The Detroit times., 1915-09-22
In the Meantime You Will
Find the Facts in the Times


Readers of Detroit papers are being re-
raled with beautiful lesson in journal
isrr
.ou pays your penny. OF your two
pennies, and you takes your choice be-
tween the News, which is telling but one
ode of the street car settlement scheme,
and that prejudiced one; the Free
Press and Journal, which are lying in the
most barefaced fashion in their endeavor
% defeat the settlement, and The Times,
which is aiming to tell the truth about
both sides, and leave the decision up to
Its readers.
Which attitude, Reader, is the best for
your interests?
The News is slam-banging in favor of
y the settlement, spending columns of val
liable space in frothy attacks on the
\ records of its newspaper opponents and
Justification of its own record.
The Free Press is using its editorial
page for a series of deliberate untruths
and wrong differences from half-truths,
1 q when it infers that because Mr.. Couz-
sns believes the D. U. r. lines would be
worth 10000 900 to the city, and has
B said 80, the court would therefore con-
\ sider fixing Y4O,OOO,0OO as the price the
city must pay.
The Free Press knows very well that
Mr.. Couzens said he would consider the
lines worth s4OOO0,OO0 if they possessed
4 franchise rights which they do not pos
Doss, and it also knows very well that the
commission, in its offer of $24,900,000,
stated to the company that it did not con-
slider the lines worth such an exorbitant
figure, but made that offer in the hope
OF securing clear title Immediately.
The Journal is seeking to confuse the
clear-cut settlement issue by attacks on
the News concerning both its settlement
policy and its police department policy.
TX Out of the muddle, The Times stands
as the only paper in the city which is
\ giving its readers clear-cut report of
the doings of both the friends and eppen-
a ents of the settlement, together with an
analysis of their claims.
n 1t is the only paper which is not con-
Stunning space which it owes to the public
4 in yelling at its opponents.
1t is the only paper which has refused
to color the reports of both sides.
1t is the only paper (and this is an inn
4 portant fact) which is trusted by the
champions of both sides, and is thus able
to present the views of both sides fairly.
1t is the only paper whose editorial
opinion has not changed its news policy
regarding the biggest question which has
q ever confronted the voters of Detroit
In short, it is the only paper in Detroit
which has kept its head and is trying to
q serve the people in the ideal journalistic
Y way, while others are striving principally
4 10 defend their own regulations and to
4 attack those of others.
This flor the presently supreme issue
Eelating more vitality to the future wei.
ARE of Detroit than any other question
In its history-having produced the in
4 evitable Pot-calling- the-Kettle-black i'm.
3 br0glio between the Scripps and Stair
publications. The Times feels it is most
s important that there shall be depend
B able forum where both sides shall be sure
u fair and free presentation of their
81 cause.
To that end we shall place at the dis
posal Of the proponents and opponents of
Z re purchase plan full page every day
q the month preceding the vote on the
q qubject--s side to have four columns
e daily for the accurate and courteous adj
& Socacy Of is position; our readers to feel