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EDITORIAL
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; SATIHI'AY. MAY ». llli
The Faith of Americans Who
Sailed, the Faith that Is Lost
The faith of the American people in
l Germany has been touching.
When warnings were printed that the
| Lusitania would be sunk, thev were re
| garded by Americans as part of a hoax.
It was a fair part of the war scheme
for the Germans to attempt in this man
ner to prevent the sailing of the ship.
r-
That Germany would sink a vessel
I that was known to carry hundreds of
ft,
. neutrals as passengers was unthinkable.
NOT A SINGLE PASSENGER took
the warning seriously; not a single
K- change was made in the sailing list.
It would have been too horrible, too
monstrous a crime against the law of
I nations.
The newspapers gave the warning the
r publicity of a day, the Lusitania put to
i sea, and was promptly forgotten as a
K' ’ —
| factor in the war news.
Then came the unbelievable—still part
at the hoax.
[ Then confirmation.
It was promised, therefore it was ac
complished, say the German svmpa
| Germany is teaching America to put
f faith in her promises; but what faith
ahall we give to German ethics?
The roll of German sympathizers in
; America if called today would show a
striking falling off from yesterday.
No Matter —He Saw the
Desire of Country’s People
It depends on whether you’re a friend
or an enemy of Theodore Roosevelt,
what conclusion you draw from the evi
dence thus far presented in the Barnes
libel suit
The colonel's detractors find evidence
In his correspondence that he was even
more subservient to Senator Platt than
the lickspittles of the New York legis
lature were to Barnes.
.... They guffaw scornfully at the colonel's
admission that he agreed with “Boss”
Platt just so long as he could use him.
They point out that Roosevelt must
have found Platt useful most of the time,
to judge by the way in which the easy
boas dictated appointments
It is easy to find flaw’s in the career
of a man whose public life has been set
forth as clearly as that of the former
governor and president.
It ought not to be forgotten, however,
that it was Roosevelt who, looking forth
from the White House, saw in the Amer
ican people a formless, half-awakened,
smothered desire for higher ethics in
politics, a more open, straight-forward
government, smaller regard for the
power of money.
To a man of Roosevelt's temperament,
this vision wa.s a call to arms.
He summoned forth this blind desire,
gave it shape, marshalled its force and
led it to dazzling victory.
Since 1901, the people of the I'nited
States have felt this awakening of a
new spirit, which bids fair to continue
many years without effacement.
This was Roosevelt’s great work.
No matter how he did it, no matter
what elae he may have done, this is his
| monument in the memory of the people,
and it is for this fact that he will live
jyaj'iaton’.
It’s a Hard Test—Success
Comes Only With Meeting It
Even the elements seem to have con
tracted the Alaskan fever, and are con
tributing to the early commencement of:
work on the government railroad.
Fairbanks dispatches report that the
ice has broken on the IS,OOO mile> of nav
gable streams in Alaska, the earliest in
history.
Immediately these streams will be
covered w ith busy steam vessels carry-j
ing men and supplies to the hundreds of
mining camps, as well as to the fast in- {
creasing farming communities.
A rush to Alaska that will equal the
Klondike days will surely follow the re
sumption of traffic.
It is well to sound a note of warning
to the over-enthusiastic.
Alaska is undoubtedly a territory of
glorious opportunity, a wonder-land for
the young man, with health and strength
and courage.
But he who there poorly equip
ped, physically, financially, morally or
mentally, must succumb in time to the
adamantine character of the country.
The government railroad will give
employment to large numbers, but prob
ably to but a 'mail fraction of the horde
which will seek labor.
Work will not t>e plentiful, g«>ld d'tc*
not cover the earth, nor lie around in
every gulch, as many frxvl" and dream-,
ers picture.
Success in Alaska, as elsewhere, de
pends upon the hardest kind of work.
The man who g«->es there prepared to
suffer severest hardship, to labor dili
gently and faithfully, early and late, who
carries with him a determination to play
the game on the square with himself
and this new country of promise, who!
abides by that determination through
weal and woe, will be well repaid. It
takes a strong man to do ail these things.
To him Alaska beckons, but to the
weakling or the quitter, it turns a cold
shoulder.
| SEEING AMERICA FIRST.
■Y FRED C. KELLY
(Covrrl*ht. ISIS, by Fr«d C. Kelly )
From Dtsry
The one bitter disappoint men* of my ?tav in
San Franci.*co wa> finding tha' ! aas too e»rl >
for the flea s****©n All my life I had heard of
San Francisco as being the greatest fl*a town
on the comment It is no disgrace to hare flea*
in the great city on the Golden Gate. It i»
scarcely even bad form There are *«> many
Oas there in season—so l was assured—that
there are not enough dogs to take them up Con
sequently. bejeaeied dowagers and sad eyed
canine pets stt down side by side to search for
fleas If 1 had only postponed my visit a few
weeks I might have seen men and women in
every walk of lfle on personally conducted flea
hunts Imagine being at a fashionable dinner
surrounded by smaniv- gowned iixiety women
and seeing first one and then another gavlj
searching for the elusive flea
Many a tourist meets with dlsappoimraen* in
California when he learns that the famous bu
tree* do not grow- at random in people’s front
yards and along the highways Perhaps It is
Just as well that the really big trees ar*> no*
used for shade on town lots If one had a sixty-*
foot lot containing a clump of tree, each thirty
or thirty-five feet in diameter there might be j
much difficulty in deciding Just where to put
one's house
The California big trees mus* be searched fori
Just as you would search for any variety of
big game. Most of them are in comparatively ,
inaccessible places The biggest one* are thlrt/'
miles off the railroad and until late spring in
ten fee* of snow- Travelling thirty mil*-* through
ten feet of snow would gradually become a bit
monotonous
Another group of tree* are reached by i
branch off s railroad running between Ix>* Ar
geie* and San Francisco. When you get there
you find them all in one little park of a few
acres that are privately owned You pay adml.»
sion Just as you would to a mu.-eurn
After a tree gets beyond fifteen feet in dta
meter, it fools you That i«. you do no* r*aliz»-
at first how- big it Is It ri-e* out of the ear'h
so gradually, so modestly, ar.d unassumingly,
that you think it is not much bigger than trees
you have seen barg east. Then you notice
that a horse standing beside it covers only a
wee fraction of the tree’s diameter You look
up and note tha* the tree •* as high a* a big
city office building Somebody t*-ll« you its age
At the *ime Christ was on ear*h, it was. perhaps
even then 1.000 year* old Th«n It occurs to
you that sinre you first came up *o the big tree
you hare not wished to talk You have stood
and stared in silent venerftjon
Or.ly once in San Franci«ro did I hear a n.v
tive make reference to the far* that there ever
had been or ever could be a r.earthquake Men
point with pride to new buildtngs *hat hav'*
• r.laced those destroyed by ’’the fire" if you
ask: 'Wasn’t *here an earthquake, too, at the
time of the fire'- they go rlgh ton talking abou’
the fire and ignore your question.
The sole person I heard make reference to
earthquakes was Mrs Julius Kahn wife of the
congressman, and one of *he finest women ir. ail
San Francisco She was talking about vot*-» •
for women
"When I go into the booth.” laughed she • j
run mv finger down the list of names until I
find Mr Kahn's and vote for him first, and then
go bark to vo*e for the r»-*t for how do I know
that ther mightn’t be an earthquake right while-
I m in the midst of voting.”
One of the institutions of San Francisco
the group of seal rocks where the *ea lions lot)
about as idly a* a lot of he socie»y person- I
was Informed that these same -eai* orra«lonall'.
bestir themselves, and wander as far away «
Alaska, where one or two of them have *.«. .
re«~ognt«ed Anybody ran do just a* he •... fjr ;
about believing a seal could be recognized 'till
there ar® men who can recognize a certain horse,
when they see it. aren’t there’ if a person '-an •
tell one horse from another, why not s* al« also
JAFFA’S ORANGE GARDENS
The world’s renowned orange garden* o'i
Jaffa—the Joppa of the Bible present in th*
fruiting season an enchanting sight Hui
rounded bjr an impenetrable hedsr of thorny;
cactus, which during their blossoming time mu t
be a gorgeous display of Intense and vivid scarlet
and green aw far as the eye can I'-ach. the gre**
tree*, an large as oaks, eitend In long «hady
avenues, each loaded with a wild profusion of
rich ovoid fruit, almost as large a* small foot
balls. reminding one of the fabled forest those
trees bore a harvest of solid gold. * hlle the f»-\
flowers still left perfume the air with tnetr
rant aroma. j
DETROIT TIMES
Me Get* Remmacertt a* the Governor Pondera Over the Bill to Permit
Prize Fight*
BY TOM MAY.
% THAT'S th * .tt Ot hear." said t asey. ’ ab.'ut th m havin’ prone
»/m/ fo:ght* \r ivt-.rolt an' Mltchtgan**’
W boy said Grogan. ”th’ legislature discover'd just be
for ’he> qui’ thw they hadn't passed a law that pleased annywan. *•»
they made up 'hur n »ir.d f slip wan over that would surely make a hu
wid even mar woman an’ cholld In th’ community
So thev passed some sourt sv a hill that fUo* thing* up so that th'
crowd a\ speo’.a atorw wont have t' jump out av th' loft window an take
fr th field* an w.vhS whin somewan veils ’Th' sheriff
"Th - bill is now in th' hands av th governor an' he is ixmiierln’ over
it th' -.vine as th' O.tali.in statesmin arre ponderin' on tl waar
They used l have battles here didn't they**' asked t a>e>
"They never called th in battle*,” said Grogan. '’Bovin' bouts was
th' svoientifn* name they gave thim. although some av th warriors look
ed as if they ha l just passed through th* thirty yea" waar
”Yis. they us> «i t’ have thim here, an they w ere pulled off in baarns.
teliars ice barges, open fields, an’ annywhere tha' '.Y principals though*
was safe from th' polls
"Th’ won! would be whispered that Rtd Top Motke’ ar.’ th’ Valifor
nia Earthquake' was goln' t' go fa finish in th' red topped ba arn Ju*i
off th' seven moile road
’ M:n would *>vn be seen shppin out av town in anny *ort av an
ould rig Flumber* were th‘ only wans that could afford autos in thim
days, an’ half th audience would walk
Whin they arroived afther cio:iubiu‘ over finces an’ failin' iuf
•Till w»n av th* contestants landed In the stall.”
dltche*. th’ man at th’ dure would Investigate ear 1 arroival bi *h' loieh*
av th lantern, an' if they looked O. K. they were sitirw-fd t’ inter afther
coughin' up th' two bucks
"Once insoide th' man had t' grope his wav through th’ smoke, th
only brolght «po*s bein' th’ lantern over th’ ring an’ th' noses av some
av th’ promoters or specta-ators
“Whin th’ attendance guaranteed a; least eight dollars apiece fr th'
warriors they would g<> at it
”If wan av thim could slip a horse shoe into his glove it was soon
over Otherwroise it was continued till wan av th’ contestants landed in
th stall alongsolde av th cow. or as Ol *ed till some wan would yell
’Th' sherfrr*
“Thin' th’ war.s at th' ring 'ntyle would be buried undher th’ la-ad
jumpin’ off th’ raf*er* f ge* a good start in th’ Marathon that would fol
low
’’But that was crude. No such eleva atm’ paeatolme could Im* kept
down be a whim av anny sheriff
“So they moved their ropes an' traps into town an’ hoired th' biggeyt
hall that was t' be had.
“Th’ polls probably figured ’hat what was everybody’s business »i»
nobody s business, so th game was on full swing
“Promoters sprung up lolke burdocks an’ pugs loike dandelion*.
“Th' pa a per s had pictures av th' pugs wid th' list av jaws they'd
cracked, but they never gave their poiis record "
"Were th' bouts popular’” asked Casey
"Rure." said Grogan “A bangin' would probably draw a crowd tint
would fill th' ball pa ark
'An' such a crowd. Bankers would be seated along soide av ala ad
that was an authority on robhin' hanks
“A sober man could get a Jag from his neighbor if th' wind was In
th roight direction, an th' raw roa'erial fr a riot was always in attend
ance.
'Whin th’ crowd grew trnpatient an' sta-artod t' smash th' Pure wid
their heels, th’ master av ceremonies would mount th’ ring
Wid a dga-ar e*ub -tuck In his face he would request rh’ crowd t'
quit smokin' because it would interfere wid *h’ breathin' uv th wa nrrior
“Ol gues* he wa.s roight. becauae some av th’ clgaars smelled lolke
th' ga.* bombs th’ Ormans arre usin'
• K very wan would laugh, an' lolfh* a fresh fumtga ator
"Afther a whoile there would be a stir In th’ back av th’ house an’ a
pa«*age would be made fr a !a ad in a bathrobe tha* he’d probably bor
rowed from a ba or stolen from a haberdasher.
••He'd be followed by a string av attendants that looked loike cpn
- • nB4 t* .'; > '-r:a '
"Wan would have a bottle, another a pail, an’ another a towel that
was long overdue at th' laundhry.
"They would all cloimb Into th' ring an’ great activity would follow-
Whin th' glove* had bin put on th’ warriors an’ th' long looked fr
hour had come, everywan would get out av th’ ring but th' referee an'
th printipal<-
A conference would he held an’ th’ wa-arrlors would he *oM that
boltin’ in th’ clinche* didn’t go ,
"Thin th' referee would face th' audience ‘Glntlemln.’ sc* he, 'th
la ad on th roight P Tommy Thug, th' man on th’ left |« Kid Burglar
This Is t' he a 10 round go if th' coroner Is not called before that. Th’
audience will please keep as quiet aa possible. Shake hands. Go”
"An th 'ca-amage followed
"An' do ye 'hink.” asked Ca-ey that there la anny chance av s'artln’
tha» all over again'*’’
"Well.” -aid Grogan. “F'r a long ’oime now, some interprolsin' rltlzln*
hav bin thryin* t' Jegaiolze manslaughter."
The Little Green Mound on the Hill
BY GORDON A. DAMON.
Thfre’s a little jfTfPB mounfi on the hill ov#*r yonder,
Where the spreading elm stand* like a sentry on guard, ,
And oft, in the evening I stray there to ponder
When the gray shadows creep and the light's growing dim.
Oh, how sweet to remember the dear days long vanished,
When those gentle hands toilful serenely for me;
How quickly the troubles of childhood were banished
When mother was “judge’’ and my “court" was her knee.
How I long then to feel the soft touch of her fingers
Once again on my forehead in tender caress,
And the sound of her voice in the memory lingers
As around me the deep shades of eventide press.
The wind gently sighs in the branches above me,
And the rustle of leaves to my heart brings a thrill;
My thoughts are of her—of the mother who loved me,
And .somehow it seems she’s caressing me stilL
Barnes Suit Is Plot to Get T. R.
Out of Way, Declares Quick
By HERBERT QUICK.
In the Annul* of American law.
the case of Barnes vs. Roo*fVflt
will tak** It* place alongside Mich
trial* a* that of Aaron Burr, and the
Beecher Tilton case 1 know of no
other* equal to It In appeal to pub
lie interest and In possible Influence
on public affalra
What, for Instance, William
Panu|« mean to do In this case*
«1 «*t a judgment for damage* against
Theodore Roosevelt? That is the
least of hi# concerns
A quo like Itarnes doe* not sue
for Hbet m a flt of anger Neither
doe* ha act as an Individual The
synon>m of William Uarne* Is Or
gnnlration This ts not a lawsuit
It Is a Movement.
Marr.es believe he can de
stroy Rooaevelt as a public man*
IMe* he believe that In this lawsuit
he can adduce evidence which will
humble to earth the Idol of the
\rrertoan pe pie for so many years *
He believes he has a chance to
do It. or he would not have begun,
and he I* no f«*ol Yet. It does not
follow from hts beginning of the
suit that he can succeed In It. and
mind, if :ie displays before us facts
which are to Rvisevelt’s discredit,
he will hare succeeded no matter
who gets the \erdlct. The outcome
eannu* hurt Harnes His reputation
will not be smirched by the decision
nr* matter w-hat 1* may be He has
everything to gain and nothing to
los-* In the encounter The fidelity
of his followers i* not based on any
such flimsy foundation as right and
wrong, or honor and dishonor
Rooseveit was destroying the Re
publican party when he made the
rh*rg*J< against Barnes which pro
voked the libel suit The suit Is
the Republican party's answer ft,
through Barnes, turn* on Its assail*
ant and seeka to destroy him.
To Barnes’ nilnd. Roosevelt has
bwome a nuisance which must be
abated He I* Much s nuisance still
to Barv.»- and the Barnes crowd
How *o stta*k him* Drag him Into
court tr a suit In which his whole
life may be showp up' F>er since
he was 21 years of age he has been
In public .fe Barre* has Inherited
th- - * record* of an organisation the
Pick Place to Spend Your Vacation With
Due Regard for Health—Some Hints
This is the time of ye»r when the
cit.. t**ller heirlns *o plan his -#<*•
’ion and in se
l in<>» which may result seriously
Tiuire are thousands of resorts
<ot»ag-« and camps vnrr* the de
fe< ta in -anltatlon present a genu
,n* menace
Or’aln things should be carefully
observed. The water supply, the
disposal of sewage and garbage,
•he milk supply, particularly if
there are infants or young children.
If the water supply come* from a
sell be sure that it 1s not located
e-here It will receive underground
<r surface drainage from a barn
af'J or outhouse it i K essential to
101 l water *aken from aurface
streams Clearness is no guarantee
o. purity.
If springs are the source of sup
ply. care should be taken that they
are not surrounded by habitations
or other source# of pollution In
A Poem a Day.
i.itti.k no* bi.i r.
Th* littl* toy do* la rov*r*d with
duit,
Rut Murdy ami *ta nch h*
And th* lilt * toy aoldlar la rad with
mat,
An<l hia mu*k#* rroMa In hia hand*
Tim* waa wh*n th* littl* *ny dog
»t« r*w.
And t a aoldlar war paaalng fair.
And that wa* th* tim* when our
L ttl* Foy Hl'i*
Kl«.*d fo*m and put tham thar*
"So*•. don't jou go till I coma," ha
*ald.
"Ami ilon t you mak* any nolaa"’
So toddling off to hia trundl* ha«l.
H* «tr*.':mf of th* pr.ttr toya.
Anil, a* ha wm draamlng, an angal
"uni
Av ik*n*il our T.lttl* Hoy HI no
rth th* y*ara ar* many, tha y*ara
nr* l< ng
Hut thr littl# toy frlanda ara trua!
A . faithful to Util# B«y BJu*. thay
atand,
l‘a*h In th* tint nld plara.
/* waiting tha touch of a llttla hand,
Titt amll* of a llttla fa*a.
A’-) th»v wondar. aa waiting tha lon*
yaarr through
In th* »luat of that littl* chair,
V. hat n.ia t.a< oma of our lAMta Boy
filu*
► n'* h* kla**d tham an<l put tham
that*
Kugana Field.
Causa and Effacl
"Mia* lnwktr,” said Trofasaor
Jol ling with n h*sltant manner, ' a
I“>rhl<' irnpul*** prompts m# to ask
you if you will b« my wife."
"Honi*thlng of th* asm* sort
rtruck Mr fltlklna last night, pro
fessor. and th* r*roll promptad me
lo say 'Yes'" —Baltimore Hun.
Conacianc* Easy.
"How about th* sanltaVr condl
Hons at your hotel? la *y*r) thing
uraithy?” *rk*d Jlmpson.
"Wag!!" aaid th# rural proprl*tor.
"nol»ody *y*r k*tch*d nothin’ at tny
haonsp what havn’t l»**n brought
here by so me outsider/'—Judge.
SATURDAY. MAY 8, 1915
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buainesa of which it is to know the
record# of such men.
To mind, and the minds
of such as Harues, Roosevelt Is pe
cullarly loathsome. They say that
he assumes to have Invented de
cenoy In public life, and progress In
poll!lea, and that he hales l<« Kol
lette. Cummins. Bryan and other
vendors of decency and progress as
on hta patent
And the colonel HAS been rather
Inclined to a monopoly of all the
virtues Said the Patriarch Job In
his Oath of Clearing
'lf 1 have walked with vanity,
And my foot hath tasted deceit.
If my step bath turned out of the
way.
And my heart walked after mine
eyas.
And If any spot hath cleaved to
mine hands
Then let me sow. and let another
eat;
Yea. let the produce of my fleld he
rooted out"'
1 never rend that wonderful pas
sage from Job -this is only a hit of
It. you know —without Instinctively
looking at the bottom to see If it
Is not signed "T. K." It sounds #0
R.xis*eveltlan ’
Such a man Is a stench In the
nostrils of Barnes Barnes believes
Roosevelt to he a hypocrite and he
thinks he can prove It lr co.irt And
so he began this suit It Is * move
In tpe campaign o f 191*' !' Is k« i t
to red ice the percentage ->f cu»'rg
stock held by the colonel In tbe
affairs of the nation
Roosevelt will come out c.f this
hutt npber vastly stronger than h*-
fore, or weakened If Barnes car
rlee out the projects »hl#;*-reH
about In the corridor*. Roosevelt
will emerge, like Othello
*'A fixed flgure for the lime of s- om
To point !*# slow ur.m >vtng finger
a* '
Barnes means to make of him
Juat such a pitiable figure, a wreck,
a ruin xr.d Barnes Is mighty. let
11s not forget ’hat Mighty in cun
nlng n.tghty In t>ow*r to scrape 'he
areas and gutters for evidence,
mighty In *he hd«t of alders and
abettors who make war with Mm
As for the colotiel well, we know
hts agility, his power of using all
the time a hundred per cent of hi*
strong personality.
small villages nr shore places If the
’v»*er supplies are public, diligent
tucpilry ahculd be made as to
r 1-ether the souro# la free from
sew**e contamination
If the disposal of sewage and ear
fnge i# careless, flies are certain to
breed, and unless kitchens and din
lr>g rooms are carefully screened
there is the possibility of typhoid or
diarrheal Infection from this source
With young children, particularly
infants, the question of a clean mdk
supply Is one of vital Importance
Fresh milk is of Ttrrfr advantage un
less it be clean milk
ft would be a dreadful calamity to
tontlnue to waste and destroy the
resource* of the nation as until a
few years ago we were wasting and
destroying them, as we still. In cer
tain respects, continue to waste and
destroy them. But It would be an
even worse calamity, because
irremediable. If we wasted and de
atroyed the manhood and woman
hood of thr nation And the only
way permanently to conserve the
manhood and womanhood Is to con
serve the childhood.—Theodore
Roosevelt
j Pointed Paragraphs
The average girl love# to figure In
an engagement.
The more fault you look for the
more you will find
Its difficult to convince a pretty
girl that love Is blind
A spider Is seldom in danger
when his life bangs hr a thread
The hardest branch of learning
grows on a birch tree—says H
schoolboy.
The first step Is often so ex
penalve that one can't afford to
take a aecond.
Hess Haskins
' ' n
44 You've got your man on th’
rope* in a war argument when
all he ha* left t' Mupport hi*
side in international law."
THE VACANT LOT
■ Y DR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyrtght. 1116. by Frank Crane )
There nre vacant lots in every city.
Some are covered with rubbish, some
grow full of weeds, all are unsightly,
desolate. Somebody is presumably hold
ing them for a rise in values, and there
by furnishing arguments for single
taxers. Or they may be tied up by litiga
tion, a portion of the Smith estate that
cannot be sold until the heirs are 21. or
the property of a bank which finds more
profit in keeping them idle than in build
ing on them.
That is exhibit one. Exhibit two is a
lot of children in the same cities. They
are full of energy, anxious for something
to do, engaged mostly in mischief simply
because their activities are undirected
Problem: to get vacant lots and idle
children together.
Many attempts have been made to
solve this problem. Women’s organiza
tions, public sch»>o! teachers, and in some
cases the city officials themselves have
undertaken the utilization of vacant
spaces.
What has been thus done sporadically
ought to he done systematically ami
thoroughly. The effect would be whole
some upon all the factors concerned:
upon the land, the city, ami the children.
Land is the cleanest producer of
wealth. It comes nearest giving us
something for nothing. Just a little
care and labor and it come* back to us
with hands full of reward.
If the people of this country, using
only their idle time, would intelligently
cultivate their hack yards and vacant
lots. the\ could feed almost the entire
population.
A general campaign in any town, to
take care of these bits of vagrant land,
would transform it into a city beautiful,
a city of gardens. And the reflex action
of neat and charming surroundings upon
the people is more immense than we
realize Little boys who tend gardens
are different from little boys who play
in lots strewn with tin cans and full of
jimson and rag weed. There is a direct
(connection between gardens and self-re
sped.
We need n*> new legislation We need
no philanthropist's gift of money. All
we need is brains and proper sentiment.
For with these wc shall get due organi
zation.
Who will organize the vacation life of
the boys and girls? What Napoleon of
childhood will bring the city children to
the city vacant land?
He w ill be a marked public benefactor.
For the garbage strewn area is not only
an eyesore, but it is a breeder of disease
and a silent corrupter of public morals.
us create a public opinion that
shall make it as disgraceful to have
filthy and tousled hack yard as it is to
have an unswept house-floor. Let us
have a civic pride that shall tolerate no
offensive dumps and no bare and baked
ajjtv lots that might In* full of bloom and
ordered growth.
If the few have a pride that leads
them to put on pretty clothes and deck
themselves with fine feathers, why can
not the many have a pride that induces
them to adorn their city with the ap
pearance of thrift and loveliness?
From Another
Point of View
By the way, what was the nationality
of the fellow who drove that firebox
across the Belle Isle bridge?
• • *
Mr. Barnes may now take the stand
and claim the $50,000 on the ground that
the Colonel had no right to talk that
way about , him after having made him
a good citizen.
ass
So far Woodward cars have been com
paratively safe for neutrals, but we sup
pose you never can tell.
• • •
Th«^ - suspended a Chicago policeman
for 15 days for wearing a wrist watch.
We trust this was the limit under the
rules.
• * •
Will somebody please advise for the
benefit of M. L, at what hour under
Eastern standard time, a man should
leave the office he has told the collector
to call at 3?
* • •
Some of the original opponents of fast
time seem to have beaten the clock to
it and turned around.
• * s
One of the most difficult assignments
we ever heard of was received by a De
troit correspondent of a New York new’s
paper, as follows: "Get interviews with
Detroit people on the Lusitania."
• • •
Helen Hodge. of Binghamton. N. Y., dumb IS
years. has Inmsd so speak News Rem.
Now watch Helen make up for lost
time.
WIRELESS BHONES EOn TRAINS
For many years. F H. Milliner, experiment*!
engineer of the I'nlnn Pacific tallway, ban been
working on wlrele** telephone apparatus for
direct communication with moving trains. He
announce* through the "Hcleutiflc American'’
that hi* plans have been completed and a sat
isfactory system has been developed whereby
he Is ahle to talk with a moving train ion mil**
away from the w|rel*#a transmitting station
Wlreleaa stations are to be established at
tlraml Island and North Platte, Neb.; CheyeDM
and (Jraen Hirer, Wyo., and Ogden,