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Published every evening vx«v|»i amnuat ■<> Tr* t»> tr if mCo.. 11-18 John R
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Enteied ai the Postofflce at Detroit a* second-olas* mall matter.
7ttiS PAPER is content so be a cheerful and independent chronicler
of the parsing day. • • • Within limited compass It will interpret
the largest r acts o / .he day's history and offer an opinion or taxi.
While not un organ or a pr ipagandiit. it will hare a strong and genuine
consideration for thnrrwijc man, who is too often the forgotten man in our
social and industrial art .gements. * * * As the paper is the proituit of
practical news r.*»p<r its sympathy trtfh the bread-winning Masses
is natural and inevitable. Its highest aspiration is to deserve and secure
the distinction of teuty the peopit s paper.—From Vol. 1. No. 1. Oct. 1. lfcOQ.
THOSE W HO W ANT THE NEW CHARTER
AND THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT IT
We love the charter for it* enemies.
Mayor Marx doesn't like it in spite of the faot that it raise* the
major's salary to SB,OOO, and gives him appointment and administrative
powers, including control of the budget, which make him the big man of
the oity.
Why doetn t bet
Because he knows that he, and men of his type, can’t be elected under
it
The council is divided.
The aldermen who are working for the good of the city, and at some
sacrifice to their own interests, such as Owen, Lodge, Din genian, Keating
are for it
The aldermen who are obedient checkers on the Marx board; the alder
men who fix their eyes on pay-day; the aldermen who know that they are
not $2,600 men, and can't control a whole ward—good fellows, all of them,
of course, but narrow and partisan—are against it
The board of estimates is divided.
The big men on it—Standish Backus, Frank Andrus, Tom Craig—'
know what a futile body it is, and want it abolished.
The little men—the men who want the $6 a day, and to hell with the
dtp—want to keep it.
So do the politicians.
The Marx machine doesn’t want the charter, because it knows that it;
can’t keep its men in office, under the new regime.
The local Tammany doesn't want the charter, for the same reason.
The Keep~Your-Mouth>Shut crowd, now known as the Citiaens’ Tax |
payers’ league, or something like that, doesn’t want it, because it is com
posed of men who never voted for a reform in their lives.
They are the typical conservatives, afraid of a shadow, and worked
by the politicians for all they are worth.
The saloons don’t want it, for they realize that they can’t control
politics under it.
The insane, the imbeciles and the weak-minded don’t want it, because
they're not interested in good government.
i.
But business men WANT the charter because THEY realize that it
means greater economy and efficiency in the government of Detroit.
Professional men want it, because they are, many of them, students
of politics and government, and they realise that the charter is a big step
in the right direction.
The churches want it, because they realise that it means clean politics.
The cititen without an axe to grind wants it, because it is such a big
improvement over the present charter that any unprejudiced man can see
it with half an eye.
The labor man wants it because it means better conditions for labor.
Children want it, because it means a better playground system, based
on a rational plan.
If these are for it—who can be against it ?
Who but the undesirables?
n. y. toosdy—ackters wil] have their lltte* goak, even when they mint
tracking them on the stage at so mutch per crack
over at the lama club they have got a aetting room with a nice grate
lire In it, and It la a very populer place these cold and ralney afternoons
the uther day willy eolyer come In feeling kind of chilly and damp,
Md he drug up a chare as near the fire us he could get
1 but he oouldent get very near, because do wolf hopper was standing
|h front of It, warming his aplne and telling aneckdotes
willy he set and peeked at the Are through hopper’s legs and around
his coat tales for a while, and then he began to holler boy. boy, boy
by and by a page boy came in, and he sea, what do you want, Mr.
colytr
willy be pointed to mr. hopper, and gays
kindly turn the genteiman around, l think he must be done on that
•Ids , johny
The Poet-Laureate of Mars Can’t Please Everybody
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THE DETROIT TIMES
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE
Michigan Democrats are getting ready to bury the hatchet. so let your
sympathy rest entirely with th# heads of the party.
• • •
Huerta’s government, it la announced one# mors, la about to fall. Wait
ing only, Just possibly, for tli# fellow*
with tb« camera.
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SAYINGS OF FAMOUS MEN
Police Justice Gainey “This
man Isn’t sober yet"
0 0 9
James C Stev.art a testimony In the
New York graft scandal, District At
torney Whitman saya. will oe senna
tional. If it Is, Mr. Stewart will have
I to go some.
• • •
i An ex-convlct la candidate for gov
: ernor In Oklahoma. Evidently this
1 fellow reasons that one bad term, also,
I deserves another.
• • .
The state railway commission came
and sa»w and went back to Lansing.
• • •
Somehow or other w# had an Idea
that the blue eky law was too good
a law to be constitutional.
• « •
Item: “Detroit la due for a cold
spell/* Detroit la If spring la ever go
ing to hold winter on its lap.
• • •
The Cold Storage Movement
Pittsburgh’s prosecutor last year
had 2,820 cases, putting that many
bad eggs in the cooler.
• • •
kixtenslve deposits of silica have
been discovered In the PhilippAea.
We don’t either.
• • •
After General Villa baa wiped out
tho federal party ho ought to enter
tain about &a much satisfaction ua
that which cornea with winning a
gam* of double pedro for fun.
The Very Last.
There had been a bad explosion in
a powder mill.
"How did it happen?’’ asked an
anxious visitor, after the accident.
“Well, you see, sir,” replied the
foreman, “it was this way: Bill went
into the mixing room, probably think
ing of something else, and struck a
match in mistake. He—'"
"Struck a match!" exclaimed the
proprietor In amazement “I should
have thought that would have been
the last thing on earth he’d do!"
“It was, sir," was the calm rejoin
der of the foreman.
XT ~ I /SAY. MRS.
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From Another Point of View
POPULAR SONG SUGGESTION
“Will Goethaia Be the Governor
or Take That New York Job?"
Hess Haskins
1 14'^
“It’s a pritty seldom thing t’ see a
man that has a real license t' wear
a plug hat wearln’ one.”
THE NEW WAR
By JIM MANEE.
Wars may come and wars may go,
And when they go ’tls well;
Because a man named Sherman said,
At one time, “War is hell."
However, folks, tho latest war,
la not one with a bungo!
The war that's In our midst right no*
Ls the war upon the tango.
Where to Sit.
A stranger visiting a church at a
little village on the Scottish coast
inquired of the verger where he
might sit.
"Weal, sir," whimpered the verger,
cautiously. “I must tell you there's an
awfu* lot o’ visitors in the village Juiat
now, and ye'd best sit whaur >e can
see yer umbrella!”
Don’t Disturb Him.
'Tm afraid tho piano in the parlor
disturbs you after you have retired
for the night," said the country board- j
ing house keeper to the new boarder.
“Not at all, ma’am," replied the
ueycomer; “you see, I'm a boiler
maker by trade."
Tasted So.
“Thik," said (be landlady boast*
fully, "is c&nvasback duck."
"Then I guess you've given me
some of the back," replied the cyal
cal border. —New York World.
Bonnie Scotland
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111 HKV. J. T. lllt'KlK, U. D.
Iltdlmlrd lu *l. lu.lrr«’« eoclet» j
lu IVMI b» i»r UU'klr »h(f«
u| Ihr l ruiral I’mlolrrUa rUurch.
~|, r „ t»Ug UllW-Ut'* 1 lU li»lU|U«|
ib«- Uuctoi cwiuee uni Krltlav f*m-
l * it-vlure lu M. \u»lrr»»'* k«il j
. ~u It». I liUll 4.1 U*«U iluiu*
iven >«• iu« land o' lHe Uiruinsr unU
1 uv> all,
VV li..u. , . ..a wtvit Ihe llitsil* and
niuuuvi H»« #awrau,
LbloViu o »uv iu4 Uie liuAvl iiiui
mae,
Anu tin Kinnit blua-Uell, thut blooms
,a . u on uiu 01 ae.
Km j 4 uiv 10.110! i am tuin, l am
fain . ,
To y«at-rt«k by lU Ingl*;*
again.
I k«n >0 th« Uani« o' lha Mores and Uis
Hsus,
O' darw i.u( hnagar wl* Its deer-huuut
tM g.vns.
Scbluhallioii aud Tlnto, Cairn Gorui
and a'
1 Giant uint a: t» of God, Uiat kewp fo*-
m«u awu'.
Kan >« ino land? lam fain, 1 am
fain
For the Uouuia, bl>tUe blink o' Ban
Lumuiid again.
i K«u >t* the shores o the ea Ift Solway
tide
And the Isles that encircle the far
reaching Clyde,
The briu-.i the Doon. and the silvery
Tweed.
And the dour gloomy Till, that ne er
mourns (or the dutd.
Ken i>i the land? 1 an, fain, 1 am
fain
For the dark doWl# buwmi o’ the Yar
row again.
Kan ye the glen wl' Its Lane drooping
birk.
Whaur the fond lovers met ’tween the
gloumtng and mirk;
Noo the gryen Is forsaken, nae uilrth »
lu the ha',
For the flowers o' the forest ars a'
wede avv a.
Ken yu the land? 1 am fain. 1 am
fain
To hear the wind walitng thro’ hiX
trick and aguln.
Ken ye the lads wl' the bonnets o'
blue.
That wield the claymore and the dread
Dhu;
Thro' the glens, whaur the clansmen
were gathered of yore.
The sobbing wind murmurs, Lochaber
no more.
Ken ye the lads? They are far ower
the faem
But their hearts are aye true to their
uuld Scottish home.
Ken ve the dells, whaur the green
fairies dance.
As ycott waves his magical wand of
romance.
Whaur Knox taught the world oppres
sion to spurn.
And the watchtlres of freedom eter
nally burn.
Ken ye the land? Bonnie Scotland.
In thee
E'en the lowly hind da are to be free
—to be free.
Ken ye the graves whaur our fore
fathers sleen
In the auld Moorland klrkyard. their
slumbers how deep!
The Sabbath bell rings, but they ns’er
heed Its ca\
For they dwell everrnair In a land far
Awa’.
O, ken ye their God? Mak Hie mercy
your blel’,
And will a’ meet at lost In the land
o’ the leal.
America Doesn’t Want
a Leisure Class
“Women,” says Anne Morgan,
“constitute the only leisure class we
have In America.”
l>o we want a leisure class? Is
it anyone's credit to have leisure; to
he without stimulating und useful
occupation?
We guess not —there's too much
truth In 'bat old saying: “Satan
tl:ids mischief for Idle hands to do.”
Next to an unemployed man, the
saddest sight 1b an unoccupied wo*
man—a wife, sister or mother with
nothing to do. In a world so rich
with interesting activities, at a time
when there Is so much to be done,
the fact of any grown person possess
ing normal powers wilfully choos
ing the role of idleness is both pathet
ic and provoking.
Not leisure but the stimulus of
interesting and varied activities Is
what all should pray for and strive
for. It la the supreme felicity.
Waste of Powder.
A man who had never been duck
hunting shot at a duck In the air.
The duck fell dead to the ground.
'•Well, you got him!” exclaimed the
amateur's friend.
"Yes,” replied the amateur, “but I
might as well have saved my am
munition —tin* fall would have killed
him.”
Father's Way.
The new vicar was making pastoral
calls In his parish and stopped to con
verse with a small boy at the garden
gate,
"And where does your father go on
Sundays, my little man?”
"Well, on fine Sundays he goes
golfing, and on wet Sundays he turns
us all out to church so he con have
a bit of peace In the house.”
Keep It.
Giggag—l am a firm believer in the
theory that liquor Improves with age.
Wigwag—Sure. The longer you
keop it, the better n Is for you.”
Interstate Body Cannot
Prevent Serious Accidents
liy OILtiUS QAHDSKR.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29- The pow
erlcssness of the int » , rs* 0 *“ merr o
commission to pre
vent accidents on
railroads lu th
United States ha
again been strik
lngly shown in th.
report of the chit
inspector of safety
.appliances recent
1) made public. In
tills report is con
tained the results
of an exhaustive
investigation of a
recent passenger
train wreck (No
vember last) which
took place on a
railroad In Georgia
in which niue j>er
sons were killed
and 390 injured, as
a result of the de
railment of the
train and the
smashing of the wooden passenger
equipment.
The wreck, states the report, was
due to a broken rail. The rail was
uearly 30 years of age, having been
rolled in 1883. Hack of this broken
rail wore what the commission calls
i “bad track conditions," which means
| rotten ties. Klghty-one rotten ties
j were found on tills road in a distance
lof 630 feet. Inspector Bolnap states
' that “only those ties which were so
j budly decayed as to be absolutely un
! serviceable and unable to support the
rails or give a secure spike hold were
designated as bad ties."
“The company's record," says the
commission, “shows that between Oct.
22 and Nov. ly, 1913, 14 broken rails
were found on this section, only one
of which was removed from the track,
13 being repaired and left in the
track."
! The inspector and the commission
‘do not undertake to Btato why the
company allowed broken raiis to be
“repaired” and left in the track, or
why rotten ties were used, but it is
safe to conclude that the practice of
overcapitalization and “melon-cutting'’
cannot procoed unless equipment and
construction work is skimped in this
manner to allow dividends to pile up.
J The remedy for conditions like this,
I which are typical of many roads in
i the United States, is to bo found in
, the bill Introduced into the house by
; Rep. R. R. Stevens, of New Hamp
shire (H. R. 10518), which is now be
fore the house committee on inter
state ami foreign commerce. The bUi
is designed “To promote tho safety of
employes and passengers on railroads
engaged In interstate or foreign com
merce. *’ and it provides that every
such commou carrier “shall furnish,
provide, and maintain such service,
| way, structures, equipment, facilities,
and operating methods as shall pro*
Justice
(A Fable.)
The Bandit ravaged through the land
And left his mark on every hand,
For desolation lined the path
Which he had made in greed and wrath;
He looted, pillaged, far and wide,
The sweet and smiling country aide;
He spoiled and wasted like a flame
And people trembled at his name;
His glutton cravings to allay
He did not hesitate to slay,
Not bravely, in fair open light,
But meanly, foully in the night!
At last the people rose In ire
And trailed him on through muck and mire,
By stream and copse, by hill and dale.
They followed grimly on his trail
Until that final moment when
They had him cornered In his den.
They brought him forth with choking smok n ,
Yet, as he stumbled out, he spoke
And said, “By all the rules, 1 swear
This sort of treatment ißU't fair;
You show no Just respect for me
Nor for this cave, my property;
You are not acting as you should”—
But someone shot him where he stood.
”He may be right.” the men agreed;
“Perhaps we did not give due heed
To all the rules and all the laws—
But. he’d no right to howl, because
He plundered on a ruthless plan
And broke each law of God and man;
His hands with blood and gore were red;
We reckon he Is better dead.”
(I wonder If the trusts and such
Which have us strongly In their clutch
Might, by some distant chance, be able
To see the moral of this fable.)
—Berton Braley.
THURSDAY
JAN. 29,1 91 4 .
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I mote the safety of its employe# and
passengers;"
Furthermore, uud more important.
It gives to the commission the power
ind the duty to investigate upon com
plaint, or upon its own initiative, fail
ure of the railroads to provide and
maintain safe equipment. Under the
present law. the commission is entire
ly powerless to do any investigation
until after u wreck occurs, und then
it can only “recommend ’ to the road
that it do thus und so to prevent such
wrecks in future. The record of the
New Haven wrecks shows that the
(commission's recommendations are
entirely disregarded in such cases.
The Stevens bill empowers the com
mission to “require any such common
I carrier to furnish such information as
It may deem necessary concerning the
conditions of its roadbed, track, and
structures, the kind, numbor, and con
dition of its equipment and facilities,
: the operating rules, regulations and
methods, train schedules, size of train
| crews, hours of labor of employes,** or
any other matter touching the safe
operation of the system. Not only
that, but “it shall have the power to
Issue un order or orders fixing, de
termining. and designating the
changes. Improvements, and repairs to
be made in tho way and structures,
j the kind of equipment, the standard
of equipment and supplies, the instal
lation of signal systems, train-control,
devices, automatic tralu stops, and
; other safety appliances, the operating
rules, regulations and methods, train
schedules, running time of trains, size
of train crews, hours of labor of rail
road employes, to be adopted, used,
and maintained in the operation of
trains In Interstate or foreign com
merce.”
This power so delegated is clearly
broad enough to give the commission
real power to operate t'he railroad
systems in everything but name it
, would be government ownership and
j operation. Experience shows, how
ever, that private operation of the
roads tas in the case of the New
1 Haven and other notable instances
evidenced by the commission's reo
ords) does not result in safe opera
tion; that the desire for dividends
and profits outruns the desire for
| sufety, and it would seem that oni,y
i the passage of this legislation or sine
; the absolute taking over of the roads
i under government ownership, thus
| eliminating the element of profits, can
result in safety to the public and the
employes.
Mr. Stevens believes tnat the house
committee will taJie up his bill and
' seriously consider reporting it in the
i near future. The commerce commls
plon has recommended the passage of
: such legislation on several occasions.
Different.
“Has your wife gone shopping?"
"Alas. I’m afraid not! I'm afraid
she's gone buying.”—Boston Tran
script.
WORDS BY SCHAEFER
MUSIC BY MACDONALD