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The day book., 1913-08-21
DETROIT sTAR VICE cITY?

Detroit, Aug. 21.-That "vice con-
dftions here are the vilest of any
city in the country was stated by
Commissioner Of Police John Giles
pie and members of the city vice
commission, following unofficial re-
port on conditions made to the po-
lice commissioner by DR.. William A.
Wilson, superintendent Of the Flor
ence Crittenden Home.
Gillespie said that police figures
showed there were $50 resorts now in
operation in Detroit and he estimated
that over 1000 girls were engaged
in, the traffic. The commissioner
plans to reduce the number Of re-
The day book., 1913-08-21

REPRESENTATIVE THREATENED
Washington, Aug. 21.-Rep. John
son of Kentucky states that his life
has been threatened because he has
advocated the Dyer bill, regulating
''loan sharks" in Washington. He
declares he has received anonymous
threats by the hundred, warning him
to desist trying to pass the BAH. In
proof of his assertions the witness
nrodured an affidavit made February
6, 1912, by Spencer Roberts, a ,po-
Hceman, swearing that Sam Cornwall
had told him he had followed John
son three nights trying to kill him.
The day book., 1913-08-21
BLAMES PARENTS FOR WAVE OF
IMMORTALITY

IMMORTALITY
Madison, Wis.,, Aug. 21.-"The So
cial ambitions of parents, who are
anxious to push their daughters into
early marriages; the lack of surveil-
lance by chaperones; suggestive
dances, immodest clothes worn by
mere high school girls, stimulating
food and drink, automobile rides
these are the weapons Of attack upon
the purity of young girls in America
today" said DR.. G. A. Harper, secre-
tary of the Wisconsin State Board of
Health.
"Take the situation among the
students in Madison High School a
short time ago." said Dr. Harper,
when the community was astound-
ed to learn that twenty young girls
Of respectable parents were guilty of
indiscretions.
ct was openly charged that a CO.
terie of boys had banded together
and ostracized from the social life of
the school virtuous girls who would
not submit to their demands.
"It is conceded that a general wave
of immortality is passing over the
country. It is due partly to our pres
ent-day standards of living and partly
to a deadening of the moral sensibili-
ties. We are living too high, going
too fast and disregarding the bal
ances that make for moderation and
moral uplift."
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DETROIT STAR VICE CITY?
The day book., 1913-08-21
sorts to so, and wipe out the % negro
resorts now in operation.
MANN ACT MAY PLAY PART IN
ARREST OF YOUNG GIRL


The United States government is
trying to locate one Edward Byerley
on charges Of having violated the
Mann act presented by Dorothy
Schwalbath, arrested here yesterday
on charges of passing bogus checks.
The girl, who has been living at
513 South Robey street under the
name of Dorothy Byerley, passed
three bad checks for $40 on Henry
Neumann, a butcher, 841 Garfield
avenue.
Today the girl is locked up in the
Harrison street annex, after telling
pitiful story to the police.
She says that she is the daughter
of a strict Milwaukee family and that
she never was allowed to go out or
enjoy herself.
Then she met Byerley, who, she
describes as young and handsome,
and a man Of the world"
Byerley sent the girl from Mil
wauke6 to Chicago, giving her $5 and
promising to follow her later. Since
then she has not seen him, but says
she sent $25 Of the proceeds Of the
bad checks to him at Milwaukee.
The federal authorities believe that
Byerley is still in Milwaukee and ex-
pect to arrest him shortly. Mean
while the bad check case against the
girl has been continued.
-O-O
THREATENED
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
WILL ATTEMPT TO MAKE
CLOSED SHOP AT CAPITAL

WASHINGTON, D. c., April H.
Simultaneous with the announcement
that President Wilson has practically
decided to name President James NJ.
Lynch of the international Typograph-
ical union to be public printer, came
a report today that as soon as Lynch
qualified an attempt would be made to
apply the closed shop plan to the
great government plant. AT present
/, is an "open shop" The majority of
The employees hold cards in the vari-
Gus unions, but it has been ruled, that
in as much as appointments to places
in the printery are from civil serv-
ice lists, any attempt to make mem
he~ship in a labor union a qualifica-
ton is unconstitutional.
Despite this contention the Off
ccrs of the American Federation of
Labor have been working quietly for
a long time to secure an ardent union
man to head the department. The en-
tire executive board of the fedora
ton endorsed Lynch for the job and
now that his appointment is consider
ed certain the federation will endeav.
or to 20 farther and have regulations
drawn which will force all employees
to become members of organized la
bor
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
CHEERING UP A HEAVYWEIGHT

President Taft started with his
brother for trip in one the White
house automobiles. It was the morn
ing of the first day of the year and
the air was mild and balmy and the
mud thick beneath the rubber tires.
On new road on the outskirts of the
city the machine became mired in
the rich southern soil, and after
watching the chauffeur's attempt to
move it for fully ten minutes the chief
executive of the nation and his brother
alighted and walked on. They had
not gone far before the automobile.
relieved of their weight, overlook
them. In answer to inquiry the chauf-
feur explained vagely, but with
tact and courtesy worthy Of cour-
tier, that farmer came along with
a team of horses.
Not even an Irish peasant could
have displayed more delicate appre.
citation of the presidential feelings
than did this man of cap and goggles
in attributing the sudden release Of
his machine to other than the real
cause.-New York Herald.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
POPE CONTINUES TO IMPROVE

ROME, April ls.-The pope slept
well last night except for occasional
coughing spells. The doctors announce
ed his temperature 97.S. The bron-
chial affection is ameliorated and his
general condition improved.
At noon today the pontiff chatted
with his sisters, brother and nephew
and wanted to sit up but was for
hidden.
The Vatican is still apprehensive,
and says it will require weeks con-
stant improvement before danger is
past The patients heart still re-
quires stimulants. 1t is feared that
another relapse would be fatal. Vat
lean precautions have been doubled
and no reports will be allowed to
leak out except the official doctors
bulletins censored by Cardinal Del
vail.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
WANTS TO LABEL REPORTERS

CHICAGO, April 1S.-Gathered in
the press room at the city hall and
court house building today a score
of reporters from Chicago dailies SOL
emnly discussed the proposal of Lieut..
Governor O'Hara to have a state board
of examiners appointed to pass upon
the qualifications of newspaper man
and lebal him property. A delegation
of reporters will visit O'Hara and of
fer suggestions before he completes
the draft of the bill. They will sug-
gest that:
Journalists" those possessing
walking sticks-shall be decorated
with cardinal stripes worn across the
shirt front.
Newspaper men" = those who
merely work on newspapers and have
no authorship bugs-shall wear the
skull and cross bones on the right
coat sleeve.
"Cub reporters" shall wear bright,
neatly polished badges on their hat
bands.
Journalists, newspaper men and cub
reporters will protest against that
provision Of the O'Hara bill that would
fine an unlicensed reporter from 500
to 500 day. They shook their heads
and inquired if any one ever had that
much money "all at once"
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
SAYS SILKS NOT MAKE
BY COCOONS OF SILK WORM

PATERSON. N. j., April 1s.-Not
from the cocoon of the silk worm, but
from the rusty horse shoes, scrap iron
and empty tomato cans on the city
dumps comes the silk that makes mi
lady's clinging gown and the bright
hued necktie of her escort, according
to the men who labor in silk mills
of Paterson.
Rendered desperate by the two
months old struggle to obtain their de-
mands the $1,000 silk strikers today
began systematic exposure" of the
secrets of their trade. Led by Will
liam D. Haywood, group of skilled
silk mill operators today made pub
lie the secret of the "tin dress"
"The silk dress that the average
woman takes such pride in," declared
Haywood as spokesman for the group
'is not really silk dress at all, but
tin dress. 1t is composed of about
one part silk fiber to six parts tin,
iron, lead or zinc. The metal comes
from the scrap heaps back of the
factory. 1t is dumped into vats and
treated chemically to make a solution.
The raw silk is dipped in the solu-
tion and when taken out and dried the
fibers have absorbed from four to six
times their own weight in metal"
Turning to the silk workers behind
him Haywood continued:
silk is made these days in this coun-
try under the famous protective tar
iff? You fellows know how much or
how little. The tariff has not benefit
ed you in the least and its reduction
will not hurt you, it will force the
manufacturers to make decent silk.
"You know what happens to the
regular run of dress silk if you lay a
piece away in drawer, or hang it up
for few months. 1t rots to pieces.
"You fellows know why. 1t is the
effect of the solutions of old horse
shoes, tin cans and scrap iron that the
raw material has been dipped in to in
crease its weight six times"
Haywood's remarks were corrobo-
rated by dozen striking dye house
workers who described the process by
which they claimed the skeins of raw
silk were more than quadrupled in
weight by the absorption of metallic
compositions so as to appear when
woven to be heavy silk.
The silk most heavily weighted with
metals, the strikers declared, are those
used mainly for dress goods, Innings
neck ties and ribbons. Very light
and undyed silks, they said, cannot
be so heavily adulterated.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21

are asking with concern whether there
is any difference between the manu-
facturer who comes to the government
To ask for help in his business, and
the poor man who goes to the work
house to get help, The question is
being pressed why the government
should be expected to guarantee prof
its to the manufacturer when ii does
rot guarantee the difference in the
cost of food at home and abroad to
the consumer with an extra dollar for
a rainy day. There was a time in
England when children were being
born, not as British citizens, but as
coes of a machine, fed as it were to
the mills and factory. 1t was some
what similar situation that produced
Rousseau in France, and it was Rous-
seau's writing that brought about the
revolution.
There is growing feeling that
many of our great financiers are max
ing the restrictions of the law their
touohstone of guidance, instead of ad-
herring more closely to the golden rule.
There are many evils that cannot be
reached by statute and men are say
il P-and strong men too that if
business men do not consult their con-
science instead of their lawyers, when
hey are thinking of driving weaker
competitor out of business. the peo-
pie will take the matter into their
own hands and go to extremes to
remedy the situation.
Il am an American. would go
down into the ditch to shake the hand
of the poor man, but | would also be
glad to shake the hand of the rich
man. We are all brothers. But be-
lieve that the men of power should
know what the rest of the people are
saving and I repeat what has been
said to me-"
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
COUNTRY SCHOOL CHILDREN
ARE LEAST HEALTHY OF ALI.

That so per cent of the children in
country schools drink tea and coffee;
that 40 per cent of them suffer al
most constant toothache; and that 10
to 90 per cent have frequent head
aches are some of the surprising facts
brought out by DR.. Ernest B. Hoag Of
Minnesota in personal visit to the
rural schools of that state, accord
ing to information received at the
United States bureau of education.
To find exactly what health con-
ditions in the Minnesota rural schools
are, Dr. Hoag asks the simplest kind
of questions, with astonishing results.
when ask those who drink coffee
to stand up" says DR.. Hoag, "nearly
all the children arose. When I ask
how many have toothbrush, nearly
all say they have, but when ask
Did you use it this morning?' there
is little response"
Many of the children assumed that
headache, earache and other ailments
were perfectly natural things, and
seemed surprised that anybody should
be curious about them. "Why, I al
ways have headache" they would say.
DR.. Hoag found that by simple ques-
tions about the children's eyesight
the teacher, without any optical tests
at all, would discover that 20 per cent
of her children suffer from eye strain.
From IL to Ia per cent Of the coun-
try school children suffer from ear
ache, and a per cent have discharg-
ing ears. "Adenoids, earache, dis
charging ears, deafness, that's the or
der we find over and over again."
says DR.. Hoag. "Four or per cent
of the children simply do not hear
what is going on and are therefore
put down as stupid when they are not.
The commonest principles of hygiene
are frequently neglected" The chill
dren in the country are generally
plentifully fed, DR.. Hoag finds, but
they do not eat the right kind Of food.
People in the country do not breathe
pure air, because, with abundance of
it all about them they carefully ex-
clude it from their houses by keep
ing the windows tightly closed. These
are some of the things that have
caused the country to lose its reputa-
tion for good health as compared with
the city.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
TARIFF CHANGE WILL RUIN
MILLERS SAYS EDITOR

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, April IT,
'If the proposed tariff law goes
through unchanged there will not be
one hundred flour mills in the United
States at the end of five years"
This was the prophecy today Of W.
C. Edgar, editor of the Northwestern
Miller and expert who has just re-
burned from a meeting of the millers'
national federation in Chicago.
"The injustice lies in taxing the
raw material and not touching the
flour" he continued. "That is vio-
lation of the cardinal principle of
the tariff. 1t will drive every mill
ing concern out of the United States
is it becomes a law
~ am a Democrat and free trader
but / know what this law will do il
it is passed as drawn"
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21

HS was born in the year of the bat
tie of Waterloo, Radnorshire, and as
a youth was known as the bay preach
er. His first pastorate was at Beck
ingtown, Somerset, where he remained
for five years. In ls43 he removed to
Chard, where he labored for quarter
of century. He went to Torquay in
1868 as pastor of the Upton Vale
Baptist church, retiring in 1888. In
recognition of his great services he
was then presented with a purse of
900 pounds sterling.--London Chroni-
Gle.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL
ON BUSINESS OF MONOPOLY

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 49,
IF the men of power and wealth con-
suit their conscience in business they
will not have to worry so much about
the law" emphatically asserted Vice
President Thomas Marshall today.
The vice president has been deluged
with flood of criticism from rich
men and women following his speech
in New York last Saturday night,
when he warned millionaires that if
they are not careful they will find a
proposition raised and carried that all
great fortunes shall escheat to the
state. Marshall, however, stuck to his
guns today and declared that the idea
was not original with him, that it
had been endorsed by the attorneys
of the country generally, and that
some such plan will eventually be
adopted in this country.
"When said in New York that
Carl Marx and Hunger and longing
for happiness were abroad in the
land" said the vice president, II was
expressing not alone my own opinion,
but the opinion of others, From men
Of all classes I have heard express
sions Of disgust with present economic
policies. Men are asking that the
opportunities that once existed, now
nonopolized, shall be restored to them.
"Men Of Judgment have expressed
to me the opinion that were vote to
be taken on the proposition that all
estates over 100000 revert to the
state upon the death of the owner
the 100000 being exempted-it would
be carried two to one.
"The present tariff monopoly is the
chief cause Of our unrest and men
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
BAYFIELD'S NEW CREAM
ERY IN OPERATION

All La Plata county people are in
terested IN Bayfields new enterprise,
the Pine river creamery, which is
owned by F. d. Akers and son Clyde
and operated by them with the as
sistance of Thomas Fielding, an ex-
perienced creamery man.
Some weeks ago Mr.. Akers and his
son purchased the old creamery. They
spent money freely renovating and
undermining it, making it in every
way an up to date plant. AS the gen
tlemen have been associated with the
business life of the section for num-
ber of years, they are familiar with
the pitfalls which were responsible
for the failure of the old concern and
will be in a position to avoid them.
Instead of entering into fixed con-
tracts with the farmers of the section
to furnish milk from a certain num-
ber of cows, the new owners feel that
it is advisable rather to depend upon
their good will and the first weeks ex-
perience in operating the plant would
indicate that they are right.
While the creamery has capacity
of something like 300 pounds of but
ter day probably it will only run
at one-third that amount this year.
They figure they can depend upon the
milk from something like two hun
dred cows. Farmers from Florida
mesa, Oxford, Ignacio, Tiffany and
Allison will furnish them with cream
Few indeed desire to continue butter
making on the farm since such an ex-
cellent opportunity to dispose of the
cream affords itself. The creamery
managers will pay the highest possi-
BILE price for butter fat. Just now
they are offering 80 cents, this be-
ing cash proposition.
The butter is to be called Gilt Edge
and Mr.. Akers assures all prospective
purchasers that it will be all that the
name implies-the equal of the
best creamery butter ever shipped to
the section.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
BREEDING DEGENERATES.

Finding that it was paying out
about $3,000,000 year for the care
of indigents, and that in single
county one out of every 1855 inhabi-
tants was dependent, New Jersey re-
Gently undertook an investigation. Ex-
perts visited region known as the
Pines, in lower Jersey, and made
charts of some of the most notorious
family groups. The results are to be
compared with the record of the Jukes
family.
One degenerate woman known as
Mag" was found to have inflicted on
the state 292 descendants. Of these,
174 have been classified as degen-
crates under the Binet-Simon system,
and the histories of these TIA indi-
cate imbecility, criminality and every
,Spther form of degeneracy. Detailed
4 histories of two other "Piney" fami-
: lies yielded similar results. Of the
community life found in the Pines
the Investigator wrote:
Picture to yourselves colony COM
posed of children from to 10 years
old-children who have not developed
the higher mental qualities which
come with adolescence, as reason
judgment, power of adaptation, pow
er of conception of an ideal, self-con-
troll, and yet who possess at the same
time fully developed physical power
and it will clearly be seen that the
collapse of everything like social order
will be inevitable.
In the Pines social order has def
nitely collapsed. Degeneracy was
found, with every form of lawlessness
while the most rudimentary sort of
social morality was absent and even
unknown. The object lesson of the
q. Pines is needed. We are too prone
to feel that degeneracy menaces us
only in the form of the crowded slum
and the illiterate alien. But the "Pi-
neys" are of American stock, and
they have never lived in cities. Evi-
IDENTIFY there are stagnant backwaters
in our national life that need to be
explored and drained.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21

the congregation, whose children also
had been admitted to the Sunday
school classes were incensed by DR..
oldham's action and anonymous let
ters Immediately began to pour in.
Some signed letters of less abuse but
highly indignant tone were received.
DR.. Oldham has refused to make
public the contents Of the letters but
members of the church that have read
them say that many of them are
couched in the vilest of terms.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
HELEN KELLER SAYS
PRESIDENT WILL FAIL

WASHINGTON, u. c., April H.
the following is The view which Miss
Hel,n Keller, the famous deaf, dunn,
ard bin girl and a Socialist, takes
Ct the S. s.tJation now confronting Pres
ident Wilson. She prepared the fol-
lowing signed statement for the Uni
ted Press today:
The tariff will keep President Will
son very, very busy, for long time,
and | believe, will end in compro-
mise, with big business or with its
representative in the Legislature. We
canaot have justice until the greatest
trust of all-the peoples trust-has
succeeded these money making trusts.
And that time is coming.
81 foresee the day when the peo-
pie will take over all of mans prod
ucts and distribute and transport them
to the consumer. Mans affairs will
be managed by all for the benefit of
all. That is democracy. We have
never before seen democracy. 1t has
never existed in the world. There
has never been a free nation. From
time immemorial men have bowed to
the wills of masters. They have never
rejoiced in the labor of their hands
because some master has always ta-
ken a large part of their toll for his
profits. That is the most wonderful
thing in the world to me-that men
have continued all these centuries to
allow other men TO take the greater
portions of their labors. Nobody robs
US on the highways without the hue
and cry Of law-but the trusts have
taken our produce, our waterways, our
resources-and have converted them
to their own usage. Never until the
people own and manage these things
things will there be happiness.
But / feel most hopeful. 1t is all
in a days work TO hope, you know
"But President Wilson, though his
intentions are good, and his ability
great, cannot aid us in our fight for
true democracy.
"President Wilson will fail because
the forces against him are stronger
than himself stronger than any presi-
dent has ever been. He will have
to fight blindly against system that
has been carefully built up-a system
of trusts that have concentrated more
and more the worlds wealth and the
worlds efficiency and profit.
"His own party will be against him
In lessening big business profit he
will hang all who disturb this con-
dition higher than Haman. The fn-
terests' when they heard that, must
have laughed in their sleeves. He
can not lay his hands on them. A.
fast as one trust is divided, anot'i ''
springs up.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-21
MAKES
ADDITIONAL NOMINATIONS

WASHINGTON, d. c., April H.
President Wilson today nominated
Jerry Sullivan of Iowa general ap-
praiser of merchandise, to be station
ed at New York; Henry Breckenridge,
assistant secretary of war, and Robert
Wooley as auditor of the interior de-
partment.
1t is stated at the White house that
the president is considering Charles
Dabney of Cincinnati as chief of the
weather bureau succeeding Willis
Moore, whom the president summarily
removed last night on the charge Of
irregularities in office.