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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
His Message a Promise

President-elect Wilson's message to
the legislature OF his state. New Jer.
sey. may be taken az a promise OF
the position he will take as president.
To be sure. his recommendations are
in line with his speeches and declara-
tions. But there Is this difference
he spoke as q candidate or an Official
elect; he recommends as a governor
urging a legislature to enact his be-
liefs into law.
This message shows the governor
persistently trying to carry out the
program OF betterments he arranged
when he came before the people OF
New Jersey as candidate for gov
ernor He urged similar action by the
previous legislature and got a part or
what he went after. A part was-de-
MED him through reactionary opposi-
ton. Now, with increased determine
ton and a wealth OF understanding
brought TO him by his experience In
the governorship. he urges the com
pletion OF that program.
What the governor urges Is strictly
in line with the arguments he has ad-
vanced, the positions he has taken In
lis speeches. He wants reform In
New Jerseys trust creating laws, In.
Dor. social. and business betterment
enactments and other changes for the
good of the people. There is nothing
spectacular, impossible or unreason
ale In his suggestions. They are
sound and timely and to the point
New Jerseys laws are only dis
tant interest to the people OF wiscon-
sin. But the recommendation and
beliefs of the man who is TO direct the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
Origin of Common Words

In the Romance of Words" q re-
cent publication by an English author,
much space is devoted to "Aphesis.
which means gradual or unintention-
Al loss of an unaccented vowel at the
beginning Of word. This kind OF
word shrinkage is more common than
one might suppose.
Sometimes the middle syllable OF
word viii be slurred to the point OF
extinction. From Mary Magdalens
fearful and renitent, comes the word
maudlin. Sacrlstan is contracted into
sexton: the old French word par
alysie becomes palsy; hydropisie. be-
comes drcpsy and the word procura-
tor becomes proctor In English. Beth
lehem hospital for lunatics, established
IN London, came to be telescoped into
bedlam, much as Cholmondeley came
rs be ChumIey and Marjoribanks,
Marshbanks, Peel is for appeal, mend
for amend, lone for alone fender,
whether before fireplace OF outside
ship, Is for defender, fence for de-
fence, faint for attaint.
The word peach commonly regard
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22

not wish to hold this the picture of ideal life
Uncle Sambo surely lacked ambition.
all Of took things easily he did there wouldn't be
pierced continents rveted by bands of Steel
great skyscrapers flung upward to challenge the
In the rushing civilization upon progress
largely progress few shove their property rights ahead
rights humans would have little the clans
But Sambos points moral.
happiness depends less things than interests
spirit
interested brmfu in the little happenings within his ken
wild birds all the living growing
things
joys of nature kept his spirit sweet
and offered him cart load Of he
merely gnned andsked instead for and fresh
package Of tobacco.
For these all he needed.
think Of about the multi millionaire
inner guards Of the money trust
How many sleep sleeps eat with the keen zest which
appetite from the great Ge Of all good as much sun
shine and cheer fellowship that old Negro
No it isn't things that count for happiness
II SPIRIT
And thank God trust has yet put monopoly moose about human
spirit
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
by the Junior offs boy

n. y, ian. 22.-de you remember
my riting the storey about the yung
married man that rented a fat and
paid 3 months In advance
and then met some trends and from
that time on he couldent never re-
member where the fiat was
that got him in pretty dutch with
his wife, him being a blame fool and
telling her all about II
and now he Is In butcher than ever,
as inocent az lamb. and yet the mrs.
won't hardly speak to him
and when she does, he wishes she
hadent
This yung Teller is theatrical gy.
and of course he gets to lot OF
shows
the uther night him and the wife
and a couple of trends was sitting In
a box at a theayter when an usher
told him he was wanted outside
so he went out, and here was a
swell auto at the door, and a actorine
in Il that this guy ust to know quite
welt before he took brodie into dou-
BILE harness
the dame had check for 200 dol
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
kind harted mutt cashes check for a lady
friend and gets in bad with friend wife

lers, and she wanted II cashed right
quick, and she thought prebly John
toniy that amt hig name) could do It
for her, SO she had trailed him from
his ONCE to the show
well, john Is kind-hearted mutt, SO
he grabs the check and starts out
around times square to get the dough
he had to go to or 8 box ofises
before he found one where they would
slip him the kalo
then he beat II back to the theay.
ter where his lady friend was waiting
for him In the auto.
meanwhile his wife got kind OF wor.
ried and she had come outside to
have a look for him. not knowing but
what he might OF run acrost some
more of them friends Of hisen
Just as she comes out here Ia her
husbend handing this sweli-looking
fairy In the gas cart a roll of bills
that would stick In chimney
well, you can guess the rest II you
are any kind Of guesser at all
the more the poor boob explanea.
the more che just looks at him and
says "oh yes. 4 suppose so''
and that is very discuridging
johnny
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
Study for Progressive Laws

Two definite projects, intended to
translate into laws in this state def
lite pledges contained in the platform
of the national Progressive party,
were started few days ago at a
meeting OF the Progressive League Of
Philadelphia.
One was the appointment of COM
mittee, which Is to make a scientific
study OF the question of wages paid
to women In Philadelphia, with the
view Of drafting law which will fix
q m;-IimuIa wage. The other was the
appointment OF a committee to make
a similar study of conditions bearing
upon the welfare OF children, both
with respect to industrial occupations
and social problems.-PhiladelphIa
North American.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
A Victim of the Wide open Club.

A Victim Of the WIdeopen Club.
To the Editor of The Times:
There is a subject desire to bring
TO your notice and I believe you will
take some interest, and see II there Is
not some way that a damper can be
put on this evil
am lover OF my home. the moth
er of several intelligent children. /
do all that a loving heart and one
pair OF willing hands can do 70 make
my home attractive and happy. My
husband Is smart, active man. hold
ing a good paying position that he
has held for years. He Is very pop
ular, well liked my most every one;
but he is quite addicted 20 the use or
liquors. often to excess. and probably
half the money that should be ex-
pended on his home goes over the bar
at some club or society Of which he
is a member. He is no man to loiter
in the cheap saloon, but in the fashion
able clubs. Some OF the worst heii-
holes In our city are his downfall.
What I desire to get at Is, 10 there
no way that these clubs can be made
to obey the law the same as the saloon
that closes before midnight and all
Gay 6uuQhl Tue Cluu ID OpCH "
members always. although closed to
all outward appearances. The tele-
phone Is unanswered-but watch the
stream OF members and their friends
Members all carry keys and enter at
all hours and Sundays and drink, gam
BILE and hold all kinds Of revelry TO
their hearts content.
know positively that this Is true,
and my home. like many others. is be
Ing broken up-ruined by these re-
spectacle clubs and societies.
do not desire my name made pub
lie out OF pride for my aged and ven
cradle parents and the dear little
children committed to my care; but
IL could do anything to help In this
crusade against this miserable evil
would be In II heart and soul.
God grant that you may see some
thing In this appeal from q heart
broken wife and mother to arouse
your Understanding worth pub
fishing.
A CONSTANT READER OF THE
TINES.
Detroit, Jan. IL, 1913.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
What's In a Name?
Does Yours Fit?

Have you ever stopped TO consider
whether or not the name bestowed
upon you by your parents was APP
proprtate? Do you even know what
your name means. for all names mean
something? Possibly your name Is In
the following list. or II not today,
then some other day:
Sarah, princess. queen.
Jane, feminine Of John, which
means the gracious gift OF God.
Maty IN probably derived from the
Hebrew word Mara. or Marah. mean
ing bitter.
Agnes, pure. sacred. chasts.
Catherine. pure.
Barbara, foreign.
Edna, pleasure.
Dorothea. Dorothy, the gift Of God.
Gertrude, spear maid.
Helen, Helena, light.
Laura, q laurel.
Mildred, mild threatener.
Nancy, q familiar form Of Anne,
which means grace.
Tho mean annual temperature OF
the world ir so degrees Fahrenheit
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
Japanese Health Rules

The following rules for the general
guidance OF the people in health mat
tiers have been printed and widely dis
tributed by the Japanese government:
1. Spend as much time out OF doors
as possible. Bask much In the sun
and take plenty of exercise. Take care
that your respiration Is always deep
and regular.
2. As regards meals eat meat only
once a day and let the diet be eggs,
cereals and vegetables, fruits and
fresh cows milk. Take the last named
As much as possible. Masticate your
food carefully
3. Take hot bath every day and
a steam bath once or twice a week II
the heart is strong enough TO bear t.
4. Early to bed and early to rise.
s. Sleep in very dark and very
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22

Thou art q fakei
/ not for the claims
Thy makers make.
l call thee various assorted names,
For thou hast ways
That set the calmest temperament ablaze.
On sunny days OF fall
Thou seek'st to roast us all,
Although close thee tight
From morn till night
Yet when the chill winds roar
Thou heatest more,
Though all thy drafts be wide,
And though poke
Thy clinkers out and shake thee down Inside,
Thou only hllest up the house with smoke.
And thy fire hath died.
We bed thee for the night
With gentle
And by thy Goals aglare
We think that thou wilt stay Till morn alight;
But, nay, when day hath come
The house is chill and glum
That fire OF thine hath gone upon the bum!
IT'S thou that makest dwell
In fathouse and hotel
Thou makest housewives sad
Thou makest husbands mad
Thou siftest ash when well y-cad-
Thou are a humbug and q maddening Thing
Thus do sing!
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22

destinies of the nation are OF near and
immediate interest to the Badger peo-
pie. This message is an indication OF
what may be expected at Washington.
II also shows man not merely salts
fled with his election and willing 10
let 1t go At that=as far too many
have been-but one determined 10
bring to the people the betterments
they desire, to make his career one
OF service.-Milwaukee News.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22

ed as English thief slang. goes back
to the time OF Shakespeare and Is re-
lated to impeach. though used to In
dictate informing against an accom-
plice. The word cad Is for Scotch
caddie, once an errand boy, now "a
miliar in connection with golf. Cad
die Is from the French word cadet,
meaning a junior or younger brother.
Indianapolis News.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
STAR OF HOPE NOW
TO BE DIMMED BY OVERLORDS

What to do with Ireland has burning question in England
nce England first its clutches the unfortunate Emerald Isle
~ has taken centuries miue with bitterness dscon
tent 70 teach the English rulers that the only tOeabe rule for proud
people il home rule
The home rule bill which has passed the Commons and Its way
% rejection by the stubborn Lorda rejection however which will delay
but not defeat this Of JUSTICES not complete home rule
The overrds neck the bottle by insisting
upon an astocrac Irish chosen directly by the Irish voters
BUT HOW CAN WE WONDER At THAT WHEN IN FREE
AMERICA OUR SENATE AND STILL IS SIMILARLY CON
TR0ILED; AND YEARS OF GOVERNMENT BY
THE PEOPLE TO CONVINCE GOVERNED THAT THE PEOPLE
CANNOT GOVERN UNLESS THEY ELECT THEIR sENAToRs3
Though not ideal BILL this home rule project marks momentous
advance
The of Irish hope chance rule and illuminate
the heavens
Until the test prophecy would simply be guesswok
But who have splendid possibilities of the Irish char
under conditions achievement doubt that the Irish nation
will into its great opportunity and conOund the Tory critics who
predicting all of caamities
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22

Rochester. N. Y, Is to have a poor
mans bank" to offset loan sharks.
at $50, 900.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22

Newport. r. l.. receives q nine-acre
park. valued at sos 900, as q gift from
George Gordon King.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
A Queens Recipe
For a Happy Life

Three ounces are necessary, first
of Patience. then OF Repose and
Peace; OF Conscience a pound entire
Is needful: OF Pastimes OF all sorts,
too, should be gathered as much as
the hand can hold; OF Pleasan:
Memory and of Hope three good
drachps there must be at least. But
they should moistened be with a
liquor made from True Pleasures
which rejoice the heart. Then OF
Loves Magic Drops few-but use
them sparingly. for they may bring a
flame which naught but tears can
drown Grind the whole and mix
herewith or Merriment an ounce TO
even Yet all this may not bring hap
piness except In your prisons you lift
your voices TO him who holds the gift
OF health.-Margaret Queen OF Ma
varre-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22
TR LTSTS As YET HA We NOT PUT
MOOSE ABOUT HUMAN SPIRIT

The happe old Negro
He lived in a shack upon a river bank
couldn't read O.
he probably in his life $40 bill
His simple wants he supplied by pottering toll.
Between tasks he hed quaint melodies the
compartment Of old banjo.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22

New Jersey is said to produce the
best apples In the United States, ex-
cepting those of Michigan.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22

quiet room. with windows epeR-Let
the minimum OF sleeping hours be six
or six and one-half hours. In case OF
woman eight and one-half hours Is
advisable.
6. Take one day of absolute rest
each week in which you must refrain
from even reading or writing.
z. Try to avoid any outbursts OF
passion and strong mental stimula-
tons. Do not tax your brain at the
occurrence OF inevitable incidents or
Of coming events. Do not say un-
pleasant things nor listen. II possible
to avoid It, TO disagreeable things.
s. Be married! widows and wild
overs should be married with the
least possible delay.
8. Be moderate In the consumption
OF even tea and coffee. not TO say to-
bacco and alcoholic beverages.
10. Avoid places that are too warm,
especially steam heated and badly
ventilated rooms.-New York Sun.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-22

The skin OF a black fox is worth
from IS to $40. and the animals are
now being raised In captivity to sup
ply tne demand for their pelts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-26
The Bible in School.
rom the Chicago Post.

FROM the chicago Post.
Indiana has decided to follow an ex-
ample set by North Dakota and provide
Tor the instru ction OF school children in
the literature of the Bible. In many
states, and not so long ago in Illinois
the question of Bible teaching in public
schools has been discussed. and generally
with the development of grave differences
tive heat. Between the people opposed
altogether to Bible teaching in public
schools, the people who were not opposed
on principle, but who thought that there
was no practical method of safeguarding
the instruction from abuse. and the peo-
pie who would have welcomed any meth
cd. there has been plenty of room for
controversy.
Indiana will now enable us to settle
this question by experience. And the
methods OF teaching seem designed espe-
cially to calm the feays of people who
fear that Bible teaching in the schools
means sectarian Partially. The syllabus
is prepared by the state board of educa-
ton, the students pursue their studies at
home under the guidance of their parents
or Sunday school teachers. they are ex-
arnined at stated intervals and credit
is given IL their work is satisfactory.
The literary and not the theological
aspects OF the Bible are studied, and the
work Is voluntary. 1t would seem as il
the most consistent opponent of sec,
tarianism in the public schools would find
IL hard to object 10 this program, and
the prospect of a returning day in which
orators will not be asked such questions
as Who was that Good Samaritan to
whom you referred in your talk" is some
thing TO be hoped for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-26
THE CONSTITUTION
PASSING A CRISIS
Reasons Against Hasty AItera-
tons of the Fundamental
Law of the Land.

David Jayne Hill, in the North American Review.
Thoughtful men in all countries of the
world are united in the conviction that
constitutional government embodies the
highest ideal for the regulation of hui
man affairs ever conceived by man.
With regard to the attainability and
permanence of this ideal. opinions differ
widely. Most men agree in the belief
that certain peoples are not ripe for it.
Others consider it necessary to combine
with it some vestiges of absolutism, as
means of rescuing society from the an
archy that would follow upon its. pos
sible failure. Still others openly oppose
it because for various reasons, IL Is their
personal interest to do so.
The dangers to constitutional govern
ment, however, do not arise from the
open opposition OF its enemies, Tor IN
the fed of free debate it is aoundantly
they are not a few-are those VINO do
not avowedly attack or resist 1t, but who
while protesting to be its friends and its
advocates. secretly repudiate. or inten-
tionally pervert its fundamental pfln-
ciples.
In contrast with the political absolu-
tism which 1t was intended to destroy and
which 1t has endeavored to supersede,
constitutional government Is oasea upon
the principle of equal guarantees for the
rights of all citizens, without distinction
of persons or classes, under the protee~
ton of coordinate and distributed pow
ers, exercised by public officers freely
chosen by the people, and revocable after
fixed periods of office. Recognizing life,
personal liberty and property as ele-
ments of inalienable right. constitutional
government aims to guard these from
every form of violation.
The mere statement or the meaning OF
constitutional government plainly indi-
Gates who are it's natural enemies These
include all those who. in any form what
ever desire to make the state their
private servant and through control OF
the public powers use ii to serve their
own personal or class interests at the eX-
pense of others.
The division of men into friends and
enemies of constitutional government
must be based upon the attitude they
assume toward its fundamental principle
This principle being the existence OF
equal and adequate guarantees, by which
the life, the personal liberty and the
property of every citizen are rendered
inviolate. every person and every organ
ization that aims by means of exceptional
legislation to secure advantages TO the
detriment of others must be classed as
an enemy of constitutional government:
which-aithough not a guarantee of equal
conditions, which is impossible-is essen
TALLY a guarantee of equal rights.
The means by which the founders OF
| \ constitutional government intended TO
/ obtain this guarantee were threef0ld
| First of all. the ''inalienable rights OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-26
MESA BATTLEFIELD VISITED.
The Awful Carnage Failed to Ma
terialize.

From the San Francisco Post.
Advices from the battlefield of Mesa. a
few miles south of Juarez where the COR
respondents seem to have arrived after
everything was over, throw some light
upon war as practiced by the sanguinary
rebels upon the discouraged cohorts of
Huerta.
IL has been reported that Cen Villa
won glorious victory after hand-to-
hand conflict, in which the enemy was re-
pulsed with terrific loss and bloodshed
The correspondents were wild with ex-
citement. They must go directly to see
this bloody plain, where dead federals lay
In heaps with rebel bayonets sticking
IN them- Before leaving Ell Paso they
described what they, were going to see,
which was well, for they never saw it
Inc battlefield was deserted. save for a
dozen dead horses and quantity of emp
~ shells. Back and forth rode the COR
respondents looking for those bodies. or
Tor fresh-turned earth that should signify
where they had been laid away They
found no bodies. no graves. not even any
blood spots. according to one of the more
detailed descriptions 1t may have been
a great battle. but it didn't look it,
AS far as could be learned, the only
dead federals are those that were exc
cuted by Gen Villa after the battle ended
and it is plain that they would be alive
today if they could have run faster. A
hundred or more combatants on both
sides We're winged, II is true. but the Ill
Innate conclusion must be that the Mex
leans are poor shots or else the rival
armies stayed too far apart to hurt each
other
The results of the battle signify that
HGerta is not regarded as worth lighting
for by his own troops. Probably his
soldiers are unpaid and half famShed.
There Is no spirit left in them From all
appearances Villa came upon the horizon
and cried Boo" and they ran, leaving
their guns, hats. uniforms and other loose
appurtenances as the spois of war Villa
TO appeaSe the lust for blood of his own
men. executes the prisoners he could
catch. and the act ends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-26
ne Searchli8ht
Bismuth and Fire Production.

Bismuth is useful metal OF many
strange qualities. used largely in the MAX
ing of fusible plugs for fire protection.
Ii has such a low melting point that II
is used plugs in automatic sprinklers.
these melting and releasing the water
when subjected TO a comparatively small
amount of heat.
Bismuth is also the basis for type met
ais, partly because il expands 2.3 in vol
ume as IL solidities, and partly because
OF Its low melting point. which Is 51S
degrees Fahrenheit Its alloys-with tin.
lead and cadiunl-rnelt as low as 40. or
as high as ea1 degrees Fahrenheit Al
though very valuable metal. IL " con
sidered by-product as il Is extracted
from DRESS which contain gold, silver or
lead. a popularity of bismuth IL that in
stead of being attracted by a magnet Il il
repealed. IL is very poor heat con
ductor. having but one-fiftieth OF the con
ductivity of silver.
Bolivia produces more biSmuth than
any other country in the world The
United States annually uses $4,000
pounds. of which but $1,000 pounds are
produced in this country. Nearly all OF
the rest is imported from Bolivia.