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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
Sex Education for Boys and Girls

doors, with the plant life that Is
awakening everywhere. To my
mind spring Is the best time 10 be-
gin a child's sex education"
But. really" interrupted the
mother. don't you think my chill
dren are too young 10 understand
They seem 20 be such babies yet"
Babies The child psycholo-
zist's eyes twinkled. I will venture
70 presume that the ser education
% your children began several years
ago without your consent or knovl
edge There are always wise chill
dren and older children who are
eager 10 teach and am sorry n
say 20 corrupt should say that
the ser education OF your children
should have begun Al home when
your children FIRST knew that now
ery grew.
~ IL great mistake 70 wait IN.
"a adolescence II II very danger
Gus The modern wideawake child
cannot fail 20 gain a knowledge OF
sex matters At an early age, and II
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
The Fallacy of Force

The Reverend Or Jefferson. pas
tor OF the Broadway tabernacle,
New York. says he Is glad the Amer.
lean universities are taking up the
question OF International peace
since the European universities had
failed when put TO the test. The
reason the present war is so terri.
BILE 10 because II was conceived in
the brains OF the greatest scientists
OF Europe. II IL through their 81.
forts that We now have the horrors
OF the land, sea. undersea. and air
battles. War IL no longer glorious
as chivalry Is gone.
The fallacies that we must get rid
OF are Cd that war Is inevitable,
(2) that preparedness Is guaran-
tee OF peace. DR.. Jefferson believes
that preparedness. on the contrary
In a guarantee OF war. because II
in;3tills fear In the heart OF an
enemy and leads 10 an explosion
Also, II In foolish 10 speak OF an
adequate navy and army, for the
present war has demonstrated that
a second rate navy is no navy At
all. To be adequate Il must equal
the combined navies OF the world.
which would cost $500. 900 900 a
year. The third fallacy IL the con.
ception OF patriotism. II In a higher
patriotism 10 live and further the
country's interest by peaceful means
than by a gun. The fourth II that
nations are fundamentally opposed
to each other. for II the forty eight
states OF the United States can live
in concord and union. why not the
sixty nations OF the world. only on a
larger scale
Dr. II. F. Fosdlck says the way
TO peace II 10 understand the essen.
tial truths Of God This war haR
proved that everything. education.
Socialism. international law and
even Christianity to a certain ex.
tent has failed But Christianity
has not utterly failed because the
war has brought out philanthropy
and the desire TO aid those In mis-
cry. The public conscience has also
shifted. But what proves that Chris.
tianity has not really failed p that
men say But Christianity has
failed" This shows that they at
least realize that Christianity has a
purpose, the purpose OF bringing
peace. but II has not really failed
and will be better able 10 accom-.
plish It's purpose since men now
realize what It's goal II.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
It's Good Seed. This, Planted
Down in Wichita Falls, Tex.

It's not always the man occupying the
highest niche who performs the most
meritorlous act.
This time It's little country Justice
Of the peace. in Wichita Falls, Texas,
who sets an example which wiser and
greater men might well follow.
He announces that he VIII no longer
hear yagrancy cases because the fee Sys-
TEN Of Texas puts premium upon con-
yictlon.
In Texas and many other states. va
grants must be convicted before the trial
court officers get any fees; then II the
prisoner can't pay, the county must.
The inference is obvious, but one does
not have 10 infer. It's being done
SOMEWHERE every day and it's what
i turning lots of unfortunates into Grim
inals-man's inhuman injustice.
Wrong? OF course it's WRONG but
it's LAW.
This obscure peace officer saw the
wrong.
So have lots of others who hid behind
the statutes.
THIS Judge said: The law be hanged!
This is a court of justice. Don't bring
them before me any more unless they
have committed a crime, which leads
US to believe in Wichita Falls.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
What's the Matter With These
Women? They're All Right!

Though there is but little prospect Of
direct results from the meeting OF the
international Woman's Peace Congress,
now being held at The Hague, yet the
indirect effect Of this feast Of reason and
human love win be great and lasting.
There we witness the great women of
Germany meeting their sisters of Eng
land on a common plane, one of mutual
admiration, respect, and affection. with
out luminosity or enmity because Of the
terrible death grapple in which their
men folk are locked.
We see a noble Italian woman making
an inspired and imprisoned plea for
peace for the warning nations, and for
the continued neutrality of her own
country.
Ii is indeed sublime spectacle, one
that should cause the blush Of shame TO
mantle the brow of every male Of every
country, engaged in, or contemplating
war.
II is burning reproach TO the states
men who termed these noble women
''meddling outsiders"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
BY z. 4. WoOLEY.

The other day | heard a mother
worrying because she didn't know
how 20 answer certain questions
that her young children--aged nine
and twelve. respectively-were ask
ing.
Il suppose" she said. Il ought 70
tell them the truth about how they
came into the world and ali that.
but somehow I can't There doesn +,
seem 70 be any vay TO begin. and !
feel so embarrassed when try 70
begin. that Just give up There
ought 10 be some books TO guide
parents"
Now I know there are books in
tended as guides for parents, also
for young people 10 read. along The
lines Of ser education. But I hest.
tsted 10 take the responsibility Of
recommending any particular books
10 this worrying mother. Then a
happy thought struck me. and | al
yised her 10 visit Benjamin =
Levin. child psychologist. who also
bears the original title OF Consul
tant for Parents" And, because
wanted 10 know what he would have
10 say. went along with tbs
mother.
We put the problem % him. III
smiled gravely.
1T Is a problem" he agreed
Practically every parent who comes
20 mo confssses that his or her
greatest dificulty r. 20 undertake
a child's bex education. The task
f. repugnsnt and embarrassing. they
tell me. and their great fear IL that
they VIII blunder in impsrting In
formation and possibly do more
harm than good
"As 20 books, never recommend
ser books broadly. for the study oi
either parents or children cannot
recommend any particular book OF
set OF books for all kinds Of people
What would be- good for you. my
dear madame. might be very bad
indeed for your neighbor. and what
would help your children would not
do Al all for other girls and boyt
"But how" began my friend
Yes smiled the little man. cons
prehensiveiy Eliminating sea
books how
Il should say, begin now, out
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
WIN a Corn HurtS---Whdf to
DO TO Cure and PreUenf Them

not effect cure. because. II used
until the lower and more delicate
tissue Is reached. they frequently
create a serious liberated condition
corns can De cnred by home treat
uent. but Il Is slow work First. ali
pressure must be removed and this
usually means that shoes which ~
well must he Purchased.
To soften the horny tissue cells
so that they separate without in
iammation. IL is best 20 get your
family doctor or druggist 10 give
you a safe preparation OF salicylic
acid. This should De applied 10 the
corn every night and scraped OF the
following morning This is apt Il
prove slow work. but II the treat
ment is followed up will gradually
take away the corn without irrita
tim.
But the only real cure for corns Is
shoes that ft,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
A Poem a Day.
A NATIONAL Duty.

a NATIONAL DUTY.
We must trim the lamps OF the light
house.
For the tights are growing dim.
A ship has been wrecked on the rocks
OF greed;
o brothers. the lamps Nc must
And one has gone down In the shall
lows OF war,
And widows and orphans cry;
And one II Lost In the sands OF deceit
Why should We stand idly by
We mus, trim the lamps OF the iight.
For pirates are sailing tn. seas:
And 70 cover the nAg OF death. they
Hypocrssy 10 tho breeze,
They war, with false lights. on the
weaker onea
ny the code that n wrecker knows:
Then. why should we trade In the
wrecks they make,
And grow as the Vuiture grows
We must trim the lamps Of the iisht.
house.
To save the ship OF state
For how can we see the law OF God,
when they're furnished with grasp
ing and hate
Tho nations are called 60 Gods
Judgment hall
Because the tights are dim:
We must keep the lamps OF Ills
lighthouse.
or give an account 90 Him.
~ A GIFFfN
BEDFORD. Mich.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

corn has nc root. bu, IL does have
core which is composed OF the
successive layers OF skin
RUBBING caused BY an ill.ntting
shoe causes the top layer OF skin 10
become irritRted and then Il thick.
ems in an attempt AZ self.protection.
n the irritation Is continued then
each layer 81 skin in turn becomes
thickened and when The lower lay.
ers, with their blood vessels and
sensitive nerves are reached. then
II is a corn as most people know II
and il hurts
II hurts because there Il a wedge
Of hardened tissue which Is pressing
against and boring into the deep
LAYERS Of the shin which contain a
network OF delicate nerves
CORE cures" that guarantee 10 70.
move corns over night contain a
eaustic which destroys the upper
layers OF the hardened skin. and
thus gives some relief. but they d.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
Pointed Paragraphs

Some people are vain because OF
their imperfeetions.
Let's gouge other people while
carving out our fortunes.
A man who Il tied TO his wife's
apron string certainly isn't fast.
A mans IDEAL figure usually has a
dollar mark in front OF H.
Beauty may be only skin deep. but
IL Is nearly always effective.
About the only stone the average
Toy does not turn is the srindstone
Very few husbands are as good or
as bad as their wives imagine they
are.
Many an ambitious man has been
literally crowded TO the front-in a
street car.
The things that come 10 those who
wait are seldom what the were
waiting for.
A good many prayers are made In
private thai the devil 0ould like 10
see answered.
Doctors say that worry Kills more
people than probably because
more people worry than work
You can usually judge mans
character by the valus he places on
his wife's ability TO earn bread for
the family
II when people are charged with
their faults they were credited with
their good intentions. there ~onld
be more satisfactory neighbors in
The world.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
Bright Thoughts
Make Bright Eyes
BY II. ApolNoToN BRUCE.
Author OF The Riddle OF PERSONAL
ity." Psychology and Parent
hood" etc.

Author OF The Riddle OF PERSONAL
ity." Psychology and Parent
hood" etc
Every woman ought to know thai
brightness or eve Is in direct pro
portion 10 the rapidly with which
the blood circulates through the
veins.
Clear. bright eyes are always an
asset. especially in the way OF en-
hsncing ones personal attractive
ness. This Is so generally recog
p'Ied that some foolish women put
drug into their eyes TO give them
a sparkling quality.
BY so doing they in the end de-
feat the purpose they have In view.
For the effect OF continued use OF
this drug on their general system
Is such as 10 produce conditions that
decrease the limpidity OF their eyes.
and even injure their power OF vi
/ sion.
They could simply and safely at
tain the eye-brightness they crave
by bearing in mind, and acting on.
the principle stated above-namely.
that a good circulation OF the blood
makes for lustrous eyes
Everything which promotes the
circulation also promotes brightness
md olearness OF eye. Everything
which lowers the circulation dead.
ems the eye.
Excessive fatigue has this lower
ing effect and so have such emo
tional states a. grief. worry. fear,
despair. hatred. envy. jealousy.
so true Is this that person yield.
ing habitually 20 such states cannot
possibly have bright eyes. no matter
what physical precautions he or she
may take
She may 20 20 bed when the
chickens do. and get up with the
sun. may diet vigorously. may take
proper amount OF daily exercise.
Nevertheless. 80 long as her mind Ia
filed with depressing thoughts. the
circulation OF the blood will be i'm.
paired and her eyes will consequent
iy be lacking In brightness.
on the other hand. the cultivation
OF favorable emotional states--of
hope, cheerfulness. confidence. and
the like-has the effect OF accelerat
ing the blcod's circulation. q
| This has been demonstrated with
In recent years by innumerable en-
periments carried out In the physi
illogical laboratories Of universities
end medical schools.
And with this increased rapidIty
or circulation Increased clearness
and brightness OF eye are sure "a
come.
Accordingly. the remedy 10 be
adopted by all who feel that their
eyes are not 80 bright as they should
be may be expressed In this simple
formula:
Avoid dissipation OF all sorts lead
ing TO excessive physical fatigue
and avoid allowing your mind "a
dwell on depressing ideas. Cultivats
cheerfulness. hopefulness. buoyancy
OF spirit.
Remember always that bright
thoughts make bright eyes.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

Is usually gained in manner harm
tll TO the child Next. granting that
the boy or girl remains ignorant Of
sex matters until the beginning OF
adolescence. the sudden shock OF
knowledge. at that delicate period
OF life. is ap; TO leave a distorted
impression upon the ehild's nature
and especially Is this true OF girls
Il wish I could impress upon all
parents how essential II Is for the
future welfare OF their children
and ! want TO emphasize this In the
case OF girls-to begin At an early
age an education that will put sex
in its proper place"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
Halves on the Outs.

The republic OF Nicaragua has an
area OF 1920 square miles, and It's
population ~ estimated at 10000
AZ least rs per cent OF the inhabi
tants live In the western half OF
the country The two halves Of the
republic differ greatly In many re
spects and there IL little communi
cation between them. the journey by
trail and river being so slow and
difficuit that passengers usually 60
by way OF Costa Rica. while the
small amounts OF merchandise
shipped from one side TO the other
are bent mainly By. war Of Panama.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
The Risks of Faith
BY Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane.)


Learning to trust one another is like
learning to fly.
Climbing up to higher round Of civili-
cation is as difficult as making an ad-
vance by some great invention.
How many thousand years men saw
the lightning and wondered at ii dumbly,
before they found out how TO send tele-
grams by the same force, TO use tele-
phones, TO construct trolleys, to operate
huge railway trains?
To fly was impossible, until Langley
and the Wright brothers did IL,
There is that same despairing, numb
sense of impotency in the moral world.
When the great Teacher told men 10
love their enemies, TO overcome evil with
good, and TO turn the other cheek il was
as if he said to the men of his time,
Don't use oars and sails. use steam;
electricity is stronger than horses. and
an areoplane Is swifter than the fleetest
runner" His ethical proposal was re-
ceived, is yet received for the most part,
with an incredulity as blank as would
have been such amazing scientific pro-
posals.
The trouble with the world is its moral
blindness.
When we say, Lay down your arms.
Cultivate friendship with other nations.
II they attack you, do not resist. We'll
come their army If they send it TO your
shores II you do not have any force
with which TO fight them they cannot
possibly fight you" we say this, it
seems rs outandish as 20 have said To
me hundred years ago IF you want -
talk from London 10 man in Paris use
the lightning"
So when we say: "Do not punish Grim
inals Heal them" il is as If we were let
ting down all the barriers of society's
protection and inviting the army OF
rogues TO come in and pillage.
But little by little these astounding
moral discoveries are establishing them
selves in the universal mind. Whenever
men try them and persistently trust them
they show themselves practical far be-
yond war and punishment.
Any one of you is liable to be attacked
by thug i'm the street; II looks like an
Iindisputable truth that every man should
go armed and no woman should go about
without bodyguard of huskies armed
with swords. And yet as matter Of
fact human life is infinitely safer in an
American city where no one carries a
where every gentleman went armed.
The great empires Of vigorous people,
Canada and the United States. have sat
side by side in peace for a century, a
thing Europe KNOWS TO be absolutely
impossible.
Wherever two states have agreed to
lay by their weapons and adjudcate their
differences by law. il has saved them
untold expense and has utterly prevent
ed both Of them from ever thinking Of
violence.
Slowly, slowly, almost as slowly as the
procession of the equinoxes. mankind
comes lumberingly up from the brute to
the man level.
Our dream is 70 see America take its
stand away forward in the march of civil
ization, TO stand defenseless toward all
nations, armed only in justice, courtesy.
and brotherliness.
The world would as surely respond to
this as mankind has ever leaped to
glorious ideal
Can you lombard love? Can you
bayonet brotherlness?
Then why not take the risks Of faith?
|
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

that he doesn't mean TO be rude-he's
doing a useful duty in a brave manner.
Tell him you'll cover it-AND THEN
COVER IT.
Or better still. don't give him an excuse
for limiting to you that you're unelean-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

usually Ape.AN NA
the feet. but they
are not necessar-
liz confined to
the feet. Some
people have them
on their hands
Contrary TO the
general opinion a
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

There is nothing in the constftu-
ton especially about hogs or cattle
or hoEsemen. and II out OF the pub
lic treasury AT Washington ve can
establish department for that pur.
pose. IL does not seem 10 be long
step or stretch OF logic 20 say that
ve have the power 10 spend money
in bureau OF research to tell how
wc can develop good men and good
women .-Ex President Taft.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
Here Is a Fight Worth While,
And You Ought to Help in 1t

Detroit boys are enlisting in the war
against the fly.
II will be long campaign and hard
campaign; it will be easy for enthusiasm
to lag: and the worst enemy Of the boys
will not be the fly, but Encouragement.
For the fly is not fair fighter-he
gives out false statistics.
For instance, in one case where an
experimenter marked $4,000 flies to find
out how far flies travel. the flies went
only about 1000 feet.
Now everybody knows that In the
canning season, flies viii travel for 100
miles or more to sit on the edge Of the
kettle and lick the juice.
If you began canning cherries in the
shadow of the north pole, where no fly
has ever been seen, you viii have several
million of EN- about you in no time.
A famous bugologist has figured that
q female fly, starting in April, viii pro
duce 5,59S, 720. 900 adult offspring before
September another example of statis-
tics to terrify the anti-fyist-
But this figure fails to allow for
casualties caused by fy-paper, drowning
in milk. ENHANCEMENT in syrup, swatter-
MASKING, mastication by dogs, and the
various diseases to which flies are sus-
ceptible, such as ptomaine poisoning,
appendicitis and dandruff.
When you come right down to it, you
find that the determination Of the fly
Is no more hopeless than the extermina-
tion Of the idea that you can get rich by
playing the races.
For. in the first place, there are no
flies in last years nest--nothing but
eggs, and if these eggs are not allowed
to hatch, there won't be any flies.
And if they are allowed to hatch, and
the flies are given no place in which to
breed, there won't be any flies.
There are plenty of good rules to pre-
vent flies from breeding. but they can
all be summed up in one word-CLEAN-
Illness.
If you have lots of flies about your
place, you are advertising to all who see
it that YOU ARE DIRTY.
The thing for you to do is to CLEAN
UP.
Detroit boys who enlist under the
Board of Health in the fight-the-fy cam
paign will probably never know the good
which they will have accomplished
They may succeed in lowering the
death-rate; but the decrease of decima
in this important figure does not appeal
to the imagination.
Would that someone might have the
power TO lead each lieutenant and patrol.
man in the boy army through his district
at the end Of the autumn, TO point out q
Growing baby and say: But for you, he
would have died of typhoid on Aug. 81
or to indicate a healthy, joyful woman
and say: "But for you, she would now be
coughing her life away with tubercu-
losis."
What thrill of gladness would &c
through that boy!
But the world is full of limitations, and
the very person whose life is saved by
some boys war against the fly may scold
that boy roundly for cutting across his
grass.
/ Praise and help, then, the boy who
enlists in the battle for health--for he
may save YOUR life, or that of one Of
your loved ones, before the end of the
year.
Encourage him, cooperate with him
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

v A foot pound II the force exert.
ed 10 raise one pound a perpendicu.
lar distance Of one foot from the
earth.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

Corns are the result OF rubbing
end chatting 81 the skin. They are
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

Coal ashes, soda and copal varnish
have been combined by a German in
ventor into an artificial stone resembling
marble. But what we want to know is,
will it shampoo?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

In Japan there are 1872 people for every 20
acres OF land and 256 cows. 25s donkeys and
b12 swine for ervry square mile Of land In the
n gdoun
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06
From Another
Point of VieW

There was man and he was wise
He knew his ps and as,
And knew enough to dodge the men
Who held his /. o. us.
What boon il would be for fellow
who owns an automobile il it were pos
sible 10 cross rubber plant and
doughnut and grow tires.
Planting, of course, alongside an inner
tube rose.
If they find against the colonel in the
sum of $4,000, we have an idea the
colonel will consider it was worth every
cent Of it.
Do we understand that the Tigers
have struck st. Louis for that "clean up"
week.
A man in Greenport, l.. l., has hic-
coughed for three months. Think Of the
number Of people who must have told
him in that time that swallow of water
will stop 'em.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

In Boston they fined man $50 for
stealing a kiss from pretty girl. The
fine suggests the court looked upon the
offense as grand larceny.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-06

Praise and help, then, the boy who
enlists in the battle for health-for he
may save YOUR life, or that of one of
your loved ones, before the end of the
year.
Encourage him, cooperate with him,
and when he asks you why you don't keep
your garbage pail covered. remember