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SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1917
ffffe Are Asked To Eat
W Less Bread To Save Wheat
To Be Rotted Into Beer
■' 1
Resident Wilson or the country.
WHICH?
That is the question now before con
fess, the chief executive of the nation
having talten issue with the people and
m stand against them in their demand
for a dry country while the war is on.
President Wilson says the coun\y
does not want total prohibition.
Against his position we have twenty
*evcn states, voted dry or committed to
total prohibition, IN TIME OF PEAL E.
Added to these we have the partly
dry state of Minnesota.
In area, over two-thirds of the United
States is dry. voted dry IN TIME Oh
PEACE. -
How can Pres.dent Wilson assume the
country’ to be opposed to prohibition in
the light of this condition, now that we
have the exigency of war calling upon
the country to sober up?
The president has NO right to AS
SUME that the country does not want
total prohibition.
The president has no right, and tres
passes in the premises, to question the
action of the house of representatives,
which is supposed to represent the peo
ple of the country, and which, repre
senting them, has declared for total
prohibition.
The president wants to save beer and
wine from prohibition because taking
these drinks from the young men of the
country “at a time when they are being
called upon to make great sacrifices, a
blow against their personal liberty
might result in a spirit of antagonism
which might seriously jeopardize war
work."
Upon the same hypothesis, he should
be— defending whisky, because the
lingling out of whisky drinkers is just as
likely to result in a spirit of antagonism
and jeopardize war work.
THE PRESIDENT IS TAKING IS
SUE. TOO, AGAINST THE COUN
TRY’S EATERS OF BREAD.
His position is not consistent.
It is not consistent with his speech
to congress asking for a declaration of
war; it is not consistent with the pur
pose for which we go to war; it is not
Consistent with what it asks of the peo
ple of the country in general in the way
of sacrifice; it is not consistent with the
president’s own program of conservation.
It is not consistent with the speech to
congress, because in that speech Presi
dent Wilson told its members that we
would have to meet the enemy with all
of our resources, a part of which we will
dissipate if the manufacturer of beer and
wine is to be continued.
It is not consistent with the purpose
for which we go to because the
world will never know* a free people
while they remain the slaves and chattels
of John Barleycorn.
THERE CAN NEVER BE A DEMOC
RACY OF THE WORLD UNTIL KING
ALCOHOL HAS ABDICATED.
It is not consistent in view' of the sac
rifice that EVERYBODY is expected to
make, for the president to say that any
particular man or men should not be
asked to make the very small sacrifice of
a glass of beer or a swig of light wine.
It is not consistent with a program
that asks us to “eat a slice of bread less
per day that millions of bushels of wheat
may be conserved and thousands of lives
saved."
The president is using the influence of
his high oflice in favor of rotting thou
sands of bushel* of grain into beer.
And he is doing that in spite of the
fact that ONE HUNDRED PER CENT
EFFICIENCY in the war demands a
DRY UNITED STATES.
Must it go on record that autocratic
and graft-ridden Russia used more fore
sight with reference to the chief source
of national decay than the foremost free
government of the world is able to exer
cise?
Women From Whom the
Vote Is Withheld, Are All
Right For W ar Service
There is an amusing cartoon on the
front page of The Woman Citizen, new
official oran of the National Suffragist
organization of America.
It is amusing because everyone knows
that equal suffrage has already the door
held opened and will push it wide at no
far distant day.
The state of New York, personified as
a soldier in khaki, is hanging up a poster
which says: “Women Register Here For
War Duty; Six Months in Jail If You
Don’t."
. In his other hand he holds another
poster, just taken down, which says:
“Voting Booth; Men Only.” ■
“P. S.—Women’s Plhce Is In the
Home."
All women in New York state were
obliged, two weeks ago, to register for
war duty and w ill In? conscripted if neces
sary. as the government decides.
That is all right, but a tremendous
campaign was waged by the women of
this same state two years ago for the
right to vote, but the voters turned them
down and practically told them to go
about their business.
“Their business" has changed with the
changing tides and now they must give
their services, as citizens, while being
none, though it take them out of the
home, into factories and wherever the
government sees fit to place them.
Unlike the United States, England re
gards her women as “people." and all
over 30 years w ill bo treated as such.
But war service by women has been
rendered from time immemorial, for i
she who has produced the men to do the
fighting.
Therefore, is it not strange and in
compatible with justice, that a govern
ment should be willing to demand and
accept all that one-half of its population
have to give, while withholding from
them representation in that government?
When You Are Stuck
Try This On Her—Will
Bet It Proves Effective
There’s a pretty considerable sprink
ling of gents who are at a loss as to
what to say to her, occasionally.
Sometimes the occasion arises early in
the morning, when there's urgent neces
sity to draw her attention away from
the prevailing odor of cloves, or coffee
beans, or mint.
On other occasions there’s a natural
soul pressure that inspires verbal expres
sion of her qualities.
To all such gents, we contribute the
following speech by a member of the
Florida legislature when the bill for wo
man suffrage was up.
Commit it to memory, and if it doesn’t
get her, nothing remains but to trust in
the Lord and take what’s coming to you:
“When God made woman he sent His
angel messengers thruout all the starlit
realms of space to gather all there was
of beauty, brightness, enchantment and
J Mnity. When those angels had re
turned from their harvesting of beauty
and laid their glittering burdens at His
feet. He began in their presence the work
of fashioning her.
“He wrought with the gold and glow
of the star-shining glories of a rainbow’s
hues and the palid silver of a southern
moon.
“He wrought with crimson perfume
that swooned in the rose’s rubied heart,
with pure, sweet snow a-glisten from the
lily’s white crest and the fires and flames
that like flashes leap from the jewel’s
depth.
“Then glancing deep into Hi? owm
bosom. He took the love which gleamed
there like some rare pearl bereath the
wind-kissed waves of a summer sea,
made this into a human form, and all
heaven bowed its head and veiled its
face, for lo! He had wrought woman."
We have no hesitation in saying that
this detailed account of woman’s creation
may touch the spot, when that old rib
story would be completely inefficacious,
even dangerous.
From Another Point of View
By C. T. S.
What have you to spend the Fourth?
• * *
Our own independence will *l>e once
again asserted, we presume, by getting up
at 5 a. m! of the holiday, getting our own
breakfast and hu.>tling down to the office
to work, the same as on the third and
fifth.
* • •
When will Detroit newspapers get to- j
gether and make ’em all sane holidays?
•• • •
MEMORY TEST
Who wai "Kid” Gleadon?
9 m 0
Maybe the president hasn’t heard of it.
but we are informed it is customary to
ASK people what they are going to have.
• 9 0
The government is going to take a cen
sus of the insects. If the census takers
come to a spot where there has l#?en large
loss of life among mosquitoes, that’s the
place where we fished.
* * *
Charlie Chaplin is to receive $1,000,000
for eight pictures. Wonder if Charlie
uses that mallet on the managers?
• • *
The remark to Bert was lost in what
Dick Lynch has immortalized as “The
Rattle of the Belle Isle bridge.”
* • •
W-h-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-c-e-e-e-e-t !
W-h-e-e-e-c-e-e-e-e-e -e-e-t 1
DETROIT TIMES
Carry Home the Little Packages and Help Release 100,000 Men and
Motor Cars. \mountin'* to Millions of Dollars. Bv Wehsfor.
PELIVEC>N<£
THE 2 LBS. OF
LJ I I bought groceries
V ( \ WHI6HIM& Z LBS. „fc
Vk £e**y
(Cop>«HHt. »y H T Wetntcr )
This DEPARTMENT is maintained to »hed the light of truth on th*
operation* of the advertising faker, the quack and swindler. It
welcomes letter* relating experience* with advertiser* who have
been unfair In their assertion* or promise*—who have m sled or
duped the reading public. It will pay proper recognition to hon**t adver
tisers Dishonest advertisers who may be found in The Times wilt not be
spared. It will print letter* deemed of public Interest. Advice wl.l also
b* given to investor*. Only signed letter*, giving the writer's name and
address will be considered. Names will be printed or witnheld as pre
ferred. Addre** The Ad-Mirror, The Time*, Detroit, Mich.
Knowing that you h*v. h~n **5 J!" T*?"
rz: avis. - ’
** Th*\V-Mirror 1- * wonderful work In < **£*2s}
advertisers. I h”P* you wilt keep up the w tk w K
my Initials.
KoMnae'x "Safe Far Reducer” used to he known ax Kelloggs Oboajty
. W and nov.r wa, Till. pr.pjr.Mon h« b~n .nalvr.d
a- Virion, tin*., and It, ln»r,dlont, a, r.|H.ri.d by Dr Koblor Chi so(
thr division of drugs and the bureau of chemistry. Washington, was tnjroia
c’and poke root and toasts bread a -Far Re
*’ n„f nr< . the food and drugs act went Into effect. Kellogg H K
durer" was «oid under the claim that “the-*, table'- are not a drug u a
?™d.- and further, that the preparation "turns fat into muscle. Bo h
statements are false.
Pointed Paragraphs
On* way to *et. ahead i» to raise
cabbage.
That gifted athlete. the cucum
ber, knocks a man out after hr
it down
A truthful man never make* a
success as a, fisherman.
If you undertake to watch a hypo
crite give up all other task*
Arc Is venerable In man and • ’ l
would be In woman were * vf>r
to become old
Surer** come* to those who make j
up their minds to do a *h!ne *nd
then do it
There are too many ladle* and
gentlemen in world and no
enough men and women.
When a clock la wound up It me*;
but when a firm’s business 1*
wound up l» stops
When a pugilist get* Into the di
vorce court It 1* for the purpose of
ha-.tne the match declared off
Ice cream and bonbon* may be
the food Os love, hut bread and po
tatoe* occupy important position* |
on the matrimonial bill of fare.
Mr. Man. Look Here
Attorney charlotte M. Jones, of
San Franc I *co. declare* that, after
the war. "polygamy r ill not only be
°anctioned. but will be the mean-* of
| establishing *he nupremacy of wom
en in governing the world
•Way off. Miss Charlotte!
Masculine human nature won't
stand for it.
■The fellow* now being run by one
wife have plenty, and th* fellow
with one wife v.ho i*n't running
them won’t take any further risk*.
And making polygamy Justified
I merely for promotion of breeding
j will get kicked all over the world
by woman herself
j Some other method for women*
1 getting control of th*' v orid will
1 sure!) have to be found if she
1 isn't already running, the whole
shooting match.
"Man.” add* Mis* .lone*. ‘Ms lik**c
I |y to he redu< ed to a mere parental
1 factor ’ tJents not yet'' so reduced
will please stand up He careful
loot to trample upon each other.
Md-Mirror
And Advice to Investors
If The Times Prints It, The Times Believes It
—
Anniversaries
S
- *V* WMt KRMIIIK"
77 tr p ,t*e of safety appoint
ed with Beniamin Franklin a* presi
dent.
177 7 Brit-ah under Hen Howe
evacuated \*>w Jersey. cr« **lng to
Staten Island
lsl.* Ir, *-d States signed a treaty
jof peace with Algiers.
I*l7 C rr.Txti ne laid in Isling
ton Kv.. fur the first !n“*ne asvlum
•re.'ted wet of the Appalachian
mountains.
1 a A4 -Indian Territory established
I by act of congress.
HA-R'-mi apt* -listed to the
French arrr.y under Marshal oudlnot.
I**3 -«iteat Britain officially pr<»-
clairr<-,| the .nd of the Burmese wa--
! T H,-ir Adn. rn’ denrge F
Pea’s-.n. 1* .- Na naval officer of
rs toil tty ji®t riot
ded in Portsmouth. N. H Born In
. Fseter, N. H. in I *
1> '.T President Cleveland I ailed an
extra ness!on of congress to consider
the flnarrtxl crisis
1903 More than Jd« lives lost In
an expb n tn a coal mine near
Hanna. Wv«.
Iflf president Wilson delivered s
speech in New York stating his at
titude with regard to war w ith Mml
iiU: *1 lit \t.O Ton%Y IN THF.
U t ft
Italians smarted vlgnCou* offensive
on the l.sonzo.
It get > asement condemned to
| death f'.r h «h treason.
I Hu *iar.s n great battle near Ko
lome-t l -k ov« r io 4 or»t> Austrian pris
oner«
11 11 **l an Itvirna passed hill p»rrr»-
I nenfly prni luting -al* of Il'iU'T nth
| > t than light w ine*.
IDIHV't It llt Til ft II *
pear Admiral William B <‘ap*r-
I ton. I' - N commanding the Pa
-1 etfle fleet horn In Spring fllll. Tmn.
<52 years ag«, today
t Brig -den Mfred Mordecaf f. 9
: A., retired, horn in Philadelphia 77
I year a ag‘ t..«la\
fx>rd Fsher. for manv years a
|pm min'nt figure <n Kngltsb public
life l <ro jn years ago
; todax
I |: t I,’e v f'harles R'lmtirr Burch
suffrag.m blah- ’ of the Fpiscopal
diner -e <f \'#w York horn It, Plnrk
i nrt Mit h *2 years ago today
1 Halx - r 3feeners«>r r*pre«*ntattv»
iln mngrere f *he Ninth Minnesota
I district lorn In I»ane county, Wis.
' df> year- ago today.
Fatherhood
Wh*n Victor Herbert’* la*t child
, w*>« borr h*m. n friend congratu
! Inter? the f >rnnu* mtisfcian and said
•*| *-'ppr»*c your life Just now
I Herbert, is one rrand. sweet sour”'
"Well, not that eiactlv.” an
*w»-r«d Herbert. "It’* more like an
opera; full of grand marches with
loud call* for the author every
| ni*ht I-Adie*’ Home Journal.
The Keep Well
Column
ROSE COLD!
Hav Over occurring at this sea
son of the >ear 1* ut-uaily call* 1
rose fever or rose
It Is due to the
action of the pollen of any one of
25 Brasses and at least seven plants
on the mu("ous membrane ofc the
nose and throat of some people
Among the plants causing hay
fever are yellnwdock, coeklebur.
careless weed and many varieties of
grass.
Hay serer plants are numerous,
wind pollinated and their flowers
are without bright colors or pleasant
scent. The pollen Is always found
in great quantities
Vaccines of various kinds are
used to prevent the disease from de
veloping Some of these are made
from the pollen of the more import
ant plants. A. change in climate is
often advised.
The control of weeds and grasses
also offers a means of preventing
hay fever. Most cities have ordi
nances against noilous weeds, but
they are usually not enforced.
Persons susceptible to hay fever
should not rent or buy property in
neighborhoods with neglected weeds
or grass This action would likely
help correct the neglect They
should also avoid driving along
roads passing thru sections full of
grass and weeds In bloom, for pol
len is likely to be inhaled with the
dust
Health Questions Answered
J H —"ls flsh as harmful as meat
In high blood pressure”’
An equal amount of flsh is as
harmful In high blood pressure a
a given amount of meat, but flsh It
•ometlmes permitted when meat Is
prohibited because ordinarily much
.less will be taken.
A P • "What are the symptoms of
gallstones ?”
The mere presence of gallstones
causes no symptom? Symptoms
arise when they attempt to pasa
through the duct leading from the
call bladder to the lnte*»ine« The
most prominent of these Is pain,
which often shoots upward into the
( best, particularly to the right shoul
der Jaundice sometimes develops
also .
The Old Gardener Says
''
This Is the time for setting out ■
| celery to be used In late fall or
, stored for winter The one sure
way to be successful Is to thor
j oly soak the ground where the
plants are to be set. If the soil
can be made wet for a depth of
I two or three Inches, so much the
better. The plants will get a
rood start then and continue to
grow with practically no check,
ft |« better to trim off the upper
half of the leaves If the plants
are very strong, and possibly to
shear off the lower portion of
i the roots at the same time. Roth
Boston Market and Giant Pascal
are popular varieties, and Colum
bian. alt ho not so well known, fa
an excellent sort for the home
garden, k
Listen To Nature
m ii. utnivoTttN timer
Author of The Riddle of Person
ality." "Psychology and
Parenthood,'* etc.
You are body tired and mind
tired Your nerves are on edge
You feel discouraged, depressed,
despondent.
Vacation is approaching, but is
>ft some weeks away. In your pres
ent state of mind you dare not hope
to enjoy It when It comes. The
tension is so great that you are sure
>ou will then be exhausted.
Your working plaee has become a
prison to you. almost a torture cham
ber. You hate the sight of the
same old houses, the same old
stores, the same old office buildings
that you dally pass when going to
and from work.
You have tried various amuse
ments- she theater, the movie hall,
perhaps the card table and the bil
Hard room as means of gaining re
laxation. Rut none of these has
brought you mental peace or nerv
ous quietude
What you need —you know It well
is the fresh air pf the open coun
try, an entire change from the rush
and bustle of your daily routine
You long to be where you do not
ha\e to keep eternally on the go.
and where you can gain absolute
rest.
As said, this Is denied you for a
few weeks more Not until then
can you flee from your scenes of
stress and get tranquilly Into touch
with nature.
Put surely you are wrong. Surely
you have forgotten some’hing
You have forgotten, have you not.
that there are In your city such
things as parks?
You have forgotten that. If only
you will do so. you can visit these
parks daily. In the early raorninß
or the late afternoon.
There the air Is fresher than In
the crowded streets. There, amid
leafy bowers, the crowded streets
seem Indeed remote
Os course, if. vlsttlng the parks,
you persist in thinking of your dally
work, your daily cares, nervous ten
sion will still afflict you. You must
in some way ease your mind and
feast your soul.
me offer a suggestion
Go to a park, the most rural look
fng park convenient to you. Kind a
quiet, shady nook in that park Seat
yourself comfortably on bench or
grass. Then listen to nature
Usten to the music of the rust
ling leaves, the chirping birds, the
humming, droning Insects. i,et them
play for you their summer-lone
symphony of peace and strength and
hope
At first be satisfied with listening
a? vou w'ould listen to the music of
a human orchestra But *ht-n the
desire com?* —as. after a few visits.
If is sure to come— begin to get ae
qualntcd with the individual per
formers In this greatest of all or
chegtras, the orchestra of nature.
Study the trees, the flowers, the
birds, the little flying and creeping
things that make music for you.
l>eam to identify each of them Buy
some nature study bonks that will
enable you to carry on Intelligently
this novel and fascinating pastime
for your leisure momenta.
Listening to nature in the park,
studying nature In the park, you will
And nervous strain rapidly abating
When vacation time at last does
come, you will he really ready to
enjoy your vacation
And when you go to the country
take your nature study books with
you. In the country you will And
ampler material at hand for study,
ampler opportunity to Increase your
love and knowledge of nature.
If you wish, I shall he glad to
help you make a selection of nature
study hooks. I have available a list
to which you are welcome. All you
need do Is to write to me in the
care of this newspaper, requesting
the list and enclosing a stamped
and self-addressed envelope.
Politic* Down South
In atumplng hi* dlatrlct. William
Schley Howard, a Georgia cnngresa
man. take* with him a luafy Negro.
Whan ha aaaa a farmar at work In
the field*, Mr. Howard atop* the
bugxy. get* out and Introduce* him
aalf. Aa aoon aa Introduction* ara
ovar. and tha conraraation get* to
politic*, Howard direct* hla Negro
attandant to taka up tha plowing or
o»har work on which tha farmer
waa engaged. and continue at It un
til tha dlaruaaion of tha afTalra of
tha nation In general and tha mar
Ita of a certain member of con
area* In particular. 1* completed
The Negro’* name la Halt.—laidlea*
Home Journal,
All Foreigners
Not one of our national air* I?
American. "America” waa taken
from tha Kngliah “Qod Sava tha
King.” Oermnn* claim that the
h*ngli*h appropriated tha tune from
the German national hymn. "Hell
dir im Slegerkran*.”. If ao, than you
have Rngland and America alnglng
a German air for their national
aong*. "Hall Columbia” la German.
It waa compoaad aa a "Prealdant'a
March” In 17*9. by a German named
Pyle* "Yankee Doodle” la a Dutch
aong. u*ed a* a harraat aonr among
tha farmera. “The Red White and
Blue” waa written by an Kngliah
actor, and "The Star Spangled Ban
nar" by an rCngllah composer.—l .a
dlaa' Home Journal.
BT carrier tn Detroit. 6 centa a week;
where. 10 centa a week. Ry mall, $3 a
year. Call Main 4520. Entered at the l'oste
office in Detroit as second class mall matter.
The time has come when the two par
ties, or one of them, in the present world
war should lay the cards face up on the
table.
In other words, each contestant should
declare, in plain terms, exactly what he’s
fighting for, and what he intends to do if
he is victorious.
Germany and Company will not do thia,
because it is a coalition of autocracies,
the central principle of whose theory of
government is that a superior, official,
hereditary class, and not the whole peo
ple. is responsible and supreme in direct
ing the allairs of a nation.
Kngland, France and Company ought,
however, to do it, because they
themselves as democracies; and in a
democracy the people ought to know
what’s going on and what their rulers
aim to do.
One of the first phenomena of the Rus
sian revolution was a popular movement
to induce the government to state its
precise peace terms, w hether it was go
ing to grab territory, exact indemnities,
and the like. Whether this movement
was ill-advised and diplomatically man
aged or not, it was an indication of the
proper temper of a democracy. The peo
ple are not disposed, when they are io
control, to suffer, become impoverished,
and die, all for something they don’t un
derstand, for issues that in the end are
to be decided in a secret chamber by
the chess play of a few diplomats.
America, thru her president, has stated
clearly enough what she wants. She
wants the freedom of the seas, she wants
to break < Germany’s power and will to rob
and slay, and she does not want any other
nation’s land or money. Francejias done
likewise.
We oppose Germany because she rep
resents an intolerable national egotism;
she proposes to do business upon the
theory of Germany first; and the only
alternative to that is the theory of the
world first, humanity first, with every
small nation guaranteed its existence.
There is a deal of talk in America, and
still more in Russia and the neutral
countries of Europerthat “British patri
otism is equally egotistic, and its purpose
in this war parallel to the German pur
pose.’’ Great Britain is declared to be
grasping at Mesopotamia and the Ger
man colonies, France at Syria, Italy at
Austrian provinces, and so on. Why not
come out plainly and declare just what
an allied victory will mean?
H. G. Wells, in a recent letter to the
London Chronicle, urges such statements,
not mere discussions and diplomatic un
derstandings, but “such full and plain
statements as will be spread thru the
whole world and grasped and assimilated
by ordinary people everywhere—state
ments by which we as a people will be
prepared to stand or fall. Great Britain
has to table her world policy. It is a
thing overdue. No doubt we have already
a literature of liberal imperialism and
a considerable accumulation of declara
tions by this statesman or that; but what
is needed is a formulation much more
representative, official, and permanent
than that—something that can be put
beside President Wilson’s clear rendering
of the American ideal. We want all our
peoples to understand that our empire is
not a net about the world in which the
progress of mankind is entangled, but a
self-conscious political system, working
side by side with the other democracies
of the earth, preparing the way for, and
preparing to sacrifice and merge itself
in, a world confederation of free and
equal peoples.”
At a achool one day a teacher, having naked
mo*! of the pupil* the difference between an
Inland and a penlnaula without receiving a aatls
tory anawer, came to the laat
boy. r~ 71
"I can explain It. air,” aaid IH
the bright youth. "Klrat get A flL.
two gIHHHCN. I'ill one With
wafer and the other with milk. “Ii j
Then catch a fly and place It In /lPJ — A
the glaaa of water. That fly La UV* x J
an Inland becauae he la entirely ~" 1
aurrounded by water. Hut now
put the fly In the glaaa of milk and It will ha a
penlnaula, becauae It la nearly aurrounded by
water.”
The boy went to the top of the claaa^^^^^^
A paaaenger on a New York Cleveland aleeper,
on awakening In the morning, found under hla
berth one black ahoe and one
brown one. He called the por
('T-1 1 ter and directed hla attention
/%! i ®. jto the error. The porter
I £ J acrafched hla head In Utter be
st , i ! wilderment.
. * "Well." aald the exaeperated
paaaenger. “whafa Ihe mat
- -a | <rr *’’
L— - • "Now. If dat don’t beat all!”
exclaimed the porter "Data de aecond time 41a
mawln, dat dat mistakes happened.”
C ards On the Table
BY DR. rRAN^ICRANE
(Copyright, 1915. by Kntnk Crane)
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