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The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
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The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
Why Married Men Live
Longer

Now comes a sage statistiCian who,
after laborious inquiry into the health
records OF many cities and states,
confirms the popular impression that
married men. as a class, are longer
lived than bachelors. Your benedict.
though he grunt and sweat beneath
a thousand fardels. climbs surely up
ward 20 green Old age. while his
spouseess, care-rree brother wthers
and drops by the way. Why is this
so strangely true?
Ii cannot be. as some waggish bach
elor has suggested, that the married
life is not really longer but merely
seems so Nor does the explanation
OF the learned statistician, that mar
ried men are thoroughly supervised.
suffice On that theory, rooster in
the coop should live longer than any
eagle in the air. There must be some
subtler reason back of the benedict's
longevity.
Between thirty and nifty. the aver
age bachelor is sleek enough. his step
is springy, his raiment stylish, he
purrs in prosperity. The average mar
ried man OF this period. on the con
trary is rather lean and grim. lie
goes his way with a purpose In his
soul or patch upon his trousers.
The gay.winged beetles OF bachelor
dom fit where they will but he, frugal
ant that he is. must mind him or the
waning summer and keep patiently
gathering crumbs.
Then comes autumn. with its frost
and winuowing winds, and what a
transformation do We see Your
bachelors blood begins 70 pale; he
is less careful 10 wipe the butter spots
from his sleeve and 10 keep his trou-
sers creased He has given no hos
tages 20 fortune and so, when his
own youth is taking fight. there are
no children or grandchildren 10 crow
IL home again. Then it is that the
face and spirit OF the benedict begin
10 wax and shine like a mellow moon.
He spruces and chortles among his
merry younglings and finds life begin
ming all anew again
II a married man can but last until
he is tiftv or thereabout, the remain
der OF the journey will be- blithe enough
and old age will draw on like a luStT
winter. frosty but kindly, The bach
elor on the other hand. suffers from
the very fact that he has had little to
worry over and has less 20 look for
ward 70. Take the yoke. YOU unwived
wanderers, if YOU would have long
life and hale Atlanta Journal.
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
Rockefeller at II

John D. Rockefeller, who celebrated
his seventy.fourth birthday at Cleve.
land, advised exercise, fresh air and
a tranquil mind as aids TO Longevity.
At seventy-four he presents a fair eA'
ample OF the good results OF some
years of temperate, hygienic life, ana
tranquil mind.
Years ago he used 10 be pointed TO
as an example of the poor rich man
who could not enjoy square meal.
Persons not well to do but healthy,
we're told that they need not envy the
president of the Standard Oil COM
pany.
II was only after he had paid part
OF the wages OF sin Of too close APP
plication to work that Mr.. Rockefeller
took up golf, an easy country life and
tranquility of mind. When he was
not yet the richest man his mind was
still more or less untranquil and ne
had less time to spare TO golf But
the recuperative effect of his present
way of living has doubtless prolonged
his life. and improved his health He
has outlived nearly all Of those who
were his contemporaries when he be-
gan amassing wealth. Some of tho
others lived hard-driven lives up 10
the end
Don't waste energy" is Mr. Rookie
fellers advice. according TO chronicles
OF his birthday celebration
Some persons do not practice what
they preach. but II cannot be charged
that Mr.. Rockefeller has ever wasted
energy He spent his time, and near
" spent himself, getting richer than
other rich Americans, and grew so
much richer that It became customar-
TO refer to the Maharajah of Baroda,
the richest Indian prince. as almost
as rich as Rockefeller, and such a
comparison probably exaggerates the
wealth OF the Gaekwar, who mounts
cannon OF solid gold at his palace
gates and turns man-eating tigers
loose In the corridors OF his treasury
to guard the 'barbaric pearl and gold
with which the gorgeous East has
showered him.
After having become satisfactorily
rich without the slightest waste or
energy, Mr. Rockefeller decided 10 de-
vote his energy to keeping alive and
In health. At seventy-four he seems
TO be succeeding beyond any reasona.
BILE expectation. health TO HMM
crane juice-snd may he live long
and osper."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
Particular

Joseph H. Choate. al dinner III
New York. condemned those wh0
would not arbitrate the Panama ca
nal DISPUTE lest the decision go
against them.
such people Mr. Choate said, re
mind me of an old lady whose son
had been sued for abusing horse
The old lady testified that her
son had been kindness itself to the
horse in question. and then the law
YER for the other side took her In
hand for cross-examination.
"rAhem, he began, and now, ma
dam. desire 70 ask you a few ques-
tons
But the old lady rising 10 leave
the box, answered
Oh. no. YOU don't III nave no
questions from you. You're not on
our side. Montreal Daily Herald.
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
PlnChOt GlUeS Lesson
All Should Learn

facts and figures that the New YORK
Edison company is charging threr
times as much for electric hght anu
curreH, as the Cleveland. ONO, pupl'c-
" ,epefated plant. The Edison com
many is charging a maximum or ~
cents and a minimum OF cents per
kilowatt hour, whereas the Cleveland
muncipally owned plant has n maxi
mum rate OF cents and minimum
rate of one cent per kilowatt hour.
During the last fiscal year, saws
Mr.. Pinchot. "Pasadena's municipal
plant saved $4,000 to the users OF
electricity by forcing a general re-
duction of rates I'm Seattle. the mu-
nicipa plant reduced its rate 10 six
cents last summer. and the private
plant was Obliged to follow suit.
am informed thar there are now more
than l,400 publicly operated electric
light and power plants in the TIME,
States and there have been abandon
ed over three times as many private
plants as public plants
Referring 70 municipal gas plants.
Mr. Pinchot cites the case of Indian
apcl's. In indianapolis he says
the municipal plant now supplies the
whole city az SO cents per thousand
feet for light and 40 cents per thou
sand for power. New York charges
SO cents per thousand for both light
and power
In England and Germany. as we'll
as N certain American cities. other
than New York, the matter OF saving
money for the people by municipal
operation has been forced upon poll
tiCians and reformers, he continues.
san Francisco now has a profitable
municipal street railway. with hfteen
miles OF track. bonded AZ Sl05.000 per
mile. while the Calhoun pr fate sys-
TEN Is bonded M $3.50, 600 mile. And
am informed that when the franchise'
of the Presidio and Ferries Railway
expires IL 1913 the city will also teNe
that over
Mr.. Chairman" he concludes, "the
reformer and the politician can no
.onger evade this monopoiy question
The people are at last becoming edit
cated as 10 the private monopoly
graft do not think am exaggerat.
ing when say that any political par
ties or party leaders, whether munich
pal or national. that defend private
monopoly I'm the necessaries OF civil
Ization are bound TO change their posi-
ton or go down 10 soon and sudden
defeat
We cannot. and no one has ever
been able 10. or will be able to- ma
terially increase the opportunities OF
the poor to make competence. with
out az the same time decreasing tho
opportunities of the rich to make large
fortunes. II is simply case of in
flexible economic laws Never in the
worlds history has general or per-
manent Improvement of the condi-
ton OF the majority been mads
through political action except at the
expense OF the privileged minority.
In economics and politics alike you
cannot serve two masters or ride two
horses You cannot he for the peo-
pie and for the property interests.
Private monopoly is against the
public's interest n cannot endure
where the spirit OF democracy lives"
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
National Control of Railroad
Rates

The growing presumption Is in
favor OF national control over rail
ways in the fullest sense The great
network of steam highways comes TO
be more and more a system TO be re-
garded as general rather than local,
and to be controlled in the interest
OF shippers, travellers, and investors
in railway securities, by congress,
working through the interstate COM
merce commission A railroad rate
from Chicago TO Davenport, Ia, is
subject 10 revision and control by
the authorities at Washington. A
railroad rate from Chicago TO Rock
Island, falling within the state OF
Illinois is subject TO control of local
athorities All of the railroads going
from Chicago westward are interstate
roads. The journey from Chicago 20
Rock Island is virtually the same as
10 Davenport. IT the Illinois authori-
ties fix a much lower rate than one
that the federal authorities have APP
proved. the railroads are in serious
predicament, because they are hence
forth To be subjected to the varying
treatment of AZ state governments In
the matter IF making, instead oe
the more calculable treatment OF tho
central authorities at Washington.
The supreme court decision upholds
the state Of Minnesota in the particu-
lar cases involved but intimates that
congress has authority to proceed FUR
Their than IL has vet gone In defining
the extent 20 which an interstate car
rier may be burdened by local re-
strictions.-American Review Of Re-
views. for July.
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and sensational MI, fliiNh'' 9"So'''
some real issues; he tells now New
York is governed by public service
corporations enjoying speclal Priv
leees and that these are the real m
fluences back OF Tammany: that ram
many is merely the tool and the out
ward manifestation of an economic
condition lie proposes that the re-
formers 20 az fundamentals; that they
reform the tax laws. that they get al
ter the public service corporations ana
govern them instead Of permitting
these corporations TO rule the city
through Tammany and some respect
able manifestations OF politics
A municipal election is just ahead
OF Ms he says, "aud we are plan
ming once more 10 kick out the wicked
and save the city II is time there
fore. TO ask ourselves some simple
questions and answer them II We can.
why has political reform failed and
become discredited in New York And
why has Tammany flourished like a
green bay tree?"
And Mr. Pinchot proceeds TO an
sWer these questions in a way TO
startle some of the good "reformers"
10 whom his letter is addressed.
The strength of Tammany lies
primarily In one thlng-in the private
ownership OF public utilities (gas. cleo
irlcity and transportation. etcD In
short Tammany furnishes private cap
ital with the opportunity 10 exploit
the average man. and private capital
furnishes Tammany with the where
withal 10 deliver the goods This is
the way Mr. Pinchot sums mp the is
sue in New York tor any other city.
for that natter
You know this. Mr. Chairman he
continues, II know it. Tammany
knows il, and the public knows IT,.
We all know that any campaign that
does not strike at the electric. gas.
telephone, subway, surface and ele-
waited road monopolies simply amounts
10 kind OF May-day pageant--to at
tacking Tammany with slap sticks or
pelting the Tiger with flowers and
confetti"
Mr. Pinchott proceeds TO prove by
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
The Militant Suffragist in
England

Suppose that YOU. madame earned
money by hard work, and the law let
your worthless husband take it from
you. Suppose il permitted him to will
all his property TO others, leaving you
penniless. Suppose that over your
children 1t gave you no control.
Suppose the entire management OF
society was ordered to exalt men as
the masters and to debase women as
their servants, and that you, with 9th.
or good women, revofted by the injus-
tice OF the arrangement, had tried,
time after time, by argument petition
and persuasion. to induce these men,
these, favored, privileged rulers, to deal
mercifully with your sex
And suppose, instead of receiving
your appeals with sympathy or even
listening with courtesy, they had
scoffed at you and told you to quit
your fussing and go home 10 your
babies
Would you. as woman OF spirit,
meekly submit, or would you 90 on
the warpath, with the grim determin-
alton. at any cost, TO force a recorder
ing of these iniustices
The case we have supposed is pre-
cisely the situation in which the WON
en- OF England are today, under the
dominance of male toryism Ii ex-
plains why the suffragets are resort
ing TO the weapons Of revolution.
Those who condemn the tactics OF
militancy ought in fairness 10 suggest
how they would themselves proceed
under like conditions Toledo News
Bee
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
More Light on "Bone Fe0er'

4 Yankee army officer down ia
Cuba found out. Is years ago. that a
pesky mosquito biting from man TO
man. carried malaria as Well as vel
low fever and that a. YOU put the
anopheles insect ont of business. You
likewise reduced the liability TO "hush
and shakes"
What he didn't learn vas what
made the mischief in the skeeter's
bite. Or Wade Brown, a University
OF North Carolina prof, has just UNI
covered that
It's a colored poison. called hematin.
The little bug which the doctors call
the malaria germ. concocts this pig
ment somewhere in it's minute system
END once II gets into the blood OF a
human being II quickly spreads
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23

throughout the body, producing the
straw-colored malarial tinge.
DR. Brown has also discovered a
way 20 make this colored poison
chemically. He and numerous other
researchers are now AT work on mice
and guinea pigs, inoculating them with
hematin. preliminary to seeing wheth-
er they can't find dope that viii
take the place OF quinine as specific
for malaria.
Luckily the anopheies skeeter ism {
very common. and il re careful 70
drain your swamps or keep them well
coated with kerosene the malarlai
germ won't have much of show
But it would be fine 70 be able 70
take swig from a little bottle con
tanning something not quite so bitter
as Quinine and bid the hematin dis
tributor 10 do its worst
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
Prize Winner

Another one has started. and prom
ises 10 become a worthy successor TO
How much wood would a woodchuck
chuck If woodchuck could chuck
wood" Many heretioal versions OF
the new teaser are at large, but the
true form is as follows, and must be
strictly adhered to by the faithful:
Bill had a billboard and Bill had a
board bill, and Bits board bill bored
Bill till Bill sold Bits billboard to
pay Bits board bill. and then Bits
board bill no longer bored Bill.-New
York Tribune.
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
Couuh. Drops.

Why, Mr.. Morgan invited me 10 MS
house time after time. and | was
there when he had his picture painted
and when the replica of 1t was made.
He gave me a collie. and he used to
advise me about the kind OF cough
medicine 10 get.--Mr. Lauterbach' 8
testimony.
So ii was Mr. Lauterbach who had
the cough Last week he and Mr.. La
mar were telling us that they were
trying TO make Mr.. Morgan cough
New York World.
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
Let Ma Do 1t!

Rah FOR pure democracy Mrs.
William Jennings BRYAN not only
drives the family auto with William
reclining easily ON the rear seat, but
when the carburetor clogs. she gets
out the tools and fixes the old thing.
We are not far from the innocent
unanimous delights OF the simple life
when ma can fix the carburetor while
pa Tolls back on the seat and thinks
the smoky. sulphurous things which
that internal part OF the dinged ma
chine deserves. Cleveland Press
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23

ne polltlcal truth
lbout New York
lily. Amos PIN
hot, progressive
e a q er in New
Y or X. brother OF
he conseryation-
ist. has let drop a
bomb. This is in
The 70 I m OF an
open letter 10 the
county chairmen
who are trying 10
get together on a
'usion platform
against Tammany.
Pinchot su < & ests
hat G very b o d V
stop pref q n ding
and come ont ana
tell where they re-
ally stan d o (
course such a sug-
Eestion is scandal.
nus. i m p rtinent
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To DO Good. His Religion.

10 the Editor ~ Thc Times
with regard 10 your editorial ot
Debs ana the underworld, II may be
hard for the average mind 90 under
stand. NOT knowing Debs Gould he
have done otherwise and been q man?
have known Debs. personally, Tor
twenty years. and know OF lots OF good
he has done the fallen man and NO
man In regard 70 the church, myself
and wife divorced ourselves from the
church twelve years ago because OF
IFS slackness in doing good 10 the
fallen, II seemed to MS hat the church
was afraid OF all bad people. and that
II was for show, not fellowship We
belong 20 no church ne world is our
home. 20 DO good Is our religion
y. VI CIRCUIT
July 2l. 1913 Ashley, Mich
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
For Law and Proper Teaching

For Law and Proper Teaching
To the Editor OF The Times
have seen groups OF young men,
scme mere school boys. entering Ques-
tionable resorts on Champlain-st,
when they would not have dared 20
go in 70 an isolated house OF the same
character. even under the cover OF
darkness.
Some claim IL would not be safe for
our wives and daughters on the street
after dark If we did not have these
pdblic places, but a law could be
adopted that would provide certainly
against a repetition OF the offense that
feared, and prove a stronger inCen-
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
With the SuNraqettes

Here are some helpful hints in this
home magazine said the first min
tant
What about?" inquired the second
militant
Ways OF utilizing leftover dyna-
mite Kansas City journal.
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23
THOSE WHO HONEST'L Y FEARED
WILSON, COME TO PRAISE HIM

Woodrow Wilson has White quite
He elected president years.
but five months have been sufficient for the accomplishment of the
gress of Wilson seeking the presidency and the
purpose of the people eecting
He has awakened a slumbering people
lie has shown that people particular whom
will term raionsres from honest and whose political
policy has been to e wenOugh alone that all has been well
as they have believed it to be
He has opened the eyes
business good
interest that affairs haven't been conducted Washington with
sdrahon for the honest business
He has made it plain supposedly friendly socitous
administration conducted Washington quite Independently
matter of fact of anything that rembed lookn for honest business
This has been the great Woodrow Wilson
by itself that the the people November
well taken.
THAT BE DISTURBING WILL HURT BUSINESS
IF THE PRESIDENT DOES THIS OR THAT THE RESULT WILL
BE PANIC"
Fears like these hear expressed
dictionaries
They real fears
expressions of corpora
ion from lawyers all their
and in the welfare of their city and their ty's people
The expressions from whom minded
bany and honest
There goody numbers of
They busy engaged n handling gigantic
And of them President Wilson
while they have been standing they have been the victims of
placed confidence S n party party leaders
He has shown them how the Republican late has been
played ked and deceived and how has been devoted the
through udases absolutely the
Big acknowledgements the little
and the small corporation.
the ndious lobby Woodrow Wilson has opened the
eyes of these reactionaries from conviction.
Their they beginning and appreciate and
they beginning realize understand they have realized
understood the welfare of little business be served only
through adjusting scales that taking place Wash
ington
repeatedly the people the United States in
campaign speeches Woodrow Wilson that honest business
pledged by the Democratic Bal
timore
dishonest business become honest
that would make him its target and
hit him good and hard
Wilson president has conomed TO this program
his cabinet chosen with particular regard Tor
with the policy announced
Tariff revision been conducted along this line.
lobby exposed keeping with the Wilson purpose
has been taken under the administration
wing for protection against favored and privileged hawk
of Big Business
been branded Wilson served notice
he would brand him.
w-making halls and one from Mh
ipau among them made to take their places IN
the sandpat column. they belong
The back and the greatest beneht derived
from the the removal of large patches Of the wool
of prsanp honest who were simply deceived
joining those whom the light da"ned sooner
Wilson the president Tor the
hour and popular occupant OF the Wh house
Iincoln the other
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23

tive for others 10 control themselves,
than the prospect OF a term In prison
does
course Of lectures 10y reliable.
tacttul and well-posted physicians Civ
en- i'm the public schools would endoW
the rising generation not only with a
knowledge of the evil consequences
OF vice but teach them a chiyalry that
would induce the INTO protect the 9th
er fellows sister as we'll Is their own
The grammar grades are none TOO
Young, for the wrong ideas OF life are
picked mp early r F. MAINS,
July -. 1913. 72l Twenty. ifth-st.
Christian Religion Theory.
10 the Editor OF The Tunes
Your editorial on "Debs. the church
and women OF the underworld. is
dead right in all except in one partic-
ular You ask the church 10 take the
lead You ask too much. The church
always follows. but never leads
The mission OF the church is 10 adj
vocate religion (several hundred
kinds. which means a pattern or
form 10 worship a god
Christianity represents the princi-
plies advocated and practiced by the
Christ
Recently blind man expressed him
self as follows
The Christian religion is beauti-
ful theory but the church does not
want 10 mt il into practice"
F. IENZNER,
July 20. 1913 Cass City Mich
= Ar. etaoinshrdlucmf
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23

By gibson GARDNER.
WASHINGTON, July 23.-At last
one man has had the courage TO tell
The Detroit times., 1913-07-23

Job Printing Done Right. Times
Printing 90, Is John ~
Williams news., 1913-09-04
T. H. CURETON

: Representative of the best type of citizenship and a progressive in the highest and best sense of that word, MT T. H. Cureton is one of our pub lie spirited men in which the com munity takes a just pride.
 MT. Cureton has done as much as any other one man toward the build ing up and improvement of this growing city, and has been actively and prominently identified with every, movement which has been initiated for the public good.
 He is an ardent believer and ener- getic and sincere worker for civic betterment and much of the advance accomplished in this direction is due atQ his efforb shis motto being "obey the law" He.is also strong believ- CT in the best Of educational facilities for children and is man of experi- ence and judgment in this depart ment. For some years he was the principal of our public schools and under his administration. the schools were conducted in most satisfac- tory manner For some time, how ever, his personal interests which are very large in Williams, have de- handed most of his time.
 He has set an example which might well be followed by other property owners of the city and would without