The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-17
COMET APPROACH
DOESN'T FEAzE
FOREIGN FOLK
Half of Detroit's New Citizens
Haven't Heard of Halley's Tramp
and Those Who Have Are
Not Fretting.
However, Delray Hungarians Will
Keep Children Home From School,
Wednesday, Just Because

The scientists may worry, IL they
insist upon 1t, over Halley's comet.
They may squabble over the question
OF whether the comets tail Is l5,OOO,'
600 miles long, or whether II Is 25,00O,-
600 miles long: they may resort TO
ilsticuffs, IL they choose, to decide
whether the comets tail is made CT
cyanogen, peroxide or imagination,
and whether il Is going to do tho
whisk-broom act to this old earth
but Detroit's various foreign colonies
fret not one single whit
True. many Delray Hungarians will
keep their children home from school,
Wednesday. Just because" is their
only explanation. They soon at the
idea that the world will be destroyed
They laugh at the idea of any serious
damage TO this terrestrial sphere, but,
at any rate, they will keep the chill
dren home from school. That is, some
OF them will. There may be q lot
OF smoke or something like that, and
just to make sure Well keep the chill
dren home" they explain.
Haven't Heard Of Comet.
But more than so per cent OF the for
eign population Of Detroit, doesn't
know anything about the comet or its
approach. II they did know, they
wouldn't care. Those that were told
of the whizzing package of mystery,
speeding toward us at frightful clip,
didn't care, and weren't interested.
One might expect to find panlcky
demonstrations among some of the
foreigners. Ii Is distinct shock 10
find that the average American Is
good deal more worried about the
comet than are our new citizens.
Advices that the comet rs due 20
make it's nearest approach to the
earth Wednesday, don't feaZe them In
the least First, one has TO explain
what he means by the comet. and what
there Is To 1t. Then, in nine cases out
OF ten, he gets the reply, with an air
OF ennui-"Well, | saw that comet In
the old country. In 1882. Big, II was,
like a FIRE ball. Some people were
scared. But it went by Why pc
scared?"
Roumanians, Servians. Bulgarians,
italians, Negroes, Poles, CToatians,
Belgians. Hungarians and all of tho
others all have the same views, ap-
parently, II Shey have any views at
all. Hoi
"Ma" and "Pa" Unafraid.
Detroit's colony houses harbor most
OF the more ignorant foreigners, and
10 them. the word of Ma" and PA,
meaning the landlord and his wife, Is
law. And most of the Mas ana
pas" saw q comet in the old country,
more than score of years ago. They
went through the panicky feeling, they
found themselves alive and well when
the celestial visitor had passed, anu
so they don't see any grounds Tor
worry. And when MA" and Pa are
satisfied. the boarders are satisfied.
Mrs. Fannie Jambrovitz, queen OF q
solony house that shelters 80 Seryians,
at No 426 FredeTick-st., fairly radiat-
cd that philosophy. Furthermore,
Mrs Jambrovitz believes In newspa-
GERS. She reads the German!Hungar-
ian Herald published in Cincinnati
Seeing no warning In the Herald, Mrs.
yambrovitz was disposed TO pooh pooh
the comet.
why don't the paper say 1t, II II
is coming?'' she asked. When con-
yinced that II was coming, whether
the Herald announced its approach o.
not, Mrs Jambrovitz was not per-
turhed. She laughed as she told OF
seeing a comet in Mitroyitz, Hungary,
back In the eighties.
"The people said then that the
world would CO." laughed Mrs. jam
broyitz. Some people prayed for
DAYS. Everybody went out to see 1t.
II was a big ball of fire. Everybody
was scared. But II went past, and
I'm still alive"
servlans Not Alarmed.
Over in Pete Petljonskis saloon,
Riopelle and Kirby, Servians and
Slavs sat about a table, loaded down