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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17

come and listen TO the band. The
Belgian citizens we're allowed TO
come. lScy put a Gordon OF soldiers
around The Place. with placaids FOX
bidding any Belgian 10 come neareN
than the Gordon. AZ a certain time
the band started TO play dances, and
all the German soldiers engaged the
ladies 20 dance with them. During
this performance some moving pic
lures were taken These were sent
TO Berlin afterwards 10 show the JOY
and gayety OF the Belgians and TO
let the German public know how cor
daily the Belgian public has re
celyed the Germans
On the Belgian national holiday,
July 81, the German Genera Won
Kissing ordered that no Belgian en-
blems be worn and no Belgian flags
he displayed IN the town The Bet
gian men agreed among themselves
10 wear full evening dress the whole
day. II was an ODD sight 10 see Bel.
gian citizens going about their ordi.
nary business in dress coats and top
hats. but IL marked the day effect.
uaIly, much 20 the chagriE OF the
German authorities, who neverthe.
less could do nothing about H. On
that day I'll the gayety and ceiebra.
tions al the restaurants had % stop
at 8 o'clock By military orders The
citizens went home at that time, but
at Eve minutes past IL, as IL was
not Their the national holiday. they
all came back and continued their
celebration. Three Belgian women.
onn dressed In yellow. one In black,
and one In red. which form the Bel.
gtan national cOi0rs. W5tfed abreast
down rho street. For this they were
arrested
In tie city or Client n Belgian
woman kept a tobacco shop which
WAS frequented by the German sol
diers. among others a CORPORAL who
each day purchased package Of
cigarettes. One day he ordered ten
packages. whereupou tho shopkeep
er asked him Why be fook such a
large supply. I'VE are going To Dix
nude" was the reply. "Oh, yes, ="
said the shopkeeper. that ~ on the
River User" NO" said the Cor
poral. "it Is D!xmuhe." well" Dix
nude Is on the User" insisted the
shOpkceper The corporal kept on
denying II. and left the shop. Two
days afterwards the shopkeeper was
summoned to the German command
or and was fined 40 franks in gold
for having given information TO a
soldier because. as she discovered
later, the reverses at the River User
had so terrified ordinary German
soldiers that the German officers
were trying TO conceal from them
the fact that when they were order.
ed TO DiVmude they were going TO
the User
Incidents OF this kind help 90
keep up the spirits OF the citizens Of
Brussels. who can hardly be blamed
for hailing with delight every mani
festation Of what they regard as az
least a lack OF nimhle wit on the part
of tho German Invaders.-The out
look.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17
Now Let's See What
Indirect Influence"
Can Accomplish

A pathetic figure is Mrs. Jennie De-
laney mother of pretty young daugh-
ter, lured like many other daughters, by
the lights, the music and the soft words
of men.
A weak and impotent figure is Mrs.
Delaney. her heart burning with right
eous Indignation and torn with anguish,
in her feeble attempts to get at the pc"
ers that be and inaugurate a moral
change in the city of Detroit.
Mghtier persons than she have tried
and bruised their SensibilitieS against a
machine made up of greed, cowardicc
anu vicious instincts which allows the
youth Of city with the rousing slogan
"where life is worth living" to be en-
trapped in the meshes of a snare set 10
catch them.
Mrs. Delaney is puny infant for there
is nothing in her power which will in
any way reach the persons of those in
control.
Has she money (most powerful of all
weapons)? No.
Has she influence next in the line Of
of power)? No.
Has she vote (third in the list) No /;
but she has that wonderful thing "indi-
rect influence" so dilated upon by the pol
iticians. Let her use it and see what
happens.
Nothing will happen. A little furry
for day or two.
A possible police supervision of cafes
for few nights and then Mrs. Delaney
can send her poor. deluded little girl TO
the industrial school and take her own
bruised heart back to the seclusion Of
her home and heal it with what balm she
may while other daughters will follow
the same destroying path and other
mothers will be bowed with grief.
Our city fathers" are mis-named. We
have no fathers.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17
SMILING IN PRISON

You have heard great deal said about "the
man who smiles" etc ~ the risk OF being found
monotonous II might be added that the man who
smiles and keeps on smiling In prison, is worth
game and gameness excites admiration In dog
game and gameness excites admiration In dog
A game grasshopper has II on the katydd forty
ways To keep pleasant face in prison Is simon
pure grit
When man gets down I'm the mouth with only
acid showing on his countenance. he makes war
on himself
once upon time little middle aged man
was sent 10 prison. He was past middle are
and left behind him lot more than shattered
fortune -Four lights he walked his cell and was
four days and nohts without sleep. Opiates were
resorted TO and he woke up with smile. From
that day TO this he wears smile wherever he
goes. game pebble and without a yellow
speck on him.
That Is gilt edge grit bulldog couldn't beat
II IA more that that. IL is the refinement ~
human courage.--From the New Era, published
In Leavenworth pententiary.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17
Pointed Paragraphs

The worst enemy woman has is
hattery
A wasted cppor uni.y coroes loms
&c roost.
Air east es are 5ail' 90 q tgan1a.
:ior Of imposslbilit5es
Music isn't necessarily or'tan he
cause /, comes n pieces.
The pessimist believes that the
milk in the cocoanut is watered.
Reform candidates are seldom con
spicuous on the machine ticket.
A long. sentence doesn't worry a
reader as much as It does Grim
inal
A man sci ION does anything the
way a woman thinks it should be
done
Some girls imagine that every IN
married man they meet is looking
for wife.
While waiting for dead mans
shoes YOU could probably earn a bet
ter pair.
Anyway. doctors keep lots OF PEG
pie from having money 10 lose on
fool scheme.
Tha old blue laws were probably
enacted for the purpose OF prevent
ing men from painting towns red
A woman's aim is proveTOially in.
accurate, but n married man says
when she throws a mint she hits the
target nine times out OF a possible
ten
The longer man lives In com.
manity lie more money his neigh
bors owe hiT-or else the more he
owes 10 his netghbors.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17
The Madness of 1t All

The daily war bill of the six principal
powers at war amounts TO $90000,0O0
One year of war adds to the debt Of these
six nations the stupendous sum Of S32,-
850, 200, 000 AT the beginning of the year
1914, the public debt of all the nations
of the world aggregated but SAP ,939 $751;
900.
So, il the war lasts as much longer
as it has already ragged, the burden
shouldered on the posterity of Germany,
Australia, England, France, Russia and
Italy, with that of the smaller countries
involved, will easily amount to as great
q sum as the balance of the debt con-
tracted by the whole world during the
first two thousand years of its existence.
Il is truly supplying. And when it is
considered that instead of adding to the
treasures of the earth in the products
Of science, art and building this fabulous
sum is being expended in destroying
those things, one is brought face TO face
with full reality of the horror of it all.
Apart from the frightful loss of life,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17

these European nations are condemning
their people to economical slavery for
generation upon generation. No wonder
then that the spirit of anarchy is rife
in Inflated Europe.
A vast wilderness, bestrewn with
ruins, dotted with the sepulchres of its
noblest sons, peopled with old men, wo-
men, children and the manned, stagger-
ing under the most colossal burden of
debt civilization has ever known! Pitiful
in the contemplation. is it not? Yet it is
fast becoming a dread reality. Only
peace at an early moment; a peace that
will be so stable that the remnant of the
manhood of Europe may turn its whole
effort to rehabilitating its land. with no
fear of that peace being broken. can now
prevent the almost utter ruination of the
old world empires. But reason has de-
parted; there is but little promise of
peace. Europe is a seething inferno of
hate and passion. shrouded in blood-red
mist of murderous rage. Truly, those
whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17
From Another Point of VielO

Ex-Ambassador Wilson opines that
things would be different in Mexico if
Roosevelt were president. Maybe not.
T. r. was rathe' keen for the doctrine
that a government officer should get in
line or get out.
AS proof of police discrimination, the
burlesque houses call attention to the fact
that the mayors office is never moleSted.
Too early to treat William Alden
Smiths presidential candidacy as joke
Hughes has declined Root says he is too
old and it is not certain that anyone else
wants it.
One year at hard labor makes fairly
permanent safety zone obstruction for
speed demons.
The latest transportation scheme must
not be confused with the newspaper blum
derbusses that we heard so much of in
the recent campaign.
Admiral Fisher bowed himself in and
bowed himself out, but never deigned to
answer Winton Spencer ChurchilPs shot
across MS DOWS.
Here boy, show Henry Lane Wilson the
way to the recruiting office. Patrol SER
vice, Mexican frontier. preferred.
Greece puts Serbian troops on the
same footing as the Franco-British
! forces"
Which is none too secure.at the best.
Those Irish lads that are coming over
here on every ship must be preparing for
a great start for the front
The French 9rocers and butchers are
now at the front They have struck
The Italian ambassador is the latest ar.
rival at Uncle Sans foreign trouble de-
lpartment.
This cold snap is the only instance OF
weather preparedness we have had this
year.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17
A Poem a Day
rMo LIrrLn. nLrr LIrrLr smors

TWO LITTLE, BLUE LITTLE SHOES
A trunk standing open and near :
child,
Enchanted by what met It's sight.
The contents around h disordoriy
piled.
. Each object a source OF delight.
Inc mother appearing and standing
behind
sheds tears as she sueutlY views
l4Ning there on the carpet, her hAhy's
last find.
Two little, blue little shoes
Chorus
Two little. blue little shoes
Two little feet where are theY9
Gone with the patter OF laughter and
chatter
90 baby who LETT her one day.
give them TO mother my darling,
Relics too sacred to lose.
Tie them together, those two bits Of
leather,
Two little. blue little shoes
My darling. those two little relics Of
blue
Belong 10 your sister Irene.
Who has gone 10 land where
little htur- -Aae--
L. something that never is seen.
We will hide them away, father soon
viii he here.
Quick. quick. We have no time 10
lose.
For they bring back the memory OF
so much that's dear,
Two little. blue little shoes
Author Unknown.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17

Today want 10 address myself
particularly 10 those among my
readers who viii soon be entering
for the first time on the serious bust
ness OF earning their living. In
especial | want 10 urge them to
make sure thai they choose call
ing suited TO their natural aptitudes.
Too often this matter OF personal
fitness for a specific kind OF work is
quite overlooked by young people
when selecting their vocation.
Many young people, for that mat
ter. never select a vocation in any
real sense OF the term When the
time comes for them TO 90 10 work
they take the first job they can get,
regardless OF everything except the
fact that IL means regular pay.
Others. when choosing their life
work are governed mainly by such
motives as desire for social prestige
and large income.
This is why law, medicine, and the
professions in general are so over
crowded They are looked upon as
socially superior callings. and as
most lucrative ones.
And it is true that law, medicine,
and other professions do offer big
rewards but only 10 those eXcep-
tionally well qualified for them by
birth and training. The tempera-
mentally UNIT are foredoomed 10 a
life Of hopeless struggle.
The same is true Of all vacations
All require IN the men and women
selecting them special mental or
physical characteristics. When these
characteristics are absent. disap-
poin,ment, perhaps disastrous fail
ure. is inevitable.
Growing appreciation OF this vital
~ important truth had led during
recent Years TO the esi ablishment. In
number OF American cities, OF
what are known as vocation bureaus.
These are institutions having expert
councillors to advise young men and
women in finding their proper work
in life.
Such institutions constitute an
enormous forward step IN promoting
individual and national Happiness
and efficiency Bat. as time passes,
they will likely be less needed than
they are today.
For IL will doubtless become as II
should bee2me a regular thing for
young people. With tho help Of their
| parents. 20 study their own aptfuudes
as an aid in wise vocation choosing.
To this end, almost all that IS
necessary is for the boy or girl about
70 90 10 work 10 ask himself or her
self IL the work In mind IL 81 char.
scter that holds the promise not OF
being better paid but Of being more
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17
Digging Potatoes
With Power

mechanical potato digger has
been Invented for use In large po-
tao fields where scientific harvest
ing methods are required. Ii is
drawn by horses and operated by a
lightweight, four-horsepower gaso-
line engine, This machine lifts out
The roots and loose potatoes. sepa-
rates the clinging POTATOES from the
dried vines, and deposits the pota-
toes In CTates.-The November
Worlds Work.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17
Dean Marquis Goes
Adventuring For the
Good of His FellOwmen

the heights of the province of the clergy
man when he says that he must know
men I'm their work, their lives, their
homes, in order to minister to their spirit
ual needs.
With this in view he will spend year
among the workingmen at the Ford plant
and become acquainted with his brother.
This is one of the things which has
made the Catholic church such a remark
able organization. The priest KNOWS
his people. He is their confessor, their
advisor and, often, their benefactor. He
stands in the relation of a father and
whether he fulflls this position well or
iii, this is the fundamental idea.
The Protestant clergyman usually leads
q sheltered, even luxurious life compared
to that of the masses, and. after years
of soft living, has lost his point of contact
with the people.
The result is that these same masses
have fallen off from most of the Protest
ant churches and constitute the army of
the unchurched.
They look upon the clergyman as per-
son quite apart from themselves, only to
be sought at the time of marriage or
death and often not then. He is not, TO
them, living, breathing, sympathizing
human being, but, rather, FIGURE who
rises up in pulpit in glorious building,
in which they feel strangely out of place,
and reproves them more or less for their
shortcomings, though knowing nothing
sxperientally about their temptations,
their privations and their hopes.
If these men felt that the man in the
pulpit DID understand, did know the
struggles and hardships which were
theirs and was ready to hold out his hand
and help share the burden through SYM
patty and love-and down in his heart
he generally is-he would drop his often
sullen attitude of indifference toward the
church and be drawn where comfort and
understanding awaited him.
We are in need of this sort of clergy
man in this big city, where we have many
pastors capable of filling the part; and
we can think of no one who would more
nearly combine the spiritual and practica
in this delicate but tremendous task thar
will Dean Marquis, who has for many
years given to his ministry a merciful
helpful Wilderness.
1t is for him to hold the man who is
the economic back bone of our city-the
worker, without whom none of us could
live--from back-sliding into ways of sor,
did materialism and crushing defeat
brought about by our present system.
There is no implication here that the
Dther elements in our citizenship are I'M
deserving or unneedful of spiritual min
istrations.
But the Ford plant should now feel
added impetus toward better things and
q force should permeate the morale of the
entire institution which should bear good
fruit.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17

nose like an ordinary cold IN the
head and AZ this time the dis
charges from the nose and throat
are more dangerous than even later
ON when the rash appears and the
child is put 70 bed
The same thing is true Of whoop-
ing cough. which begins with an
ordinary cough and may go on for
days without any whoop 10 show
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17

the fact that they
are most catching
In the early stages
when even physi-
clans cannot be
sure just what is
the matter.
Measles begins
with q running
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17
OverstocHed.

UplIfter (at front door Wouldn't
you like 10 take the initiative
Lady OF tho house-Wc'r taking
more magazines than We can AFFORD
now Judge.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17
The Keep Well Column
HOW TO GUARD AGAINST MEASLES AND wHooPiNo coUet

jast what is the matter n the child
Poes to school or plays With other
children at this stage they are al
most sure TO catch the disease. 700.
The only way to check either Of
these diseases Is for mothers ami
teachers and medical school inspect
ors to remember how dangerous
they are and ~ watch children care
fully Tor signs OF cold or any 90.
ness. and II there h. a chance that
they may have measures or whooping
cough, 70 keen them ON ~ school
and away from other children.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17

The difficulty in guarding against
measles and whooping cough lies in
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17

Cold feet In business cost many
2 man fortune. vet icet u winter
cost many spell O.; sickness.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-17

Algerian brier roots are now used
In pipemaking
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-02

The NV. Hofk police are mystified By .
series 81 murders and other crimes. The
W3D.p4l clue % The crimtnal q the warn
-. letter WIich n sent The victims, aigned
~ 3 re- @Ss1s esso assassin ns ssf Tsyl Io
Qo0Te, the Insurance president His
d1uI1tef. Blalne employs Craig Ken
nD1Fs ne fnlnoua scientific detective. 70
hf1F 1ltopbfI1h6n 4 told By HIS friend,
J1M1111, 3 newspaper man. After many
ffoIlitgg attempts 10 put Elaine and
CEII| Ltnnedy out Of The way the Clutch
Ing Hand 4 ~ last found 10 De none other
than Perry Bennett Elainest lawyer and
the man che u engaged 10 marry Ben.
NET ICES % the den Of enc Of his chi
ntef criminalA The Chinaman forces from
Bennett the secret OF the whereabouts OF
l'.e1C. CO., Then ne eiveS the lawyer 4 po-
ton which, will suspend animation Tor.
months Kennedy reaches Benefits side
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-02

one Of the Cinnamon pickiry mp her
suitcase. Across the alnnoss untraV.
eled road they forced her and down
on the stone dock, every footstep
logged by WI and hts emissaries
Get into the boa" WI ordered.
She climbed down into the dirty
yaw1 and the Cinnamon tossed her
suitcase after her. ss
II you see that for any reason she
Is about to escape" added WI savage
~. do away with her" ~
He finished with q threatening ges-
ture as the Cinnamon followed Elaine
into the boat. Then he. turned on
his heel and walked rapidly back to
the deserted house. There he climbed
into the automobile with the two
toughs and all were rapidly driven
away by the faithless mechanician.
The yawl tossed up and down on
the rough .swells that came in. from
the ocean, as the powerful arms OF
the sailors pulled her out through the
blackness to the schooner. =
There Elaine was lifted over the rail
and forced across the deck down into
the mlrky. 1l-smellfng hold. It made
no difference to Gregor whether he
carried . cargo Of. contraband or q
white slave, In his gruff voice he bel
lowed orders for getting under way,
while the Chinaman. half led, half
pushed Elaine into a cramped room
arnidships. ... = = - - j
He set down the suitcase and, with
q grunt and a scowi left, locking the
door and stunning along the passage
way to steep fight Of steps to the
deck.
Elaine paced up and down her mar
row prison distracted.
Suddenly she paused a moment as
her eve fell on the suitcase. There
flashed through her mind the message
had given her from Kennedy.
She seized the suitcase and tore It
open with nervous fingers. n. i Z,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-02

was deeply engrossed In her own
thoughts
How far they had gone she did not
pay much attention but she knew the
roads well. They had come to q fork,
and Johnson veered on to the left In.
stinctively Elaine knew that the right.
hand road was the more direct, and
she touched little signal that sum
moned the driver. III sz s.. -. ,=5s
You're taking the wrong road" she
called. Go to the right 5. q
81 think you'll find the roads better
this way, Miss Dodge, persisted
johnson. -. = ~
It was, however. merely q ruse. on
his part to gain time and give some Of
Wu's men an opportunity. For. as
the car approached the fork. two
roughnecks, hidden behind q rock In
the shrubbery. had been straining
their eyes down the road and at the
approach Of the car had drawn back
closer under cover. = <s = ~
johnson stopped some hundred feet
or 50 down the wrong road past the
rock In answer to Elaine's signal. It
was the chance the roughnecks want
ed. They leaped out from their shell
ter. Not another car or. vehicle was
in sight. Quickly they skunk down the
road.
As Elaine was becoming yexed at
Johnson's show of stubbornness, she
suddenly felt strong arms circling her,
while huge, very dirty hand pressed
with irresistible force over her mouth.
She struggled, but 1t was Of no USE
They pinned her down to the floor
Of the car. johnson drew the curtains
and leaped into his seat, from which
he had descended, leaving the engine
running. = @ - ~, =
ITO the Van bort jetty," growled
one roughneck. They'll be there
soon ss"-1'
Quickly Johnson shot the car along