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The Detroit times., 1914-10-08
BABY-SAVINC
NOBLE SUMMER
WORK OF WOMEN
Not a Baby Died on Chase-st. in
1914. Result Of Education
Ii Of Mothers
STREET is GARNERING
PLACE FOR GRIM REAPER
Housing Reform Committee
Faces Financial Handicap
In. To Efforts

AS result Of the generosity and
personal work OF q few women, mem
oers OF the housing reform commit
tee OF the Twentieth Century club
VINO were unable TO leave the city
Tor the usual summer at the seashore
or In the country, not single baby
died this summer on Chase-st., here
tofore one OF the most prolific garner.
ing places OF the grim reaper. This
iact became known Wednesday morn.
ing In q meeting OF the committee
held In the Century building.
Chase-st. lies between Larned and
Congress and runs north from Rus.
sell to Rtopelle-sts. Its residents are
mostly Sicilians. There are an In.
credible number OF babies. One fam
ny has several children OF school age,
with twins year old, and babe OF
three weeks. The babies born on
Chase-st., have died I'm q few weeks, a
month or two or maybe Q year after
birth. with appalling increase.
The housing reform committee
heard about Chase-st, and sent its
practical worker. Mrs. Johanna Won
Wagner, into the street. to see what
could be done TO win the babies away
from death. Her report resulted In
self-sacrificing and noble effort be-
Ing made by the few members of the
committee compelled TO spend the
hot months In the city. 20 save the
babies, with the remarkable result
that for the nrst time In the entire
existence OF Chase-st. summers, not q
baby died.
Now. the committee Is considering
ways and means OF purchasing q
building in Chase-st. 70 be put into
the most livabie condition possible
and where Mrs. Won Wagner pro-
poses TO retain room In which to
live that she may better pursue her
baby life-saving work.
: Mrs. Won Wagner endeavors 10 In
struct the mothers and homekeepers
on Chase-st. into what are to them the
great mysteries Of bathing, feeding
and caring for their infants: the care
and order Of their rooms: the com
fort Of their husbands: the necessity
Of keeping living apartments free
from dirt and rubbish, and the thou
sand and one things that make for
sanitary. healthful surroundings and
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MIR. Il. !. KELLY Of Dublin. who has
not achieved who's Who" IS deeply
concerned because the British Govern
mcnt has not organized corps Of press
agents 20 lay the case 81 England be
fore the American people in order TO
rounteract the German American" lit.
rrary campaign, which he thinks Is
binding the ewes IF newspaper readers
In this country
MIR KELLY writes To the London
saturday Rcricr in fine tiutter of
hystrria that the Germans over here
are having It AL their own way Ap-
parcntly he would like to volunteer,
In view of the few millions of words
that British prn filters have been eX.
pending In the controversy, this ner-
vouSness Is calculated TO cause some
surprise on this side OF the Atlantic
The impression here Is that with
MeSSrs WILLS, CHEsTrRToN, GALS
WORTHY, CONAN DOYLE, ARNOLD BFN-
NETT and few score lesser champions
tearing German claims and arguments
"a tattcrs. AZ least 10 their own satis-
faction and the general entertainment.
the English interests are getting more
or less attention.
Fortunately the British Embassy at
Washington keeps cool, Mr. KELLY
fooishy let's slip the fact that he tried
70 stir II NJ to press rampnlgn with
or without himself N command. lie
got sadly dampcnug reply 10 the
effect that as between England and
Germany "America Is Gu'.e capable Of
deciding the question for herself and
of gauging AT their real value any Ger
man misrcprcsentations."
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No CHRTSTMAS MONEY.
The Regrets OF n Girl who Loves to Play
santa Claus.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS--Sr. The
Louisville Evening Post reprinted an
article taken from TIE SUN entitled AS
to Christmas Presents" In this article
Won urge people not to allow hard times
10 cut down their Christmas giving.
What ara those who have nothing 10
give going - do ] am one Of these uu-
fortunate ones. And II isn't because, lil<e
tho cricket. | sang the summer away
Last year, as soon as Christmas was over,
| began looking about for some way TO
make and save some Christmas money
Hut sickness and other misfortunes
blocked every avenue, So here Il Is, a
little more than month until the
greatest event OF the year. and / have
nothing To give, no money, and no pros
poet OF making any.
To me tho one pleasurs OF Christmas
Ia giving. That's one thing that have
ouged and labored for all these long
years a Christmas when would really
have the means to buy some real Christ
mas gifts for the few 10 whom ! would
Ike 20 act as Santa Claus
! wonder how IL would feal 10 hav.
some money that YOU could actually spend
Tor sensible Christmas G,ftr GlRL
LOUISVILLE, Ky, November "a
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Her Paths Drip Tatncss.

The Hon. NIcroR MURDOCH. late the
Progressive candidate for Senator from
Kansas. will not be long discourag gel.
The rosy light Of his own poll will soon
battle his inwards and intellectuals.
Kansas. which used to have such 4
genius for calamity. has now an equal
genius for prosperity. What are VIC
toR's private woes when the other sun
flowers are dripping gold? Lot him
Jake n spin with the editor of the
Hutchinson Ners. who sees all about
him this smiling prospect:
The prosperity that seem. 20 be
exuding from the people and from tho
farmer. The good crops are
here and the farmers are making the
most OF the opportunities that come with
excellent soil and equitable climate"
They are, as the news columns Of
that esteemed contemporary show
When the police Judge fines speed
ing motorist IN Topeka ne tries to make
the punishment TT the crime. The faster
the extra speed the more the fine. Some
men recently fined are very proud of
their cars.
"CLArnE ErPERsoN. OSCAR FRANKLIN.
EIpoN CocKBY and CHARrrr SMITH mo-
tored 10 Wichita Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. FRED Mills and Miss
EDITH MILLS motored 20 Pratt last Fri
day and returned Wednesday.
Mfr. and Mrs. GROVER BowsER motored
to Partridge sunday.
CHARLES H. SMITH Is planning 20
launch state automobile and good
roads magazine
And so on. The farm wagon Is
changed into the devil wagon. Bleed.
ing Kansas Is become Speeding Kansas.
The Popullsts were happy with griev.
ance. Their sons are happy with
machine. Even old ED HOWE OF Potato
iii writes In a limousine. Kansas,
Ike JEsHURUS and WILLIAM ALLEN
WHITE, has waved fat; unlike them,
rs stopped kicking.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-17
College Men IN World Politics.

We share pr BUFFERS Roget that
aimee August | number ~ ara5cn-
icMly dl,N7Eul"hcd gentlemen should
have fourd Ii imoossih,c 20 resist the
impulse 20 mrhc conspicuous nsS"s of
themselves. Their fly gohbl!ng and fire
hrlChing have been most distressing.
That any Of them has succeeded IN
changing the opinion Of Cnyrcdy r'Se
We do not believe. 4 vast number Of
persons whose abnormal sense If duty
has lci them 10 read WHIT these violent
scholars have emitted have been grca "
bored. THE professors have not even
hren amusing. They have Displayed
little skill II inlention snh their
abusive pass eos have been less Wig.
orouS nd orgino! then the daily in.
rerchnages JctHNrp truck drivers in
crowded 'huroughfarcS.
Rut i'r. BUrIrR seems 10 he aston
ish"d At this exhibition on the part of
some of his professional brethren,
Why He has dealt for years with pro
fessorlal bigwlgs Of all sorts. Has he
found always among them IN the treat,
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John Ruiz Ostrich.

The impartial observer Of official
densliles must award the greatest spe'
cific density to the British censors Of
the news and chokers of the truth.
There could hc no grI,er error CT Judg-
ment, no fa!ser position. no worse libel
on the British people han these DELHI
crate and vain attempts To Keen them
in the dark aud 10 let the tidings OF
disaster come to them SLOWLY us II they
were Incapable OF bearing its full
weight at once. In democratic State. In
some respects, as in the responsibility
Of the Government to the vote of Par
lament. more Immediately responsive
TO the existing state of public opinion
than the American system. official den
sity has for some time deliberately
sought to exclude the people from the
knowledge which is their right of the
events of the war.
We do not doubt that the people
Of Great Britain are able L. bear IL,
news with fortitude and to derive
therefrom a more stubborn resolve 90
carry on the war to the utmost limit OF
their power and endurance. just as the
North took new courage from its re-
pulse at Big Bethel and its disgraceful
rout at Bull Run. But official stupid
ity and the desire of some officials to
save their face has placed IA great ma.
ton bv no fault of lis own in an atti-
tude that stirs the dcrision of its enr-
mics and lays an undeserved reproach
upon the national character.
The offending officials are doing stub
borny and with an excess of offensive
ness almost heroic what nobody in n
self-gorerning state should be per
mitted 10 do. They are doing their best
10 rerpleX and discourage and anger
the country and TO create mistrust In
stead of confidence in the conduct Of
public affairs.
JONI BULL metamorphoSed into an
ostrich Is one of the stranGest sights in
history.
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Lord Roberts and the Ccnsor.hip

Ii has come ont since the death Of
Lord RoBrRrs that when he was lcaN.
ing England for the Continent he erie
iclsed in his mild hut inciSive way the
press gag policy which Lori kIrCHrNIR
has imposed upon the country. Speak
ing to NJ. CASTOR DRU, the London cor
respondent of Paris newspaper. Lord
RoBERrs said:
II naturally approve the proposition
that all military movements. whatever
they may be. should be kept absolutely
secret from all war correspondents but
II seems 20 me that they should he al
lowed to receive at least fair modicum
OF information. Why not allow them n
write, for instance, In detail OF the elorl-
Gus actions fought by our troops-sevcral
days. II goes without saying, after these
actions have taken place"
Lord ROBERTS was never a sentimeu-
talist. His reasons for recommending
a less drastic censorship were practical
and unitarian. England cannot get
all the volunteers She wants unless en-
thusIasm for the deeds of her soldiers
in the field Is aroused. The London
Scottish, territorial regiment, be
haved with the vnlor and steadness Of
veterans In It's first action, and General
FRENCH called attention to its good
work In n despatch from headquarters.
one can imagine the thrill that was felt
in London and the impetus given t. en-
listments. Lord RoBFRTs would haze
had more Of the same "ltcraturc' from
ting trained writer's produce It, subiC {
to judicious editing by the censor.
Doubtless he could not see why the
gullantry OF any regiment. british, Co
,onial ar Indian, should not be- grlphi-
cally reported In addition to being rec
ogn!zed In tc.Sc official dcSpa ,chcS.
LORD RoBi"tS acted upon this principle
in the Boel war lie held The CORE.
aron!cnts II Chico, nd ,lm!tgi 'h"!r y"
tiyities, but thcy were Flowed 10 write
naturally about successes IN the iic'l
and individual cases of bra CRY Wh"n
properly accredited, the c0rfrspon 'en 8
were treated by him wien un,il"r'.
tion and not made to FEE rhLt hey
were lntcrlopcrs AMI pests Vie 'cUSt' |
men Ike GtoRGr " STFF,lN9 md ir-
WARD r KHIGur lie found their work
helpful
To CASTOR DRu Lord RoRrRrs said (:
what has heen done for the London
Scottish might, to my mind, be done
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meet from other countries far less able

meet from other countries far less able
than ours to pay their own way. If
any guarantee of our debts is necessary
we can guarantee them ourselves.
Furthermore we will not incur the risli
Of placing ourselves In position
whereby. having accepted n gratuitous
favor, we will be compelled to grant in
the future favor which may involve
awkward concessions.
PROFESSIONALLY the great mass Of our
securities owned abroad is a menace If
any substantial part OF II can be col.
verified through liquidation into credit
that may he awaited Of for an lnordl-
nate withdrawal OF American gold.
Here is II difficulty to be dealt with. for
there is n limit to the amount Of gold
which we can export In addition to
the unprecedented total shipped or
marked for shipment this year. Per
haps some useful contribution to the
solution of this problem can he made
along the lines now suggested as the re-
suit Of the Palsh- McAdoo negotiations.
bu. II Is not obvious that W. shlnEtou's
assistance Is needed The international
financial Establishments already effected
have been accomplished by private
initiative in this country: and unless
governmental aid is invoked by private
initiative Washington undertakings
should not be volunteered.
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Some very extraordinary projects
have been mooted in the Washington
dispatches relative 10 the negotiations
in which Secretary McADoo and Sir
GEORGE FASH have been engaged at
Washington.
According to the latest OF these pro
posals some agreement is to he entered
into 10 assure the payment OF American
debts abroad when all the assurance
that could be required has already
been afforded 10y the process Of debt
payment which has been going on this
autumn. Al agreement that British
finance VIII place no obstacles in the
way of return flow OF the gold which
we have been shipping or may have to
ship In the dis barge Of our foreign in
debtedness might be more 70 the point,
hut perhaps one agreement is as I'M
necessary as the other. American
finance will maintain It's credit abroad
with just as much certainty as there
g. that British finance. which exists
wholly hv free trade not only in goods
but in gold, cannot afford to impede the
circula..JA Of gold between New York
and London.
The trutA Of the matter Is that a
good many Of our bankers. already
sufficient. h1ra>sed by the extraordl-
nary attention which Secretary Nc
ADoo has bccA paying to the conduct
OF their business have been growing
restless under The persistent indications
of the PaiSA-McAdoo conferences that
the Tree sury was assuming to direct
the external deStlnles OF American
finance just as II has assumed TO guide
and control It's future on the domestic
side. There hEs been too much projec-
tion of Tree Sury Interference into bank.
ing affairs lately and there Is danger
thai steps may he taken which are not
called for by the circumstances Of the
financial situation. RccauSc the British
EYchoqucr has taken charge OF the
whole field of British finance, private
as well as public, in the exigencies OF
the war is no reason why the Treasury
Department ~ Washington should seek
nm occasion 10 make similar ventures in
the domain of American enterprise
While Sir GEORGE and Mr.. McADoO
have been talking the International
money market has been readiusting it.
self almost automatically. Sterling OK
change has fallen practically to the
normal, precisely because American
debtors have been meeting their bills In
London.
1t docs not look very well To seek
anything like British guarantee ~
American debts. British finance Is
liable 10 all sorts Of terrific strains
arising from Great Britain's part in
the war, 10 say nothing of the demands
which the Londos money market must
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The Altman RembrdnJts at the
Metropolitan Museum.

One threatened danger to the Alt.
man Rembrandts has now been averted.
We shall not pass in furred ranks
before them gazing like sheep In
silence. We shall commune with them.
Thanks to Or. VALENTINE and Mr..
BuRRoUGHs we may all go TO the open
ing reception tonight with the com.
fortab assurance in advance that we
shall have topic capable of being
extended to the length OF the evening,
capable Of indefinite extension, In fact /:
and wholly worthy of us.
The Man With the Magnifying
Glass and "HARrNo the Auctioneer''
appear to Mr.. BURROUGHS to he men OF
forty and fifty. but Or. VALENTINE is
confident that both are portraits of
REMBRANDT's son TITrs. who died. we
all know, at the age of twenty-eight.
Mr.. BURROUGHS, with what must he al.
lowed to be- admirable courage. goes
still further. He questions even -
lady's age. He says the Lady With
the Pink" IL nearing forty" Yet Dr.
VALENTINE holds the Lady With the
Pink" to be the young Truss wife.
MAGpALENA VAN Loo. Is It not per-
picking? And shall we not each of us
thoroughly enjoy settling the question.
especially the question in regard to
MAGDALrNA VAN Loo. for ourselves?
II Is not to be done. you understand.
In a atny1n l'.nif q,
to II than that. Artists are not bitten
necessarily with the desire to produce
llkenesses, and especially lIkenesses
OF members OF the family. who
In times Of stress often pose when the
more expensive professional model
draws aloof. II is quite possible for
freQuenters Of studios TO imagine that
REMBRANDT used his posing heir
merely as a creature upon whom the
studio light fell and as n peg upon
which TO drape his brooding old man
thoughts.
But Is such work portrait and Is
II after all TITUs?
Three years are supposed 10 clapse -
as they say In the theatre. between the
undisputed boyish Altman Titus with
its face Of girlish fourteen and the
adult "IIARING the Auctloneer." hang
ing near by. who wears Hamlet mask
Of woe and care That's the compari-
son you may hy 10, II You lose your grip
dear Reader in arguing the case for
MAGp iIESA VAN Loo with Mrs Readct
and the Misses Reader.
Your card, you must have noticed
permits you 10 pilot all your ladies 10
the Altman Rembrandts
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THE FRANK CASE.
\ Denial OF Certain statements In an
Atlanta Despatch.

To THE EpIToR or THE SUH-Str. IN
the despatch from Atlanta published In
yesterdays Sun regarding the refusal OF
the supreme Court of Georgia TO take
note OF the action OF the trial court in al
loving verdict 20 be rendered without
the presence OF Frank IN the court room,
due to the fear OF the trial Judge of mob
violence. your correspondent says
The testimony OF Jim Conley, a negro
Waterman. was the chief evidence on which
Leo NJ Frank superintendent Of the fac
tory. was convicted OF the crime. Both
Frank and Conley had been in the factory
on April 20, when Mary Phagan went there
TO collec, her wages OF sl.2o. An EFFORT was
made to show. however. that Frank was not
In ths building at the time OF the crime.
There Is not the slightest foundation in
any fact, hint or suggestion in the whole
Frank case for this last statement. Franz
freely admitted he was in the building
from the moment of the discovery OF tho
body. when he was questioned. he ad-
United having paid the cir! OFF. On the
other hand the negro Conley for three
weeks streDuously denied that he was In
the building until ne WAS confronted with
facts from winch he could not retreat
Again your correspondent says:
An appca. was made from the mrs, con
ylctinu on 'Ha ground that Frank was out ot
court un the gay the conviction was an
nouncei. IN" appeal court holding that
Frank should be tried again even though
the tcchniesIty was not sufficient ground.
Oh hts second ,ria! Frank was again con
vIrtcd. and another appeal Was made TO the
STATE supreme Cour'.
Frank never had any second trial He
didn, even have one trial, AS trial by Jury
has been understood In Anglo-SaSon his
tory for centuries. The Judge who pre-
SIDED AZ the only trial he had expressly
stated from the bench that he could not
bring himself 20 agree with the verdict
oc the jury that after listening TO all the
evidence Ne was not convinced as TO
Franks guilt.
The INF renee that Frank had two trials
and that he was twice convicted. as your
correspondent states. would naturally add
to the general impression that ne must be
guilty.
Il Is a mystery how a correspondent on
the ground could write A despatch with
so many errors OF fact In Il unless he has
caught tho spirit % all Georgia Indeed.
the Frank case Il most illuminating
example OF how far a community and It's
officials Will 20 when once they give heed
10 racial and religious preiudces,
.. L. CoNNoILr
EAST ORANGE. y, j. November l6.
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with n very good result for many OF
the other units, and I will talk to
FRENCH about It," Such apparently IL
not Lord KfTCHENER's view, and Just
now there Is rising storm against his
repressivc methods. The censorship Is,
of course, exactly what he orders. 1t
records only lean and bloodless facts.
There is nothing human in It. Ofiicers
and soldiers are expected to do their
duty, which Is right; but they get no
credit for doing more for the glory If
England. which IL wrong. He would
have the army fight behind a curtain
until the war Is over. permitting the
publication only of results in the bald
est terms with casualty lists. Lord
KITCHENER can see no use for CORE.
spondents In democracy fighting to
keep the empire whole. Yet we do re.
member that he praised STEVENS
when he was dead.
Lord KITCHENER Is n great man and
indispensable to England in her emer-
gcncy, hut he is not as human as he
might he. For instance. he fails to rec
ognlze the fact that men less strong
and dour Of purpose than himself need
announcement and appreciate praise
when they deserve 1t; that, above all. a
people who volunteer to fight the bat
ties Of their country like to hear Of the
courage and pluck and heroism Of their
friends and relatives on the firing line,
and kindle with admiration and the
will to serve when they hear the story.
Lord RoBERTs was right. as almost uni.
formly he was. and 1t Is predicted that
in response 10 public opinion in Eng
land the censorship will have to he
relaxed and liberalized.
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ment OF petty details Of their own af-
fairs dislnterested detachment and In
tellectual calm that would lead him to
expect dispa sslonate consideration of
larger questions?
The fact is that NOTED scholars and
scientists and literary men, have be.
haved exactly as less pretentiously cir
cumstanced persons have behaved. The
iudicious among them have preserved
their sense Of proportion. kept their
lips closed on subjects as to which they
were ignorant, and endeavored to pre-
serve their tempers. The injudlcious
have followed their inclination toward
violence whenever opportunity offered.
These are the fellows who have filed
DR. BUTLER with grief: and sorry
showing they make. But DR.. BUTLER
need not despair. A number of repre-
sentatives of the "uneducnted masses
have acted quite rs foolshly.