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editorial page DETROIT TIMES NMIlKcd utrjr evening »xc«pt Sunday by tha Detroit TUom Cos. 71-75-77 Baaley-ave. —i ■" ** " ' ' •vbacrtpuon Rates— By carrier, 2G cent* a rath: 13 a year. By mall. 93 per year, payable advance. Telephone—Main 4520, connecting all depart- Meuta Give Times’ operator name of department or peraon wanted. Subscription oril> re or com plaints of irregular delivery may be received by up to 5:30 p. tn. Entered at the roatolßce at DetrofT aa second class mail matter. WJCDNKSgDAV. JULY 19. 191€ "Youngster, you don't know what it is to be Without a family, trUkouf a home, without a country, And if you are ever tempted to sc.'/ word or do a thing that shall put a bar between you and your family, your home and y>>' country, pray God in His mercy to take you f f instavi home to His own heaven. Stick by your family, boy: forget that you have a self white you do everything for them Think of your hnn-.r. boy; write end send and talk about tt. Let it be nearer so your thought the farther you har e t<> travel from it; and rush to it when you are fre* And for your country, boy. never dream a dream but of serving her as she bids you. though that Service carry you through a thousand hells- A’o matter what happens to you. no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless the Btars and Stripes. Remember that you belong to your own country as you belong to your own mother; stand by her as you would stand by your ou-n mother." — Edward Srerett Halo. Chase the Pinheaded Driver, Commissioner, and ; the Public Will Bless You We have here in our fast-growing city trhat is known as the Littlefield ordi jgpnce. The Littlefield ordinance prescribes that an automobile, coming upon a street car that has stopped, shall also stop, within six feet of the street car. The idea is this : When a street car comes to a stop, nine ffimni out of ten, it does so to take on or Wt off passengers. Among these passengers there are chil > dren and old folk. There is also the young man, perhaps deeply absorbed in thought, wondering yrho the peach was across from him, with the dreamy eyes. : And there is also the peach with the dreamy eyes, with her mind on the paper •overed novel she has been reading, a When she was interrupted by the con-! doctor calling the name of her street, the heroine may have been just at the point of falling into the clutches of des perate Ambrose, who a few minutes be fore had left the hero deposited in a lost Cave, the entrance to which he had cov ered with oak beams held down by sev eral railroad ties. The Littlefield ordinance takes cogni sance of the fact that in alighting from m street car, all these people have a right to protection and to a feeling of security In what are termed “safety zones,” in which several Detroiters have been kM There are those in our fast-growing dty who possess the firm opinion that about the most dangerous place in De troit that one can get into is one of thase “safety zones.” Including among their number were the aldermen who voted for the Little field ordinance and made it LAW. We have here in our fast-growing dty, two kinds of automobile driver One kind of automobile driver con cedes that the streets were not put in for his exclusive benefit; that pedes-! trians have some rights in them; that fast driving endangers life and limb. The other kind of driver is what we term a pin-headed irresponsible, posses sed of a whole lot of selfishness and an Idea that children have no rights in the ' Ctreet3 and that old people are only in the way. When the Littlefield ordinance was passed, this latter kind of automobile driver laughed “Ha ha,” or, rather, gig ded “He he,” and thought it was a joke, i The police department humored him In this opinion, and finally gave him license to defy the ordinance by announc ing that drivers would not be expected to obey the ordinance literally. The. trouble with that order was, it . Catted upon drivers to use their own in * telttgence and judgment, when the fact Tff the matter is, the pinheaded driver neither. | E&fgw, Police Commissioner Gillespie yKrthe ordinance MUST be obeyed both in spirit and in letter, and he has a big force of policemen on the avenues to see that his order is complied with. Which step is bound to have the effect of saving many lives in this fast-grow ing city. The commissioner has the walking an<! the street car ridiiig public with him and he has the sane kind of automobile driver with him. The greatest trouble his men are having is in convincing the pinheads th.n they are not kidding them—that a law in Detroit is really a LAW, meaning i something to be obeyed and carrying a penalty when it is disobeyed. The effect of the law will be, of course, to drive the pinheads from the crowded th< rough fares —so go to it. oi mmissi'.'.or i Gillespie. i The farther you drive him from the center of the town, the better the pub ! lie at large will like it. ~ Things That Sting. Whether we take a tx-months' vacation drill ing on t h t . sands of the border, or a nix-days’ reM. in a Canadian fishing tamp, we encounter | t he same enemy permanently entrenched. From tin equator to the arctic circle imneces ! sar> myriads of winged things which sting, hin der mankind's work and play. What to do for insect bites is an important part of e\ery vacationer's preparedness plans. The most common bites or stings are those of the bee, wasp, yellow jacket, spider, horse fly, yellow fly. red bug or chigger, flea and the mosquito. j In case of a sting of any kind, the first thing ! to do is to remove the sting. This can be done best with a needle or the point or a small knife blade but care should be taken to sterilize the implement before using by holding it in a flame, or in boiling water. The next thing is to apply ammonia or soda water to the affected rart. In the case of bites as well as stings, a paste of common baking soda or a bath of ammonia water is usually all that is required If severe poisoning occurs, the victim should be kept cool and quiet until a doctor can be summoned. An application of a 50 per cent solution of a saturate solution of potassium permanganate, to be had at a drug store, is a very effective cure for insect poison:- and for the poisons of plants such as try and sumach. Just Like Us. “The German nation must work more and consume less,” is one solution of Germany's future commercial problems, according to Prof Jastrow of Berlin university. Come to think of it, we discovered that same secret of success a long time ago. We only hope the German nation can make it work bet ter than we have. From Another Point ot View By C. T. .S. What's the matter with the Atlantic anyway? First it brought us man-eating sharks, then the German U-boat and now Gen. Cipriano Castro. • • • The fact that married guardsmen are to be sent home doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t see any fighting. • • ■ When he entered his office on the tenth floor of a well-known and popular build ing, having just come from the hot street ourselves, we found him vestless and col larless at his desk in a linen suit, sleeve less silk shirt that you could see through, and in white shoes, with an electric fan playing upon him. The subject of the weather was under discussion. “It is all in the way you take it,” said he. “The way I keep cool is by simply forgetting it is hot.” • • • Reader of this column whose home is situated on a Woodward corner asks the floor to indorse the skip-lawn system. • * • He also reports that the latest cam paign cry is—“three shears for Hughes.” • * * AND AS FOR YOU? W. met a man on Woortwarl and wo .aid to him: "flee her*. You understand. of emir.*, that this la pr..l'l*n tlal year; We're sounding sentiment ami we would like to hava yon ahnn,. And toll hr whether you're for Wllaon or for Hughes." "And now aa to preparedness” wt raid, "how . do V'U feel Do yon think to fighting passions In the man w« should appeal" Don't you think that killing brothers Is a too hnrhari>’ way" Are you pacifist or Jingo on this Issue of today?" "And while we're your attention, as to Mexlran affairs: TIK you think thst killing peons going to get us anywheres? And h'-vr about our Tigers In another winning rtf enl<. With a chanee to le«d the league If they can keep it up a week?" "All these questions are Important and quite proper, t suppose,” Said tie it,an, "But It so happens that I have eorr.e other woes; I would like to ask a question—you have asked MH quite a few— And It's one that's more In season F* it hot • not gh for you?" • * * A rumor that the boats between De troit and iWndsor will soon run in and out of slip-, to take care of automobiles is branded by the company’s officers a ferry tale. • • * We seem to have taken on a worm in the garden that likes cabbages as well as we do. • * • A bugler has quit down south because they made him get in and help set up camp. Refuses, we would say, to do another taps. •• a C Phew! DETROIT TIMES Our Boyhood Ambitions. *XAAIES Oliver \ WAHTEP 15 CUE A BEAUTIFUL Girl from ibe Claws of a t FETeOCIOUS g^lT-ZLV \AKA~T WAS * , cr (Copynftu, J 916. , by H T Webster.) LEARN FROM THE CAT BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE Author of fks Riddle of Personality ,' "Ptychology and Parenthood.'' ate. Cats are much like people, they have an admixture of good quali ties and qualities that are not so good. Also, like people, they differ markedly from one another. But all cats—at least, all cats that I have ever seen—pos.-es-s one char acteristic in common. And it Is a characteristic which it were to be wished all human beings possessed In like degree. This characteristic is avoidance of unnecessary worry. So far as worry is concerned a cat, indeed, is phil osophic to an extent comparatively few of us attain. In my own home there has been for a year an energetic young tom cat. black and white, short, broad, husky. Thie little rat, Peter, is perpetually eager to be on the go He is a fresh air enthusiast, out doors at every opportunity. Natur ally he has had some exciting ad ventures, particularly with dogr. Somehow Peter always manage to escape a pursuing dog He may have to dash madly, scramble un dignifledly. Dut always he is able to perch somewhere—on fence top, or tree branch—out of the dog reach. Does he, having made his escape sit fussing and fuming over the close call he has had’ Not at all. The moment he knows he is safe he heromes placid, calm, care free. Meditatively he gazes at the disap pointed dojf yelping and gyrating be neath him. In the house he displays the same philosophic spirit. He has learned what the dinner gong means, ar.d at the first sound he to the dining room, where he knows he has a saucer on the hearth. II is too early. The saucer is » Very well, he can wait. Hr rhapst walk leisurely around the room two or three times. But he refuses to Indulge in worry, he presently leaps upon a window sill to watch what la hap pening outdoor . Or he may curl up for a little nap—until he hears someone pick up his saucer, when he is all attention once more Whatever else he does he avoids the error of fretfulness. Peter Is not an exceptional car. I Pariflern and summer heat make life pretty precarious for baby. The Nad habit of^ati'^ this disgusting habit and he should not have to suffer for it. Rome of the evil effect* laid to this habit are that it spoils the natural arch of the mouth by caus ing the protrusion of the upper Jaw That It induces a constant flow o* saliva and keeps the baby drooling The pacifier Is never clean and may readily carry the gernurof die ease Into the baby’s mouth. If is also a habit that Is particularly dig figuring to the baby’s appearance. Thunh sucking is Just as bad a habit for baby as sucking a pacifier The Keep Well Column PACIFIER3 have noticed similar behavior in other cats that ! have observed at all cloaely. And it has dawned upon me that if cats, as is have nine livet, they owe about eight of these lives to their freedom from useless worry. Contrast their behavior with that of many men and women. The leas* little thing may *et these men and women worrying all day. Some people actually seem to be looking all the time for excuses to worry. If they can’t find real ex-! crises, they invent a few. And this kind of Inventing la the easiest in the world. Do their worrying ways help them one iota? Are they thereby made happier, more energetic, more successful ? It is the other way about. Worry means unhappiness, weakness, fail ure Always It is devitalizing, not energizing. To chronic worriers, therefore, 1 suggest, learn from the cat. Take cat into your, home and let that cat be to vou not merely a family p* t but a good example. Hi# Family Not An Asset A well spoken woman with a large family received the sympathy of the Acton magistrate when she told him of her difficulties in obtaining a flat. Her husband, who is fighting in France, also served In the Bouth African war. When I tell the landlords that I have seven children I frighten them," she said. "We want more population at the preset time.” the magistrate com mented. "I think it Is lamentable ” At the suggestion of the magls tra*e Sergt. Jarrold said he would call and see the woman's present landlord, and convey the views of »he magistrate to him and ask him to give all the latitude he could to the applicant until she could find another fiat.—London Globe Family Jars are never used In pre serving peace. To break the baby of either habit require* resolution and patience on she part of the mother. The thumb or finger must ho per slstentJr and constantly removed 'rom the mouth and baby's attention diverted to something else. The sleeve may be pinned or sew ed down over the fingers of the of fendlr,* hand for several days and nights or the hand may be put in a r otton mitten. The baby's hands should be free now and th*n, especially if he is old enough to use his hands fdb his toys, ar.d at meal times, to save as much unnecessary strain on his nerve* a* possible, but wlfh the ap proach of sleeping time the hand must be overed. If you want to save your baby, keep him away from sick people, away from crowds and away from the liability of exposure to disease. —By Webster. Avoid Clothes for Show- How to spend raoer adYantageoiia ly that part of the family budget Mt aside for clothing is described In defal! by Mrs. Mary A. Dltmas. teacher of sewing at the New York Association for Improving the Con dition of the Poor, in a pamphlet Jui-r published by the organization. Mrs. Dttmas sa>». in the opening paragraphs; “Asa large portion of the family income is -pen- on clothing, everv woman should know how to pur rhaee material.* and clothing wise ly and economically.- Following are “Things to Remem ber: t'lothes your family according to your income, if roi|r , nconifl I'mlted so that only the necessary clothes can be bought, select these for health, cleanliness and use. Do not buy clothes for display when the family needs shoes, stockings, un derclofhlng and everyday dresses nothing is hh important to health as food You must protect your body from sudden changes in tem peratur*. Keep the body warm In winter and cool In summer Chil dren require warmer clothing than adults, so that they mav be protect ed while they are growing. Do not f r\ to harden the body to exposure This is dangerous even for those who are very strong. Street Clothing that can be easily i cfenned or washed Undergarment* j absorb the moisture of the body and should be washed carefully and thor oughly. Never wear clothing at night that you have worn during the day. Hang your clothes where Wiey can air during the night. Have clean night clothes and bedding. Clean, neat, suitable clothes have an effect on the self respect of the entire family. Even when very in expensive clothes are worn, you can always look clean and neat Patronize reliable firms. This is the first step toward safe shopping Before going shopping make out a list of w-hat the family needs. De cide on the amount of money that can he spent. Never buy clothes ♦ hat you do not need —New York Herald. Pity the Poor , Militarist Editor. Such as have compassion for the suffering should not forget the toll ing preparedness editors Their paths lie in stony plsces, and the way Is beset with distressing evils, Ixtng and hard they belabored the president for hi* pacific ways. They raked history and sifted philosophy to find reasons to show why we should "dean up” Mexico But when affairs drifted Into a condi tion necessitating the sending of additional troops to the border, and there was a possibility of a military campaign that would certainly re elect the president, the fire-eaters began looking for a way o'tf with out war; and the nearer the country got to the verge of war the more eager were they to avert It. Hut when Carranza made a rational and conciliatory reply to the note, and the probability of war vanished, behold the re-emergence of the militarist, newly decked in war paint and feathera, eager for the fray. Pity the poor mllltarlet editor—The Public, Chicago. After experiments covering see eral years rubber trees have been successfully transplanted from the banka of the Amazon to points In the Interior of Brazil. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1916 The Daily Reminder j TODAY* AMirgMAMKI 171$—Peter Schuyler became act ing governor of New Tern. Tilt—Samuel Colt, inventor of the revolver, born at Hartford, Conn. Died there Jan. 10 till. 1014—Augustin de Iturblde. ex-em peror of Mexico, was shot ae a re sult of hie attempt to regain power. 1111—Prince Leopold the newly elected king of the Belgians, enter ed Bruaeela 1110—Garibaldi raptured Melaaao, the last fortress held by the Royal ist* In Sicily, 1170—Count Btemarok. In announc ing the declaration of war by France, termed it groundless and presump tuous. 1174 — Foundation stone laid for the cathedral of ths Holy Name In Chi cago. Ilia—Meeting of the Harman em peror and Csar of Hues la off Cron stadt 1 as7—Jean Ingelow noted Engltah poet and novelist, died In London. Born March 17, 1810. iaaa—President McKinley Issued Ingtruotlone for the government of Cuba province of Santiago. <rl which the Americans had taken possession I*oT—The Emperor of Korea abdi cated In favor of the crown prince. 081 YKAM AGO TODAY IN THK W Alt German attack southeast of Les Kaparge* repulsed. Rome reported gains by the Ital ians In Carnta. Cadore and ths Isonso region* Germane captured Wtndau and Ra dnm and several smeller places In the vicinity of Warsaw. Greatest battle In world's history. Involving 4.000.000 men an,i 800-mll* line, begun in Russian Poland TODAY’S BIRTHDAY! Capt. I.ewt* 8 Morey, IT. 8. A., who narrowly escaped death recently while leading his troops against the Me * leans, born in New York city 41 vgo today. Brig -Gen. John T Wlsser. who goes on the retired list of the army today on account of age. horn In St. Louts 44 years ago today Judge Roger A. Pryor, one of the few surviving members of the first Confederate states congress born In Dinwiddle county, Va. fl year* ng<> today, Charles Edward, reigning duke f Saxe-f’oburg and Ootha (formerly th*- duke of Albany), born In England SI years ago today. • William B Rldgely former comp troller of the currency, born at Sf rlnerfleld, in, S| year* igo todav. Fit Rev John J. Hennessey, C.xth ollo bishop of Wichita, born In county Cork, Ireland, 4f yeara ago today John Purroy Mltchel. mayor of the rltv of Vew York, born at Fordham. N Y., 37 year* ago today. Dr Charles M Mayo, ope of *he head* of the celebrated Mayo surgi cal cllnlo. born at Rochester, Minn . R 1 year.* ago today. Prof Edward C Pickering direct or of the Harvard astronomical ob servatory. born In Boston 7« years ago today. Earl Hamilton, pitcher of the st Louis American lengue baseball team, born at Onego. Kas . 24 years ago today. Edward F. Sweeney, catcher for the Toledo American association baseball team, born in Chicago 2£ years ago today. A Poem a Day from a SOLDIER. You let me go without a sign of fear. Tour brave good-by doth linger with me yet. And though you would not turn me by g tear. I saw your eyes were ve|. And was It that your love waa any leas Than those who keep their men from duty's quest* Nay. !♦ w** more, for with unselfish Joy. You lo\ed my honor best. —Jennie Fraser In the Gen tlewoman. Pointed Parajrraphs i Chronic complaining doesn't make a hard lot softer. No point of order is in order a hen a woman has the floor. Never Judfre a woman’s smiles by her teeth, they may be false A man ran drink himself tighter than a woman can lace herself. When the worst comes to the worst. It is up to 11s to make the , best of It. Solomon wg* the wisest man of his day, yet he was hopelessly mar ried Fev women show discretion in the selection of thing* to be left un said. r>on't get so far in advance of the rimes that, they won’t be able to catch up It’s an easy matter for a man to break out of the unknown class aft er Inheriting a big fortune. The reason a man can’t tell the average woman anything is because she would rather talk than listen. Though the winter girl may cut a figure on Ice, the aummer girl muat have a figure of her own to cut Ice on the beach. Destroying Money a Crime If at any time you feel too much overburdened with ‘his world's goods and wish to destroy some of your money, do not adopt such a course, for you may languish In a federal prison for the offense That is. If you fear up bank notes, or mutilate any of the metal coin* of the government. In an effort, to destroy their value, you commit a crime. It may also he announced that no one has ever been prosecuted. In the eastern district of New York, for such an offense.— Brooklyn Eagle. The Old Gardener Says Backward plants can be given a boost by feeding them nitrate of soda, which ia a fine atlmuiant, but muat b« uaed In moderation and not allowed to touch the •tarns. A half-tea spoonful may be dug Into the soil around each plant Just before a rain, or if the weather la dry, It may be dls solved, a half-ounce to each quart Os water, and given In liquid form Lettuce, apinarh, trnna toea, malona and many of the flower* love nitrate of aoda. The Awakening. •Y DR. FRANK CRANE <Copyright. 1815, hy Frank Crane) To learn is very much like waking up. Any one who has achieved mastery in anything must bo struck with the resem blance between his experience and the phenomenon of coming out of a dream or doze into full wakefulness. I remember when I was a boy I was overfond of Greek, and at high school, when we were learning to decline verbs and read crude sentences (such as “I see the man in the house,” one of my first phrases and one of those silly things a man cannot forget, while weighty mat ters slip from his memory), 1 could not wait for the time when we should get to Homer, but procured a thick copy of “An thon's Homer with Notes” (wherein every word was explained), and ground away at it in private; but I could make little headway with the tough thing, and the labor of weeks only advanced me a dozen lines or so. Then I put the poet aside, thinking I was too dumb ever to learn him; but in due time, perhaps a year or two, we came to Homer in our course, and I approached him with dread, recollecting how knotty a puzzle he had been, but to my surprise I t found I could read him easily; the long months of grammar and Xenophon had boon an ap prentice slavery, and now suddenly I awoke, a free man. The musician toils at the piano, giving days of practice to some difficult passage, and then one morning he discovers he ran play it as it should be played—and his feeling is as if he had come out of a trance of drudgery into the light of vir tuosity. If you have learned a foreign language you v ill remember how, after months of discouraging effort, when your brain seemed full of sand, suddenly you real ized that you could speak and under stand. And whoever ha.' jnastored any bit of craftsmanship or a game has noted the same: at first a long period of trying, concentrating the will upon every move ment of the hand, and then the awaken ing—he can do it, he can do it easily; his reserves have come up during the night, henceforth victory is smooth: the chrysalis of work has burst and become gay-winged play. I am persuaded that this same experi ence is true of men in the mass, of so ciety, of the state, of advancing civiliza tion. Only here the process is longer, and takes years, generations, centuries. Reason, vision, the thinkers, poets, and seers, go before like scouts, spying out the land showing the way, demonstrat ing what ought to be. Men pay small heed to them, pooh-poohing them, some times smiling at them as crack-brained creatures, I’topians, impractical enthusi asts; sometimes cursing them as “those who turn the world upside down,” and sometimes imprisoning, banishing, starv ing, burning, crucifying them. And them—humanity gives a sneeze and wakes up. realizing all at once that the fools were right. Then they build them monuments, and call them Great Men. This accounts for the otherwise utterly inexplicable phenomena of Christianity, the propaganda of Co-operation, Organi zation, Brotherhood, with Love as the principle of human co-ordination, and not Selfishness. We see this truth now, have seen it for a thousund years. But w*e are still drudging at the grammar of it, still doing its finger exercises on the piano, still are in our sweating and blundering appren ticeship. Look at the muddle of life as it is to day. the unchecked grasping of privilege, the wrecked victims of social injustice, the filth, disease, and disorder of the world, the snarling conflict of labor and capital, the rivalry of religious sects and their w’oaryinff emphasis on non-essen tials, the anarchy in Mexico, and the ut terly causeless war in Europe. “There is no power,” says H. G. Wells, “no rule, no discipline. This is the world of the bully, the brigand, and the assas sin, the world of the mud pelter and brawler, the world of the fly and the open drain. Poverty should lie abolished, disease conquered, toil lightened, war banished, abundant and happy life freely bestowed upon every son of man. But as a matter of fact they are not. Hu manity has abandoned or muddled its task." No. Humanity is working away at its task. These are the evils of the unskilled apprenticeship through which we are la boring. Wait. We will learn some day. Some day we will get the hang of the thing. Some day we shall wake up—masters; and stupid, bungling tyros no longer. Some day we shall have concord and not struggle, co-operation and not cyjnpe tition, hersang and not hurting, world government and not war, Some day