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The Detroit times., 1913-01-31

In that direction during the past four.
teen years retraced. The United States
should no longer stand behind any
government or faction in South and
Central America. but allow the people
OF those Republics TO settle their own
disputes In their own way. The Unit
ed States should no longer stretch the
Monroe Doctrine 20 the extent that
our government can take charge OF
the revenues and gettle the claims
made by Europeans upon the republics
TO the south. Our right 10 intervene
In Cuban affairs should be modified
and all thought OF acquiring Cuba
abandoned.
Governor Wilson has not announced
his foreign policy, but his public ut
terances, the declarations OF his party,
and the position OF that party In con-
gress indicate policy IN foreign af-
fairs which means a return 10 that
status which was 80 strongly recon-
mended by George Washington and
which was followed by his successors
for more than one hundred years
From VIII the Democrats Reverse
Our Foreign Policies?" by A Veteran
Observer, In the American Review OF
Reviews.
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31
NEW1oRK.
LETTER.ns%tSa1,,

NEW YORK. Jan. 81. Mar
Gus Loew, one OF New York's
richest theatrical men, who has
vaudeville and picture houses all
over the city, was born in the "old
eleventh" ward. away down on the
East side.
Within the past year he has built
an 100000 theater on the very site
OF his birthplace, at Fifth-st. and
Avenue b. 1t is OF white marble;
the decorations and furnishings are
rich and beautiful. 1t Is a theater
that would grace a Fifth-ave. loca-
ton and charm Fifth-ave. audience
Looming up amidst the tenements
and saloons OF lower New York's
foreign quarter, IL Is a striking mon
ument to mans love for the people
and the surroundings or his early
days.
Many other men have risen TO dis
tinction from the "old eleventh.
lawyers, judges. politicians. doctors.
merchants. Loew invited them all
to attend the opening night per-
formance OF his new theater. and
celebrate with him.
They came. with many others of
the "old eleventh. who have not
risen TO fame and honor. Also there
came sundry denizens OF the new
eleventh. which In fits latter and de-
generate days has come to be the
stamping ground OF some or New
York's most nefarious inhabitants.
And 80 the celebration was some
what marred. The opening per-
Torrance went with q whirl. and
there were loud and repeated cheers
for Marcus Loew. But after the
shouting and the tumult had died,
Mr.. Loew discovered that q valuable
jeweled stickpin was missing from
his scarf. Joseph Schenck. his busi-
ness representative. mourned a wal
let containing $40. The house man
ager had lost his watch.
Justice Giegerich, OF the supreme
bench, an "old eleventh" boy, who
had greatly enjoked the proceedings,
suffered the loss OF pocketbook that
had sS1 in It. And q police cap
tain, also q favorite SON OF the "old
eleventh." suffered the extreme an
noyance Of having his gold badge
swiped from an inner pocket OF his
citizens clothes.
After these disclosures had been
made, Mr.. Loew said he was glad he
had built the theater large and
heavy. He does not believe the pres
emit inhabitants OF the "old eleventh"
will be able to steal t.
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31
The Explanation

william Jennings Bryan. on his last
Wait to Philadelphia, said:
"oh, yes. they have no difficulty In
explaining away the high cost OF Nv
ing. No dificulty whatever.
81 know q woman who went TO q
fruitsrers to buy some apples the
other day. The price Of apples
shocked her.
why are these 30 hishr she com
planned.
They're high. ma'am. said the
salesman, with q gallant smile. be
cause they're 30 scarce
but said the woman, I read In
yesterday mornings paper that there
was such a bumper crop that the ap-
pies were rotting en- the trees.
THE salesman rubbed his hands
He smiled more calamity than ever.
That's Just It, madam, Ire said
That's why they're scarce. OF course
Il doesn't pay, you see. TO pick en-
New York Globe
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31
OR Foreign Policy From
The Democratic Viewpoint

party and to which he is committed
by party platforms and congressional
declarations.
Carried out logically, the accession
OF the Democratic party to power
means that the Philippines should be
set free and that we should no longer
assume the attitude OF the Big Police
man OF the American Continent Ex-
pansion and territorial aggrandizement
should be halted and the steps taken
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31

inevitably there must be . great
change IN the foreign policy Of the
United States % result Of the cleo
dom which made woodrow Wilson
1fsSldsnt and gave the Democracy con-
troll Of the senate 40 well AZ the house
~ representative. II may be going
700 Tar TO say that the change WIN be
radical, but II can be little less than
that n the new president carries out
ne IDEAS which have prevailed In his
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31

OF q newspaper that contains whisky
advertisements IL an effort to stimu-.
late the purchase and consumption'
OF that which it knows to be hurtful
and which should no more be sold
without restriction than is morphine
or cocaine. 1t II not easy for q news
paper to assume to represent pur-
poses that are clean and worthy and
helpful while 1t Is parading whisky
and beer appeals and solicitation IN
its advertising columns.
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31

The large increase In the importa tion
OF hides and skins into our country.
while due In part 70 the increased ao-
-tf~fty among maHafeetuFefs.-is afso,- IN
sonno degree, the result OF q REDUCTION
In the number Of cattle slaughtsrsd In
the United States.
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31

MOSCOW cotton merchants are plan
nina to spend immense sums on the
r,i.inc OF cotton In central Asia
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31

Baltimore's new regulations win 81
ciude lsoo newsboys now under are
limit.
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31

The be a hard and the
You hoeng bravely
70
That wonder IL the effort made
a
There's something it's all worth while;
picture,
hen you find a woma WI n YOU
When 1t doesn't bother with
When
dim;
STILL rifle.
nothing
a little believes In you'll
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31

And We are Of
IN. b-.t ~ sarth--we it
sim th.,s have been thing. enosnsd.
Let's talk about one today.
tysye wears ago Prussia passed law to regulate railroads
The iron horse just beginning and the
Who ruled Prussia proposed have something about the snorng
This Is they said:
NO RAILROAD COULD BE BUILT WHICH DIDN'T CONVINCE THE
AUTHORITIES THAT IT WAS NEEDED;
THAT DIDN'T PAY IN THE FULL FACE VALUE OF ITS SHARES
OF STOCK;
THAT DIDN'T KEEP SINKING FUND SUFFICIENT TO PAY OFF
ITS DEBTS;
THAT DIDN'T TREAT ALL USERS ALIKE
THAT DIDN'T RUN SAFELY CARRY THE MAILS FREE. PAY A
GRADUATED OF FROM IL PER CENT ON NET EARN
AND REDUCE RATES WHEN ITS PROFITS WENT ABOVE 10
10 PREVENT STOCK WATERING THE GOVERNMENT KEPT IT'S
EYE ON THE BOOKKEEPING
provided coming from thus tai ON net
should be only in the purchase by the governments 1al
way stocLu
hen the dividends on this stock the tax
y 8 be put buying stock
Finally Il the buy the road could do
er the first years by paying times the annual dividend averaged
through the i've Immediately preceding years
You'd think that under enforced in the martnent
p.an way the privately would be mighty good
Hut the Pusan falling down. In trying TO
regulate uivate control Of public highways.
N 1879 the Prussan cabinet admitted it saying:
against such organization privately owned railroad in crooked
hnds) which, by abundant and by effective channels
~ leads astay and corrup public opinion THE INFLUENCE
or THE GOVERNMENT PcwERIEss the principle the equa0e
m.nt Of all railroad shipping interests becomes empty form and
rrGrsIATTvE REGULATION NOTHING BUT A MEANINGLESS
PHRAEE"
happenedf .
The Pussn the railroads hadn't anfad
e control Of through taxmony purhasespayng b the way
- some cases less even than the legal maximum
And nowi
Ths, are no free passes except employees railway business
Even the kaiser pays his fare
There CONCESSIONS BY commissions
elevator allowances or mileage graft in private cars.
tariffs terminal railroad abuses OF expensen 0
10 underbiIing frauds classification fayon.
No fostering and monopoHeA
No long md short haul injusiceA
basing- point system.
No watered securities or gambling in railway stocks
No railway
No wasteful construction Of competitive railways
No refusal to construct needed lines IN rural districts
No disregard Of safety pOspOnemnt public interest private
profit in any way.
No excessive transportation charges the postal service
No railroad leyying the commerce Of the
countzy
No railway notification, or defiance Of the law
No railway lobbs outside Of Legislative bodies at
re national capital oap seeking corrupt prv
1glafon.
No railway battles in the courts
70 railroad senators
YES WE CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM PRUSSIA
The Detroit times., 1913-01-31
4RS THE VERY BES7 PEOPLE ON
EARTH CAN LEARN FROM Prussia

We Americans think we are some people
And We are Of course
The best on sarth--we mean it
st the. have been things in which others have exceed
Let's talk about today.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-13
Brigade Posts For the Army.

A general, whose name is not given
IS cited by the Baltimore American a:
favoring the establishment of a regi,
mental army post in every State II
the Union. His argument is that such
posts would be useful as points OF
concentration for the instruction oi
the militia. The citizen-soldiers might
be brought together in brigades from
contiguous States, if necessary, and
would always find regular regiment
to train them. The general is not in
harmony with the policy of the War
Department, which is to reduce the
number of posts. The policy has been
antagonized in Congress by politicians,
who care nothing for advantages,
which the army would gain. from the
establishment of brigade posts, but are
alive to the commercial benefit a gar
rison confers on their district"
To maintain forty-eight regimental
posts would mean the establishment of
several without strategical reason, as
well as considerable increase of the
regular army. More pressing Is the
The Washington herald., 1913-10-13
THAT SKINNER BOY.
His Mother Admonishes Him and
Things Result.

Copyright 1913. BY Mcclure Newspaper syndeate.l
That Skinner boy was leaning over the
gate when a man came along trundling d
wheeIbarrow and stopped to say:
you see, boy. that my barrow is
broken"
Yes. SIR"
'Tf had a hammer and Just one nail I
could fix II in minute. You must have
them In the houssT'
ave have
"AnJ like a GOOD boy, you will bring
them oLt TO me-"
''No, sir. We never lend our tools. We
lent a rake once and the feller ran of
with it"
But you crn stand right here and
watch me"
But / know that mother would OBJ
ject."
Then your mother Is a mighty selfish
woman!"
With that the man moved on, and Mrs.
Skinner appeared at the door to ask:
"Humpy, what did that man wantT'
He'd broke his wheelbarrow and want
ed hammer and nails to fix it
Then why didn't you come in and get
them?"
You said you'd never lend a man even
a clothespin after that feller ran away
with the rake"
4odl 4 was Audu anu NlAlA HlCah ~
You want to be obliging TO folks. A
selfish boy will grow up to be man that
Is hated. You will want hundreds Of
fayors before you die Of old age. and
you must be ready to grant them to
others"
"But I've heard you say that most all
men are raseals.'' persisted Humpy.
But / was speaking of folks over in
China, Next time person comes along
aud asks you to do him favor, you
do it,"
1t was an admonition to be remembered.
and Humpy hadn't forgotten it week
later when he sat on the front steps In
charge of the house while his mother
went shopping. The boy was reading an
Old Sieuth novel and getting posted to do
detective work as soon as he could leave
school. when a man stopped at the gate
and asked:
~Boy. have you handsaw in the
housef"
"Yes, sir" was the prompt reply
II want to saw of the legs OF a chair,
but have no saw. II you could loan me,
yours I'd be very much Obliged"
II will, sir. .
The saw was brought out and handed
The Washington herald., 1913-10-13
MONDAY, OCTOBER Is. 1873
Broaden the Money Order System.

In response TO recommendation oi
the Postmaster General, the Postofice
Department is trying to devise a
scheme whereby a person in one city
holding a money order payable in an
other place need not buy railroad
ticket to that city in order to have il
cashed.
This is the day of practical busi-
ness and professional methods. Red
tape must give way 10 direct action.
Local politics must surrender to
broader ideas in the management of
our postal service, as well as in every
other field A national bank note can
be used anywhere, no matter if the
issuing bank be thousands of miles
away. An international express mon
ey order, issued in this country, can
be cashed anywhere on the face of
the globe
Why should our money orders not
be issued in such a form that their
holders might use them as they do
our currency? The Postofice De-
partment lately has broadened its use
fulness considerably. 1t delivers mail
nowadays in rural districts; it carries
parcels and even packages large
enough to be called almost freight;
it accepts ordinary postage stamps in
payment of special delivery letters and
parcel post stamps for letter mail; it
is now perfecting plan to do away
with much unnecessary cancellation; it
is receiving money on deposit, and, at
last, it does not turn away holders of
money orders because they are not
known personally to the clerks at the
windows.
Evidently, it soon must become the
business of the Postofice Department
TO issue money orders that are good
on their face until redeemed. Strictly
speaking, all paper money is of the
same character as the money order.
1t is mere evidence of credit, and
as such it should be a legal tender,
just as much as a gold or silver certi-
fcate. All are issued by the govern
ment.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-13
AMBASSADOR JUSSERAND
PRAISES WILSON POLICY
French Diplomat Says Mexican Situa-
sion Has Been Handled in Master
ly and .Digni6ed Manner.

France is high In its praise of Presi-
dent Wilson for the mastery and dig
nified manner In which he has handled
the Mexican situation, according TO N.
Jules Jusserand. the Franch Ambassador
to the United States. who has returned
to Washington after visit to his native
land.
Ambassador Jusserand Is declared by
New York papers 20 have expressed him
self regarding his .country's praise of
President Wilson'S Mexican policy as
he stepped from the gangplank fof the
liner La Savoie. OF the French Line. prior
to coming to this city.
The Ambassador Is further credited with
the declaration that the people OF France
are keenly interested In the Pan-Ameri-
ean-Paciiic Exposition and are greatly
pleased over the treatment OF the mem
bers OF the French commission. who re-
recently returned home after . tour OF
this countBy.i
The Washington herald., 1913-10-13
The Billboard Nuisance.

The commission appointed to study
the billboard problem in Greater New
York, and whose finding will be of in
terest to other large cities as well, de-
clares billboards generally to be nui-
sance; a conclusion, by the way, which
the public reached long ago. The
commission also entertains serious
doubt whether this form of publicity
is worth as much to the advertiser as
other methods. If it should be money
wasted. only the patrons of this loud"
advertising are the losers.
1t is the faring, glaring billboards
themselves from which the public suf-
fcrs. Their tawdry and often un-
slightly character is an offense to good
taste. They disfgure the landscape
and increase often the FIRE danger.
Why then, if they must be permitted,
should the owners of the billboards or
the advertisers not be made to pay
for il? France is quite up-to-date in
this respect, by imposing tax of from
Is TO 500 francs on each such board,
according to size and location.
At this time, when problems of taxa
ton are so acute in this country, it
may be the proper thing to draw pub
lie attention to the matter. If there
must be billboards, let the men who
make this their business pay for the
privilege.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-13

over. and at the corner above the bor-
rover met a man with whom he stopped
| to talk. After three or four minutes the
man walked down to where Humpy sat
and said:
Say. boy, find myself in trouble"
as a cop after your"
"Oh, no, I'm cashier OF a bank, and
live just around the corner. Has your
mother got sewing machiney'
Yes, sir"
is she homer
No, SIR"
That's bad-very bad. My wife is a
cripple. She's making a dress EDr a
woman to wear TO a funeral, and her
machine has just broke down and she
can't finish the dress. She can't come
down here, and your mother she amt
home, and
why. I'll lend you the machine for an
hour or two.' said Humpy.
boy, do you mean that you will do me
such a favor as that
"Of course I will, Mother, has said
that 1 must be obliging to ALL
Then your mother must surely be an
angel on earth. My wife wants the ma
chine only about an hour"
Humpy helped him get IL out of the
The Washington herald., 1913-10-13

house and down the steps. and was not
al ALI surprised to find a boy with a
rush-cart waiting TO receive IL. He had
now obliged two persons. and he went
back to his Old Sleuth feeling pretty
good about II. He hadn't been reading
over ten minutes. however. and hadn't
yet struck the spot where the celebrated
detective arrests the man in the moon.
when along came middle-aged woman
who looked very anxious about some
thing, and who said:
boy, is any one home but your
mo, ma'am.'
|. Tn sorry-yery sorry"
did you wish to see mother"
81 can't tell you how much. Every
body says she Is woman with a heart
She is always ready to oblige a neigh
bor"
''Yes'm. and she told me must al
ways be. Can do anything for your
You can, my dear. nave a sick child
in the house and must give him the doc
tors medicine every twenty-seven min
utes and half. / have been doing II
right along. but now my clock has ex-
ploded.H
.'ExpIodedg''
1T has. Some Of those blackhanders
must have sneaiSed in and placed bomb
inside. 1t went cd with great roar
a few minutes age. and the poor clock
was blown into a hundred pieces You
The Washington herald., 1913-10-13
No Methods" to Reach the Century
Mark.

We are told by a Providence con-
temporary that Albert Blackmar, oi
Forster, R. l., has just died there at
the age of a few months over Ioc
years. He explained his long span of
life by the fact of his complete alb
stinenee from Intoxicating liquor.
There are, most likely, more persons
who abstain than there are those who
indulge in liquor, yet very few of the
former reach the century mark. On
the other hand, it is stated that Black
mars pipe was his constant companion
from early morning until he retired
at night.
There is great lack of unsnimity
on the question of how to live long
and remain in good health and in the
possession of ones physical and men,
tai faculties. When such an excep-
tional man reaches 100 years he gen.
orally is asked to divulge the secret
of the unusual length of his days.
In our opinion, neither the complete
abstinence of Mr.. Blackmar from IN
toxicating liquor, nor his overindulg-
ence in his pipe, may have much, if
anything, to do with his long life.
Temperance in all things, of course, is
conducive to health, but good con-
stitution, regular habits, plenty of out
door life and-above an-freedom
from worry, are the chief essentials
of long life.
At any rate such regime is pref
ty safe one to follow.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-13

money directly from the people. and to
market its bonds directly to the people
| in small and varying denominations
through the medium of tine postoffice,
and for other purposes"
Our Postnl Savings system.
Let US look back a few years In the
summer of 1910 a postal savings system
came into existence in the United States.
There are now 3$S, 900 depositoEs at 12,slS
postoffices with deposits amounting to
SS7. .524.S7O
The system was favored as far back as
1888 by John Wanamsker, then Post
master General By 1885 we had made
money orders payable at the Office Of
ing money without payment OF interest
Our depositors now get 9 per cent on
their money. The money on deposit Is re-
deposited, in large measure In local
banks; so that the government Is en-
gagged in a banking transaction that, al
most without cost to IL, will keep great
sums in circulation when the public I'M
derstand it better. -
Some Foreign Figures.
Our postal savings system has scarcely
begun. English began in 1851 and has
more than 100000 depositors in the
United Kingdom. Japan has 100000 de-
positors in postal savings banks. France
has over 100000 depositors. The list of
all civilized countries would, IL included,
only go to prove that we are at last
aware Of the general desire among the
moderate earners Of money to place saw
ings where the government as a whole
will make the deposit absolutely safe.
The Money In Hiding.
1t is estimated that there is over
8, COO, 0OooOO in hiding in the United States.
The owners hoard and hide. Holes,
pots, and stockings, are their personal
banks. For instance, n the most south
erly city Of the Unit ed States, because
Of its suspicious foreign population. great
amounts of money in the city never APP
pear in the bank transactions.
The Howard bill is to tempt out the
hoardlngs by turning every postofice into
a bond-selling ONCE: the postmaster To
represent the government, the bonds to
be in denominations from 81 up, each
bond with interest coupons attached, and
all proceeds to be available (with the ex-
ception of a small reserve) for refund
ing the Is now deposited by the national
banks as security for currency.
The Ultimate Result Sought.
The ultimate result would be the re-
eIOhhtHl VI tle pIeSent iOIS-leTIn IS Inc
debt would be scattered among the great
masses OF the people in varying amounts.
The government credit would still be kept
at per cent basis.
The argument is that IL 1000 900 people
hold the bonds IL is far better than to
have 10 or 1000 or 1000 do SO, for II
makes the government and its needs and
its machinery more real and vivid to a
greater number.
Idea VIII Attract Attention.
The subject is new in the United States.
Government stockholders exist among
postal savings bank depositors in many
foreign countries. The problem here Is
different from that abroad. 1t Is to cut
the relation between national debt and
the currency of the people. Action will !
probably be taken in the Sixty-third Con-
gress, for the idea in the bill offers the
Postofhce an opening for something that
shall re-emphasize its nearness to the in
terests OF all the people at crossroads or
on city highways alike.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-13

need of the increase of militia That
force is not apportioned strateeicaliy
and in some States 1t IS numerically
so weak as to argue popular indiffer-
ence to its existence. Delaware has
less than 400 militia of all ranks
Idaho, SOB; Montana, s4a; North Da-
kota, 633; South Dakota, 734. OF the
aggregate of I27ooo organized militia
Cat the date of latest available re-
turns), more than one-.hird was made
up of the contingents of New York,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. Illinois,
and Ohio.