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The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
Farmer and Prohibition

The rum demon Is making a real
hot campaign among the farmers TO
show them what 2 terrible injury
prohibition will be 10 the farming
business. In q long table OF Stats
tics, the liquor interests assert that
the demons factory buy 100000. 900
worth of products Of the soil a year.
Corn for bourbon whiskey. rye for
good old rye" barley for malt.
cherries and peaches and apples for
brandy, grapes for wine and 50 on.
Perhaps their figures are right.
but what Of 1t? There are 5000. 900
farmers In the United States, and
their annual products are valued at
total OF $4,000. O00, 00O--ten billion
dollars or 81 900 for each farmer. OF
course every farmer doesn't make
81 900 a year or $1.00-a-year liv-
ing but that's the way It averages.
IL the liquor industry" buys $780,
100000 year Of the farmers prod
ucts. prohibition will stop the liquor
industry buying $40 worth OF pro-
duce from each farmer. on the aver
age. Pretty hard on the farmer to
lose $40 a year. or 10 cents q week.
which the saloon now hands him!
The lnquor people say the farmer
loses Il" by prohibition. Nothing
is farther from the truth. The $40
worth of grain or fruit which the
farmer now sells to the demon
would not be lost. It would still be
valuable as food for man and beast
in ether forms than drink. Il would
still be real property. bringing the
prevailing price In the market. II
might sell at somewhat less than
the $40. and then. too. 1t might sell
for more than $40. The wiping out
OF the drink trafnc isn't going TO
hurt the farmer enough to enable
him 10 even suspect that he 10 be-
ing damaged by the change In con-
ditions.-Ft. Wayne Sentinel.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
This World Is All

Ia fleeing show-Ive been around
enough to know" quoth once friend of
mine. 1--we got the blues this afternoon,
/ think I'll pass away full soon. The
pearly gateways shine. The angel voices
round my couch have given me an awful
crouch, hate this world I'm in. It's
full of grafters, boobs and dubs, and
bald and fat old wooden tubs; it's full of
dirt and sin! I've always lost in this
life's game. I've found it pretty fiat and
tame; I'd like to quit today. The wealth
er gives me quite pain. We've too much
heat and too much rain. guess I'll pass
away" jumped about in righteous
wrath, and pushed this blue-jay from my
path. l cried "You wretch, keep still!
Don't drag your horrid blues in here |!
We haven't any too much cheer, so beat
it, if you willw I'm losing patience with
these jays who CAD about in long relays
to peddle out their woe. I'd just as leave
read Schopenhauer as listen to them by
the hour. They're worse than E. A. Poe.
Charles B. Driscoll.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
The Boys Vacation

What is your boy doing this sum-
mer vacation? Has he something to
do each day these three months as
definite and educational as he had
during the preceding nine school
months? II not, why not? Does
he need three months OF undirected
aimless rest? II he is healthy
boy. he does rot. Indeed. such
vacation may be demoralizing.
II Is not the greatest indictment
OF our school system that our sons
when graduated are untitled for
skilled work. II Is that they have
not been taught TO like full days
work. A boys school day. school
week, school year is not full day.
week or year. A full program is
necessary to full education.
Our schools are not expected to
furnish full program. though many
parents have come to expect It, Six
hours of each Ave days through nine
months II not q working year. What
sport or work fills out the remainder
OF the time. ought 10 be definitely
laid out and definitely done.
No healthy boy needs to lie about
and rest. till he must devise new
entertainment to vary the monotony
Of rest. This Is but preparation for
hsbitual ioleness. The boys unfit
ness for work at graduation IL not
to any great extent the fault OF The
school. II is the fault Of his father.
who was too tusy with business to
save his son: to lay out daily pro
grams and watch them done; TO
direct, to counsel, to command.
Bringing up boy costs time and
thought and vitality. But 1t pays.
For what shall II profit a man, II
he gain the, whole world and lose
his own son? Or what shall a man
give in exchange for HIS son?
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
THE PLEASURES OF
OUTLAWRY
~ On. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1916. by Frank Cranc)

The hand of civilization has lain hard
upon those professions wherein the out
law spirit once found expression. The
riproaring pirates have been swept from
the seven seas. Bandits have been
chased from the mountains. Robbers
no longer infest the woods, and SNUG
glers have deserted the caves. About
all that is left for the poor wicked man
is the gypsy bands in the country and
the criminal class in the city.
Too little attention has been given to
that primeval and persistent trait of hui
man nature, the love of outlawry. That
it is in the blood of all of us is shown
by the fact that it breaks out in every
boy. No boy wants to be banker or
grocer when he grows up; they all
want to become pirates, bandits or cir
Gus clowns.
They are supposed to get over this as
they mature, but lot of it still fingers
under the vests of the most respectable
members Of society.
It is doubtful whether any human be-
ing wants to sin. What he wants is to
escape from responsibility.
Few men drink liquor for the love OF
it. A vast deal of alcohol Is consumed
lust because it seems devilish When the
host tips his guest the wink and stealth
lily leads the way to the back closet I'm
der the stairs and produces black bot
tie, how the flavor of the liquor is i'm
proved by the vicious delight in evading
the watchfulness of the members Of the
Women's Temperance society gathered
in the parlor!
Few boys would learn to smoke if It
were not impressed upon them that
smoking perverts their morals and brings
them to an early grave. For just the wild way
wardness OF doing something desperate they VIII
sneak behind the barn and make themselves sick
with fathers pipe.
How many a marriage has gone wrong
because OF the irrepressible desire OF human be-
ings to make moral excursions might be an in-
teresting subject for speculation. There In
caDtankerous rebellion in the average human be-
ing toward anything that Is legalized. even &C.
static bliss.
The criminal class Is supposed 10 be confined
TO a few low-browed persons wellknown to the
police But all criminality does not lie within
this corral. There are propensities In all OF u
that differ but little from those In the profession
al w-breaker.
know a man who every summer goes on into
the woods, 20 miles from railroad, wears
hickory shirt, and is plain wild man long
enough to get the longing for outlawry out OF his
system He says II saves him from robbing
banks and crac king heads during that portion Of
the year when he has to be reputable.
Mama" said the little GIRL will have to
stay in heaven all the time? Won't they never
let me 60 down to the other place sometimes
and play lttler
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
4 9ainst Phantom Armies
N We Have Poor Defenses

IL Between the brief discussion of the
GIsnajve needs Of the United States by
nmandsrin-chief Crago, Of the Veter-
9 a Foreign Wars, and the outburst
our Anancier-friend George Gordon
0pes. q Port Huron, there is all the
exsnce that lies betwixt sanity and
S1teri6.
q conceivable that Mr.. Moore's
Hd was affected by the time at which
nnads his address.
1$er DIRK, children and some men
1 apt - Be haunted by specters of
yhts which they have had during
bins, giants and evil fairies pur-
W ~ imaginative child, or lie in wait
loony corners to entrap him and
ih1ats him.
u NE manner, Mr.. Moore seems pur-
~ phantom German army of
1 ~ reservists, already in America,
M C1y waiting : signal to seize the
iCh they already possess and
IN psacsfnl avenues into q sham
N NJ unlike the child. who is fearless in
rkt III. Moore is seized by these
~ Mr. banquets, surrounded by
md With = policeman outside on
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
Pointed Paragraphs

Artificial beauty isn't even skin
deep.
Look out for those who look out
for themselves.
Opportunities you expect usually
miss the last boat.
A lot Of valuable time is wasted
In trying to get even.
The more praise a man bestows
upon himself the wiser he isn't.
But when girl suffers a young
man to kiss her she doesn't suffer
much.
When n man makes fool OF him
self he deprives some woman OF her
prerogatiye.
Have you ever noticed how much
larger your troubles appear at night
than during the day!
II married man Is wise he never
speaks OF his good old bachelor days
in the presence of his wife.
The average man likes to meet
strangers because he hopes to meet
one some day who will laugh at his
old jokes.
Probably the most foolish thing a
man ever does Is to propose to a
woman. It's 10 to l that she'll be
foolish enough to accept him.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20

Great ingenuity Is displayed by
the metallurgical chemist In replac-
Ing copper by other metals. As a re-
suit. the consumption OF copper for
war purposes and for the arts is
considerably reduced. With It's in.
exbaustible supply Of iron and steel,
its wealth Of zinc and It's domestic
supply Of copper amounting to an
annual production OF 10000 tons,
Germany II in an excellent position
TO manufacture substitutes for cop
per and zinc. Buttons, button-fac.
irgs for helmets. and belt-buckles,
which were formerly made of brass,
are now made Of alloys free from
copper.
In the electrical industry iron and
steel wire are used exclusively. Long
distance electric power transmits
slons are being conducted over steel
cables and cables are also manufac.
tured Of aluminium.
In machinery construction and
journal bearings brass In entirely re-
placed by steel and iron. instead OF
massive bronze. hollow bronze cast.
ings or iron or steel castings. coat.
ed or covered with bronze, are en-
ployed.-American Review of Re
views.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
ID roRlAL PAGE

wherewithal to constitute themselves an
army.
The Veterans OF Foreign Wars are all
men who have seen service, and they are
not enamored of war. for they know
what it is.
Though they are still young and
active, full of fire and jealous OF the
national honor, they realize too well the
seriousness of warfare to take arms
against phantoms, or advocate the
expenditure of enormous sums for the
preparation of defenses against the crea-
tions of the post-prandial imagination.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20

The Latin-American house differs
materially In construction from any
other in the world excepting those of
the Spaniard and Portuguese. II is
generally one story high, formed OF
sun-dried brick, and is built around
an open court in the center Of which
is sure to be small statue provided
with fountain. in the bowl at the
base of which the water Is allowed
to stagnate. thereby breeding mos
Quitoes. Grouped about this court,
or "pati" ~ It is called. are the va.
rious rooms. with windows and
door opening on to the patio. Floors
are of tile, marble or wood in the
towns. and In the interior frequently
Of earth. packed down by the feet OF
the family Houses OF stone are
rarely met with. except in the larger
and more modern cities, or In the
mountain districts. Along the west
coast and In other localities where
wood 10 scarce, corrugated iron and
Standard OIL tins are the materials
used for buildings. In Buenos Aires
Of late a few more or less modern
apartment houses are being erected.
Elsewhere they are practically I'M
known. When one leases an apart
ment or house he Is supposed to
bring with him his bathtub and cleo
trio lighting or gas fixtures. The
grounds surrounding the homes OF
the well-todo contain a plethora of
statuary. and many glass globes OF
all sizes and every prismatic color.
The ordinary houses are calcimined
or washed In light pastel colors. and
the heavy double wooden doors. with
the iron-barred windows, give the
impression OF a prison.
The furnishings of the rooms OF
the ordinary home are rather sim
pie.
The bane OF the housekeeper Is
the "comahene"-a bug that eats
wood. This insect will burrow up
the leg Of chair. consuming every
thing except the shell OF varnish,
and one never discovers its presence
until he sits down. when the chair
naturally collapses. Cedar and ma.
hogany are the only woods immune
to Its attack, SO that pieces OF furni.
ture not made of these materials
have their legs immersed in saucers
filed with water or kerosene. by
treating the legs and the bases OF
furniture with creosote and other
chemicals calls from these little Wis
itors may be prevented.-w. f. Aug.
limbaugh, In Leslie's.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
Attention, You Men! You
Had Better Watch Out!

What are we to expect of the woman
of 1920?
In 1915 we have high school girl,
Miss Ruth McCabe of Tacoma, WASH,
throwing a baseball 200 feet inches /;
a woman trapshooter, Mrs. Harold
Almert of Chicago, breaking as Of so
flying targets; two girl students OF
Tulane university, New Orleans, boxing
for the championship of Louisiana;
Jacquline Thompson, an Evanston, ILL.,,
girl, swimming 40 yards in 80 2-5
seconds.
In 1915 we also have women in all
parts of the country hurrying through
household work to get, on the tennis
courts, golf links and bathing beaches
and travelling hundreds of miles to take
part in an archery tournament.
In all these events women competed
against women, but in almost every
other case the marks set were so close
to the marks made by men, it is hard
for anyone, except an expert, to see
much difference.
Women are going in for outdoor sports
more and more every year. This has
been banner summer, and each year
women are getting nearer and nearer
athletic records of men.
So we ask about the woman of 1920:
Will she stand at the traps and shoot in
with men? Will she enter
swimming races against men without
fear of being outclassed? Will impor-
tant tournaments in golf and tennis be
mixed instead of for men only? 1t should
not be surprising.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
Let the People
Rule-and Write
Daily Vacation Bible Schools.

Daily Vacation Bible Schools.
10 the Editor of The Times:
In behalf OF the Wayne County
Sunday School association, de-
sire to express our thanks for the
editorial which appeared In The
Detroit Times of August nth, con-
corning the work done In the Daily
Vacation Bible schools. II Is en-
couraging TO know that the work
Is noticed and appreciated. and I
hope that next year we shall have
twice as many schools as we have
had this summer.
II may interest you to know that
when the final reports were made
up We found that 81 nationalities
were represented among the chill
dren enrolled in our 13 schools. The
total enrolment from all schools
OF children that attended for more
than ten days of the six weeks
term amounted to LIT. and APP
proximately 300 children attended
the graduating exercises a. the
Fort-st. Presbyterian chapel last
Friday. Incidentally I might add
that these children consumed I'M
limited sandwiches. 100 cakes and
25 gallons Of ice cream at the close
Of the program. these refreshments
being served by the committee In
charge of the. work.
The Daily Vacation Bible School
Movement In truly religious. ethi-
cal and social" and am glad that
The Times recognizes Its import
ance.
Yours sincerely,
IDA 8. BLICK.
General Secy. Wayne Co. 8. s..
Association.
August Is. 1915.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
From Another Point of Vie,U
BY c. 7. 8.

One of those open-shirted, fluffy-col-
Jared young men got up and left the car
this morning when the conductor called
Myrtle.
Favorite Songs of the Famous
Ty Cobb's-"There's no place like
home"
The wife of Rochester paperhanger
protests to the court that although she
divorced him, he persists in following
her. Paperhangerlike, he seems, in other
words, to want to stick around.
Phyllis says she has observed in going
about the cafes, that the followers of
green corn show preference for the
right ear.
In one place, she says, with the one ex-
ception of corn on the cob, things were
very quiet during the noon hour.
We note by continued violation of the
noxious weed ordinance around J. HIS
machine that Detroit hasn't been trim
med yet either.
Some Woman With Experience Will
Kindly Step Forward
Clipped from the liners:
EXPERIENCED WOMAN to work for hus
bands room and board. wages.
Well, we are once again way down here
with the ~
Athletics.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20

THE LIGHT or OTHER DAYS.
Oft In the stilly night.
Ere slumber'e chain has bound me.
Fond memory brings the light
OF other days around mo.
The smiles. the tears
or boyhood's years.
The words OF love then spoken:
The eyes that shone.
Now dtmmed and gone
The cheerful hearts Aow broken!
Thus In the sttlly night.
Ere slumher's chain has bound me.
Sad memory brings the light
OF other days around me.
When I remember all
The frtends 80 linked together
I've seen around me fall.
Like leaves IN wintry weather,
I feel like one
Who treads alone
some banquet hall deserted,
Whose lights are fed.
Whose garlands dead
And all hut he departed
Thus In the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
Sad memory brings the light
OF other days around me,
Thomas Moore.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
Green COrt1---HOU TO Eat II

a VIC
IT,
telescope
have mixing tools
his
eating Yet when known rule VIC
lated
eating things
Thus hotel
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20

to get them out with fingers He furnishes with possibly
grape fruit or in the morning and expects to keep your ears
the system and these ways all call for limit to the noise zone
precedence thrown IL
consigned with all other
tent his on the cob
which he able
No. neghbor shall relative
OF
our brain rules for eating catch
proposition and the happed refined
manners from a seminary
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20

Ibere issa good answer to these plans
onermous increases in armament.
y They could NOT be made effective
teS tie end Of the European war
II prscipitats these enemies upon us.
\ q Europe = plotting against us, the
y fact that We attempt greatly to
1snse orr defenses would be likely to
l1g the attsck upon US all the sooner,
the surer, before we could prepare
& "a other words, If we are helpless now,
~ ehaa Snsrely provoke attack on our
plssnsss BY trying to remedy it.
d u Germany wants to crush US, she
eHtainly refuse to give US time to
- - repsl her.
~ win be 1t our threats with her
90.000 American reserve and her
200 veterans (who, according to Mr..
peEU, can capture our magazines in no
Nd The moment we try to make our
~ Strong enough to defend our
~ edequatsly.
81 ~ npst have larger army, Col.
W. r. sosms - sound, to the lay
- - IT proposed.
n0o wouh have 100000 men
~ lne smother 100000 in the
- equipment adequate for
severed million volunteers,
war he's shown Of what
1tnds Of volunteers Is IL
- with the necessary
The Detroit times., 1915-08-20
Very Thoughtful.

Kumme-Is your wife saving?
Backe-very; when she sees any
loose tobacco under my writing
table she sweeps 1t up carefully In
dustpan and puts II back In the
tobacco jar.-Brooklyn Citizen.
Evening journal., 1915-06-08
WOMAN FINED;
NED;
MAN DISCHARGED

Ethel Miller, colored, was fined $50
and costs in City Court today on
charge of improper conduct after
William Brown. a white soldier from
Fort DUPONT, had said the woman
had enticed him into her house at No.
217 West Third street Saturday night.
Brown was dismissed.
While Brown was in the house
officers Riley and Kempski made a
raid, and arrested both Ethel and the
soldier as well as Mary B. Hayes,
colored, the alleged proprietor of the
house.
When the officers entered the house
Brown said that Ethel had a dollar
belonging to him. The officers stated
that they had gone to the house be-
cause Alonzo Johnson, colored. who
lives there declared that the Hayes
woman had stolen some money from
him. When the officers arrived at
the house Johnson took them to the
room where the soldier was.
Mary B. Hayes. was fined $50 and
costs or two months in the work.
house on a charge of keeping a house
If ill-fame
Evening journal., 1915-06-08
President Wilson Makes Clear That the Delay in Notes
Completion Was Not Unnecessary, Because Of News
paper Publicity Concerning Possible Contents Of
Reply Fear Forecasts Have Created an Untrue I'M
preston in Germany That May Be Hard to Remove
ADMINISTRATION NOT INTERESTED
IN THE PROPOSED PEACE MEETING

Texas. intimate friends Of the Presi-
dent to make his European trip.
Colonel House went to Europe TO
see whether the time was propitious
for joint action by neutral nations to
try and end the war. Geldemeester
Is In the United States trying TO learn
American sentiment toward concerted
action along similar lines.
Geldemeester. il was learned today.
brought with him letters of introduce
tion to German embassy officials from
the Berlin foreign Office.
The administration looks on the
action of the German government In
accepting responsibility for the Gulf
light and in also promising an investi-
cation of the Cushing incident as
making II certain that there will be
an amicable agreement in both cases.
The President made this plain to-
day. although he said that he did not
know whether the matter would be
settled through the German prize
court or the embassy here.
Evening journal., 1915-06-08
Street Carnival
FOR DOVER Y.M.C.A.
Council Grants Use of Loock-
erman Street Near State
For Shows
TOWNS FINANCES IN
HEALTHY CONDITION

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, June Sat the month
" meeting of Dover Town Council last
evening, reports from the town officers
showed collection from the Superinten-
dent of Water Works, T. f. Cooke, for
the month of S60s.2l.
Alderman Wharton. reported fines for
the month of May and part of. June
for disorderly conduct, automobile vi
olatioms. etc, of Sl02 This is the larg-
est amount of fines collected for sew
eral years for violations of town ordi-
nances.
OF the $4,000 tax assessment for
this year a report was made that over
$4,000 would be collected. After
payment of two emergency bonds of
81 900 each and three refunding bonds
of 81 900 each, there would be a bal
ance in the treasury for general ex-
penses of over $4,000. The present
balance is S1O.14G.14.
The resignation of Robert r. Hurd,
as chief supervisor of streets, was
accepted and Henry X. Wheatley was
elected in his place, he also being
elected town constable.
The fire department petitioned
Council for a coat, cap and boots for
the second assistant engineer OF the
hose company. The matter was left
with the fire department and police
committee. A discussion was had
as to purchasing 500 feet of additional
hose, which was finally left 10 the
committee with power to act.
Council adopted an ordinance pro-
hibiting the throwing of circulars and
dodgers into the streets, by providing
a fine of not less than 81 and not more
than $40, or five days in the county
Jail.
The quarterly appropriation of
500 was ordered paid the Robbins
Hose Company. Several citizens we're
ordered TO lay pavements in front of
their residences and other properties.
delegation from the Young Mems
Business Association, asked the use
of Loockerman street for a street
carnival and "Home Coming Week,
in September After considerable dis
cussion in which il was shown that
practically all of the Dover marchants
favored the proposition, Council
granted the use of Loockerman street
from New street TO State street. with
the understanding that the attractions
should be free from objection.