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EDITORIAL PAGE OF | ffilic gtlroil Cine* ss ! fwbluhtU every ivculuk tjuipt Sunday by The Betroit ri*m*a Co-, 13-lb Jehr\ . JAVfIoS Ht HKKMKIUIOUN. President. KI>\vAKD rUKNMKiUi- VU*-Pr*»l«l«*nt CJIA!U.r> T. rfCIIUHAIiaUiOUN. Tit .mJier. I;H IIA1U) W. READING. Secretary. Bubacrlptlon Hate* By carrier, 2b tent* a month, $3-bu a >ear. By mall. •2.00 |m»i year, payable m lyivan.e _ • Telephone- Main 108. Cornet In* all S or'co of I name of dep.irtim nt or perron wuiued •ui *t riptioii io» irregular dellveiy will he re. on eh L»> i'h*»n« up t»* " *v P- n * j.i,uied at the*l ' ice at~i ■* ‘ __ j Ct I of the si*'" 9 day * '* * compass it uul interpret thf lariosi. /«»( to the days history and offer an opinion Ot *• '*■ Wh.lr km a,: ...m or a . " mil lon- -l M '-*»K 1 »«<«»• cooperation tor'll., error '-an. ulo, ’■ 100 often the forjolUK mem in our :"r" ~:,n *f a nM*rct ol ■/' ~abi, Hr h.u'hest «s,nroU.,n It to Cetne and leeorr the distin tio.i of heit Ik •, k»P /" F*®*» Vt »* *• - N “- *• l 1900 ‘ WASTED: A MAN FOR A HIG JOB TO WORK WITH HIS HANDS TIED! Let’s say that the stockholders of a big corporation have reached a conclusion that the business isn't producing as it ought to produce. Let’s sav that they investigated and found things going to the bow wows. and let’s say that they have decided that what is needed is anew n.an at the head. Let’s say that a committee of the stockholders has looked for this man and has found him The first thing they do. of course, is to tell him why it has been decided upon to replace the man who has been in charge. Jsy telling him why they want to make a change, they give him to understand what will be expected of him Most assuredly they want better results than they have been getting, they want to replace BAD management with GOOD management, and they want to replace losses with DIVIDENDS, They offer the man a salary that is satisfactory, but just as the deal is about to be closed, they say to him: “Os course you will not be permitted t<? have anything to say about running this business we want von to take charge of. You will have to take things and do with them as you find them. “There’s the foreman of our machine shop, tor instance, they tell him. “We hnve lest heavily in this department, but he was hired for four years and hi tract runs for two mart yens He must stay. • With the man at the head of our foundry it is the same way. He was employed, also, for four years and it will be impossible to get nd of him for two years. He has increased the cost of operating 100 per cent since we had him and has been turning out inferior work, but our hands are tied.’’ Can you not see the man who was wanted for the new head, quickly packing up. and can you not hear him telling these stockholders that they %ad better lock for another boy 7 Does this, as a supposition case, sound near absurd to you ? Well, it isn’t a supposition case. What we have cited you is a fact. And you were a party to it. You are one of the stockholders involved i~i the case. The corporation is the city of Detroit. The man the committee of stockholders went looking for and found was Frank H. Croul. A big man was sought for a big job—for general manager of the corporation —that is to say. for mayor of Detroit. Croul refused to accept the position because the stockholders in the city of Detroit would expect from him the impossible. He would be handicapped by men at the head of the departments whom the stockholders very foolishly put there for a term of years ex ceeding the time to be served by the mayor who appointed them. “The plant isn’t producing as it ought to.” they told Mr. Croul. “It is showing losses instead of divitodi. It is going backward, instead of forward. We want you to take charge of it and get us results —with the same police commissioner as at present; with the same head of every other department as now.” And Mr. Croul gracefully declined. What would we think of an employer who would engage a machinist at a high wage, and then insist upon his hands being tied behind him while he stood at the lathe? 1 What are we to think of ourselves for responsibility for a state of affairs which makes the first officer of the city—the manager of the corporation —a figurehead—DUMMY is the word? How long will it be before we wake up here and take the necessary steps to maKe the term of a department head expire with that of the mayor who appoints him ? How long will it be before we can guarantee half a show to the new man on the job. and get a BIG MAN who will be a real general manager of the great corporation known as the city of Detroit. The Price,of Greed ■ A crazy man crazy in the sense that. because of degenerate parentage and lack of*training it' boyhood hi* mental nature never grew up to cx«r- i-M a check upon the passions of manhood In Che (go the other day lur and a little girl to a deserted pla* • and strangled Iter "Horrible!” you say. Yes; but hero’s something more horrible. The head of the city’s psychopathic bateau says that, free lo roam Chicago’s streets are 50.000 other men, crazy In the same Way as he. 'Chln lciw shifty-eyed, brain-warped weaklings ” l’rodu* t* of the rush for wealth In disregard of humanity. To be found in.every city and in* read ing; In number. , , . . . It is possihie to weed the human garden and then keep most of the weeds out. Surely It would he wise to begin. Oh, No Wonder the Motor Wouldn’t “Mote” ' v \ s' vliHY N-> V. (i) /iMAr VATCHEO ( ISS Aix RKSHT. ) / SMVIMS <SS WIXT N / uc -wOMOEft'. ) / (o f am has® not i nes-E.oß.vs veuve / ( /X 7/ AV6TCRV! / V off •. • / -'W \ MOPED VET. SCKCO.NOS M.T IT / V CN A&TR*EOur? / \ * It- K. AIP, "T/ TT \ l X ....... ■ / j ■ T j- ) THE DETROIT TIMES From Another Point ot l iew When war threatens a European n«-! tion in \er gets into a stew because it j usually rinds itself embroiled. • • • It looks like another opening for A B*C mediation. Iff There’s one sure thing in this league. T> I'obb had plenty of tuue to con* tribute to that newspaper series of his entitled. "Ou and Off the Field ’’ • • • Application to a Detroit court to have Sheriff Ouktuun .committed to jail lor contempt In a habeas corpus pro ceeding, was dented by the c ourt, thus saving the sheriff the expense of get \ tin* out at-home cards. . • • * What s become of th* old fashioned picnic that was hlu.hj.-m held on the I placid wafers of the nearest lake? TO EXCHANGE Twenty-seven yards of mosquito net | ting for a sheet iron heater. Apply V. A. Catiomst, St. Clair Flats. •« ♦ • There appears, after all. to be more to trial strike of ha till ng suit makers thun there is to m bathing suit. # * « Europe ought to be abl*' to enlighten u- concerning the. army worm if it’s anything like th** war bug. * « We presume Sunday is meant when reference is made to a man's heyday. • • • If wo were Oscar Marx we would fee! that th* 1 Croul petition with 20,000 names on it contained 2b.000 ominous signs \ Victory For Peace ! The resort to mediation is now jus i tiflod by the outcome and proves to !).* a victory in the greatest of all [wars —the war on war. for last week .a peace protocol wa> signed at Niag ara Falls by the mediators and the delegates oi both, the Timed S ates { and Mexico whieH not only i>,mpiete .ly nettles th. international aspects of th* controversy, but what is likely ( to be of even more importance, refers ’the internal questions for settlement to a peace conference of the warring (factions, the A-B-C powers and the . Tniied Stat -s acting jointly as ad visers and mediators. . . . Thus war .is averted But aomething # ven bet } ter than that has been accomplished, j Not only do Mexico and all Pan- I America now perceive the disinter estedness of the T'nifed States, but the four greatest republics of the new world, acting for the nV>t time as a political unit, pledge a lasting friend ship to Mexico, and prove that the na tions of America, unlike the nations of Europe, can work disinterestedly and In harmony for the mutual pears and prosperity of a hemisphere . This is a feat of statesmanship scarcely surpassed In th* 1 annals of government, and Woodrow Wilson is the man who deserves the chief cred it for it.— V. Y. Independent. Marvelous! Marvelous! Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, had an odd experience with a cabman in Paris. The cabby start led th*- author by addressing him by name, and wlu n asked to explain, lie said: "1 read In the papers that Sir Ar thur Conan Doyle was to arrive In Paris from Nice. aft**r stopping at Marseilles and Lyons on the way. Now 1 s*that you have your hair rut in the Marseilles fashion, and there la Lyons mud still on your boots. There fore you must be Sir Doyle." Sir Arthur. amazed at the exhibi tion of .‘ sberlocking “ persisted. “But was that all the evidence you had?’* "Well, to be honest, no.'* grinned the cahbv. “I saw your name on your luggage." 1 V p- Jh ax- *v 7 '''! I W’-j „ I '/ < > ~v , —an > “Art Kettle, Elm Corner*' popular drayman, bat ‘disposed’ of his busi ness, as Art puts it. but Bill Stubly siya th' drayman has unloaded.’" Hess Haskins OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE <?l VC S 1 <£R£AT To - ~ n. \ / M€j£T AKfOTHCR ONe OF \ ~■ N. N ( Vou HCK2S *W!TH \ ' /THe Sangwmy expße-ssfCN ( V hours Electricity Costs Too Much, Uncle Sam Proves By GILSON GARDNER WASHINGTON. July -j;* That elec tricity -s private consumers about H> times as much as it should, is one of the demonstrations made by tne governm* nt in constru* ting irrigation enterprises in the west. Ou several of these projects it has been louud that electric current can be sold to consumers lor light, power or h< at purpose* .it a cent a kilowatt hour. On on*- enterprise it ha' *• n reduced to one-halt cent. The average city price is 10 cents per kilowatt. Now tin* government has demon strated its ability to operate an elec tric plant for furnishing current for railway purposes. The administration ut panama has just completed anew hydro-electric plant at the canal for supplying current to run the Panama railroad when that line shall have been electrified. At the Gatun dam. B,hbo horsepower ha* been installed with an Installation available so that the amount may be doubled. If needed \ 44,000-volt double transmission line has been built running across the isthmu*. There are three sub-sta tions amk transmission stations. Locks, machine shops, dry docks, coal handling plants, and all other machin ery on the isthmus will he operated by electric power, as will be the tow ing locomotive*, ami *\**ntually the Panama railroad At M‘.railores an 11,000-horsepower steam station will be held In reserve. • • • While th* 1 flghMnc has been going on in Mexico. First Chief Carranza has been preparing for the w-ork of recon struction which peace will bring. For instance., a commission headed by Sen or Modesto (\ Holland, formerly an instructor in th** military academy in Chapultepee, has been studying the school systems in the eastern part of the United States, with a view to es tablishing free public schools in every city and town In Mexico. The constl • conducted by the French and Spanish clergy and substitute the public school. • * * .For several weeks Senator Robert M.. I/ft Folletie has been confined to his home by an attack of ptomaine poisoning. He is re ported out of dan "Gran 'pa ’ Pretty mu» h of the time pa was stern and aw*o*ome. If a fellow did anything aud th* re was company and ma couldn’t bo spared to use the stipp* r she’d generally say: “Never you mind, young man. When your pa com* s home hell attend to you.” , . ' 14 . 80 It happened that p?. came to he associated In son s mind wttn piinishm-nt and •correction, rather than w ith the frank comradeship which means so much to boys. . Now pa probably didn't realize ho’v far this *>rt of ihlntf shut him out of the tender places in his son’s heart. T.ike most fathers, pa was pretty busy scratching gravel for a living !!*• loved his wife, his <hil *lr*n. his home, but he was so hurried an*! worried he didn't take time enough to cultivate that lo.vo. Horn** was a place to go to when the other places had closed.. Hut it was different with grandpa Grandpa had all the time there was to play with the kids. And, my. bow be liked to do it! In their innocent gaiety and frolic lie saw as in a minor a restoration of his own childhood mellowed through the yegi'v No whippings, no threats, from grandpa Instead, ready sympathy and the chuckle <>f comradeship every minute of the day. A grand old man was our grandpa Wasn’t yours? ( i’er and is expected soon to resume j hi» senatorial duties. • • • The tact that Col. Theodore Roose velt has endorsed Hinmun as a candi date for governor of New York should not be taken as an indication that there is to he an amalgamation be tween Progresstx e and Republican party organizations in the field of na tional politics The colonel expects j the Progressive party to maintain its organization nationally and locally and u> conduct .* vigorous campaign this fall and a more vigorous cam paign in lblb. He expects to be the presidential nominee of the Prog res stve party and will very likely be the nominee also of the Republican party. The least enthusiastic persons on the subject of the Roosevelt program in New York are Harms and the New York World This would seem to in dieate that the colonel is playing good politics. • • • Patronage is at the bottom of O'Gor man's revolt against the Wilson ad ministration. O’Gonnan is a Tam many senator just as Fitzgerald is a Tammany representative. Fitzgerald and OTiornian are both dissatisfied that Tammany has not had all the fed eral patronage. Th** Tiger has begun i.o snarl. • • • Senator Burton, of Ohio, has made a 23-day speech against the pork bar rel river and harbor hill, and he is not through vet. This does not m* an that he has spoken all of 23 legislative day**, but every day for that length of | rime he has discoursed on the wicked in* <• * <*: k 1' irton ,**<•'. i*t o he < lfair , man of the river and harbor commit tee in th** house—was for many years He knows this job trom stem to -t*m Most of the pork barrel sena tors dive for the cloak room when Burton rises and return only when he sits down. Nobody would he so , silly as to attempt to answer any of 1 Burton's criticisms. There is no an : swer. Norris and Kenyon are assist i tng him most ably. This grab is not ! going to get through congress this year without being thoroughly ex posed. Senators and representatives who vote for it after the exposure will be prettv thoroughly discredited. All About the Row In Europe c " ’’ It’s H Lon*; Story, hut Here Are the Principal Reasons for a HiK Scrap—A New Umpire in Southeastern Europe —Will England Help Russia Become Greatest Power On Earth? When a negs war breaks out most of us common folks cast about to see which side wo will sympathize with. We're all doing that now in auticipa tlon of a big European war, but it'a such an awful mess that ts w> decide for Bill today we may be sorry tumor row we aren't doing our fanning for klika For Instance, If you hate Russia, are you prepared to root against Trance also and ugalnat England and little Servin’ Then, again. If you hate Austria, are you ready to hate Germany, too, and also Italy? It’s quite a mixture, this threatened war. but, at tiuit. no more mixed than the causes that started the sudden rush to arms. \ustria finds that Servian public officials were in the plot to as sussinate Crown Prince Ferdinand of Austria and his wife and demands in an ultimatum that Servla punish said officials, suppress all agitators and agitation against \ustria. and he pretty darned quick and humble about it! Smia regards the ultimatum as in suiting and impossible and refuses There you have the official cause of the war But, in truth, the assassina tion of the Austrian crown prince ami Servin'* connection with it is a men? incident. The real causes are race antagon ism. political ambitions. political fears. You could dig. hack info the remote centuries to find causes of the war between Austria and Servla ion could write a stack of books that would pretty nearly fill your wife* kitchen if you tried to tell all about the race antagonism, all about the pol itics, all about the history involved in the scrap. So we’ll boil it down, leave most of it out, and still try to I illuminate the. tiling a bit. i Austria-Hungary is a Catholic na ti<>n. ruled by Germans and Hungar | lans, anil the country has millions of people of other races. Servians and i cousins of Servians. The latter are badly treated by the ruling races, and long for the day when the Austrian empire will break up so that they can trike a swift punch at the people who now oppress them | Servla aBo longs for that day be cause Servla, being ambitious of es tablishing an empire in southeastern Europe expects to pick up a big slice of what is now Austria-Hungary and free her sad-eyed brothers and cous ins Servla is Greek. Catholic, the same as Russia, and the Russians are cousins of the Servians racially. Hun | dreds and hundreds of years aco the ; Servians or Serbs were a great nation in the Balkans and had an emperor. They HIV still .1 )rong people, not ‘ withstanding more than 4«)<t years of [vassalage to the Turk. Austria is in deadly fright of that day when her ancient empire breaks up and her ancient Hapshurg rulers I have to go to waiting on table. She fully realizes the danger from the hat red of the millions of other races within her border, but greater still I she fears the danger from the amid 1 Editorials by the People True Patriotism. To the Editor of The Timet : This is .Tilly, the month when w«* Hre off thousands of dollars' worth of crackers to prove our patriotism. Yet, during; this v< ry same month we have deported a man and his family to Kngland because he was heroic enough to enter a burning house to rescue an invalid child. We cheered him lustily as he issued from the burning hell of dame, holding the little girl in ljis arms alive and safe. lint, alas, the terrible hat!!'' with the flames proved too great a shock for him, and he became insane, lie was sent to an asylum and later pro nounced cured, but he became insane again, and we so-called patriotic Americans, we self-styled Christians, we who send missionaries to so-called heathen lands to try to make the people as bad as ourselves, we al lowed this man, William T. Lane, whose story was told in The Times of July 21. to he deported to 'Kngland with his family. What a rewattl to give for his heroic deed while a few less crackers fired every “glorious Fourth." would keep this hero anil his family in comparative comfort. We need more heroes. Heroes have made our country great, and we pro tend to reverence the dead ones. Why do we deport the live ones? Fet ter is a man who becomes insane bp eause he was a hero, than a nu n who is sane because he is too cowardly to become a hero. What will Kngland think of us when the deported hero reaches her shores? They will despise our act unless forsooth their moral vision has become so blurred lie cause of their own cruel treatment WEDNESDAY JULY 29.1914 tloiia nations that border her south, southeast. east and northeast—the lighting Balkan nations and their ally, cousin and best friend, Russia. Six years ago Turkey had two prov inces called Bosnia and Herzegovina. She didn't hold them very fast be cause the Berlin treaty of IS7B gave Austria a sort of civil and military monitorship over them. Both prov inces are full oi Servians and cousins of the Servians. Servla had looker upon these provinces as all but hers When Turkey broke up. all she'd do d'ye mind, would be to step casually across flu* border the next, morning ami grab off Bosnia and Herzegovina There was nothing to it—no troublt at all. Which, of course, would iuakf Sen la. across the Danube from Aus tria. thnt much bigger aud stronger and sassier. So, six years ago, Austria simply is sued h decree annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina to her empire—Just like that' Servla had 17 million fits about it. but Russia wasn't ready to help her, being still sick abed from the •lap war. Servla has continued to have tils every day since then, and the assassination of the Austrian crown prince and his wife over there tin Herzegovina was natural re-i suit | So far we have told you the loca! ( end of the disturbance between Aus tria and Servia If it ended there th* European cabinets would go to sleep What keeps them awake is the result of the fight. If Russia helps Servla. up goes Aus tria In smoke, and anew power, the Servian Balkan empire, is born in southeastern Europe, adjoining Rus ria The western half of Europe, from the frozen Arctic to the tropical Med iterranean sea, will then he held by cousins in race, brothers In religion brothers in semi-civilization—the Rus uns and Serbs -both ambitious, am-i bitious even to the conquering of the world That’s principally why Germany Ini getting out her guns and mustering, h«-r fleets Because. Austria out of the way. Germany would be the next to he neatly carved up with the sword England. France and Russia are the triple entente, as opposed to the triple alliance Germanv, Austria and Italy. If Russia helps Servla as against Aus tria. Germany is expected to attack Russia The next move of the check ers would he for France to hop on Germany’s back. Italy's turn. Italy's move is to jump France. England’s n*-xt If England plays the game accord ing to treaty, she will put in her best licks against Austria. Germany and Italy But will she’ Does she want to see her hereditary enemv. Russia, build an invincthle wall in eastern Europe’ Does she want Russia, with Servla, to become the grentest power on earth? Does l.loyd-George want democracy put back a century In Europe by Rus sion Serb domination’ Watch England' to their own women heroes who are battling so nobly for a chance to vote, that they may fail to detect our cowardice. so clouds the mind as practicing injustice and cruelty. 1 would vote to have Mr: William T Lane returned to Amer ica, the land that he loved, and wo 1 should provide for him and for his family. We need all the heroes we can find, and we should encourage our hovs and girls to he heroes. America expects every man and wom an to he a hero. Deporting a man be cause he Is a hero is unpatriotic, j MARGARET FLORENCE McAULAY. 839 Frooklyn-ave, July 28, 1914. A Newspaper Really Readable. To the Editor of The Timet: Your editorials are all good and worth many times the price of your [taper alone, hut the article on the editorial pace of July 27. under the heading. “Don't Stone the Thirsty flog." is so unusually good, that I wish to compliment you upon the able manner in which you handle the I subjects that appeal to the people. In these days of commercialism It is quite refreshing to pick up your i evening paper, and find something | really readable; something besides j D. n. R. appraisal, New Haven scan- I dais, or Pere Marquette steals, and ! it is pleasing to know that we have at least one editorial writer in our city who gives us something really worth while. It seems that we are living such a swift life, that such things as senti ment, kindness, etc., which have as yet no fixed commercial value, have beet) entirely forgotten, and it needs more of The Times’ editorials to awaken these feeiinga now almost dead. Hive us more of this quality of ar ticles. We appreciate them. A U MAILEY. 1219 Woodward-ave., July 28. 1914, MUSIC KY MacDONALD WORDS BY SCHAEFER