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CTHIU PA PL It i* *"/<'< nt to be a vheeiful llil mdependtut jjjjjjjjjj 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 ( *!v, HAS 6 AOoiph N f I see'. «e hass \ U mot\ l ocNef Just mow V ©etUNKi PfceTZ-EL* ow J \ V4ISB PBETZEUS. S ( AMSTXNGS I6S FAIR IN A PReTZC L VAR, } 1 • TOUCH OthA’. / ' |j 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 ) .. ..I,^^^. 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”