The Detroit times. [volume], November 13, 1913, AFTERNOON EDITION, Image 10

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l HIM PAPER is tor tent to be a cheerful and independent chronicler
HK of the passing day. * * * Within limited compos* i t trill interpret
Ijfif tor pest facts of the day's history and offer an opinion or ttoo. • • •
rllKeUf* not an organ or a propagandist, it trill have a strong and genuine
m&heideration for the average man, tcho is too often the forgotten man In otc
end industrial arrangements. * • • As the paper is Che product of
newspaper workers, its sympathy with the breadneinning masses
M natural and inevitable. Its highest aspiration is to deserve and secure
i ifi# distinction of being the people's paper.—From Vol. 1. No. 1, Oct. 1. 1900.
mpON’T YOU THINK IT TOO BAD IF WE
P ARE GETTING SO METROPOLITAN ?
Could you believe it possible that a man in distress, lying belplesa on
|#fUow.baßk on one of the principal corner* of thi* city’* downtown dis
would bo pawed by the first person coming along without that person
IfOUmre to tho man's aasistanoe?
k Ton oouldnt, could yout
ffij. UMb* of oonne, you couldn't believe it possible that ont of an even
MMi pasmiiy this comer, not OHE should beoome interested enough or
|j jplltitMs enough oonoeming the man’s predicament to at least summon
PIN bile officer, busily engaged out in the middle of the street.
m wen, at the corner of Woodward-ave. and Clifford-st, at the noon-
B|pH f With the streets crowded, a man fell suddenly, face downward,
|ppmi a pflo of drifted snow.
g-*- 9Mve persona—TWELVE, we counted them—passed without even
WNltafaf their pane- am* without seeing the man at all; others, who
I*"** without oven a seoond look.
V Hmb a man oame along who hailed the busy traffic officer and who
| updated the-traffie officer in lifting the stricken citisen to his feet.
| Perhaps the man had been pawed by as a “drunk," but he was not
I ®* had fatten in a fit, and had-ham stunned by the fall through
|isrflrinf the point -of his Jaw on the hard snow bank.
..Si m,[.s #' • ♦ >,
l4l‘ Wf wttaooood tkk incident and having related it to a man whom we
PpdlW to have well-developed powers of discernment, we asked him for
plhteoepiotationent
f “It moans," oaid he, “that we are fitting metropolitan."
pr—dad, oadly indeed, that it EXACTLY what it means, for, sadly
IN word “metropolitan" oo often stands for selfishness, heartless
mand the lack of Just otmawm, ordinary humanity.
tho twelve eitisens of Detroit who walked right by this brother
iN No hplplsw pocition and c who never even saw him there, were those
g|| MQlotely wrapped up in themselves and in such a hurry that they
P|MlliaY spare a gianoe to one aide or to the other.
K%Jbfe find these kind among men bumping against women in crowds and
Pri lr -t m IN feet of both women and babies, in fighting their ways
KteteßMt ears
|,WffNoo who otw the limp form on the snow-bank may have decided that
was Motiving his Just deserts for over-indulgence in liquor, but
MMtio been the ease, would it have made the man the lew a brother, or
Kpp'ffi mil the Ims for the pity and sympathy or the extending of a
IpHNt hand by brothers!
fftetefatfy among the twelve there must have been someone who looks
Rp|N|||>WFal upon tho wlHng of liquor to men to the point of stupefaction,
pjjjl ppt oontidered lrimodf im no way responsible for the results.
4WW»piosodtNmanby without even seeing him,
rp* Tilhojo she was on her way to a bargain sale or had an engagement
(gpt'tto filter, more important to many women, by for, than any other
§||N|i»tfca world.
Efe * ;JNweom the vitita of the official census taker, we seise upon the figures
BBpSN ifitir hiiiril by ?n fammri nnmhmr of water users an
PpiteßßßSd population.
K : We watch for tho appearance of the new directory for like evidence
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p — This we do out of dvio pride and out of a splendid and abiding
' t || Ja wtil we should want to grow big and take higher plaoe among
Mttittet
It is will that our aim should be to expand in infiuenoe and to assume
phNpvs important place in the country’s activities.
| ft hi SOT well, however, that our aim should bo to beoome MXTJLO
*MJXAE, in the light of the interpretation of our friend with the keen
h Is not wall ter man to lose sight of the fact that he is, or SHOULD
\ML his brother's keeper.
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THE DETROIT TIMEB
Tho composure of the awakened passengers on that Pullman when
aaked by a robber for their pocketbooks, might Indicate an impression that
it was only the porter.
—- « m ——•
White Doc Cook is in Waahington his attention may be called to a
tall monument there, erected to the<
memory of a man who. on the con
trary. never told a lie.
• • •
“Did you ever atop to think of what
booomoo of tho chorus girl whon oho
grows oldT* asks a wrltor. Yoo; ob
servation suggests oho generally be
comes a chorus girl.
• • *
A convict up north, out of prison
on parole, was attempting to elude
the police when be slipped on the ice
and fell, breaking hla parole.
• • •
Married: Henry Little to Grace
Mann, says an exchange. It was Ilka
this: Mias Mann, It seems, wanted
but Little here below.
e •
Charles Murphy sent a knock to
President Wilson against the appoint
ment of Dudley Field Malone as col
lector of the port in New York. But
as Malone had already been appoint
ed, he didn’t need 1L
• • •
Now for the fellow who will re
port the first robin.
• m •
A Michigan farm hen is reported to
have laid two egga this week. If the
hired man gathers the egga on this
farm, we presume he is under bond.
• • •
If it is true, as scientists report,
that an eetoconus has boon discovered
How about the currency bill? It
seems that President Wilson will put
it over before the end of tbs next
month. All this preliminary discus
sion lu the newspapers serves to clear
the air and to diminish the prospect
of a long debate in House and Senate.
The bankers are not making much
headway in opposition. The Presi
dent and Secretary of the Treasury.
McAdoo, are more than a match for
tbs critics of the bill. Ex-Senator
Aldrich has boosted the bill by com
ing out publicly and knocking it. His
yelp of “ftst money” evoked no re
sponse whatever. It is a mistake to
suppose that all business Interests
or even all bankers are against the
bill. Indeed, merchants are mostly
for It They want banking to be more
of a public and less of a private In
terest The President is not abso
lutely and irrevocably antagonistic to
sny amendment of the bill. He has
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE
From Another Point of View
Hell Pat It Over
In Mexico, the situation, wo presume,
is affectsd accordingly.
Hess Haskins [
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“Bill Stubly is laid up again. As
Mrs. Bill dlagnosss th’ cats, Bill ap
pears f hava overdid in watching her
clean off th* walks upon th’ occasion
of th* recent blluard.”
written it or had it written so that
there Is plenty in it to corns and go,
to give and take on. He wants a cur
rency bill embodying his general idea
and he won’t stand on details that
are unimportant He has the Senate,
so far as the Democrats and Progres
sives are concerned, pretty well com
mitted to the measure with possibly
some slight alteration. Neither he
nor any other party leader is frighten
ed by the bankers’ outcry, and as it
Is plain he is not going to wobble, the
outcry is dying down. Within three
weeks it will be an assured thing that
the Owens-Glass currency bill will
become s law practically as President
Wilson outlined It for the Congress.—
Reedy’s - Mirror.
Zowle!
“I wonder,”, said the motorman,
“why a fight is called a scrap?”
"Because,” replied the conductor.
’lt Is a broken peace.” And he gave
him two bells to go ahead.—New
York World.
Diary of Father Time
When I look at all the magasines
amt newspapers prtntru these days,
to say not hint: of the number
of books of every desiriprton, I won
der how my old earth mates of
ancient day a ever managed to sneak
through life, or to learn atiythiug or
keep their accounts straight. Print
ing itself was invented in about the
middle of tlie fifteenth century but
long before that, of course, numerals
and siguu were uaed to calculate with,
sonic, however, depending on their
ringers, or on stones, in counting.
The rhinese counted for many
years w**.h notched sticks, the Peru
vians with knotted strings and eveu
in England, in comparatively modern
times, accounts were kept with tal
lies. Picture writing, hetroglyphlcs
and symbolic characters came next,
such as were used by the Kgyptluus,
Chinese and Mexicans. Tho Chinese
have never advanced beyond the sym
bolic characters, of which they have
more than 100,000 combinations. In
England, 1 remember, a rustic groc
erytnan, who could neither read nor
write, used pictures in charging ills
customers. He got "in bad" one day
w hen he charged u fellow with a
cheese instead of a griudstoue hy
forgetting to mark a hole in the
center. '•
Then came the alphabet, the origin
of the Greek and Homan, first con
sisting of but 12 or 18 characters.
Now. the alphabet with its small num
ber of elemental characters is capable
of six hundred and twenty sextillions
of combinations. When they got that
far. that is to the original alphabet,
they started to engrave the charac
ters on stones and 1 remember a
letter sent on stone slabs from an
Athenian general to the Romans in
in f»00 U C.
But it was long after that before
printing with ink was started, the
first block printing belug of saints
and scriptural subjects, in 1420. u
Dutchman named Laurence Roster
was walking through the woods., cut
ting his name on trees and taking
impressions for his amusement, when
he thought this could be done on Hat
blocks. He issued the first "block
books ’* And from that time the won
derful typesetting, lithographing steel
engraving and newspaper printing
plants have been developed.
The Last Resort
President Wilson is not making
war upon Mexico. He is not even
making war upon ttie dictator tn
Mexico. Those who assume that the
constitutional President of the
I’nited States in his controversy
with the unconstitutional President
of Mexico is acting or is likely to-act
arbitrarily, and without the sanction
of law, are in error.
Presidents may prepare conditions
that invite hostilities. Military
commanders may involve themselves
in situations that lead inevitably »o
conflict. Even members of the dip
lomatic corps may engineer a- crisis
that must be followed by a resort to
arms. But there Is nothing resem
bling these expedients in the rela
tions existing between the I’nited
States and Mexico.
The President of the United States i
is working for peace not only be
tween two neighboring republics, but
among the people of Mexico them
selves. He Is not an aggressor. His
motives are questioned only by those
beyond the Rio Grande who by crime
and chance And theuiselevs in a po
sition where they may defy their own
laws and the opiuion of mankind.
He is not arranging for war. He is
not urging a conquest He is pleading
for peace and Justice.
Considering the gravity of the
crisis that now’ seems near at hand,
it ia well for the American people to
bear these facts in mind. If the
problem passes beyond the power
of the President reasonably exer
cised, it will cease to be a question
between him and Huerta or between
his agents and Huerta’s agents. Its
solution will be presented to the
representatives of the people of the
United States In Congress assembled,
by whom Anal Judgment must be
''ll of the President's
aims and acts will thus be subject
to revley.
To make war upon Mexico for any
cause the sanction of Congress is
constitutionally necessary. Before
that august body, the merits of the
case must be pleaded. By its de
cision the policy of the Nation roust
be determined. Happily for all con
cerned. the Chief Magistrate who
will address It in such a contingency
is known throughout the world as a
man with no dubious entanglements.
There will be no war with Mex
ico unless the American people find
in existing conditions a righteous,
cause for war.—New York World.
“U. S. Should Back Up and Start ■
Over Again on Panama TolltV
By HERBERT QUICK,
Author of “On Board tho Good Ship
Earth,” Etc., Editor of Farm
and Fireside.
(C'opyrlght. 1913 by the Newspaper
(enterprise association.)
If, as I think, we are, as a matter
of policy and duty, bound to repeal
HKRHKRT l|Vl< K
do this rather than charge tolls which
would even retard the movement of
freight.
If the interest on our investment
Is 12 or 15 millions a year and we
operated the canal free, It would still
be a good investment. It nearly
doubles the efficiency of our navy—
nnd that alone is worth the annual
charge. It will break the freight
monopoly of the transcontinental rail*
ways—and that will be worth many
times 12 millions a year.
Hut no such generous policy is
necessary. We can exact tolls which
will carry the charges and not reduce
the usefulness of the canal, avoid of
fense to the nations of the w'orld and
deal fairly by our treaty obligations.
To do this we need only adopt the
rate-making methods any competent
freight agent would use.
Tolls through canals are generally
calculated on the tonnAge of the ves
sel. No matter with what she is load
ed, or whether she is loaded ut all,
Burglar's Advica.
Sir Walter Scott ouee defended a
burglar in court and lost the case.
Nevertheless, the burglar wag grate
ful HUdY inrHng* Invited £4r Waltar to
his cell, gave this advice: “I am very
sorry, sir that I have no fee to offer
you—so let me beg your acceptance
of two bits of advice. I am done with
practice, you see, and here is my
legacy. Never keep a large watch
dog out of doora«-we can alw'&yv si
lence them cheaply—but tie a little,
tight, yelping terrier within; and, sec
ondly, put no trust in nice, clever,
gimcrack locks. The only thing that
bothers ns is a huge, old heavy one,
no matter how' simple the construc
tion—and the ruder and rustler the
key, so much the batter for the house
keeper.”
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THURSDAY
NOV. 13, 1 913
or suspend the law
providing for free
passage Yor our
ooust-wise . ships
and Imposing tolls
on the ships of
ocher nations,
what shall we do
about tolls?
We can let
everybody's shlpa
through free and
make the world a
present of the ca
nal. for oue tiling;
and (t would be
money in our pock
ets as a nation to
THE LOAFER.
There's such a lot of things to see
In all the world surrounding ms.
Bo very much that’s going on
That I can And to gaxe upon.
Bo many sights to fill my eye
I scarcely feel the days go by.
The man who's digging in the street,
The crowd that moves with hurrying feet.
The teamster, blacked and full of Ire,
The fireman clanging to a fire;
It keeps me busy, goodness knows
To note how life about me goes.
And then, of course. I must keep track
Os every daring steeplejack
And watch him as he labors there
Soccoolly far, far up in air—
It’s worth the while to see him climb.
And yet it takes a lot of time.
•
With all these sights and plenty more
I never find my life a bore;
I keep so busy night and day
In watehing others work away
To earn their meed of goodly pelf
1 have no time to work myself!
—BB7HTON BftALEY.
WORDS BY SCHAEFFER
MUSIC BY MACDONALD
she pty» on her tonnage. —Bhc pay
as much If billed with hay or crushed
rock as If her cargo ware allks, piano#
or tourlata.
No railway man would aver be so
insane as to adopt such a schema of
charges; and yßkl believe this is ex
actly the schema which our law
adopts for the Panama canal, I be
lieve the tolls are $1.36 a ton. Some
thing like that, anyhow. Whffh the
phosphates of the Columbia valley
are mined and ground for fertiliser, '
they will have to pay $1.25 a ton. The
gold from the Treadwell mine in
Alaska can go through at the tame
rate. The millionaires owning thf
Treadwell mines can personally go
through at 91.25 a ton. Thls.ls cruel
ly high for fertiliser and absurdly
low for gold. I submit, millionaires
should have a higher rate than ma
nure.
All freight rates are so calculated
that the traffic will move freely. The
goods which need a low rate get it.
The goods which can pay a high rate
without feeling it, pay it. «
The government should back up
and start over again on Panama tolls.
We are now steering right into the
middle of a bad muddle in which we
shall be In the wrong. We should
make the tolls according to the value
of the thing? carried. Hay, crushed
rock, coal and luihber should pass
through at a toll very much below
$1.25. Orahges, lemons and fruits
should pay more. Silk atlll more.
Twenty passengers weighing a ton
could easily pay S2O. A ship with no
cargo should go through free. In the
Interests of the canal. If she is com
ing back with a load.
These are the principles on which
all just tartffs, and moat which are
not Just, are levied. The adoption of
them would settle the treaty question,
it would settle the matter of reduc
ing freight rates on the railways. And
It would ipake the canal a paying
property.
Honeat Scot.
A commercial traveler had taken a
large order in the North for a con
signment of hardware, and endeavor
ed to preaa upon the canny Scottish
manager who had given the order, a
box of Havana cignra. “Naw,” he »e
--plled. “Don’t try to bribe a man. I
cudna tak them—and I am a Member
of the kirk!" “But will you accept
them as a present?” “1 cudna." aald
the Scot. “Well, then.” aald the
traveler, “suppose f sell you the
cigars for a merely nominal sum—
»ay. sixpence?” “Weel, in that case,"
replied the Sc*:. “since you preai md.
and not liking tae refuse an offer
weel -meant, I think I’ll be taking
twa boxes.”