The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-05-16

YOU SHOULD REMAIN IN MICHIGAN.

race has been In its mistaking POWER
| FOR contentment. Health and wealth.
and opportunity TO enjoy both In a
normal. sane way are the greates'
factors for human felicity.
Wealth gained through power, has
destroyed and forever will destroy
and health than Ii can give.
Wealth obtained through ones own
labor applied TO natural resources,
when such labor Is not so overtaNed as
TO diminish mental and physical en-
ergy, and the wealth thus obtained
gives its owner no restraining or eN-
plotting power over ones teHow creHt,
ures, is mighty factor for ooth heai'n
and happiness.
ASIDE from any discussion spiritual;
physiological or heredity, health ana
wealth depend on material ENVIRON
ment. For health then; we oepenIi
and physical exercise and enough
wealth TO provide US with all necessary
bodily comforts and contented Hinu,
A mind freed from the worry or rear rear
OF poverty a MIND no longsn n,cS come
from abnormal fortunes procured III
abnormal ways.
IN Michigan can give more oppor-
tunities TO obtain happiness on
basis than any other state or natlSh'
we are fools not TO remain In Mien'-
II Michigan can give just as many
opportunities for such happiness s
any other state or nation. what can w
gain by leaving Michigan - q,
The human race has blundereu "a
thinking that the amassing OF MeSI
by the Individual through aequtlvs
power 10 filch from the labor OF otheis
q psrt OF their product, would orihs
happIness TO the race and 70 the IN
dividual And II Is still olundering.
Everything is now reduced 10 uVis
and cent basis, and every one Is shas
Ing both the dollar and the cent. some
men are stronger on the scent ahu
therefore get more or the uollaIs' 49,
though their competitors may anu
often do have more sense.
As the real thing happiness must oe-
pend upon an ideal social ana lnous
trial environment quite remote tFo
present conditions, the question OF
maining In Michigan Is not the loeai,
hut one OF choosing an environment
which will give US the opportuhlttes
of enjoying such happiness as can oe
gotten out OF an unjust and unsoclal
Industrial system We mus n,tv ptstnss
OF life, not the beatitudes; the geW-
gaws OF personal power as possessor
OF the dollar: not the real soclal gems
OF human existence. we must DC $40 $40
ourselves and feel nightly puned ana
pr!ded that We have beaten otners "
IL.
Such is competition.
Such Is life In Michigan, ana every
other state and nation.
But YOU can get that dollar. ano
that kind of happiness in Michigan IN
more ways than In any other STATE OF
nation on earth
simply because she has more varied
climate more variety OF soil. more
diversified resources. more numer9 Gus
industries than any otner state IN
union and equally as mucn OF IA theSo
as many whole nations.
Michigan alone is an empire on her
front doorstep she has metropol.tah
cities peopled with captains OF inuu
try. of commerce, and labor. In her
backward the pioneer with coonskin
can rife and axe Is hewing out
home In the wilderness as ne traps .ne
beaver and Stays the game Tor suste
nance as did our fathers century Az
She also has fertile farms on hillside,
valley and plain yielding all the stapie
products of a kings table. from lrule
TO nuts Her manufacturers are Pr
ducfne every conceivable COMMONLY
from thrashing machines TO breakfast
foods. and from mining tools ana CIV
ing suits to flying machines. she pro
duces OK carts for her pioneers; auto-
mobiles for her business men, pleasure
seekars and farmers, canoes for her
summer resorters and ocean nners 70
carry the commerce OF her inlana sea-;
While railroads cover the SURFACE OF
the state as nnely mes1 nee "a Vet
money TO be made by the investor IN
building more railroads. There are
many electric lines, yet room Tor MANY
more as our industry PROGRESSES ,ha
pioneer and lumber districts OF our
state. $500 ~,
With all the intermediate stages OF
Industrial and social evolution from tne
- MI
% the most progressive agriculture.
modern manufacturing, transpo.tatloh
numbering and mining or coal' 10y 10y
copper lead and other minerals VIII
IA 900 acres OF land yet unappropr',
ated and a crying need for more ano
better facilities in all lines or uans
narration and manufacture 10 utlHzo
the constantly increasing bulk OF raw
material, with labor wal,ins 70 oumh
ployed, does Michigan not oner enough
and more opportunities and varletles
for the prospective settler 10 ihNest
his money than any territory on enI.n
with an area or ee,OVv squa nnsiva
"capitalistic" farms In Michigan, tne
small farm Is yet the big factor In az
riculture. The small farm supports the
small village with us stores s 1..
keepers and Independent handicrafts-
men. This makes an opening In our
Industrial economy for class or IN.
vestofs and workers entirely eNcluue1
from those states or rev mVnopUhIsN
Industries and who are rapidly disaP
nea ring in others A man doesn't nave
to have a million to live comfortably
In Michigan.
To remain in Michigan" means more
than guest-chamber sotourn. IL
means the establishment OF a perma-
nent home. place where one may
not only accumulate a competence, out
where he may live and labor, and love
And Michigan has a playground.
What Is your ideal OF playf Atm
letfc sports? The schools and colleges
OF Michigan are not only the centers
OF culture and refinement, graduating
students from nearly every country on
earth TO engage in all lines OF science
and professions but their standing In
the field of sports Is Justly renowned.
Is IL yachting7 A thousand miles or