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The Detroit times., 1915-06-10
Ithy Hang Becker Herbert Quick Asks

sible excuse In any Cass--is that
the man rs 81 To further use. and
that he Is a positive menace 90 So
c!ety
Can Becker Nc oi any use 20 sd.
ciety7 belieya that no can be Of
immense use. =, Is said that be has
been engaged for six months ia the
preparation or a comr,efe expose
OF Tho system % graft ia ,hF op "a
lion ~ which the police 81 N~R
York have been engaged for many
years and ahich resulted in ne
murder Of Rosenthal This state
uent IL said 20 Tell the names ot
the men who make mp this riIuter-
bund. both me high-ups and the
lOV-downs. II is stated tha. no is
willing 20 place This ir 'he hand o,
the authorities II his sentence is
COMMITTED 70 imprisonment FOR lit"
The district attorney Of New York
states in an Interview that this OF
fer vill not be accepted
Why mott
Can any good reason no given .
Are the New York AUTHORITIES
afraid they 0ill land hsn TOO big
FOR their net?
Sometimes the hunter fnds game
the ferociousness and power ~
which chill his blood md take
away his thirst for success
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10
From Another
Point OF IielU

Bryan's earning capacity as lecturer
is placed at $4,000 a year. But we
understood he was for peace at any
price.
Wonder if Italy has officially notified
Lou Rowley yet as to why she went to
war?
A Detroit roofing company advertlses
this morning for a timer. suggesting
that in the case Of predecessor, the
worst may have happened.
Another advertisement is for Polish
timekeeper. How does that compare, We
wonder, with the more daylight brand.
a young Englishman, incidentally de
sires board and room in private family.
Put probably not by Heinie Zimmerman 5
house.
Confidence men relieved jonn Cherry
If his wallet, an item says. A ripe one,
{ would seem.
business Note: Marriage licenses have
been granted 20 George Butcher and
Helen Schumacher.
And now comes the yachtline body,
observes CAD. at follows the stream
lire as matter Of course, does il not? =
Also this is the season when II pays
70 wait-more car for less money, and a
whole wear ahead Of the calendar.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10
Anyhow, We Can Talk to
Our Babies Just AS We Like

We seem 10 be having all of our priv
ilegeS taken away from us.
Some ogre, in the shape Of phIlan-
throper or reformer, comes forward and
insists that We cannot talk baby-talk 10
our babies.
Now. babies are the especial proy nrty
IF women, and women are proverhlalIy
interested in the tiny, no-account things
u ife which. when totalled up make
the big sum Of comfort, sympathy, az
lection and love.
The baby comes in for the biggest
share The man. perhaps because ne
is much like the baby, the next.
She makes a cradle for the lIttle one
and lines il with soft things, as the
bird does its nest.
She sews tiny clothes. with hone and
love in every stitch, and when she finally
holds her baby in her arms words Of
endearment and cooling and understand
ING Of al lis little aches and pains and
needs fly 70 her lips unbidden the Spon-
taneous evnre~s'or II - --7l affinity be
tween her soul and her little.
Birds and all animals have tender
sounds for their young; il IS an animal
instinct.
Let us be thankful that the mothers
NJ today still retain that primitive pro
tecting never-ardinO love that rasseth
understanding Let the philosophers and
reForr,oers nrat 70 20 others T"nthers VIII
talk bahv-talk 70 their children until
there are no more children 20 talk 70.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10

This vas scrubbed on school
book belonging 20 high school boy
of "a.
All The world loves lover.
which is strange in my case love
Minnie. she is the world 10 me but
Minnie does not love me. Sure I
am tower. but the world that Is
nv world. doesn't care for me a
lifle-bit"
Johnny Is philosophIzlnz over the
kindly feelings Of the world inside
ithat "a. himself. and the cold and
hard old outside world. which. up 20
now has had little TO do with his
dreams and aspirations ne will
conclude before long that the old
saw hould be amended and have
another word inserted T. o. All
The world loves a successful lover,
but wants none Of tho other kind"
And later Johnny will find that II
u not only IN love that the world
- A. -
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10

gems generally Gre those which are
eaten raE. since thorough cooking
ar. rows disease germs. most cooked
foods are only dangerous when they
have been infected ia tae kitchen Al.
Ter cooking Many raw foods. Ike
oranges o. o-her fruits ere safe be.
ca4sa they must be peeled before
eating
Of al foods. the most dangerous
s-o water and milk. because fhey
are often polluted. by sewage In the
case Of water and by human contac'
i1 the case Of milk Also because
trey are drunk promptly ~ith0l'
time for the disease germs 20 de
oar and occau4e. especially In tho
case al water and often in the Gaze
cl mills. they are not coOkoa
The .econd way ~ which disease
germ are commonly spread is by
means OF contact between Eeoplr
tbsma elves. in measles and whoop
.ng cough and scarlet fever and
phiheria and tuberculosis and
many other disease. the germs arc
present in the nose and throat and
are 7pvead from person 20 person b,
tho fngers which go too often 10 tho
nose and mouth. By drinking cap.
and poems and by other thing
which TOO often ere used IN common
and ~ the fne spray thrown Oui
from me mouta In coughing and
sncezin2
The third con mon way IN which
disease germs arc spread Is D.
means of insects Flies are. per.
hsps, The most important insect
sermcarriers. They often pick up
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10
LOOKING AT HOME

Recently band of sociological explorer
discovered an odd little district that needed a.
;enticu. rs population ~ some sou souls was
mostly foreign born Newly landed irmirrants
noated into n and we're considerably aVpiOitod
By alleged guides and other dubious aids -
the inexperienced Most of the working iH
hahitarts were employe "a porf err. iOnRshore
mon. scrubworacn and In like uns killed poorly
paid trades single block yielded sixty five
cases OF tuberculosis In year This sociolog r.
al iiad Us on the lower end % Manhattan island
walled IN by the skyscrapers OF the financial
district from which the fountainheads ~ much
organized philanthropy might have tossed a bis
cult .nto ~ n n bad occurred 10 them 20 look
that way About nine times out OF ten proper
objects for charitable Intervention are right
around the corner from you-V neither you live
on Manhattan or In Emporia, Kss.-Saturday
Evening Post
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10
a Reader IN Tune

To the EdtiDv Of The Times:
There is az least one editor In
this prosaic city who possesses a
soul. The EDITORS column in last
nights Times was an ode TO the
green fields, the breeze stirred trees
and the azure creeks Of GEAR old
Michigan Il ls Just like coming
away from the noise, dust and con
fusion Of the city to the sweet mea-
dovs TO read the editorial.
The press Is full up with the 70
ports OF The battlefelds OF Europe
and We are sick OF reading war
Modestly hidden AZ the back ~ the
paper was the column OF praise for
Michigan In June To quote the ed
itor's words
Our June ia Ianier's June OF
Long June night sounds Groom.
cd among the leaves
And whispered condolences Of
dark and green"
never will he again. for the sun
has no, yeIlowed them with
scorchlng rays
These beautiful facts that summer
Is on Va IN all It's seductive glory
makes Us feel like living The edi-
tor evidently goes about with his
eyes open
We want 20 he reminded that
Michigan IL beautiful what do we
care n the Germans have captured
200 o00 Russians or that the kaiser
curls his moustache thrice daily =
Those events happen in Europe. We
agree With the editor in all hls oh
serva'ions and verify his concluding
statement that June in Michigan II
biz ~ alright G.. J. q.
No. $40 Seneca ave. June g. 1915.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10
Let The People Ruie---And Write

movement. alone viii safeguard Il
acaiu4t injury
The world var should be the har'
binger II world peace Mankind Is
in the process OF realizing the cost
% adherence 20 the policies which
The American union proves replace
able ~ a durable federation agree
msnt between the leading nations, II
not between all. which shall abolish
future world conflicts. and usher In
the mIIlennial time ot which the ga
cred page IL not non-cognizant
CASSFN EUGENE PARSONS,
IL Adelaide.st. June z. 1918.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10
LIZZIE LAWS
BY Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

by way OF sort of annex TO the
United States asks the st. Louis Post
Dispatch. why can't we institute COM
Portable smoking room and buffet for
men only, where those who prefer liber-
ty To death by boredom may occasionally
withdraw from the Lizzies, yawn.
stretch, and enjoy some of the old vaunt-
ed prerogatives that used to make Amer
lea seem worth while as a habitat of
genus homo?
as a Jail or pcnitentiary the only
place left for man TO go who would
have such liberties as remain 20 him
guaranteed from further infringe
ments z"
Ii is an odd thing; America is sup
posed TO be the land OF the free, and yet
we have more fool regulations and re-
strictions than even bureaucratic Ger
many or autocratic Russia, when il
comes to items of personal department.
II is probably remnant Of the Puri-
tans in our blood. They regulated every
thing, even kissing.
Government, as Lionel Cecil Jane
points out in his recently published book
The Interpretation of History" is
shown in history 20 be a continual con-
tlict between two ideals, the one, uni
versalism," meaning that contentment is
to be found in universal conformity and
submissions the other, "individualism,'
meaning that the greatest happiness lies
in complete self-assertion.
Any government is some sort Of COM
promise between the desire for law and
order and the desire for personal liberty.
Perfect uniformity on the one hand and
unrestricted liberty on the other, are
equally Impractical
The lust mean 20 be observed is to
restrain personal liberty as little as pos
sble, consistent with the peace and Dig
nifty Of the state.
II is mighty hard 10 draw the line be-
tween decent restriction and meddling;
For instance, TO decide what sort Of n
theatrical performance is allowable and
what ought 10 be suppressed. or how low
decolete dress should be worn. or when
man shall be permitted 10 go in his
shirt sleeves, and where and when de-
PRAYED male shall have the right 10 take
drink. smoke pipe, or chew tobacco.
1t takes common sense, which is rare.
Mayors, chiefs Of police. and legislative
bodies have our sympathy. On one hand
the righteous cohorts are nagging them
TO make everybody go TO Sunday school
and quit chewing gum. and on the other
the ordinary folk who are too busy chas-
! ing the dollar to note their moral con-
duct are asking 20 be let alone.
If anybody thinks he knows just what
to do in the premises he has my admira-
ton.
Two things are plain. One. that the
roughnecks should not be allowed to an
noy quiet and respectable folk. Two,
that no Lizzie laws be enacted TO poster
people who are studiously ninding their
own business according to their own
| lights
! Puzzle: Find the golden mean.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10

have persistently disdained to credit him
with his sacrifices upon the altar OF
principle
They will continue TO do So in the in
stance Of this resignation from a high
place and high honor, but will concede,
perhaps, that in taking the step he Is,
al least, consistent.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10

rom @f~fl ~
- on I j. r.
ways mag slIy
~ rcmem cred ry
three catch ORD
food fingers and
flies
lhc food which
C. rr y disease
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10

Here are some good health epi
grams fOT the mother ~ remember
Wtoosing cough m children undo,
I'VE years % age is grave disease
Measles In school Is Ike fire in
dry grass.
II you lot The child have measles
Nhen he is young yen may save a
doctors bill later on. hut you may
have 20 pay the undertaken nOe.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10

aodiss and carry il % food. ana
where there Is no good ~ TEN of
-eRaze disposal they may play a big
part in tho spread Of such diseases
as typhoid fever
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10
Let Us Hear Mr.. Bryan
And Stand By the President

We need not get all fused up be-
cause William Jennings Bryan has re-
signed from the secretaryship of state.
Mr.. Bryan, being perhaps foremost
of men on two continents as an advO-
cate of world peace through arbitration,
HAD to resign when he found his views
unsupported by President Wilson and
the other members of the cabinet.
He has best served the administra-
tion by resigning. thereby removing HIM
self as an obstacle in the course the
president has elected to follow toward
Germany.
He has best served himself, for as a
public officer he had, upon disapproval of
his suggestions, reached the point Of i'm
potency in the furtherance of his univer-
I sal peace policy.
He has greatly pleased his enemies by
getting out. and at the same time has
more than pleased his personal followers.
They take this occasion to remind US
that the Nebraskan is still to be found
!. on the side Of principle and conviction.
AS private citizen. as a publisher and
\. speaker, Mr.. Bryan will be free to appeal
to the country for support for his peace
views, without embarrassment to the ad-
ministration or interference in the diplo-
matte process agreed upon, and is alb
solved from criticism by the rule that
n bestows upon every American citizen his
right to his own opinion.
It looks as if it is really a case like
that of the man whose mother-in-law
died and someone asked him what the
complaint was.
"No complaint" was the mans reply
everybody is satisfied"
The president and Mr.. Bryan are not
separated in seeking peace. but only in
the method of seeking it. as Mr. Wilson
says in his letter accepting while regret
ting the secrctary's resignation.
And the one thing for all good Amer
leans to do at this time is TO pat aside
their political and personal prejudices
for Republicans and Progressives and
Democrats, both Bryan and anti-Bryan,
To stand together and support President
Wilson in HIS way.
The silver lining for us in Whatever it
is in tie second note to Germany which
Mr.. rryan looks upon as a war cloud, is
the fact that we have for chief executive
man of the hour, q great, good and
resorrccful ran, possessing all Of the
ability and all of the proper sympathy
that is needed in this hour of grave
crisis.
The United States of America must not
be drawn into war. 1t CANNOT be
X drawn into war without the sacrifice
of all the years of labor that have been
devoted 30 building up a leadership for
universal peace and the common brother
hood Of man.
We rest secure for faith in Woodrow
Wilson that we are not TO be drawn
into war. and that he is striving intelli
gently, conscientiously and diligently e
AVERT war.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10
Three Ways IN Which Disease Germs
Are Spread and HOW to AU0id Them

There are three PRINCIPAL ways In
which a.sras- germs are carried
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10

William Jennings Bryan is to be well
coined back among us as a private citi-
zen. and let us wish him success in
spreading his gospel of peace.
Let us hear him well and let him
treat our hearts and sentiments so that
We may come to look with full under
standing upon the heathenism of what
4 = going on in Europe, and rejoice that
~ ~ NO part of 1t, and pray that
hooone no part of it.
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10

toa--r "s'~s-i
The Detroit times., 1915-06-10

D4E TlNiE You WERE SHOPPING
AROUND TIE CIRCUS AND a
CANVAS Man INSIDE TIE Tent
SNA<HED ToU IN -Tt+E JAW
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"Can't you tell by what's missin'?"
says l.
"Of course" says Sadie, and makes a
dash for Sully's room. In two minutes
she reports: 81 don't find his Scout hat
and leggings."
"Then he must have 'em on" says l.
"That gives us something to describe
Come on, Sadie we'll take jaunt around
in the car"
It's wonder too | didn't have bean
enough to follow the bunch closer; for
Sully's been wild over this Boy Scout
business ever since they got up compny
among the town boys. Course he is most
too young to join; but we had to buy him
off with an imitation outfit,-hat, leggin's,
and red cotton handkerchief to drape
the costume constant.
Still, all | thought of was that he was
around the neighborhood somewhere,
playin Scout; so we starts to make a cir
cult, stoppin' now and then to ask people
if they'd seen him. Nobody had. We'd
covered some ground too in half an hour,
and it was just by accident I'd turned into
this Dunkirk Pike.
"But he couldn't have got as far away
as this" protests Sadie. "Why keep on?"
al don't know" says L; "only thought
we'd run up here and then cut through
and come back along the Post Road"
We was eight or nine miles from home
then, and goin' north at that; SO it did
seem sort of hopeless. 1t was near half
past six too. I'd come to the cross road,
and was just maxim the turn, when gets
a glimpse of something comm down the
pike. On chance slows up and waits.
Pretty soon we could make out a tall, slim
party walkin' along, holdin' a youngster
by the hand A minute more and Sadie
sings out gleeful:
ooh, it's Sully! Pm sure it's Sully!"
She's right; for when the pair comes
trudgin' along there's little Sully in his
broad-brimmed hat, his face all streaked
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with dust and sweat, and his feet movin'
draggy. Don't take long either for Sadie
to gather him in.
"Ah, say!" says Sully, tryin' to wiggle
free. "Don't squeeze Teller so tight
"But, dear" says Sadie, "where have
you been? Were you LOST"
"Lost!" echoes Sully disguised. "Say,
ma, | was just takin' hike, that's ALL
Want |, Mister Bob?"
At which the tall, kind of stoop-shoul-
dered stranger who'd been TOWN. him
along chuckes good-natured.
Rather an ambitious hike too for such
short legs" says he. ale was bound for
Camp Pemiwassett."
"But that's twenty miles," gasps Sadie.
"We drove up there only the other day.
You didn't think you could walk that far,
did you, Sully?"
al guess Chick Bailey did it," says
Sully. "rd done it too, if-if my shoe
hadn't hurled"
"Blisters," puts in the stranger. alt
was all the fault of the shoe, assure you.
We managed to fix it up with little alb
sorbent cotton and surgeons tape. Even
then Master Sully didn't want to give up.
| fear persuaded him to turn back The
fact is, we were having such good time
together, that | was rather selfish about
it. You have real boy there, if Sully
will pardon the personal remark. MIR. and
Mrs. McCabe, | presume? My name is
Leavitt."
TT seems they'd run across each other
about four o'clock, when the biisters were
just gettin in their fine work. and after
some little talk Sully had been induced to
ride pigback into the nearest town, where
Mr.. Leavitt had applied frst-aid treat
ment outside drugstore. They were
strikin' for the Rockhurst trolley when we
found 'em.
So that's how we happens to entertain
Mr. Bob Leavitt at dinner that night.
Kind of seedy-lookin', middle-aged
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IT COULD tell by the worried look in
Saddles eyes as she watches for me to
swing off the smokin' car and come
Il down the platform that something
was wrong Besides, usually like to hoof
it home from the station; so it amt often
she meets me with the car. Which is why
ask, right off the bat, what's up.
"Sully!" says she. "He-hes been gone
since right after breakfast
"Huh!" says l. "The young tarrier!
Amt spendin' the day at Dominick's
again, is he?"
mo; I've been over there" says she.
"They haven't seen him."
"Or at the Baileys?" says |.
She shakes her head. "Both the Bailey
boys are away" says she. an camp, you
know"
Didn't anybody around the house see
him leave?" | goes on.
at seems not" says Sadie. "Mother
Whaley and were busy with baby sister,
and the others say they thought he was
playing about the grounds. He's always
so starved and eager for his luncheon too;
but to-day he-he didn't come at all. |
don't know where he can be or what can
have happened"
At which Sadie chokes up bit and gets
a firm grip on one of my hands.
"There, there!" says |. "YOu know
what boys are. And Sully's gettin' to be
quite a young husk, remember"
"But nine hours!' says Sadie. "Hes
never been away that long before. And
don't know where to look"
"Pooh!' says l.. Likely he's at home
by now. Let's 60 see."
LIE wasn't, though, and Mother Whaley
was just on the point of telephonin
the police.
"Ah stow that says I. "Those town
fatfoots couldn't find a lost elephant
unless it stepped on 'em. Let's do our
own sleuthin. First off, what was he
wearing"
"Sure, amt tellin' We no wan saw the
darlint go?" walls Mother Whaley. $50
how should We"
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gent he is, when we get him in good light.
He needs shave and haircut, and his
clothes could have stood trip to the
pressin' club. l expect that's why he
SHES so at comm home with us; but of
course we wouldn't listen to anything else.
A soft-spOken party he is, though, with
a quiet, chuckly laugh and mild, deep-set
eyes. So it want long before we'd COM
pletely forgotten the chin stubble and the
outin' shirt Didn't have much to say
about himself. In vague sort of way,
though, he hints how he'd been laid up for
spell with the colywobbles or some
thing, due to the grub dealt out in the
third-class cabin of some steamer that
he'd come over on, and that he'd been on
a walkin' trip since leavin' the hospital,
tryin' to get back in shape.
dts my great walking"
says he.
"Mine too," says I. "Ever tramped
much in this section before?"
"No," says he. "Ive been in the States
very little these last dozen years. I've
heard of Observation-Disclosures how
ever. l believe that some one l used to
know is living here"
"That,so? says |.
"Morton Hicks" says he.
"Oh!" says |. "Morton j."
He mods ave used to 60 to school to-
gether years ago up in Utica" he goes on.
II haven't seen him since; but II
thought I'd look him up sometime
"Sure, says l. Hes one of our solid
citizens, Hicks. Just moved into his new
house. Suppose | run you around there
after we've had our coffee?"
Leavitt hesitated bit. 81 don't know
as | ought to go-like this" says he, rub
bin his hand over his chin doubtful.
"Oh, what's the odds?" says |. "An old
schoomate! He's no silk-stockin', Hicks.
Well fixed, l guess, and all that; but no
great swell. Course it looks like he meant
to cut quite figure soon, with that near
Moorish mansion of his. Kind Of fond
of shown it off, | understand. Come
along. I've been meanin' to drop in on
him myself some evenin'."
Maybe l shouldn't have urged him;
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A Late Flop by Hicks

By SEWELL FORD
illustrations by +. FAUX Wilson