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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

Frank Harris with an experience
OF 25 years OF Journalism in Lon
don. himself an Englishman, has
this to say TO the Germans through
The Fatherland." the German or
gan printed in New York, for the
PRONUNCIATION OF German sympathy
in the United States.
You remind me Of the birth Of
The fatherland nearly a year ago
and ask me 10 say something on the
anniversary.
AS a poet you know as we'll as
do, that all the victories of war are
defeats. We conquer men by love
and kindness. not by wounding and
killing.
The worst of strife is that II is
apt to degrade all those engaged in
IL: to take a part. makes a man a
partisan. You will reply that there
are righteous causes and that you
have fought good fight But when
think OF the horrors Of this world
war and the soul sickening cost OF
1t from day to day In noble men
dying in the trenches. sweet women
whose hearts are breaking by empty
hearths, cannot fnd any consola'
ton in reason.
"One thing I will admit; most
people In August, 1914. believed that
the war would end within the year
with the defeat of the Germans
But the onslaught Napoleon and bis
allies couldn't sustain for a month
the Germanic peoples have borne
now for a year, and still hold the
vantage; they have accomplished
the greatest feat of arms in the an
nails of recorded time.
But courage and efficiency alone
cannot move men to that reverence
We reserve for the unselfish virtues
We want the brave and able mar
also to be gentle. kindly and peace
loving.
Now on this appalling anniver
sary. will you set yourself TO per
suade the great German people anC
their war lord to show the divinel
quality? Let them be the first q
propose peace. and let their condi
tons serve as an eternal example
Let them say:
1--WE will give back their pro
vinces to the French. and Belgium
TO the Belgians, and leave the Rus
sian boundaries unchanged; In re
turn we desire nothing but securii'
for enduring peace. nothing bu
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
Business Men Who Fail.
eY n. ApoINcToN BRUCE,
Author OF THE Riddle OF Personality"
Psychology and Parenthood." etc.

Failure il by no means the unmixed evil that
most people suppose. IL accepted philosophc-
ally 1t may prove to be the forerunner OF an
When man fails in business or in \ profess
sional calling the fault usually rests with him.
self.
Sometimes. OF course he fails because Of cir.
cumstances quite beyond his control
Sudden social changes may wipe out the de
mand for the goods he is making. The incubus
of financial panic may crush him out OF bust
ness existence. Or he may be forced to the wall
by the unfair tactics of powerful competitors.
But in probably nine cases out OF ten the man
who fails cannot justly attribute his failure to
Influences such as these.
II he is candid with himself. and IL he care
fully analyses the reasons for his having failed
the chances are he will be forced to one Of two
conclusions
Either he has failed because he is not natural
Or. IL he has a natural aptitude for II, he has
failed because he has not been applying himself
with 1NTELLIGENTLY DIRECTED ENERGY
Many men, as is well known. fail because they
deliberately neglect their business.
In such cases. whether or not the neglect take
the form Of reckless dissipation. II usually hap
pens that the work neglected was in the first
place BADLY CHOSEN.
Work that really appeals to a man Is not like
ly to be neglected by him. Yet. no matter how
much his work interests him, man may have
defects Of temperament or training that debaI
him from success.
He may be tactless and domineering, thereby
| alternating customers and employees.
He may waste too much energy in ATTENDING
to petty details, to which suborinates could and
| should attend
| He may never have cultivated the preciou.
gift of imagination necessary TO success In tn.
business world as In the worlds OF art, literature
| and music
Or he may suffer from one or more Of man,
| other personal Shortcomings that enter into &C
count for his failure
The point is that when he fails. he ought no
| to give way TO despair. He ought. instead. man
| fully to acknowledge that in all likelihood tn.
| failure In entirely his own fault And he ough
then to study himself as dispassionately as h
can
| IL this selfanalyss reveals an obvious incom
patibility between his natural aptitudes and tn
work at which he has failed. his next step shoul,
| be TO try TO find a more congenal vocation.
| If, however. he discovers serious defects Il
| his character or his training, he should start a
| once to try TO remedy these.
| To yield TO gloom or to try to throw the blam
on others If not the way to wrest success from
| defeat.
! Self-study Is the way. and the only sure way
| Self-study, In truth is imperative on every maj
who would achieve real success in life. II Il
doubly imperative on the man who has failed
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
Using Up a Yard
OF Ticket
COUPON IS.

On our way TO the Grand Canyon
we stop for dinner at the house by
the side OF the road tHarvey's) al
Needles. Arizona. Here We meet
the Colorado river. which has jus,
been through the canyon.
Besides running through the
greatest gorge known to man. the
Colorado goes very easily through
Needles. which the Bible says Is
very difficult for camels, even.
No telling about distances here
You think you are only IL hours
and SO minutes from the canyon al
Needles, but Ii II IL hours before
you get there.
Just to make II doubly sure that
no rain should fall upon the track
less wastes of the desert, AZ well a.
upon the Santa Fe tracks, al eight
column rainbow confronted us fol
an hour or so In the afternoon.
But the sunset over the noun
tains was so gorgeous II looked a:
III Oiu DOL H6u OOi ZIG NJ ahN
Canyons makeup box.
The FL Tovar hotel at Grand Can
yon was named after the Spanist
discoverer OF the canyon who was
sort OF advance agent for Mr.
Harvey in the fifteenth century.
The hotel overlooks the canyon
but nobody else does unless 1t b.
the tourist awaiting his turn in th'
one-chair barber shop.
When the FIRST adventurous Amer
leans explored the canyon. thel
were "a ignorant OF what lay befor'
them as second section Pullmal
conductor and porter.
II you are one. you can take thu
all-day Bright Angel trail trip dow
into the canyon on a mule.
The government takes great pre-
cautions against forest fires in tn
park. There are towers for look
outs. fre-fighting apparatus. and n,
brush Is permitted in the wash
room OF the FL Tovar.
Across from Dana Butte you Sc
the figure ~" standing out from
wall OF granite. II Is $40 feet lon
and 81 less than the price of Cal
rage ride to Grand View Point an
along the Hermit.rd.
A mule tax OF 81 keeps the cour
ty roads In repair. but all who hi
the trail must settle their own frs
aid expenses.
Water must be brought from F1as
stan. The automobiles carry II 4
great tin canteens, Sometimes 20
will see a Ford and a Packar
drinking from the same canteen.
II will be worth your while I
stay until sunset so you can see tn
native reading his evening pape
on the stone wall In front OF tn
hotel with his feet hanging owe
the Grand Canyon, 5000 feet deeI
Another argument against prin
ing sensational news.
II you don't visit Crematio
Point. you can at least call on tn
cashier Of the Fl Tovar.
A Suicide Point is provided 10
those who don't care to 90 back
way OF the desert.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
The Keep Well Column
BEDROOM VENTILATION

are two windows, raise one from the
bottom and lower the other from the
top. The one raised should be to
ward the side from which the wind
Is blowing. The lowered one should
be on the other side.
IL the room has window OF win.
dows on one side only. II Is often
necessary to open the transom on
the other side OF the room, or per
haps leave the door open few
inches to create a current OF air.
There are many beautiful breath
ing spots in the city. Make use OF
them. Take your share OF the free,
fresh air. Don't let the other fellow
beat you out OF the health-givIng de
vices which Dame Nature has pro-
vided in large enough quantities to
60 around.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
The Worlds Supreme Horror
1t Is Beyond Language, Beyond Pity, Beyond Our Ability
to Conceive Or Feel
% Keeper OF the acred Key.
And the Great Seal OF Destiny

% Keeper Of the acred Key.
And the Great Seal OF Destiny,
Whose eye is the blue canopy.
Look down upon this warning world,
and tell us what the end will be-
So wrote soldier Of the Civil
war. under the inspiration Of our
ruDy little conflict. He thought IL
was the limit OF mans capabilities
la war.
How far beyond human language
or human thought is this world
crisis? Poetry falls fiat. Homer
could not have grasped 1t. Shakes
peare would have been stricken
dumb by It, Millions Battle in
Heaven" does not rise to the foot.
hills Of IL. Goethe's soul would
have covered before 1t.
No human mind except that Of the
writer of the Book of Job or Revela-
ton could cope with IL; and II out
of the vhirlwind could come Voice
capable of dealing with IL. or II the
heavens should open and dictate ia
some John the Divine the epic OF
this var. no human soul could en-
drre the dreadful message.
Like blight Of thrown rope line
runs or three sides OF Warsaw. II
is a military investment; but II IL
unimaginable in horror. II starts or
the Baltic Sea. and running south
wards, ends near the Black Sea
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

naturalization OF IL. seas and the
air and universal disarmament, II
ail nations can be brought TO con
sent 10 IL. But. above all. let pri-
vate property BE- henceforth as sa-
cred on the sea and in the air. as II
is on the land, and let us guard IL
BY an international naval police so
that the horrors or war may pc
forever diminished and some soul
of goodness will have come even OF
this worldwide catas rophe.'
"You may say that the Germans
are willing 10 accept such terms.
With or without Justification they
believe that the war was forced
upon them and have stated that
they regard IL as war OF defense
pure and simple. Let them give the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

absolute proof OF this by being the
first to propose peace on unselfsh
terms and leave with the Allies the
odious responsibility OF refusing.
IF the Allies refuse 10 accept
such a peace. these United States
would be morally compelled to act
at least to the extent OF refusing
further aid In munitions and equip
ment TO the nations who prolong
the war in the hope OF some un-
avowed profit.
Let us all then work and write
for peace; the dreadful deadlock
continues even the most combative
must now be aware that there is no
triumph possible for either side ex-
cept in peace; let us take care TO
avoid any word that may embitter
controversy; let us even at the
eleventh hour. choose that better
part which alone benefits reason
loving men"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
INDIANA CITY REDUCING DEBTS

Mayor McCarty with democratic council
took up the reins of the city on the third day
of January, 1910 BY July, 1913, the city
had paid off. including interest and principal.
27,374.75 OF the city's bonded Indebtedness and
had also made a reduction of Is cents on the tar
levy BY July, 1914. the city's debt and interest
charges had been reduced $3255565. the reduc-
ton of the tax levy was also maintained and the
neat sum Of $26,3S293 was on deposit In the
various banks Of Washington to the credit Of
the city The latest report Of the city treasurer
which was made July 1, 1916, shows that s45.
617.06 including interest and principal had been
paid off and the sum OF $22210.24 remained in
the city treasury. Besides this the tax rate
was kept at s110 on the 800, which included
per cent levy for the oil fund--Washington
(Ind.) Democrat
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
A Poem a Day
BEFORE SEDAN.


Here, In this ieafy place.
Quiet he lies.
Cold. with his sishtiess face
Turned TO the skies;
IT'S but another dead.
All You can say Is said.
Carry his body hence,
Kings must have slaves,
Kings climb TO eminence
over mems graves:
So this mans eye 10 dim;
Throw the earth over him.
what was the white you touched
There. at his slider
Paper his hand had clutched
Tight ere he died.
Message or wish. maybe:
Smooth the folds out and see.
Hardly the worst OF us
Here could have smiled!
Only the tremulous
Words OF child,
prattle that has for stops
Just n few rudy drops.
Look. She Is said TO miss.
Morning and night,
His--her dead father's--kiss;
Tries TO be bright.
Good TO mamma, and sweet.
That Is all. Marguerite"
All IL beside the dead
Slumbered the pain.
All, n the hearts that hled
Slept with the slain!
II the grief died; but no.
Death will not have ~ so.
Austin Dooson.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
Pointed Paragraphs

Love makes the heart light and
the parlor dark.
A heart OF gold is far better than
cheek of brass.
Talk isn't necessarily cheap even
when a nickel talks.
Those who are fond of harmony
have no earthly use for chin music.
Customs inspectors are patriotic.
They always 60 where duty calls
them.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
City As a Summer Resort
az DIR. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

It is commonly supposed that every
body is out of town in the summer. AL
the resorts advertised are in the country.
To look at the newspapers you would
imagine that all of the city's inhabitants
had gone to the lakes, the sea, and the
woods.
But as a matter of fact the streets
are as crowded as in winter. The hotels
are full, the sidewalks are thronged, the
street cars are packed.
The truth is that, while city people go
to the country, country people come to
the city for their vacation.
What everybody wants is something
else. The family that has been eleven
months in a fiat longs to spend the holi-
day month at some place where they can
find trees, grass, water and other out
door luxuries. But when one has spent
his eleven twelfths of time on farm
or in sleepy village he Graves bit
of city experience.
| The provincial wants to walk the
jostling streets and feel the inspiration
of the multitude. He wants to take long
draughts of that of which the country
side is scant-humanlty.
He wants to explore the tall buildings
and see the unfamiliar habitat Of the
"clh dwellers."
He wants to wander in the buzzing
corridors of the huge hotels and eat
meal that costs him as much as weeks
board at home.
He wants to peep into the tinselled
saloons, to watch in cabarets the life OF
the night birds, to ride on the tramways
for miles between rows Of shops, to mix
| in the confusion Of department stores,
and altogether to safe his imagination
with sounds and sights strange and won
derful.
1t all tastes good to him, as good as
shady nook, a stream. and hshing
line taste to city person.
So the cities are as full In hot as IN
cold weather. And city is after all
quite as much of show place, mid
way plaisance" as it is place Tor Dus-
mess and dwelling.
Hence everybody that can get away
from the little towns in Kansas and Mis-
souri, come to Kansas City, the sur
rounding villages empty into Omaha,
Denver, Chicago. st. Louis, Cincinnati.
And New York is the greatest OF all
cities Of strangers. Every citizen OF the
United States wants to go there once.
II is the permanent fair and market place
of the new world.
1t is a sign of health. 1t shows the
constant circulation Of the people.
Travel is the essence of civilization,
lust as provincialism is of barbarism.
To 90 about is to reduce egotism, to
broaden opinion, to make patriotism
come nearer to meaning humanity.
The railroads and the newspapers have
made democracy practical in America,
have dissipated the fermenting tendency
rof isolation.
The constant instream of country
people into the city and UPSTREAM OF
city folks into the country keep us all
from spelling.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

are sleeping exactly as much as
when they are walking. Yet scores
OF men and women forget apparent.
ly that there is any need OF an exit
for the impure breath, or that IL is
quite az essential TO have a source
OF fresh air as in the waking hours.
On retiring the bedroom windows
should be raised from the bottom
and lowered from the top. IL there
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
From Another Point of VieV
BY c. T. s.

Oscar Witt was hit, or to be technical
ly excat, ebaned by Walter Johnson IN
Yesterdays game Incomplete reports fail
to mention the name of the hospital.
We feel called upon to observe that the
divorce action started by Mrs. Good looks
a little bad for Good.
The counterfeiter is the man
Who's always making money,
The kind we hear
That's known as queer,
But no one thinks is funny.
The cops have the Bertillion
Of this queer-looking Teller:
Two molds in place,
One on his face
Another in his cellar.
A coined expression on his mug,
Cuts capers with the focus,
He's some sure pill,
His name is Bill,
And that one, too, is bogus.
As we understand the complaint of tho
workmen, the Detroit Speedway is slow
pay.
The typhoid germ has no wings, at all,
either, but keeps us boiling.
Our city hall isn't alone in the matter,
anyway. Kovno, also, the dispatches say,
isin danger of falling.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

tilate q bedroom
properly but
many people do
not do this even
during the sum
mer time.
Impurities of the
body are thrown
OF when people
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
Point Of View.

Mr.. Ham, never had your edu.
cational advantages, my son,
Bobble-It would have been alb
solete now II you had, dad, Tmag-
ine that old underhand baseball
pitching nowadays"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
SOMETHING DOING

Patience-And they say the women In New
York are incident; that they don't do anything
from morning until night.
Patrice-Ridiculous! Why this paper says IL
Is estimated that the women In New York
city seven and one-half tons OF face powder
IN a day-Yonkers Statesman.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
Why, May We Ask Again, Is
"A State Railway Commission?

Corporation Counsel Dingeman was
surprised when Chairman Glasgow, OF
HE state railroad commission, informed
him that the burden of proof rests on the
seity, in it's fight against higher tele-
phone rates.
AZ lawyer, he had right to be sur
priaed but as q citizen of Detroit, deal
!jng with the state railroad commission,
~ had none whatever.
y We are surprised at his surprise.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11
THEY WON'T RHYME

To invent word "jitney." that would not
rhyme with any other word was something OF
feat Only two other words in the English
language have no rhyme-"silver' and orange"
Or are there others kansas City Times
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

Every person should remember
that II Is essential TO health to ven
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

~ the law means this, then why does
I've ! corporation the power to appeal
p0iuk rulings Of the commission to the
I cctt COURT .f
II Ire law means this, why does it pro-
x1d1 (Section No. 81 that "a hearing will
~ Sivsn said telephone company"
N Ihore Il nothing about hearing to be
\ axcn 70 : city or to private citizens; the
osjng Is to be given the telephone COM
3opN, sitter N order granting rates is is
sd by the commission.
Is evidence shall be introduced BY
\ 1E COMPLAINANT which is found by
Y - court to BE- different from that offer
III upon the hearing before the commits
aafep says another section of the act.
Who II this complainant?
The telephone company, to be sure,
ttnea the ct gives the commission power
~ fx rates, and allows the company to
'k1Se Z hearing after the rates are fixed,
md take N appeal to the courts.
4 Then follows section No. 16:
I'm al actions under this section, THE
BURDEN OF PROOF SHALL BE UP.
!; ON THE COMPLAINANT to show by
~ e1pGr and satisfactory evidence that
~ order Of the commission complained
% - unlawful or unreasonable, as the
ease may b."
Who, then, under the law, is the com.
claimant?
re a. plain q the nose on your face
THE TELEPHONE COMPANY.
Upon whom, then, is the burden OF
fGuoff
ON THE TELEPHONE COMPANY.
Xst NJ. Glasgow says that it is upon
! ~ city Of Dstroitl
The city can be made the complainant
1 = ens way-by the commission ordering
- IFpposed ratss to be put in force.
othsr words. By taking the side of
phons company. against the peo-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-11

Ihere Is still q peculiar notion which
persists in many minds that the state
xafIroad commission was created to look
ut for the interests of the people when
NJ p9blic service corporation wants to
S1ioe rates or take some other action det-
iiaental to safety, service or the peoples
pocket.
~ careful reading Of the law which
<koated the commission tends to foster
1t idsa.
@ ~ nearly every section there is
1nGuags that shows that the people of
ltats Of Michigan. in creating the
! tood commission. expected it to be to
= IS what the interstate commerce COM
inn Is to the people of the United
4 bulwark and buffer against
e. sfful and interruptions corporations.
IN this = not the view which Messrs.
~. Hslnans and Cunningham have
they rcd the law, they are consti-
< umpires between the corporations
H ~ people; judges holding the scales,
rate court for the trial Of disputes
IN corporations and people.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-07-01

The day OF the high class and bril-.
liant sweater and the snappy sport
coat Is with us. Racing meets and
other sssemblages OF people who are
In a position TO make the styles into
fashions reveal the bright.hued sweat.
'er and sport coat, worn with more
than complacency, especially by the
younger people. Over thin white
dressed and with white port hats and
white footwear there Is a crispness
and fitness TO the occasion in such ap.
parel that makes an instant appeal to
the younger set.
New conditions bring about new cos.
tuning for occasions where formerly
only strictly dressy toilettes we're In
vogue. The sweater and the sport coat
are at home In the automobile, and the
only kind OF millinery that will with.
stand the speed OF the open car Is that
designed for II. hence the sport hat
and the auto bonnet.
But the brilliance OF color In these
comfortable outer garments makes az
gay an assemblage as ever gathered | N
glad raiment In days gone by. Cerise
and gold. lacquer red and royal blue,
mustard and amethyst. and most vivid
and CLASSY" Of greens. and the sparkle
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-07-01

OF black and white combinations give
one a wide choice whether the taste
Is quiet or gay.
The Worumbo sport coat shown
here Is In black and white. cut on EASY
and rather vague lines. II is drawn In
a little by n wide belt OF the fabric AZ
the normal waist line. White silh
braid Is used for binding the collar and
cuffs. Two large and very practical
pockets add definitely 20 the charac
ter OF the coat. The convertible collar
may be turned up about the throat and
buttoned to place.
The hat. OF white corduroy velvet. Il
trimmed with a band and cockade OF
white ribbon. White gloves and
shoes. either OF kid or canvas, are 10
keeping with the rest OF the toilette
and complete a midsummer garb that
Is a thing OF beauty and a Joy for all
outings.