The Detroit times. [volume], June 24, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 10

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X of the passitig day. • • • Wilkin limited compos* it u» , , «
Wkila not on orpon or o propagandist, it u iL, h at foraotten mon in our
consideration for the average man. who is too afteri the f g pro duct of
social and industrial arrangements . the bread u>inntng masses
practical newspaper workers, its sympathy with t j secure
U natural and tnevitable. If htphest spiral,on uto oaMrva and
tha auunetton of Hint the people- paper.-From »01. 1. .No. 1. ocl. two.
HERE’S HOPING TY COBB SOON
TAKES A TUMBLE TO HIMSELF
The Time* ha* been asked in two communication* whether it is *o
ing to have anything to say in this oolumn about the Cobb case.
It is.
One of our correspondent* wants to know if we share in the opinion
of Police Commmioner Gillespie in the matter o( Cobb's arnst.
We do not agree that we have ONE LAW HERE
FIELDERS AND ANOTHER FOR CITIZENS WHO WATCH ON FROM
the BLEACHERS
It is the opinion of The Times that Police Commissioner Gillespie, in
his comment* of regreron-eobb's arrest and ride In a patrol wagon, was
very fluent in saying that which he ought to have lelt unsaid.
We think this: ...
We think Cobb has suffered a whole lot of publicity he would no
have suffered were it not for the fact that he is the greatest base ball
feels the same way about it himself, and tolls us he \us.ies at
times he could get out of the game and from the publicity he geta
This particular Cobb case has a hopeful sign connected with it.
. Cobb for the first time in his career of thumping the fellow who has
excited a very bad and badly managed temper, is regretful. and . expr *““ i
an appreciation of what the effect of his conduct is likely to be on the
Tigers’ standing in the baseball race. • ,
He seems to realize, though we would say at a very late day, that j
he owes something to those who support the game which pays him a
nrinoely salary and which has made him a rich man.
Here’s hoping this is the instance which will teach him the lesson
he has so long needed, and that he will profit by it.
Meat Dealer Carpenter, whose market Cobb entered with revolver
drawn, should have the warrant he asks for Cobb, and Cobb should be
punished for his conduct.
The law is not supposed to take notice of baseball averages, an
should not . ,
We are with Cobb every time he comes to bat, when the game is tne
thing.
We are with the victim of the attack now that the thing is whether
a citizen in the peaceful pursuit of a business and livelihood is presumed
to submit to having a gun pointed at his head every time a customer
comes in with a grievance.
This merohant pays for police protection of his property and his
body, and when either one is threatened he is entitled not only to pro
tection, but to the deterrent influence of the law which can come only
through its strict enforcement, regardless of batting averages.
In the game in which Cobb play* so well there are law*, one of which
i* that a player who lose* hi* temper shall be punished.
There isn’t one law for Ty Cobb and another for Oscar Stanage
■imply because Ty Cobb can get around the bases faster than Stanage
oan.
If Ty Cobb should attack an umpire in the game he would be banished
from it and disciplined, the same as any other player.
It is just about time, for the young man’s own good, that he be given
to understand he must subscribe to the rules of the game that is played
in citizens clothes.
In Caesar's Day.
They say 2,000 years ago-—■
(How fast the time has flownt)
That elevators just like ours
In ancient Rome were known.
Jt would have made our hearts re
joice
And fll’.ed with Joy our cup
. Could we have heard old Caesar
•bout:
“Hold on there! Goins up!"
—Yonkers Statesman.
The Worse, the Better.
. “So." said the visitor, “you Intend
fp become a physician when you grow
upr
“Yes. sir," said the youth.
“And why have you decided upon
the medlcai profession’”
“Well, a doctor seems to he the
only man who keeps on getting paid
whether his work is satisfactory or
not."
Unfair Competition Foiled In That Pretzel War
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l ocNef Just mow
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What?
What have you ever done to make
anybody happy? A little boy waß told
that he ought to make somebody hap
py every week, and h© began nobly.
“I made a lady happy," he said. “She
was my aunt, and I spent a week at
her home, and when I left she was
very happy."—Chicago Tribune.
On the Low Gear.
Blx—How are you making out on
your resolution to economize?
Dix—Fine! I've got my running
expenses slowed down to a walk. —
Boston Transcript.
A Rift In the Lute.
Jesse I,ang was out Saturday
night carrying a banjo with two
strings gone. Some girl probably got
a crippled serenade.—Waitesburg
(Mo.) Record.
THE DETROIT TIMES
From Another
Point of l iew ,
A suitable Christmas present for
Meat. Dealer Carpenter this year
would be a ropy of that late book,
“Busting ’em.” by Ty Cobb.
• • •
There’s many a collar that tries to
keep cool these days, but falls down.
* • *
One reason for hoping for peace in
Mexico is that Villa may decide to
celebrate by getting a shave
• • •
We planted the seeds as it said on
the packages and some came aud
some went.
• 9 •
The Michigan law, it should be re
membered. contains no provision
against free lunch for birds.
• • •
We are wondering what the young
man who graduated last week thinks
of the world, so far as he has gone?
• • •
A man left a fortune to his rela
tives in his wooden leg.' We wouldn’t
mind a leg like this to stand on.
• • •
All right, Phyllis, have it your
way. It shall be as you say—4
goat's head IS a butter bean.
• • •
Nelson O Khaughnessy is one of
those men endowed with the great
faculty of being able to entertain
a positive conviction and talk con
vincingly against It.
* • •
The first half-dozen drinks con
sumed by a Philadelphia man, killed
him. Asa rule it's the last one.
• • •
A Frenchman declares he can read
a man’s character in his hair. Bui
suppose the man is bald?
• • •
Meat Dealer Carpenter will hard
ly be asked to apologize now that he
probably doesn't care for Ty Cohbs
trade.
• • •
The Fourth is near at hand, and
the hand is near the Fourth.
9 9 +
Cleveland having defeated us, Ty
Cobb can see Just exactly what he
has gone and done.
| Down east, in the town of Balem,
j w here w itches were burned, two wo
j men. living side by side, fell out and
one built a spite fence. Nine feet high
she built It, of great, rough boards,
completely shutting off the view of
the street from her neighbor’s win
dow.
The woman whose view was thiffi ob
scured, full of Puritan indignation,
hired a lawyer and went into court. A
master in equity was appointed After
he had heard the testimony and view
ed the obstruction in person, he made
his award. The plaintiff is to get sls
damages.
hich shows, among other things,
how elusive Justice is. Fifteen dol
lars for having to look at a spite fence
all your life.
But the real damage is something
which no court could measure, any
how. The one who suffers the worst
injury is the woman who built the
I monument to her ill-feeling: and next
jto her among the sufferers are the
! little children of Salem who daily
! have thrust, before them this ugly tok
j en of the potty meannesses of which
'grown-ups are sometimes capable.
| A fit of temper, with a scrap and
j then sunshine, are quite human. But
to build a grouch into a permanent
memorial is more than a passing weak
ness—it is a crime against society.
“Lem Lowney and Bill Stubly was
in Detroit yisterday. where they have
just painted off th’ streets where peo
ple are t’ walk. Along t'wards evenin’
Lem said Bill had about all he could
do t’ keep inside th’ chalk lines."
Inmatos of Fairview asylum for
the insane (Pennsylvania) issue a
weekly paper.
A Woman’s Spite
Hess Haskins
i
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE
( N/IN6S SO )
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Our Diplomatic Service
BY HERBERT QUICK
Author of “On Roar.l tn«* Good Ship Earth” and ether noted Works.
Senator Stone has introduced a bill
for a reorganization of our foreign
service. It provides that all our for
eign representatives below the rank
of minister or ambassador shall be
under civil service, and under the ab
solute control of the president.
It is defective is not going far
enough. Our ministers, ambassadors,
consular representatifes and legation
officers should be men educated for
such service, and enlisted in it ior
life.
They should have no more connec
tion with politics than do the officers
of the army and navy.
When the Democratic party came
into office there was a general change
all along the line in our representa
tives at foreign courts.
Republicans went out and Demo
crats went in. •
Political pressure was brought to
bear for the appointment of men who
had helped In the campaign, and
served the Democratic party. It was
thought a grievous thing for Repub
licans to hold lucrative offices abroad
when good Democrats were ready to
serve.
But the reasons for turning the Re
publicans out were all related to the t
matter of jobs. These men were in
many cases actually hostile to the
new administration. Skilled diplo
mats though they may have been,
they were politicians, and ready to
serve abroad the policies for the pro
motion of which they had been ap
pointed under the Republican admin
istrations. Some of these policies
were opposed to the principles of
the Wilson administration. The case
of Henry I-ane Wilson at tWCity of
Mexico Is In point. He is a skilled
diplomat, but unfitted by his affilia
tions and opiuions to carry out the
policies of the new administration.
He had to go, no matter what his skill
and experience.
There should be in Washington a
great national university, and In It a
college of diplomacy which would be
to the foreign service of tho United
States what West Point is to the
army and Annapolis to the navy.
Young men should be trained there
for diplomacy. They should hear lec
tures by the American and foreign
diplomats always residing in Washing
ton. They should do work in the
state and consular services as a part
of their education. When graduated,
they should receive appointments in
the diplomatic and foreign service,
! and by promotion for merit, should
finally fill ambassadorial and consular
poslTTons of the highest grade.
Our foreign service has not grown
in efficiency as it should. It Is lower
in skill and abiltty than the foreign
service of other nations. This Is so.
because foreign nations have adopted
the policy of making diplomacy, both
political and commercial, a profes
sion.
Sir Lionel Carden, the British min
ister to Mexico was under fire a short
time ago. and it was hinted that he
would be removed; but nobody
thought for a moment that he would
lose his employment. It was hinted
that he would he transferred to Bra
zil: but such n.on as Francis B.
I.oomis, Henry l.a*ie Wilson, and
many other American diplomats have
been found for various reasons un
available for employment
We never inquire whether Funston
or Fletcher Is a Democrat or a Re
publican. We should have no reason
for making any such inquiry with
reference to a diplomat.
At The Closed
(iate of Justice
To be a in a day like this
Demands forgiveness. Bruised with
blow on blow.
Betrayed, like him whose woe-dimmed
eyes gave bliss.
Still must . one succor those who
brought »ne low,
To be a Negro In a day like this.
To be a Negro In a day like this
Demands rare
that can wait
In utter darkness ’Tls the path to
miss.
And knock, unheeded, at an Iron
gate.
To he a Negro In a day like this.
To be a Negro in a dav like this
Demands strange loyalty. We serve
a dag
Which is to us white freedom’s em
phasis.
Al>! one must love when truth and
Justice lag.
To be a Negro in a day like this.
To be a Negro in a day like this —
Alas’ lx>rd Ood. what evil have we
done?
Still shines the gate, all gold and ame
thyst.
But I pass by, the glorious goal un
won.
-Met-eiy a Negro" in a dav like this!
Janies D Corrothers In The Century.
State monopolies and undertakings
in Japan yield an annual revenue of
about $01,000,000. of w hich $25,000,000
comes from posts, telegraphs and tele
phones. 125,000,000 profits from to
bacco. $5,000,000 from aaJt, and $-V
000,000 from forests.
Ragtown. a city of about .1.000 in
the oil fields of Oklahoma, is perhaps
the only town of its size In the Unit
ed States that does not have a post
office-.
Mediation Has Served Its
Purpose; Quieting Jingoes
By QlLtiObi UAKDSKH.
WASHINGTON. June 24. Menta
tion has served its first end most Im
portant purpose, which was to give
the America u Jingoes time to cool off.
President Wilson did not, aud does
not want wax with Mexico. One of
his admirals stubbed his toe and the
president accidentally took & foreign
city. It was a difficult situation and
backing out was an awkward task.
The South American foreign gentle
men lent themselvea conveniently to
the idea that they were mediating
something betwceu the United States
and Mexico, They have had a pleas
ant time at Niagara Palls and so has
everybody else up there. Os course
big business set about getting the me
diators, and of course the mediators
entirely unconsciously to themselves
would see mediation from the point
of view of big business. Diplomats
are usually that kind of people. It
does not imply that they were bought.
Their idea of a “neutral" as a substi
tute for Huerta was a straw man to
be appointed by Huerta. Os course
this would not be satisfactory to the
only real power remaining in Mexico,
namely, the Vllla-Carranta constitu
tionalists. It is no more possible to
mediate between the constitutionalists
and Huerta than it is between oil and
water or fire and sand. The revolu
tion in Mexico must go on. It Is an
economic and social revolution and
the only outcome possible will be en
tire power in the constitutionalists,
which may result In confiscation of
large land holdings and many other
things—acts of war —not pleasant to
mediators and foreign investors. How
President Wilson will let go of his
foreign city is a problem still un
solved by either the mediators. Wil
liam Jennings Bryan, Joe Tumulty or
President Wilson.
The senate committee which Is con
sidering the house trust bills has
•‘eliminated the undesirable features
of the house measures." This is the
language in which large, conservative
and Influential newspapers announce
what Is happening In that committee.
The "undesirable features” to which
they allude are the house provisions
against strike Injunctions and other
paragraphs which are aimed to in
sure to the workmen the right to or
gantze, to peacefully picket and to
conduct strikes, etc., as is necessary
to the freedom of labor. Friends of
labor feared that the house bill was
not specific enough and that it might
Here’s a Judge Who Frees
The Man And Convicts Society
Judge Henry Neil, of Chicago, is
anew kind of Judge.
For three years he has gone into
the cities of this country striving to
keep people out of jail.
"Sending men to Jail, forcing them
to pay their debts, forelosing mort
gages. throwing people out of their
houses for non-payment of rent and
getting money away from poor
people by means of tines/’ said Judge
Neil, in discussing his court, "are
the usual work of a judge. I have
refused absolutely to do any of
these things. I have never sent a
man to prison and never will; l will
not forclose a mortgage, assess a
tine, nor dispossess a tenant. I
have found more interesting work
to do.
"I have tried social conditions
and found them guilty. Individuals
are not guilty of crimes. Every
man does the best he knows how.
Everybody Sing
Ten thousand voices Joining on a
warm summer evening in the center
of a city in such fine old tunes as "The
;01d Oaken Bucket,” ’’My Old Keri
! tucky Home.’’ "Auld I>ang Syne" and
i‘ America," with a massed band lead
-1 Irg. must have made the welkin ring.
Folks did that In Philadelphia the
other night. And liked it And will
do it again. Once a week, so the orig
inator o? this impromptu people's
chorus announces.
Nothing excels song as a medium
of fellowship. The hymns are what
you remember longest after you’ve
gone tc church. The songs at school
or college remain among the treasur
ed recollections. Hardly any com
pany of human being* ever get really
, thawed out tjnless they sing together.
Why not an informal people’s chor
us in this town? Bet you if the hand
[would start it in the park it would
make a hit.
The worst epidemic of trichinosis
ever known was caused by a butcher
of Hedersleben. In Saxony, making
susages of an infected pig and failing
to cook the sausages properly. The
sausages were eaten at a public ban
quet. 300 people fell all. and 130 died.
WEDNESDAY
JUN E 24, 1 914
be Judicially Interpreted into nothin!
ness, but the senate fears that the
language is too specific aud that the
court might not do its duty as they
see it, so It is proposed to change
the language and cut out all the ''dan
gerous" features which are desired
by Gompors and the American Feder
ation Meantime, of course, the Dem
ocratic congressional campaign man
agers and the Democratic congress
men seeking re-election will go bel
lowing about the country proclaiming
that with their votes the labor sea
tures of the trust bills have passed
the house.
In red ink on the postal cards an
nounclng the arrival of shipments,
the Baltimore & Ohio and other east
ern railroads print this to counteract
the "psychological" hard times;
"Keep cars moving Crops are ab
normal and the business is going to
boom, l.oad cars promptly and as
nearly as possible to full capacity.
Unload cars promptly regardless of
I‘roe time allowed. Somebody needs
the empty! It may be your turn
next!”
"It Is apparent that 30 standing
committees in each house would be
ample provision to take care of the
legislative business of congress," sa>*
J. David Thompson, law librarian of
congress, who has completed an an
alysis of the legislative methods of
congress. Mr. Thompson found that
out of the 3H.000 bills and Joint reso
lutions introduced Into the Slity-sec
ond congress, only 457 public acts, 73
public resolutions and 180 private
acts and six private resolutions were
acted upon. Further, he found that
of the 73 committees, only 31 had
anything to do with legislation which
became law. and on the house side
only 22 committees out of the 66
acted on bills which became law.
Former Senator Jonathan Bourne,
of Oregon, who Is now chairman of
the Joint congressional committee on
railway mall pay, is considerably
peeved with the postoffice depart
ment The department has submitted
a plan to congress which would re
sult in reducing the amounts paid to
the railroads for hauling mall. Jona
than is indignant. He wants the roads
to got more than they now get. He
has issued two pages of prepared "In
terview" in which he Interviews him
self for the press .on the pig-headed
ness of the postoffice officials in try
ing to save money for the public.
rr he violates the law, It Is the fault
of society, or his own weakness
which should be treated and not
punished.
"The greatest crime 1 have ever
discovered in this country is the
separation of mothers and their
children on account of poverty. No
felony, robbery or homicide ever can
equal this supreme crime—the crime
that violates the instincts of mother
hood upon which the welfare and
progress of the race depends.
"Michigan has a mother's pen
sion law and 1 as a Judge find that
every child in Detroit is entitled to
food, clothing, shelter, a home with
its own mother and education They
are not getting tt now, but they
will and I am here in the interest
of those children. I travel all the
time, striving to convince the people
1 that child-poverty Is bad policy,
jec onomically wasteful and a high
| crime of civilized society."
"Wasn’t her crepe dp chine waist
too lovely for anything?"
"No. we can't get away this Bum
mer- Jim has to work.”
"You übp two quart* of butter, three
qrartH of flour, five egg* and stir 10
minute's.”
"Sure I’ll he there. What hat are
you going to wear?"
Just for fun n reporter whose house
’phone is on a party line made note
the other evening of snatches of talk
he overheard on the four occasions
when he tried to call the doctor for
his sick baby and couldn’t because
somebody was on the line.
Rut it couldn’t have been very fun
ny. for his wife ".-ays that the fourth
timp. Instead of laughing, he cussed.
Lovely woman, gossiping over the
wire, surely is irrepressible', isn’t she’’
Ho you wonder the telephone octo
pus wants metered wrrvlcp?
The Canadian Pacific railway is
erecting seven gates that will he oper
ated automatically by electricity to
safeguard traffic across Its tracks
along the waterfront in Vancouver
They are of the portcullis tvpe. and
the pressure of an electric button will
lower or raise them.
WORDS BY SCHAEFFER
MUSIC BY MacDONALD
W hen “The Line is Busy”