The Detroit times. [volume], July 11, 1916, LAST EDITION, Page PAGE 11, Image 11

About The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920

Image provided by: Central Michigan University, Clark Historical Library

                
SNARING A SUBMARINE!
Crew of Boat Caught In Net, Down In Depths of Sea, Fight Each Other In Insane Fury *"d Be* to Be Shot, Mary Boyle
O’Reilly Is Told By War Official
By MARY BOYLE O'REILLY.
LONDON, England, July 10. —On*
of the horrors of modern warfare
from which the bravest of naval
men shrink Is the task of raising n
sunken submarine!
Bhell shock leuves no memories,
artny doctors say. but men never
forget the sights seen In a sunken
U-boat.
"The nation’s safety calls for war
work which threatens to burst the
brain with horrors." an army doctor
told me.
"Every strategic channel around
•England Is strung with gigantic nets
designed to trap raiding submarines
and more than 1,000 have been taken
by the English.
Then he told me how a subma
rine Is snared and raised.
“When a submarine gets Into one
of the nets," he said, "efforts to es
cape only cause it to be entangled
more helplessly.
"The submarine, striking the net.
sends s signal to the headquarters
of destroyers that are eternally
rsady for Just such a thing to hap
pen.
"When the signal Is flashed that
a U boat has been caught, a de
stroyer proceeds to a spot Just
above where the U-boat Is snared
THE STRANGE CASES OF MASON
GRANT, by Nevll Moores Hop
kins. in which anew method of
committing a homicide, involving
alt aorta of mysterious complies
tionc combine to make a hair rais
ing detective story.
Science Is a grvut blessing to the
world If righMy nppliid. blit when it
Is used to kill off men by the thou
sands as It has In the present war,
and one man In particular an It does
la this story, we can see how hlgh
*way robbery and slaving of the old
variety were moral compared with
the deep-dyed villainy noresaary to
carry out the cold bloodud schemes
of Lamar, the hero of (his book.
Killing by radium, or by firing a
cannon with a wireless current are,
aa the small boy would say. “going
some." Mason Brant, the detective.
Is a friendly, lovable character, not
at all dehumanised by his profes
sion
J. B. Lippi root t. Philadelphia;
91.25
THE GERMAN REPUBLIC, a book
with an alluring title by Walter
Wellman. How to end the great
war and what la to come after the
war are questions on the title
page.
Walter Wellman believes that Ger
many has awakened to the Iniquity
of Its government In forcing It Into
war. He thinka that the true Ger
man soul has revolted and stands
aghast at the useless, awful havoc
which Germany has wrought. He
further feels that If wo were to
voice cur faith In the Integrity of
the real German character, and send
a formal address to this effect, sign
ad by 1,000 or more American names,
and If we were to speak a*, friends
offering frank counsel and encour
agement, we would receive a re
sponse from the German people, and
the war might be brought to a closo
much quicker. His book begins with
tho primitive tribal Ideal of the Ger
man people which responded to the
call of Its chief at the flrst cry of
danger; but, he says, Germany has
also another aspect, It is an educat*
ed, cultured civilisation, and when
the belief In Its having been attack
ed was killed, as Mr. Wellman be
lieves it was. the better German ele
ment came to the surface. He has
written a number of chapters rueh
as he thinks anv Germtn might
write at the close of the war. If he
Is right in his lodgment there Is no
quarrel with tbe German people.
Detroit Patriotic Fund
I hereby contribute $ toward a fund to be
established for the relief of wives, children and other
dependents left in want by the contingencies of military
service in this country’s interest.
Signature
PleAse send contributions to "Detroit Patriotic
Fund,” care Postmaster William J. Nagel, or care Mayor
Oscar B. Marx. For information phone Light Guard
Armory, Main 4890.
JULY 1916.
"Then there la nothing to do but
wait—sometimes for hours, some
times for days. Officers and men of
the waiting vessel know what’s go
Ing on down In the green depths.
"They know that In time bubbles
will come to the surface and oil
BOOK REVIEWS
I only with the military party and Its
; leader.
However one may feci, this 1* an
Interesting book, and shows a tine
spirit of good will and helpfulness,
much needed In the darkness which
lia.i closed In about unhappy Europe.
He also believes that out of this
slaughter, the Oerman republic will
be born.
E. P. Dutton A Cos., New York;
91.00.
• • •
WHEN I WAS A BOY IN RUBBIA,
by Vladimir Mokrlevltch. An ee
pscially Interesting storr for boys,
full cf the thrills that a boy likes,
yet not overdrawn.
Little boys seem to be the same
all over ilie world. Here is Vladt
! mir Mokrlevltch, living In Russia.
I playing ‘‘jungle" among the tall
weeds of the orchard and planning
! raids on the Jam pots exactly »■ an
American little boy would do. The
life described by hlin In his book
is a true picture of the heme of a
Russian army officer and his family.
In the winter they w« nt on wonder
ful sleigh rides, snuggled down lu
the draw in three horsed troikas, and
at night they went ic the kitchen,
where the peasants would gather,
some on the top of the oven, and tell
them blood-curdling talea.
Towards the end, when Vladimir
becomes a student and takes up the
cause of the revolutionists, we have
an Intimate picture cf the youthful
nihilist who. In Kiev, his native prov
ince. tried to stir up the peasants
to revolt. Believing, like Tolstoi,
that all men must work nt some
sort of manual labor, Vladimir be
came a carpenter and lived in the
Kiev Commune, which was the revo
lutionary headquarters of all those
nobles wbo were tolling among the
working people against the govern
ment. He was Anally sentenced to
14 years In Siberia, which meant In
credible suffering and cruelty in
the mines, and probable death In a
lonely, filthy cell. He describes the
lon* weary trip and his final escape
He became an eslle and lived In
Swltserland. Bulgaria and visited
America. Altogether this Is the most
Interesting of the series which tells
about boy life In the various coun
tries, published by Ixithrop, Lee A
Shepard. It Is true, and Is told lu
a way to Interest both young and
old. In spite of the present condi
tions of Russia. Vladimir Mokrle
vltch says, In his parting words,
WBSSttSIE
L— a^^piS^^SjjgapSiy^agßM.^y
will spread Its lrrldescence over the
sea.
"The destroyer waits for the bub
bles—death bubbles they are called,
for they tell a silent tale of the
death struggles going on In the sub
marine.
that with Russia’s progress he Is
well content.
• • • •
BOOK REVIEWS
ELEANOR OF THE HOUSEBOAT,
by Louise Breltenback. A book
for girls of 12 or 14, who have not
too lively an Imagination and are
not looking for startling adven
ture.
How a young girl who thinks she
Is going to be bored tQ death puts
in a summer on a houseboat Is told,
mostly by ’’Eleanor" herself. And It
is a good book for good little girls.
In fact, the goodness of Eleanor, and
her puritanical conscience, take us
back to the early Victorian days
when children were supposed to be
pern, and not heard; a quiescent
period so far away that It la even
hard to remember it. So. from the
present standpoint, Eleanor is not
a natural creation. That good for
tune comes to Eleanor In the end,
Is satisfactory but quite in accord
with the unreality of the whole story.
We doubt whether it will meet with
the approval of the young person of
today who Is full of “pep" and has
no patience for moralizing. Page
Cos., publishers; Boston.
»i t t
THEIR TRUE FAITH AND ALLE
GIANCE, by Guatavus Ohllnger.
An interesting exposition of
the earnest belief of two men who
have the good of their country at
heart.
That the hyphenated Germans will
Join the pacifists to keep the Unit
ed States defenseless and ultimate
ly pass It .over as a “sweet morsel"
to Germany (meaning Prussia), Is
the opinion of Owen Wlster In the
preface of this little book. The
book reads like a romance.
It Is a short history in six chapters,
of America; snatching out from the
smoldering Are such brands of burn
ing as the coming of the Pilgrims,
the signing of the Declaration of In
dependence. the German Immigrants
of the early days, until we are
brought face to face with Gustavus
Ohllnger's awful fear In the chapter
"KulturpoUtlk." his Interpretation
of the Oerman policy toward this
country In the present war. Mr.
Ohllnger is possessed of poetic Im
agination with which he can draw
telling pktures, but the conclusion
to which they all tend, and the clos
ing paragraph Itself Is whether or
not “Germanism Is to he exalted
over American cltlienshlp!” The
author Is sincere and earnest We
respect hi* feeling and hie literary
skill. He rings more true then the
writer of the preface or at least he
writes wtth leas prejudice and bit
terness. It Is a little book worth
reading, and approval or condemna
tion of Its convictions must b« ren
dered by each according to his be
lief.
MacMillan, New York; SO cents.
• • •
SONGS OF ARMAGEDDON AND
OTHER POEMS, by George Byl
veeter Vlereck. Poema and
rhymes dealing with the war most- j
ly, with the viewpoint of the au
thor clearly defined. Published
by Mitchell Kennerley, New York.
We are not surprised at George j
Sylvester Vlereck's poetry after
reading many nqiubers of “The
DETROIT TIMES
Tha aubmarlna caught In tha nets
become mora antangled trying to
eacapo. Man, In daatroyars, wait
abova for houra, aomatlmaa days.
Then they aaa tha daath bubble#
and oil rise to the surface, and
finally naval cranee lift tha craft
from tha net.
"The waiting men have a mind
picture of the interior of the enemy
boat. They can see the U-boat’s
rew fighting each other In Insane
ury, staggering back and forth In
'he poisonous air, eyes popping,
hands clawing.
"They know that men down In the
depths are begging to be shot, or
hogging for a weapon with which
to end their own agony."
'Long before the naval cranes
•<me to itft the captive raider the
nubbles trickle to the surface and
burst through the covering of oil ’’
"Seamen who fought through the
maelstrom off Skager Rac will fell
you their story, but no sailor speaKa
of the sights seen in a sunken sub
marine!
"Those sights make strong men
weak, and drive sensitive men de
lirious with horror!"
Fatherland " We knew his point of
view long since, only we had It in
prose. His Is the true Prussian
gospel of might making right, re
inforced by an apparent belief in
the divine right of kings. He may
think he Is an unhyphenated Ameri
can. but he utters no sentence that
a real American could utter, owing
to temperamental Impossibility. We
do not consider Mr. Vlereck a poet.
He has great themes, but he does
not treat them greatly. The meter
Is best, less faulty In "The Neutral."
but In most of the poems It Is
cheap, and falls into a rhyming lilt.
Though some of the subjects are
lofty, others again fall to the lowest
ebb. Who would consider the Chi
cago convention a fit theme for a
poem?
• a •
COMMUNITY DRAMA AND PA
GEANTRY, by Mary Porter Bea
gle and Jack Randall Crawford, a
beautiful and comprehensive book.
Actual experience in pageantry
and community drama, and a sur
vey of technical questions Involved
In the writing and staging of pa
geants Is the object of this splendid
ly got ten-up book, published by the
Yale press. Its paper Is heavy,
print large and Illustrations beauti
ful. Aside from the real value of
the matter, It Is a pleasure to a
book lover to see thoughts made
concrete In such a thoroughly sub '
stantlal and acceptable style. Pa ;
geantry, that old Greek art, revived
again by the English In the six
teenth century, has only become ap
predated and practiced In this conn
try In the last few years. Its "Ideal
Is to give the community self-ex ,
preaslon through a beautiful art" j
which In this book is considered In
all Its aspects. After a brief dr- I
scrlptlon of principles and types,
each phase of this art and the work '
necessary for Its success Is taken '
up from the writing of the pageant
Itself to Its organization and pro* |
ductlon. To any teacher or pupil
this book would be invaluable, and '
to any one merely Interested, it is
a delightful study. The subjects
discussed Include acting, grouping,
getting, costumes, color, the dance
and mualc. The authors have each
given a series of pageants, Miss
Beagle having been organisation
chairman of the New York Shake
apeare celebration.
Yale University Press, New Hav
en; 92.50.
• • •
ELIZABETH 8. HITCHCCX'K
PHatlll—tk* plain final kind— itim
la H(lt—-Ttart Job —Halo 4'70
CONDENSED STATKMENT OF
Federal State Bank
Detroit, Mich.
At the close of Business June SOth, 1916.
RESOURCES: LIABILITIES:
Leans and Discounts. $ 891,187.82 Capital Stock $260,000.00
Benda and Mortgages.. 543.656 83 Surplus Funds 70,000.00
Branch Banking Houses 63.000.00 Undivided ProfHa 6,232.96
Furniture and Fixtures 9,392.34 Dividends Unpaid .... 2.547 00
Cash an Hand and due
from Banka 374.354.75 Deposits 1,553,645.35
$1,861,625.30 $1,881,625.30
DIRECTORS:
Charles F. Blelman J»me* F I,#ahv Wm. M. Merts
Charle. R Dunn j*™" C. K. Wilcox
Martin E. Galvin James Turner John I* Senior
Charles J. Hlgglna Henry C. Wledeman A. A. Wood
Russia's Mighty Army in
Field and Workshop Now
Has 50,000,000 in It s Ranks
This Is tbs first of a eerie* of
Illuminating articles on war Lm*
conditions In Tlussla. by William
rhlltp Simms, a staff correspondent
of tbs United Prsss. Mr Simms, a
tralnsd observer and a writer of
ability. baa mads an ethanstlv*
study of tbs revolutionary ohangss
brought about In tha esar's empire
by tne great war, and the measures
which havs bssn taken to organise
the country for victory His artlolss
will boa revelation to most Ameri
can readers.
By WILLIAM PHILLIP RIM MS
(StnfJ Correspondent I'nited Press.)
PETROGRAD. July 10/—(By
mall.) — 81owly, like a giant getting
under way, Russia backed by her
plain people, la gathering strength.
Today, working for her, she has an
army of them 50,000,000 strong.
Thin la not sob-sister hysteria. It
is truth.
The Russian war Is the people's
war. With their incalculable forti
tude the people are backing up the
army in a way peculiar to them and
not to be found in any other coun
try of Europe. In England and
France for Instance, the govern
ments are co-operating with Indus
trial corporations and bankers—to
the exclusion of well-defined citi
zens’ groups—thus keeping the na-*
tion and the army supplied.
In Russia, the government and
array also co-operate with these. But
♦ hey co-operate with an organized
people too, through non-political
groups which have been formed all
over the country—citizens’ associa
tions. co-operative societies, pea
sants' unions—and whose aim Is but
to serve; Russia.
Then there is a central commit
tee, composed of civilians, to co-or
dinate the efforts of the groups and
take the army’s orders.
So some of the fifty millions are
at the front, In uniform, under arms.
Others are back of the lines drilling
to go to the front. The rest are
scattered all over tlje Russian em-.
pire working at their Jobs, big or
little, but for the nation. They are
farmers and merchants, tailors and
chemists, bootmakers and doctors,
druggists and nurses, seamstresses
and carpenters, machinists and
plain »la> laborers, nil mobilized Just
as effectively, so far as carrying on
the war is concerned, as the fore
most soldiers in the foremost
trenches.
The citizens' organizations for ald
• inp the country and the army axe
| literally hundreds In number, but
i 'he majority of these can be
! l unched under one or the other of
I four general namee.
Then there Is the Municipality
union, grouping the work of Rus
sian cities.
Next is the War Trade committee.
lastly, the Co-operative union
whose membership includes over
30,000.000 peoples, mostly peasants,
and whose activities affect In one
way or another more than half the
population of the Russian empire.
So It is putting it very conserve*
tively to say that, counting soldiers
and those backing up the soldiers.
Russia has fifty million souls toll
ing to fetch her home a victory.
In order that the work of these
organizations may clash as little as
possible, there is a central commit
tee sitting permanently, week days
and Sundays, in a building to itself
here in Petrograd. When the gov
ernment has need of this or that
for the army, or for refugees, or
for Its organization back of the
fighting lines, It can and does call
on the central committee for aid.
The central committee, looking over
All books reviewed on this page
can be obtained fram
MACAULEY BROS.
BOOK BTORE
75 Library Ave.
SPfiUNK
r\i \ ENGRAVING Cos.
«*ir
ABTISTS - ENGWVtRS
•KHANAL BLM. DETROIT.
the vast resources st Its command,
with its wires reaching out Into the
farthermost corners of the empire,
sees st a glance what can be done
and does it, quickly and efficiently.
There is not a single branch of
human endeavor not at the beck and
oall of these citizens’ organizations,
and through them available the
central committee and the govern
ment. All the sciences, arts, trades
and occupations have been mob
ilised In this way. They are ever
ready to provide anything from
fresh milk for babies to high explo
sives for the army.
The whole world knows that Rus
sia lacked sufficient munitions at
tha start of the war. So did the
other allies. But the difference be
tween Russia and them was this:
They were great industrial coun
tries and she was not.
Russia could not remedy this in
a day. Nor even in a year. Ger
many had bad for a long time prac
tically a monopoly on manufactured
articles, chemicals and so forth In
Russia; and. as former Premier
Count Kokovtsow pointed out, this
had proved a positive curse to the
empire. When the war came on,
severing all relations with Russia
and her former source of supplies,
she felt a pinch.
The worst of this situation so far
as Russia was concerned, was that
it could not be quickly remedied.
Depending on Germany for manu
factured articles, she lacked machin
ery to make them. Buying nearly
all her chemicals from Teutonic
drummers, she could not Immediate
ly start manufacturing them her
self. And so on.
Which brings us »o this: The Rus
sian people, through their organize
juiinjLgUa,
QJk TORE
SiSSIRSL | FTEEN"
Wardrobe Trunk
Z-iy HsSJ I The name teDa the etory. Ftbro-oov
; j I ered In and out, and the price is fifteen
Bn ; Iwv / dollar*—a meet remarkable value.
je ,m / You can travel with the tame trunk
vk
0 y Note particularly the removable trol
ley hanger, which permits taking gar-
manta from trunk and hanging in closet
without changing hangers. This is an
ts ;>-• - exclusive feature in a trunk at this
yIU \ \ price. In fact, every feature in this
LffX y A model is exclusive. The price is made possible only by
\ concentrated manufacturing, immense production and
M' 1 f materials purchased before war prices” went into effect.
f. —■'Hi—=— We have a United number of these trunks a» f
' sand suggest that you vieit either of our stores y j
promptly and look over this special for ■■
DO YOU WANT A GOOD
Leather Bag?
You cannot do better than select this one
—made of genuine cowhide; (read the word
genuine again), in black or "T C.
tan, sewea frame and cor
ners; site 18 inch.
Price W"™ 1
COWHIDE SUIT CASES
If leather keeps on advancing, and those
who know say it will, this case will soon sell
for $7.00 It’s a good cow- a ■■■
hide case with linen m £^%
lining. Special
JB
OVERLAND CASES
of Enameled L>u< k
trays and with straps
at least Its
;r,(r r of luggage ever designed
& SPECIAL
emm f\f\
9ET aVV
a apacity beyond a leather case ■■
this price, Special
TWO STORES
Uptown T J|L I 1 S f* Downtown
253 U/ - J Jeff .no*
floas, have accomplished near-mir
acles, and are still accomplishing
them, making up for past defects.
Through their combined wits and
resources, clear on down through
lo the furthermost peasant of Si
beria, they have bridged wbat other
wise might have been disaster.
The story of some of these citi
zen-organizations, how they came
Into being, how they work and the
extent of their utility for the public
good, will be told in subsequent ar
tides.
CHARGE WOMAN <%
WITH GAMBLING
KANSAS CITY, Mo, July B—The
case of a woman charged with
gambling Is the first case of Its kind
ever recorded In the Kansas side
police court.
Roy Hubbard, assistant attorney
general. in search of law violators,
saw cards being dealt around a
table In a bouse on James-st. A
raiding squad surrounded the house
and these were arrested: Mike Jo
viek. Mike Soptlch, Mike Booa and
Traga Boca. Traga was the feml
nlno member of the party.
Apparently the cards had been un
kind to her, for mingled In the 9106,
gold watches and other valuables
on the table, the raiding squad found
a brooch, several Jeweled hair orna
ments and other bite of feminine
Jewelry.
Russia, In proportion to popula
tion, uses less pumping machinery
than any other large nation, as wa
ter Is found either too near the sur
face to require it, or so deep that
artesian welle are preferable.
The Rev. Samuel E. Dunham, of
Glastonbury, Conn., resigned hie pas
torate to go to work in a munition
factory in Hartford, as he could not
support his family of six on hie sal
ary as a minister.
J|d^
LUNCHEON OUTFITS
SPECIALLY PRICED
For the one-day picnic or that tour, we have made
up two specials that will accommodate four persona.
One style as illustrated and the other the regulation
box style, made of three-ply veneer covered with auto
leather. The fitting are extra quality ■■ QQ
and ample for four persons. See this M
special at • «*■■»
THERMOS BOTTLES AND JARS -
The companion to the Luncheon Set—make possible hot
or cold refreshment*. We have all style* made by the
r’sS3L c *!" p *"!’ sl-50 to 57.50
ROOKIE WALKS **3
40 MILES ON M
OUTPOST DUISM
nnroi.Afi, Aria, July
Dockery, a private la CompsSg JH
Arizona organized militia, !k|pOMK
as missing, returned to
nezt day after walking near%vlß
miles on outpost duty. Tha prlvatgp
a recent recruit, it was said st mlUk:
tla headquarters, was placed on dStf
at the international 11a* Wttli tm'
&tructlone to walk eost until bo aoi'
a sentry be was to reltavo.
In some manner, Dockery miseedf
the sentry. He kept walking until
finally he met a patrol on guard It
mtles east of the camp.
"Dockery certainly obeyed InainS
tions," an offloer remarked, "but ittt
a good thing be met that patrol os
he probably would bars walked to
El Pafo.**
Queen Consort Wlde-Mindcd.
WLNDBOR, July 10. QneO*
Mary was the only girl in a family
of boys, and, was a thorough going
tomboy, and always was, and she It.
a good sort, and wide-minded sad
with a live and Ist live point of
view. She lays down no bard sad
fast rules about drees, widows, obiV
dren or anything else oo her ows
account. All that she does, like a
good Queen Consort, is to uphold
whatever views King George may
suggest. She la generous to a fault*
and altogether a tweet person.
The Visitor —I suppose you wand
to be a great actreas when you grotr
up.
Th* Future Great—No> ma’am, f
expect to marry g chewing guag
magnate and be a moving ptoturt
censor.
Guest (country inn) —Tha beat
room in the house, pleas*
Clerk—That is taken, but T cal
give you one Just as good.
PAGE 11