The Detroit times. [volume], June 22, 1915, AFTERNOON EDITION, Image 12

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Hr.ia»T TIMES
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jdaned bv kUehard W. Reading. business
' t’crttPiT. junk n, i»i«.
Governor Has Faced
ssgßtc Test and Met-It Well
thf things men do under fire
them end show what men
¥%hP' doesn’t require as much courage to
WSt “God Save the King" in London as
Ejitoß in Berlin.
Mu mint thing in the world for a
fflnHNlb to do is to go with the ma-
PKkIIF W the preponderance of sentiment.
Vr, ';|Ebs majority is not slways right,
miithir is the preponderance
slways rihgtly placed, par-
when the subject is one that is
■Bpgfeted to local feeling and exposed to
of justice dulled by prejudice.
BSjj||fcft governor of Georgia, JOHN M.
■BBiillg. (by all means let us print his
Sglfie In capital letters), had been s
-man lie would have let Leo M.
I 'B|h to the gallows.,
Wmmte had decided that Frank should
I id es the state of Georgia,
• had the approval of the
w of people of the common
ive insured him another
easily, while the action he
lit in a hard fight for his
ts it again at aH
went against public senti
sd the bwK
to yield to political greed
to hi need as a measuring
scales of justice,
to be a party to a lynching
I enough American to real
governor of the state of
IS his duty to step in end
pie from bloodthirst and
ibiUty of their sending sn
» more than save Leo M.
and Georgia.
Children Growing
it—Says Italy To Us
red today where some of
children live.
ck car and when you get
few blocks up s side street
is no asphalt and conse
eed maniacs driving auto
ilenty of vacant lots where
id daisies are growing in
and there are piles of sand,
and bought by the cubic yard
lied in an especially con
i an immaculate back yard,
with old bits of discarded
crockery handy by.
en are not overburdened
sad no one tells them not
m they have on; they are
stkldngless and the damp
ed with the prints of tiny
i wonderful castles and the
iks cakes on the broken
r the dandelions and daisies
an into sticky bouquets and
castles or cakes as the esse
stick of candy which goes
ach one taking a good long
ittnolested by stupid, big
mu, from two years up, to
M affaire of Use.
anything them is to climb
iHfillff Iff anything there is to
narer Ml
. m* m the healthiest,
liveliest lot of babies we have seen.
They are learning to take care of them
selves and at the same time are making
themselves strong and fearless.
No one tells them to “Stop," 'Don’t,”
"Be careful.”
In fact, the grown-ups are too busy
cooking and washing to do more than
hunt them up at mealtimes and see that
they are under cover at night
They are going to be "the people” some
day, and little trials and difficulties will
not phase them.
They will triumph over obstacles and
stand up under blows.
No pampered weaklings, wedded to
habits of ease and flabby from inertia
can come from these small folk.
They will be inured to work and able
to combat the struggles which life inevi
tably brings.
And. after all, what is the Montessori
method? To let the children learn for
themselves and become independent, self
reliant individuals.
Must we go to Italy in order to learn
so simple a thing?
Don’t Blame the Four and
Let 12 More, Guilty, Escape
After knocking down a small boy at Superior
street and St Aubin avenue at 6:25 o'clock Sun
day evening an automobile containing four
young men aped north on St. Aubin avenue and.
turning west Into Garfield avenue, struck 9-
year-old Frances Kowalski, of 542 Garfield ave
nue, Inflicting injuries that may cause her death.
The machine then continued swiftly out Garfield
avenue and disappeared.
We have clipped from a newspaper re
port of just another accident due to reck
less and criminal automobile driving.
But the report is wrong insofar as it
places the blame upon the four young
men in the automobile.
There were sixteen responsible parties
—the four young men AND THE 12
MEMBERS Or THE JURY IN THE
FRANK NEWSOM CASE.
Newsom was proven to have been
drunk and driving at a drunken pace in
his automobile when he ran down and
killed Miss Gladys Brown on Woodward
avenue.
But the 12 men on this jury were able
to agree that he was not guilty of man
slaughter.
Immediately the speed maniacs put on
their accelerators.
LOOK OUT!
The Value of Enthusiasm
BY M. ADDINGTON MUCK
(Author of "The JUMie es Personality,"
"Psychology aad Parenthood." etc.)
Do you remember how you felt when you
were young? Do you remember the strength
that teemed to be In yon. the hopefulness wltn
which you looked forward to the future, the
certainty you bad in your ability to achieve
whatever you undertook?
In a word, when you were young you were
ENTHUSIASTIC. Are you enthuaiantic today?
If you are not, I beg of you to strive earnest
ly to win back the vanished gift
It is in truth a gift, and one of the most prec
ious gifts Nature bestows on man.
Too many aUow it to slip from their grasp
under the adverse influences of the first years
of adult effort. The discovery that success is
not to be achieved at a single leap chills their
souls. They lose interest in their work, interest
in their fellow beings, interest in themselves.
And with the fading of enthusiasm comes in
creasing loss of power. Physically as well as
mentally one deteriorates. This Is Inevitable,
since every mood, every state of mind, has a
direct influence on the functions of the body.
Enthusiasm, the most pleasurable of all
mental states excepting only love, stimulates ail
the bodily processes. Its replacement by cold
ness, harshness, dulness, deadens them.
All really great men—all men who have been
the benefactors of the race, the Darwins, the
Newtons, the Edison* —have been enthusiasts
their lives long. And their lives have been long
BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN ENTHUSI
ASTS.
One has only to study the annals of genius
to appreciate the truth of this.
Frail of constitution many a man of genius
lias been. \et that same man, vitalized by hi*
enthusiastic interest In the tasks be set himself,
has found it possible to work far into the night,
and to work on. and on, and on, through a vig
orous old age.
Had he allowed bis Interest, his enthusiasm,
to die out, be himself would have perished, or
would have lapsed into a condition of unachiev
ing mediocrity.
It la precisely because most of us allow the
hard knocks of experience to chill the ardor of
our youth, that we fail to attain the dreams of
youth.
What we ought to do is to Insist to ourselves
that a few failures count for nothing; that while
we have life, we have power to accomplish; and
that, no matter how many obstacles Fate may
place before us, we can and will in the end
wrest victory from defeat
Set yourself a definite goal. Choose some vo
cation In which you know you can take a real
interest And cultivate an ever Increasing In
terest in It the longer you apply yourself to It.
That la the secret of retaining the enthusiasm
of youth. It Is in large part the secret of suc
cess In life.
ENGLAND’S BACKWARD GARDENS
Evidence of the backwardness of Englishmen
in the cultivation of fruit and vegetables Is
borne by Fuller, who. writing In IMO, saya:
"Gardening was first brought Into England for
profit about 70 years ago; before which we
fetched most of our cherries from Holland, ap
ples from France, and had hardly a mess of ripe
peas but from Holland, which were dainties for
ladles, they came ao far, and cost so dear. Since
gardening hath crept out of Holland to Sand
wich, Kent and thence to Bnrrey, where, though
they have given a# an sere and upward*, they
have made their rent, lived comfortably. and act
many paopla an wait* London diedda
DETROIT TIMES
The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime.
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Filling Up Kitchener's Army
The fiercest war the world has
ever seen and In which Great Brit*
sin is vitally interested baa been tn
progress over eight months, and baa
necessitated recruiting an enormoua
army. The authorities tried to en
force the strict physical require
ments, but have bad to relax them
a little, also to extend the age limit
a few years. Men from 12 to 3S
years of age are now eligible to join
Kitchener’s army for the duration of
the war.
. Who says that the English have
no sense of humor? We hear the
tale of a strong, eligible yoong man
presenting himself for enlistment
and giving his age at 18. The re
cruiting sergeant looked at him
longingly for a few momenta and
then said. “Say. taka a walk around
the park! Maybe you'll be older
when you get back." And sure
enough when he returned ha was
18. The speaker from the tail of the
cart In Hyde park who related thise
incident yesterday was promptly
heckled by one of the audience who
said. “Oh, but that's wrong!"
Many people think the authorities
have only themselves to thank for
the lack of enthusiasm some men
have displayed. Many English
people still fail to grasp the tremen
dous importance of the life and
death struggle in Europe. That
| USED TO IT.
"I hope my daughter's playing
doesn't disturb you." said the man
who had Just bought anew piano.
“Not in the least," replied his
next-door neighbor. “I work in a
boiler factory all day.’’—New York
world.
Signs of Old Age
Are you watching, brother, for the signs of old age?
It is not when your hair is getting thin that you are passing Into old
*ge.
It is not wrhen your teeth are falling out, or when you. go upstairs flat
footed. It is not when you are afraid to run to catch a car. or when you
-i ii ■! ———. , ■„ ■ ——■eseasßCjautac
can’t play baseball, or when your back aches after working in the garden
a few minutes These are not tha algae of old age, but of overwork
merely.
if the sight of h June bride, arrayed In her finest, suffused with blushes,
filled with hope, covered by confusion, happy and smiling, yet fearful,
radiant with hope, trembling with expectancy, waiting to fast the pressure
of her husband’s arms, throbbing with youth, lifted above all ordinary
cares by the vision she sees—ls this eight doesn't make you, too, happy,
doesn’t bring a smile to your shoe, then you are HOPBLMBLY OLD.
If tba June bride In all her an tic log loveliness doesn’t move you,
OOOD NIOHT!
This is tha proof that you are too sordid, too #l4. lan calloue—getting
old!
splendid description of the first bat
tle of Yprta written by Will Irwin
from Information derived from ’high
official sources" and published four
months after the event, has causad
a sea eat toe hare and people want to
know why they were not allowed
to share the glorious newt earlier —
and Incidentally why they should
have to wait for an American writer
to divulge It. The British public are
not surprised at the terms in which
Mr. Irwin extols the success of their
armies. In fact, there is a feeling
that everything must he going all
right as they haven’t heard to the
contrary, so why should the war de
partment bother those who don’t
want to enlist? If things were not
going right they would Join at once,
hut they are not allowed to know
the truth. Instead the whole coun
try Is covered with flaunting posters
bearing appeals for men to enlist.
Soma of them are of a pictorial na
ture and the work of well-known ar
tists and illustrators. They stare you
tn the face everywhere, from walls,
windows, tha front of taxicabs, .the
sldee of busses and from the hoard
ings. Many people think this is an
undignified way to call men to the
colors, but the parliamentary re
cruiting committee continues to
flood the land with new and more
vivid specimana of the printer’s art.
—James H. Hare In Leslie’s.
RECOGNIZED
"I mw my boyhood chum today,
the one that has become a million
aire."
“Did he recognise yon?"
“I guess so. He turned a corner
when he saw me coming.’’
—By Webster.
Fans Indebtedness
A little more than three-firths of
the fagns In the United States are
operated by their owners, and a
little less than two-fifths by ten
ants. As to farms operated by ten
ants, the census makes no attempt
to learn whether or not they are
mortgaged; but, as to farms oper
ated by owners, It reports one-third
mortgaged and two-thirds tree from
incumbrance. Probably among
farms operated by tenants the ratio
of those free to those mortgaged Is
not widely different.
As to about three-quarters of the
farms operated by owners and
mortgaged, the census reports the
amount of tbe mortgage debt—the
aggregate being roughly one and
threequarter billion dollars, or 27
per cent of the value of lands and
buildings.
If, as seems fairly likely, about
the same ratio of Indebtedness ap
plies to tbe other farms that are
operated by own bra and mortgaged,
then we hare farm lands and build
ings valued at twenty-two and a
third billion dollars operated by
owners, and mortgaged to nine per
cent of the total value.
Farm lands and buildings valued
roughly at twelve and a half billion
dollars are operated by tenants and
managers. No report concerning
the Incumbrance on them Is avail
able. If we wish to assume that
they are mortgaged to about the
same extent as farm lands and
buildings operated by owners, then
we may take the total farm-mort
gage Indebtedness as something
over three billion dollars; but that
Is assuming In a pretty free-and
easy manner.
So far as census figures show,
mortgage debt relatively to value
has decreased la 10 years; and the
first glance at the census tables
shows clearly that mortgaged farms
are no indication whatever of agri
cultural depression. lowa has a
greater proportion of mortgaged
farms operated by owners than
any other state, aad lowa Is per
haps the most flourishing agricul
tural state in the union.
The proportion of mortgaged
farms Is twice as high In Wiscon
sin as In New Hampshire; three
times as high In Illinois as In West
Virginia; 10 times as high la North
Dakota as In New Mexico—which
certainly does not mean that farm
ers are twice as prosperous In New
Hampshire as In Wisconsin, and so
on. In many cases a farm mort
gage, exactly like a railroad mort
gage, means prosperity and expan
sion.
As to the million aad more farms
for which the censes furnishes fig
ures, the mortgage debt is but little
over a quarter of the value of lands
and buildings. The average value
of the mortgaged tend Is. In round
numbers, s<4oo; the mortgage Is
11,700; the owners’ equity. $4,100.
Probably exactness la not to be
claimed tor these census figures;
but it Is a fair assumption that
they show approximately the situa
tion.—Saturday evening Poet
A Question of Construction.
An elderly farmer drove Into town
one day and hitched hie team to a
telegraph poet.
"Here!’* exclaimed a burly police
man, “you can't hitch there!”
“Can’t hitch!" shouted the Irate
termer. "Well, why have yon got a
sign v% Tine far hitchlaT Argo-
TUESDAY, JUNg 22, ISIS
A Poem s Day.
_ . TVB DAT IS DVINA.
The Uaeth'slng shadows fall, and
darkness swoopeth
Her saddened heart o’er all; full lon*
_ she weepeth.
Per he she loved has gone and left
her sighing.
Alone, dtegraoed. undone, —the day Is
dying.
the trusted, ah. too well. Would one
had spoken
Ere she had sunk to hell, and now,
heartbroken.
She duetts upon the paat, her fate
deerring.
The t untie ht fades at last, —the day
u dying.
Receiving nousht but acorn, by kin
sorer Kvn;
With oetn and sorrow torn, by an
guirh shaken.
She. In her woeful plight, hope from
her flying.
Awaits the rom'm night.—the day la
dying.
The night shades Rather fast, ths
daylight fadeth.
A calm and peace at laat her soul
pervadeth:
Her heart sinks on her breast, hush
ed Is her crying;
Her soul has round Its rest. —ths
day U dying. w J P
Pointed Paragraphs
Most of us ars charitable —to
out solves.
It's easier to become a hero than
to live up to It.
A man of ability may be one who
la able to bold bia Job.
Many s man who la headstrong
thinks It's up to him to butt in.
It doesn't take s good liar very
long to develop Into a bad actor.
A loafer is s man who won t work
and who can't invent a scheme that
will.
People with false teeth are
among those who bite off more than
they can chew.
Henrts are trumps in the game of
love, buts gir! expects a rnan to
lead diamonds.
And many s man’s conscience is
like cold molasses. It moves slowly
and gets there too late
Wise la the mother who doesn’t
attempt to croer-examine her small
off spring In the preei nee of the
minister.
Men and women are always mak
ing trouble for each other; but If
s stone wall separated them they
would tear It down In order to get
together.
THE SUBSTITUTE
There had been a homicide In the
town and n man had l*e*-n sentenced
ta be hanged. Tbe police department
et al.. swung the hangman’s noose
over the first limb of the old syca
more just outside the town and were
Just about ready to swing the mur
derer up when the Are bell began to
ring.
This Interrupted the banging be
cause tbe squad had to hurry away
to put out the fire. Tney tied their
victim to the tree and went away
and left him.
While they were gone a ''bum*'
came along and saw the roan tied to
a tree. He asked the heir apparent
to a wooden covering why he was
tied to the tree.
•"Well, you see,” the slayer said.
“I belong to a moving picture com
pany and I'm now posing for a pic
tnre. It’s rather tiresome, and I’ll
give you $5 if you'll stay here an
hour In my place.''
The stranger accepted, and the
exchange of clothes and ropes was
made. Pretty soon the firemen came
back to finish the Job. They slipped
tbe black cap over the stranger's
head and fixed tbe noose around his
neck. “All heave,” they cried, and
swung him upward, but the rope
broke and be came crashing to
earth.
The stranger rolled over, sat up
and looked surprised as the hood was
taken from his head.
“Say,” he said, "you fellers are
goin' to hurt somebody some day
with that kind of monkey business.''
TORTURE
“I think 111 have to do a little
bridge work on your upper Jaw,” re
marked the dentist amiably.
Ts it going to hurt any more than
the subway work you did on my low
er Jaw?*’ asked the victim with a
sbuddsr of apprehension.—New York
World.
Hess Haskins.
"PhQukkr Higginbotham,
mi if Hi Higginbotham, th*
local mflk dealer, takee t* his
Jab at th* chnreh. pimpin' th*
organ. Him a chip off th* old
Signs of Intelligence.
•V DR. PRANK CRANS
(Copyright, lfilfi, by Frank Crane)
Little by little the able etatefimen and
gifted publicists, who have for so long
been flopping about in the dark confu
sion of “national defense" on the ona
hand and tha "peace propaganda** on the
other, are seeing the light, and climbing
up to solid ground.
It ought to be plain to everybody that
national armament it no way to prevent
war, as it has been tried since such time
as the memory of man runneth not to
the contrary, and nothing has come of
it but wars and bigger wan and wan
increasingly horrific.
And it ought to be equally plain that
that passing peace resolutions, holding
peace conferences, describing the terrors
and waste of war and the advantages
of peace, get nowhere.
Thirdly, also it ought to be plainest
of all that there is one way and only ona
way by which the revolting process of
war can be eliminated from national pos
sibilities.
And that way is to organize the inde
pendent nations into some sort of federa
tion where the only considerable armed
force will be the international police.
Nations will never cease war until it
is rendered impossible for them to go to
war. Just as street brawls in a rough
city district can never be stopped until
there is an efficient constabulary.
It is therefore to be noted with pleas
ure that two of the most conspicuoui
“defense" talkers have recently come out
with public expressions emphasizing the
necessity of world government. I refei
to Dr. Lyman Abbott, who in a com
mencement address spoke of the need of
world law, and to Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, who struck the right note in hii
remarks at Union College at Scheneo
tady. He said:
“Nations must unite in order to pro
serve peace and order. The great n*
tions must be so united as to be able ts
say to any single country, you must not
go to war, and they can only say that
effectively when the country desiring war
knows that the force which the united
nations place behind peace i« irresis
tible. > g
“It may be easily said that this idea*
which is not anew one, is impracticable,
but it is better than the idea that war
can be stopped by language, by speech
making, by vain agreements which no
one would carry out when the itresa
came, by denunciations of war and lauda
tions of peace, in which all men agree,
for these methods are not only imprac
ticable, but impossible and barren of all
hope of real result. It may seem Uto
pian at this moment to suggest a union
of civilized nations in order to put a
controlling force k>ehind the maintenance
of peace and international order, but it
is through the aspiration for perfection,
through the search for Utopias, that the
real advances have been made.'*
" ' ” " 1 ' ' " 111 1 -
From Another
Point of View
Gov. Slaton took that means of show
ing the rest of the country that justice
didn't march right through Georgia
* • •
They are convinced in Walkerville that
a German ble\v up that overall factory.
Probably because of the fact he spared
the brewery.
• • *
Every day is dark and dreary
Though we know the sun is shining;
Though perhaps we should be cheery.
We’re repining.
Get up mornings bright and bleary.
Come down here and sit and sqnibble;
If this poem makes you weary,
Ish kabibble.
• • e
We have looked up the matter for you,
Phyllis, and have ascertained that in the
event of a tie vote on the new bridge it
would be a draw.
* • •
GAD enters this one in the odd-name
contest: Fred O. Dessert, meats, 690
Riopelle-st.
• a •
We note that Proctor Knott Owens
pleadings of his many friends and be
pleadings oT hsi many friends and be
come a candidate.
HIS GIFT NOT ONLY MONEY
Ambrose Kwasey, who recently gave $200,000
to engineering societies to promote reaearcb Is
that field, designed and built the Lick, Yerken
and United Staten naval obaervatorlea. He is
sixty-nine years old, n pant prenldent of tbs
American Society of Mechanical Engineers and
of the Cleveland Engineering Society, n mem
ber of the Institution of Mechanical Rnglnesrs
of «.,reat Britain and of the British Astronomical
Society. In 1900 he received from the French
government the decoration of the Legion of
Honor for his work on astronomical lustre
menu.
BITS OF INFORMATION
Kansas ts now the wealthiest state, in pro
portion to population.
The Greek array will form an automobile
battalion with 400 motor trucks.
German experimenters have found that Si
plosions can be caused in gas works by sparks
from telephones.
flwitserland really has a navy. She has Just
bought twenty-nine large motorboats, armed
with quick-filing guns, to pakrol Lako Cow
stakes.
The old steel gallows in use for many jeers
In the county Jail at Allegheny, Pa., after haing
draped in colored silks and garlanded with flow
ers, has been converted Into s swing tor school
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