The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-11-03
Two Boys Fighting in
An Alley, a Crowd and
An Elderly Gentleman
u Was Wrong for the Boys To
Fight; Wrong for tho Crowd To
Watch Them, and the Elderly
Gentleman Was Right, But

M lin the street
II the Elderly !" s IS ,,.s. stopped to
sss"a" was H'ans But watch the until those at
tracted the scene had forHeo
y perfect ring about the contestants
We started and did not learn
the cause
Perhaps hitch partnership business OF selling the
morning papers
Some matter of not more than coppers doubt
Possibly though formation the alley OF street Paiaue
q actors with a attraction would explain It.
The representations of to the show manager as 70 ms
ability carry might been challenged by the
together incidental recountng by the latter
Of his superior qualifications for the job
one however hosties began Immediately following
exchange president of the United States terms the
orter uger which, the signal to put up your
expressed you're another and dasnt back it.
Anyhow the boys and and the crowd
looking with great deal of interest when an elderly gen.
ueman stepped into the ring with few words to say
you yourselves menu? declared the elderly
gentleman The idea of people standing here ana per
ng boys pume each other with you looking on anu
making effort stop them"
Two watches from their vest pockets
and suddenly due back at the store
onlooker who had been hand since the call OF tune
demanding vocerousy be stopped Two
talk politics and another to scan the oo
On the other friend he apparently ex
pected along
The writer was entertaining opinion of this crowd when
\ the elderly gentleman along
He being an elderly just WELL from point OF
view stepping into the ring while we reserved
our sentiments expressed from a safer distance
But they their conduct SO
who stood idly by and looked with salts
exchange blows and the bloody noses OF the
8 combaants.
The witnesses stopped the boys and told them
they wrong. in size and age but
NOT after all
we say il was wrong for boys fight and for
1ke crowd stand by and watch the tight
But what about ourselves we VINO oispfov "
fritins a standing by without interfering wnen
meeting fight not in the alley but IN the oPen
y before eyes of the world?
wrong the resort to physical force Is not s
one for ALSO stoop this
of position when the pages OF history are
81 WARP
Can we bring boy that is wrong to
Nth the school of how men have snot
,u,cl Others hearts7
.. 80 freely condemn this standing idly by while
1bovs biHed at while maintaining ire
force fighters land and let the blood OF men
y buele CAMP
e appauding like spirit that which brought these
no 6st combat permit to appropriate
millions and bigger fighting ships and bigger and
&rrety death-deaing guns?
kn ~ employ genius Of provide us with the
~ Killing more high in the air or far under
"a. between justified and it is right that we send
nbo bstA fights between boys justified and more So
tys have something against each other, while the soldiers
~ 69ht in alley Of three cents OF
p6ivege of carrying show banner there was that nucr
~ ks between than there between any Russian
NV Japanese soldier between and man. in rhe
15cx IA the Far East
q nothing the devils in that cam
% hot other and died miseraby by the trench full
fovEy In either benefit by the result Of
IN In this wsras all of conquest.
"a right these boys should fight
right that these Russian and Japanese should have
bayonets point
not right this country any other country should
preparing for war.
right for these men to have stood looking on over
boys in the alley
Il not right stand idly by and these preparations
for further fighting nations without raising
- n protest
- continue into pockets for
expense of maintaining and and allow
f.la,o,s 10 end vUher