and Moro expres
sions in constant use among the
Americans. For example there are
the Tagalog words “bagulo" meaning
“storm” “carabao" meaning an ani
mal. •palay” meaning "rice, and
"tao” meaning “man" Moro terms
In common use are amok meaning
"wild." “dato" meaning "chief," “kria'’
meaning a wavy-edged knife and so
rong” meaning a garment.—From
American Review of Reviews, for Au
gust.
In a Nutshell
HI VIIVN \ IK\ I>G.
Wt heard with equanimity
That coal was soaring high.
We bore It when the price of meat
Went kit ins to the sk\
When eggs ami butter followed suit
We stood it like a aport.
But 10. the worst has come at last
The peanut crop la short.
When sailing Coney Island- ward
Across the ocean swells.
No longer can we leave a wake
Os bobbing empty shells
And when to circuses and such.
We merrily resort,
We cannot feed the elephant—
The peanut crop is short.
Oh, what Is Summer rime without
The tuber of delight?
We ought to bust the peanut trust.
We ought to make a flght,
We ought to put our woe in print,
We ought to go to court,
We ought to take the war-path when
The peanut crop is short
Wireless telegraphy now connects
the six state capita’s of Australia and
will soon girdls the continent.
Walter Wheatley. American. The
three contraltos are all natives of this
country. They are Jayne Herbert, I
Kathleen Howard and Mary Jordan.
The four baritones, all Americans,
are Morton Adkins. Thus. t’halmers,
Alfred Kaufman, an Englishman, and
one buffo. Francesco Daddi. an Ital
ian. from tht Chicago Philadelphia
Cos.
ELIZABETH AMSDEN.
LOIS EWELL.
KATHLEEN HOWARD.
Os the Century Opera Company.
One performance-—the concluding
one--of each opera will be gi\**n in
the language in which it was written.
\ll others will be in English. Each
opera will run a week. Orchestra
seats are $2. foyer circle. $1.50, first
balcony sl, 75 and 50 cents, entire
second balcony. 25 cents.
With Oscar Humtuersteln building
his new house, in which he proposes
to buck the Metropolitan at Its own
prices, it looks like an open season
for opera fiends.
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“Standing Room only” ih announced
early every evening at Hammerstein s*
roof, where Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw is
dancing.
Twenty-word picture of the Evelyn
of today: Personality Tired eyes,
drooping mouth, wan smile, stringy
neck, scrawny arms, bony hands, com
monplace legs Dancing—Graceful.
Total impression- Pathetic.
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•*Th‘ wife of Ort Wiggins. th’ section
boss. makes him teave his boots on
th’ back porch, alongside of his author
ity ”
Odious, Ain’t It?
Bing—The way these colleges scat
ter around their degrees is absolutely
uauseating. Every Tom, Dick and
Marry with a little cheap notoriety
can figure on getting one. The whole
system is absolutely indefensible.
Dont you think so?
Bang—Ves I didn’t get one. eith
er. —Cleve.and Plain Dealer.
Ah, a Clew.
Sherlock Holmes glanced around
the room. The pictures were torn
into shreds, the chairs were broken,
the table lying on top of the piano.
A great splash of blood was on the
carpet.
' SomeNme has been here,’’ he corn
merited with wonderful insight.—
Brooklyn Life.
fVhat the Government Is Doing
RAYAMSD H\ PULLMAN,
Times Washington Itureau, Metropoli
tan Hank; Itiiihhng.
WASHINGTON, Aug IL’ - How to
Insure promptness In the distribution
of pub 11 c a tlons
Distribution of continues to he h
Public Documents, vexing problem lu
the many bureaus
of the various branches of the gov
ernment, particularly in the depart
ments of agriculture, commerce. In
terior and labor. These are the de*
paitments which publiah th** greatest
number of printed documents for
which there is a popular demand. The
government Is spending millions of
dollars on printed bulletins for popu
lar distribution each year, the fund
for the dissemination of information
through the medium of printer’s ink
in the department of agriculture alone
amounting to more than $1,000,000.
At the present time all bulletins
are sent out by the superintendent or
documents of the government print
ing ofti* *«. This official s task would
>e easy and his service most satisfac
tory if his work were restricted to
ihe sending out of bulletins to large
mailing lists, but, according to- the
law passed bv the last congress, he
has to lake care of all miscellaneous
distribution, and ail mail requests for
bulletins of any kind must tie tilled
b> th** government printing office.
The object of this law was efficien
cy and economy, but chiefs of various
bureaus believe that it entails more
expense in the end than the original
system of direct distribution When
congress made th** law. which has
been In operation about one year, it
did so on the information that at the
time bulletins were carted from the
government printing office to the In
dividua 1 bureaus and thence mailed
out over the country. Because of the
fact that the government printing
**fflce is near the I’nion station It was
figured that a saving lu transportation
could b** effected if the bureaus would
refer their requests for bulletins to
th** superintendent of documents and
fie should mall them direct to the
j applicants. The theory of the prac*
> tire which was outlined and on which
the jaw governing the present method
, or distribution Is based was good, hut
its working out has proved defective
, ih many Instances.
t Director William J. Harris of the
j bureau or the census had his atten
tion called to defects iti the present
method a few weeks after coming into
office. A correspondent wrote* to Di
rector Harris requesting that a sum
mary of the latest agricultural statis
tics la* mailed him. A form letter was
written in the census office to the
applicant for information, saying that
the request had been referred to the
superintendent of documents, and
that the bulletin containing th** statis
tics would be mailed from the govern
ment printing office The information
was wanted in a hurry; the corre
The admirers of the perpetual pres
idential candidate, Eugene Debs, are
! now making muon of a spectacular
! performance of his. which he an-
I nounces is a direct challenge to Chris
tian people and the churches to imi
tate him. He went out on the streets
und invited un unfortunate woman to
become a member of his family and
demands that his friends and vis*itors
sh ill treat her in all respects as
though she were his daughter or sis
ter and a member of his family.
Os course his a'-t has called forth
various comments, and created no end
of discussion among the sensation
mongers of the modern newspaper
world. We an* told on the one side
that his act has thrown down the
gauntlet to religion and that unless
all who believe in Christianity at
once imitate his example they have
admitted the shallowness of their
! taith and the hypocrisy of their pro
-1 Tensions.
, So far as Catholics are concerned,
! however, they have been practicing,
I quietly and without any newspaper
notoriety, the virtue of charity to un
fortunate women ever since its
Founder. Christ, set the example with
Mary Magdalen. Asylums and homes
for the fallen have ever been a fea
ture of Catholic charitable work, and
there Is no order In the church which
requires as high a standard of per
sonality among its members as the
Sisters of the Good Shepherd, who
demand not only that the Sisters
themselves should have always been
above reproach, but that they should
have come of mothers equally pure.
The unfortunates who enter the
places conducted by the Sisters of
the Good Shepherd and other orders
which handle such cases do not treat
*the women they rescue as lower than
themselves, but as sisters and worthy
Tuesday, August 12,
1913
Challenging Religion
WORDS BY SCHAEFER
MUSIC BY MacDONALD
spomleut waited five days, then wrote
to th** superintendent of documents
stating that Director Harris hud writ
ten saying that the bulletin would be
mailed from the printing office. A
polite request was made of the super
intendent of documents to hurry the In
formation. us the time for completing
ilu* article in which the statistics were
to he included was growing very
short. The superintendent of docu
incuts then sent u form |>ost card to
the correspondent, saying that ins
letter had been referred to the direct
or of the census. The correspondent,
" hose patience was almost worn out
by this lime, having expected the in
formation in one or two days at the
most alter his original request was
made, brought the matter to the at
tention of Director Harris, who was
surprised that the red tape created
ny the present law' makes prompt dis
tribution of public documents almost
impossible, providing the request for
tin-in conies b> mail. On personal ap-
I lication a document will be furnished
immediately, but only those peopld
living in Washington can have the
benefit of this prompt service.
Hundreds of cases similar to th*
one which has Just been outliued oc
cur every month In tho departments,
and according to chiefs of bureaus, It
is becoming harder and harder to dls
nominate the vast amount of informa
tion which I’ncle Sum is spending mil
lions of dollars to gather Bureaus of
the department of agriculture, which
prints more bullet Ins than any other
branch of the government, perhaps
suffer most by the delays caused in
forwarding requests for information to
the superintendent of documents,
who, in turn, mails the bulletins re
quested to the applicant. Under the
j old system a request for a document
j wouHl sometimes be tl 11***1 the same
■ day It was receive*!. Under the pres
| cut system the time taken may be
I any w hi re fro mtwo days to more than
a week. In the case of the request for
'agricultural statistics from the bureau
! of the census th** letter was received
In the office of the director at 9 o’clock
one Saturday morning, and tho bulle
tin requested was not received by
rn,ill from the government printing
office until the following Saturday, a
delay of a whole week.
Last year an attempt was made to
allow the agricultural department to
distribute Its own bulletins, but the
amendment to change the law failed
in congress. Senator Smoot has in
troduced anew printing: bill In the
senate, which will simplify the dis
tribudon of publications, Insure
promptness and make unnecessary the
tremendous increase of clerical work
mused by the indirect method of send
i ink out publications requested by
■ mail The distribution to large mail
j Ing lists will remain with the govern
ment printing office, under the new
MU. but the bureau will he allowed to
i fill individual mail requests day by
day as they are received.
of all care and protection; and It
would probably surprise some of the
admirers of Debs to know how many
of those who have been under their
can become good women, mothers of
families, and respectable and even
saintly in their after lives.
H is true that Catholics do not make
a practice of Inviting fallen women in
their homes, and while the greatest
sympathy should be felt for the un
fortunates, it is not necessary that
such a practice should be followed to
demonstrate that we believe in the
brotherhood of mankind, and the help
ing of the unfortunate. While possi
bly in some cases the women mlgnt
justify the confidence imposed in
them, in the majority there can be
but little doubt that the result of the
experiment would prove disastrous to
the life of the family trying it.
White we hold no brief for our non*
Catholic brethren, yet it Is only jus
tice to say that they are very active
in the same direction and that they
have many rescue homes and asylums
for the unfortunates which are un
doubtedly doing much good. There Is
no challenge to religion in the pet
formant e of Debs, which we trust was
done for a good motive, though It ap
pears more spectacular than char
itable. When those whom Debs rep
resents accomplish under the flag of
irrellglon and free-thinking one thou
sandth part of the good that Chris
tianity has achieved, then, but not un
til then, will they be in a position to
challenge religion on the score of
charity.—The Angelus.
The Woodpecker's Waterloo.
“That woodpecker may be persist
ent. hut I think he's beaten this time.'’
"What is be frying to do?”
“Drill a hole in an iron trolley
pole."—Pittsburgh Post.