The Detroit times. [volume], September 05, 1917, NOON, Image 8

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Why Germany Wants
Peace Autocracy Has Its
Hands Full At Home
The reasons why Germany would like
to have peace at the present time are
manifold.
Aside from the fact that she is -tr<’iig
er now thlfn she w ill ever he attain during
this war, that she is now making w .r :n
enemy territory and ho! L va-t re.tcl.es
of Belgian. French, Russian. Srbian an i
Rumanian lands, there are condition a’
home that make it wise, f n t new
tive. that the war come tt » an early er.*'
The Germans are a docile and disci
plined people.
They love a ruler ar- Im, r
They apparently delight in L -g
bidden to do all manner >f thir.g-
They are a folk among w> m i- v
tions do not thrive.
They have too wholesome a r* spec: >r
the kaiser’s soldiers an '
police.
But the ruling caste of Ger my
parently knows there is a limit t «
even Germans may be driven.
Germany today i? a land of : in, w
derfed. underclothed people.
It is a land upon every home
Death has laid his icy tinge
are blind men and maimed men n e\ r;»
village.
It is a land in which peoj e never
smile any more.
Carking care has taken the p ace of
easy mirth.
And the depressed spirits of the peo
ple are not uplifted when they read in a
workers journal, like the Textilarbeiter
of Berlin, that Bernhard Haup‘ g, a
member of the textile worker*’ union has
‘‘exchanged the temporal for the eterr.a’
life.”
Nor do they rejoice when the article
continues that his relatives, applying f r
financial help, were instead giver a death
certificate by the district medical officer
which said:
“The undersigned hereby certifies
that the 58-year-old factory worker.
Bernhard Hauptig, was found dead on
June 15 in Engelsberg pastures. Ac
cording to investigations which were
duly earned out, the above named per
son died of starvation.”
To which the Textilarbeiter added the
terrible thought:
“Hauptig is not the first nor will he
be the last member of the textile work
ers union to die of starvation.”
This simple item, with its ;V.n
truths, gives the lie to the announce
ments of the Prussian master* s hat Ger
many has enormous resources and her
food supply is holding out well.
A land in which the resource- are am
ple is not a land in which an industrious
worker wanders the fields and dies of
starvation like a neglected dog.
No wonder Vorwaerts, a socialist or
gan of Germany which sometime dare
to hit at the truth, said in a recent ■>
•ue:
‘The present internal condition- in
Germany remind one of the festive horse
man immortalized in the Fliegende
Blaetter who, being asked, ‘Meyer, where
are you riding to?’ frankly replied ‘How
do I know ? Ask the horse.”
“We ask: ‘Quo vadis Germania?'”
Now' the socialists are not the only
ones who are asking whither Germany
is going.
It is being asked sullenly, savagely,
timidly or worriedly, as the case may
be, by everyone in kaiserthum.
All recognize that the breaking point
may be reached.
There is a stage beyond which even
Germans will not endure.
Wars have sometimes ceased bemuse
the people have ah olutelv refused to
prosecute them "any longer.
Dynasties have sometimes been top
pled into the dust beeau-e people have
refused to starve any longer.
That is what is worrying th#* Hohen
tollern outfit.
They are not winning abroad and they
fear conditions at heme. Hence their
strenuous efforts to end the war l>efore
winter, before defeat, before a starved
and frozen people may find the courage
to drive them from their throne^.
We Are Very Much
Afraid Argentina Is
About To Get tiers
Keep your eye on the cablegram sand
see Argentina get hers.
Germany’s autocracy has notified Ar
gentina that it “acknowledges the die
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1917
tates of international law” ami is sure
there’ll be no more I’-boating of Argen
j tine ships.
Argentina feels that she ha* achieved
a diplomatic victory that nobody else
has and that her vessels are going to
slide thru that blockade zone in safety.
We’re good neighbor »nough to hope
that Argentina is not to he disappoint
ed, but. by reason of our own tough ex
perience, we can’t help feeling that any
nation that’s relying on dictates of tier
man autoci.toy's conscience ha- got the
stage set for a rip-roaring old comedy
en the h.gh seas, with several acts of
blood-curdling tragedy in it. very likely.
Only Fair To Lut Tax
On the Liberty Bonds*
It! e fir-t Liberty Loan matter. Sec
retary Me A ;o. undoubtedly g'b exjvn
onct t! tt pr*mpt> him t<* urge taxation
vd war tH»nds that are t<’ be issued here
after.
L. s 1' >nd> bearing l per cent ir.ter
f>{- i w i ,, *better invested than
savings depos ts. if not taxable.
W ait a ut the >.*v •gs Links?
Again, tl> i—ue of a score of bi!l:«>n>
in bonds .means that the nu.K of such
L ■
by the financial concerns and the rich
individuals.
I*’ non-taxable. these Linds o: T era
vta> to avoid income taws, .*nd one way
to avoid a big part of this loss of rev
enue seem* to be t - tax the income from
the bonds.
Another way would ho to make the
bonds o‘* low denominati n an : get the
folks who are r- t subject to income
taxation to take them up.
This would at east help some.
The problem for the government is to
dispose of the bond' and yet not impair
its sources of current revenue, and in
this, a- in other war matters, a whole
lot depends upon the degree of patriotic
sentiment.
“Meanest C hild on Karth."
The tired child whimpered as his
mother jerked ham by one arm into an
elevator. It was plain that hi.- short
legs had been taking three steps to her j
one for hours up and down the long aisles
of the big department store.
Shocked women in the elevator gazed
in astonishment at the impatient mother. 1
“What a pretty little boy.” ventured
one of them sympathetically.
“Pretty enough when he’s as.eep.”
grumbled the mother, “but when he’s
awake he's the meanest child on earth!”
And all the other women wondered if
they could believe their ears. What
endless, needle** miseries a three-vear
i old must endure at the hands of a m ther
who could say that!
“The earth is full of danger, the seas
are dark with wrath”—which make it
doubly necessary for reasonable human
beings to cut down ‘he grea* score of
the world’s -mall unnecessary griefs
Hundreds of people say they would
give their lives to -• ,p the war. ; * t f
• •
| ‘he average of human .sorrow grea* y by
> being tender in all small wavs to all
, thing- great and small.
From Another Point of View
hu c. T s.
Judge Connolly find suddenly that the
last legislature gave ? im grand jury pow
er to invest,gate ♦ r.e eo r.ty \ li.ding
mes s.
Somebody i. alwav«» taking the jov out
of life.
• * •
Tony Kioka i- going to make twine i r
Jackson prison. Principally because, w
might observe, the Itoard of auditor of
Wavne county gave him too much rop>-
m • •
A Detroit wife say« her 1 i hand rvai
ried her to escajie war. We take it. that
this wa to I** bis first experience.
* • •
Fa rro achf s.
Th* Km **r "Ons *rd wf’h God •
m 9 9
If Tony Kioka writ# -a v *>ok exposing
Wayne county politics, he ought to d#*rivp
considerable re\ fwjc from the omitted
chapter <.
9 9 9
Presumably the Kaiser regards those
Russian a- hi- 1/e-t soldiers.
9 9 9
Tlie ro#>kie l#*ave- today with th<*
for the tranches, th#* sooner he will li
able to get out of Rattle Greek.
• • •
It appears now that the length of the
Labor Day parade, or. rather, the''lark of
it. was due to a previous order to fall #>ut.
9 9 9
Is that western man ill because he
flavored his sardines with lye or Itecause
he flavored his lye with sardines*
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Oh K'vi'ri”* True, oh Kverett True,
If *#• had a million or like you
Wi’h shoulders broad and with Jawbone* grim.
To k#*ep »►.«■ {!*•«•<• rif the lanr! In trim ,
Thin** might no* *e*m no bright and fair
To pra<-tlral J# k* r* everywhere,
Ar.d Ivors a:id masher* might find that life
Wa* fiill o f troubl r and w<>e and strife
And ead* mlg* t mutter and fool* might ftiaa
Hut you'd hear no kirk from the rest of ua.
There’* never a mortal. Krerett True,
Tha* hadn't wanted, at Mm*-* to do
The «or’ of** stunt that you work *o well
V, h»n you *lam *ome mu** with vour old umbrell
And -f a million or *wo or three
sis deren* people would all agree
To take a wha< k a* your Job awhile
T? > y'd make thing* better in rapid atyle.
the thieve* and grafter* would get their due*
From a hu<ky arm of Kverett True*
O*- Kverett True dear Fiverett True.
If the t;*rman people had men like you
To ha*h the kal*er and haa'e the rrew
f»f frenzied Junker* who've waded through
V H ut ■ e** of hlood moth the #nd In view
rtf riling the world n* want t,o do
lt wouldn't he long ere tb* roay hue
lif 1 1 e rlawn of pe«re would rome anew
And the Mohenzollerna be knorked a*krw!
rif roor«* ‘be # hanre* for that are few
Rut anyhow, here |* a ver*e lo you
Oh rough, Iraaclble Krerett Truel
Don’t He a Pris:
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on** 1 * follow mro la atnonK tho i >
aontUlk of •urooßMful li> tnk Th*»r**
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courts On** of thcat- la yrl*K‘*h
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To krroma pnupiah la Intfßrd to
a penon who will And It
difficult to x«*t alottK with others
For priithiahncHs unfailingly rouses
f****lln«a of antuKonlam
ith itood reason As Arnold
Hcnnett. In hta "Mow to Live On
Twenty four Hours h has cle\
erl> put It
A pru la a pert fellow who £!>• -
himself Ain* of superior wisdom
"A prltt in a pompous find who has
torn* out for a ceremonial walk and.
without know-in* it. has lost an ini
l*ort»nt part of his attire, his sense
of humor
"A prU Is a tedious Individual
who. ha\tnK made a discovery, is -*o
impressed by his discovery that he
is capable of hem* gravely ill'
pleased because the entire world is
not also impressed with It
Arnold Hennett adds that "uncon
sclotisly to become a prig Is in • •'
and a fatal thin* " it Is assured *
easy.
Kvery man who, thru stud* »nd
reflection, has grown in know *1 ■
of literature, history, art. > ;• n« •
or anv other *ubje<t or set of sul
tec’s, Is in danger of becoming .*
pr-.g
Me m'ist set himself flrmly not
alone against bragging of his kt w
♦aige, but also against niak.ng a d’.s
play of It
Os course, when a man is d’r. ■•!*
questioned concerning mat or- *
which h* has eipert knowUnlge, it
wouM be ungracious of him to pr»»
tend ignorance or to give purpos* !y
eiaslve unsworn In such ho
i-tetv Justly expec’s frankness fr■ 'in
h iro
Me has been invited to te’,l some
thing of what he know* in 1 '.t
right and proper for him to import
knowledge to others.
P’lt. even In these ctrctimstanee-;
society neither requires nor destr»
that he answer with the volubility
of a talking machine w hose hr.*k
will not work And society roe'n'*
ft If he answers condescendlnglv or
boastfully
Still more does society- fee' resen*
men* If he goes out of his w y
mak* other people aware of what a
wise fellow he is and airs hi* <nov
•dge of a subjec* w’*houf having
been asked to do so
"Conceited ass.” .* the genera!
verdict The chances are flier* w
be a supplementary verdict of d* * .
ly bore ’’
The png mav not arfiallv v s con
cei’ed Mis talkativeness nuy n ;
have the slightest foundation m ‘
celt |t may be a mere n. **** rof
habit with birr.
And of % certainty he and **- -n *.
suspe-'t tpat he is w °arisome rr
those wl*h whom he talk*
Rut he is wearisome non** the
Jess peca !** of -his people \refer
to have as Mt»le ’o do wl* him n*
possible They Wish neither *o he
bored nor to he male to fee! In
fetior
Which does not mean that to gait
social adaptabllitv the >ir-s m- *n
Is to remain sn Ignoramus
f>n the contrary, learn all yo>
can But make it s p'''nf n l '*
hang your learning p»*rpetun > or
*he clothe-line of conversation
That is *he one sure way »n avoid
prlggl s h n e s .s. and b > avoiding l ! ’ •
gishneas, *o avoid a truly sett'' *
obstacle to success In life
Some Draw
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called on Henry Ford to h * wor'.
*hop. and the manufacturer, u
knowing exactly -vha* to --how h.-
picked up a powerful ningn* ' r
safd
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pounds of iron from a di-tanc
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office In Uetioil as ae mid class mail matter.
Iloi'h Dor Whisky!
BY DR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyright, 1916, by Frank Crane)
The kaiser's greatest ally is whisky.
This 1 say. heeatise whatever saps the
strength of America, lowers its efficiency,
anti steals its wholesome ftaui. is mani
festly playing into the hands <>f Ameri
ca’s enemy.
Women may economize in the kitchen,
can the hcan and cabbage, save the
crusts, and skimp the butter, but one
saloon will waste more human energy
over the bar in one day than they will
conserve in a week.
\\ hy plant your front lawns in pot $
toes and raise carrots instead of gera
niums m your window garden;'why eat
corn pone instead of white bread, ami
fried rice for steak, and all that sort <»f
tiling, when ever> pound of food you are
saving to make men strong is doubly du
plicated by the still, »kidi ik>w* U> uiaka
men weak?
Kvery xlass of l>o«c/.e that passes over
tht* mahoK.my bar in the dnnkuiK place
d«H‘s a.-* much damage to the rmtnhood of
the nation as a ten-inch shell tired from
one of the kaiser’s krupps.
Tor whisky never did any good and
never will do any good. Kvery ounce
of it means lowering life's efficiency.
It makes the muscle flabby. It ol>-
vuri's the brain. It lets dovsn the moral
force.
Kvery drop of whisky means so much
i**'> honesty, loyalty, courage and intel
ligence.
The kaiser could make no shrewder
move than to subsidize every grog shop
in America, to keep on at full blast,
ladling out the stuff that takes the
stamina out of tin* great people.
Nobody, no nation, can conquer Amer
ica. Hut America can rot. She can guz
zle her hoboed poison and sing to maud
lin weakness, while she prates of "per
onal liberty,” and slobbers, in congress
and out, over the vested rights of poison
-.oilers.
(leneral O’Ryan, in a recent let f er to
his fellow -njdiers. used this language;
“Our jolt i' to whip the, enemy hard
and w ith the least loss to ourselves. In
training o ,r military machines to do this
w*> must t iiminate back-lash, rattles and
use If- loads. We nui>t have every part
hoaltl y. strong ami dependable; no part
iefectivr, di.-eased or obsolete.
“This cannot be if we are to permit
booze in any form into our military ma
•l ine. Aicohol, whether you call it boor,
! wine whisky, or by any other name, is a
br*‘.**ler <>f inefficiency. While it affects
men ditferently. the results are the same,
! in that .ill affected hy it cease for the
time to be normal. Some become forget
i fill, others quarrelsome. Some become
noisy, some get sick, some get sleepy;
! others have their passions greatly stim
j ulatod. When you top to consider the
thousands in a division, do you not see
; how vital to efficiency is the elimination
:of liquor? If f»ne officer or man is per
- nutted to u-e liquor, then others will
claim the right to do so. How can a di
vision of troops be ever ready—ever up
o the hit to drive ahead or to thrust
back the enemy’s drive if thru the pres
ence of this insidious evil some soldiers
forgi t their orders or become noisy when
il<-ncc is essential, fall asleep when every
faculty should he alert, or absent from
their posts?”
Hurrah for the saloon! T/mg live per
-onal liberty! Hoch der whisky!
Laugh With Us
T‘ #>re v* m one#- a Seotrh farmer famed for
his «’r«ngth who wa* nft#*n Challenged bv p#>nplc
from t dl vine#- who hid heard of hia reputation
one da\ there arrived from
I •don I .or| Jtnrbv. a well
known amateur athlete He
found the Sent working in the
field
‘‘Friend.*’ #at#l lii* lordship,
after first tying hi* hor*<* to a
»ree, "1 have rome a long wav
t#» -#•#■ whieh ttf ua iv the better
w re*f|er ”
Without av Inc a wor<! the farmer seized him
arountl »h# middle, pitrlod him over the hedge,
and resumed hi* work
Mi* lordship *|ow!\ gathered him-e]f together,
whereupon the farmer *aid "Wee|, hne vo one
thing rnalr *a#« *av tae me’
'. No. bu» p'-rhup* you'll be so good a# to throw
me mv hor*e
lie ui- a lion tamer, hut tlu man who ruled
•he king *tf the for# t was in turn ruled by hia
Aife
W*|
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slip ir*o the hoii*e unoh*erved. but, ala*’ a
voire from the top of the ’air* greeted htpi
(oldlv: *
••Where have you been all night, John’''
"Wt 11. mv dear, I wa* afraid of disturbing you,
#» I .slept In the lion’* rage ”
Ih« re w,t* a moment * pan e. a gritting of
l#>eth. then down the ataira floated nno word.
“t oward 1”
. Sk 1
<Mi#> night h.> arm entertain
ed ht hi* friend*, who refused
t#> allow him to depart until
the «n H bout •of the morning
\s4 | tit on hi* homeward
wav, thinking that hia wife
would not reeeive him a* eor
diallv a* he deserved, he ajtent.
the night e|f<ewh#'re
In the morning he tried It*