The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-01-03

determined to snub
its author. Following this incident
there appeared In the papers an alleg-
ed interview with Mrs. Glyn sneering
at the Pilgrim MothGAs and calling
them slangy names. Mrs. Glyn In a
letter to her personal hostess, Mrs.
Bates, denied that she had given any
such interview and demanded an apol-
ogy from the club for its treatment of
her.
Rent Strike at New York.
The lower east side Of New York
city, including the thickly populated
Hebrew ghetto, has been greatly excit-
ed the last few days by movement
to organize general strike of house
holders against landlords by refusing
to pay rent until the lessees consent to
reduction. A committee of relief has
been organized to take care of fam
lilies which should be evicted and to
protect their household goods. Plans
were also made for great street pa
rade. The landlords held a meeting
and voted to resist the movement for
rent reductions. The large number Of
unemployed at this time is partly re-
sponsible for this protest against high
tenement rates, and Socialist leaders
are taking advantage Of the situation
to propagate their theories.
Consumption Takes a Tenth.
That one-tenth Of all the deaths Of
the year in Pennsylvania were due to
tuberculosis is shown by the records
Of the bureau of vital statistics, the
total of victims of this disease being
10,7SO
Christmas and Equality.
A rare If not new Interpretation OF
Christmas is brought out by Samuel
McChord Crothers in Everybody's. Re
ferring to st. Augustine's analysis of
love as meaning that the other should
be as well off as yourself, he says that
wishing him to be thine equal is the
test of charity, adding: "It is all right
to give a poor devil a turkey, but are
you anxious that he shall have as good
a chance as you have to buy turkey
for himself? Are you really enthusi-
astic about so equalizing opportunities
that by and by you shall be surround
ed by happy, self reliant people who
have no need of your benefactions?"
Why Roebline Quits Asheville.
The decision of John A. Roebling,
the millionaire son of the Brooklyn
bridge builder, to abandon his resi-
dence at Asheville, n. c., and give
away his magnificent mansion there
nearly complete to the home mission
board of the Presbyterian church is
admitted frankly by Mr.. Roebling to
be due to the recent vote of the place
for prohibition. He has spent ten
into his estate adjoining Biltnore. the
Vanderbilt establishment. but now says
that he will not live In a town that
abridges personal liberty In this way.
He speaks of the harmony and good
feeling that have characterized Ashe-
vile and of Its hospitable and progress
i've citizens, all working together to
make this the great resort town of the
SOUTH" then continues: Now there
has come .discordant note. A strange
philosophy is being preached among
us. We are told that grown men are
unsuited to be the judges of their own
personal habits. To drink alco-
holic liquor is not wrong per Sc from
any point of view. Therefore to sell
such liquor Is not wrong per Sc. Pro
hibition Is an attempt to declare a
thing wrong which is not wrong. Is
the saloon a cause or an effect? Sa
looms exist because men drink. Let
the prohibitionists who would reform
the drunkard stop drinking with him.
The consensus of opinion of the best
and strongest minds Is that high IL
cense is the best system of regulation;
that prohibition Is wrong in principle
and contrary to the fundamentals of
our system of government. The sue
cess of prohibition at the election
means that the money market will be-
come tight" He adds that most Of the
cities which have tried it have gone
back to license and that prohibition
drives or impels young men to lawless
dens. Mr.. Roebling Will return to the
home of his father at Trenton, N. ].