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The Detroit times., 1915-05-27
A Poem a Day.
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The conventional uhctsancrs Ga
MIR ktpliuS.
Daily, with purse ANA hand has tho
careless shoppers went
To be guided IN the marts 90 Manhat
tan bA the bunk advertisement
Daily they bousht ot the bargains.
fell FOR the "Nre sale suass
Until one day ,ame Adams sam. the
man Who writes like a bear
And now. IN the shopping ffstrtrt
from morn uu eve is seen
Fakadski, the olI nlind rcssar rag
ged and sore and lean.
Seeking dole in tho doorway. ho
murmurs e. all who come
a curse on the head 81 Adams sam
who put me here on the hum
"oh WAS q thriving merchant nay
customers came with cash.
For paid the papers 90 praise IN,
truck and trickrd my trade
With trash
sold them socks that we've second
thut advertised as Gh" hr-tl
carried Come, tirut kcNys bat B
labelled sm Euda Pest
NJ furs were patchwork ~ piece.
OF small tnslgriN-ant tanks.
The coats Marked TO Thirty so Dol
lars We're worth about seven.
teen pluuks
Then burst the truth from Adams
sam and Nisrd up the suuclcs.
hHSer
re punctursd my marhdoVr' pun,
and showed NE up Cor a iar
For ne was a hear ~ the business
hear Nth human mind .-
Re told me tvould paw go Ne honest
and Heavens hut I was hind
tie showed up nav selling methods
NY lying labels and st.
And the sr-'whil- simple 80 kr'
strolled eiseN here u spend n"
srAds
$50 penalties her. on the pavement
pyate ~ departed Sble
For m. shoppers stunned tsna SAGE
un NV genuine bankrupt sale.
takaiskt. the oih blind hesg1r.- "Net
day you MAY SO t'm '.~re
GUESSING the cartas- c' NaarIs sam
the man " o writes like bear
New York Tribune
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

most from this disease and not only
does & often result In the death
o.. many children but II frequently
l. avea child with weakened Kid.
news, diseased ear or a weak
heart The germ which causes the
C.soase has not been found.
\ child develops scarlet fever
IN from three ~ ten days after
being exposed 10 case and the
aryf symptoms usually are vomlt.
ins. sore throat and fever. In
from u 10 % hours a rash ap.
pears which resembles slight
burn all over the body Some.
times the rash only remains IA few
hours but Il may last longer.
AFTER the rash has disappeared
the skin comes OF In fine scales
over the body, and on the hands
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27
From Another
Point of VielD

Italy has no cause TO enter the war
except u avoid an economic debacle.
Lou Rowley says. Oh, yes, Lou knows
all the hard ones. His communications
are great reading for the man VINO
rusty on his Webster.
Climbs ike a chamols," says an adj
yertisement Of a well-known automobile
concern.
But when you start comparing motor
cars with animals, adds CAD, there IS
no limit. For instance it might be said
Of some cars We nnOw-'Crawls Ike a
snail. Burrows like ground mole,
Shorts like a rhinoceros, 'Purrs like a
kitten. 'Barks like dog. Kicks like
a mule, Smells like a pole cat, al IN
finitum.'
\ board of education committee spent
some time arguing over what kind Of
shears % buy for the use Of the pupils
in the schools. And judging from this
years tax rate. il may not be amlss TO
suggest that little instruction in the
use Of shears wouldn't do the inspectors
any harm either.
by keeping at John for three years,
-aid Detroit wife, 81 finally persuaded
MIN 10 buy an auto
Whereupon il was remarked by his
auditor that John drove up 70 il slowly.
A Denver shoemaker weighs i05
pounds. He seems 20 wax fat at his bus
mess.
French soldiers have been commanded
to cut off their whiskers The room is
probably needed in the trenches
As we understand the situation, the
/ last thing 10 be desired just now is a
meeting in the same iock between A
/ German band and hand organ
a st. Louis woman was found carry
/ ing complete set Of burglar tools. Get
/ ting money from husbands looks 10 be
/ getting harder than ever
/ The Germans are reported 90 have
/ taken 20 900 more Russian prisoners day
before yesterday. II may have been in
| Russia that they started that expression
] Nobody home"
| In Toghfn China tha M ,rof.x
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27
MOSQUITOES NEAR POLE

The presence Of mosquitoes In myriads NTH
in the bare uninhabited Arctic circle a surely
IN some degree mystery The mosquito b. p
bloodsuckcr, but IN these unyisited plains sr
is for the most part and az strict necessity "a
vegetarian A few birds excepted (and tho
birds are furnished with imp"rvious feather
there is no local life whatever Tho Lamp in
summer drives HIS reindeer 10 the sea and no.
native crosses the field II ne can help H. We,
in this region seemingly tho most unsuitable
for It's effective working" tho mosquito Nou-.
ishes. "A primeval and enduring curse inrvpllc
ably developed 10 its utmost Chicago Herald
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

installing a filtration plant that will not
only remove danger of a typhoid epidem-
ic from impure water but will also give
US soft water for laundry and bathing
purposes-WHl DON'T WE DO III
1t might even cut down the consump-
ton Of beer by those whose excuse Is
that beer is Sterillzed, while our water
is not.
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

disease SCarlef
fever IL a pre-
- ntable disease
and when II oc.
ours and spread 2
N IL an evidence
OF neRlec. and
carelessness.
Children suffer
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

One hundred and 'or,y.fvs Ian.
guages arr spoken In India.
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

Scarlet fever. scarlatina or rose
rash are all names for tho same
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

Detroit Should Get Busy NOW
and Purify It's Water Supply.
will it take a typhoid epidemic To
make Detroit clean up its water supply -
That is the question asked by Health
Officer Price and score or more Of city
officials, physicians and strangers with
In our gates who are familiar with the
water situation.
II is true that many Of these strangers
( are engineers, looking for big contracts;
but their opinion merely comedies with
that of plenty of Detroiters.
We have so many improvements to
make that we have resolved TO go on TAX
ing chances with our water.
There is the Belle Isle bridge, to cost
$1,000, 900. more or less.
\ There is the art center to be developed,
Ct cost Of several millions.
There are pavements and sewers to be
laid.
They are even agitating a new city
hall.
Meanwhile, at the waterwOrks, they
are installing a chlorine outfit. crossing
their fingers and touching wood.
AND ALL BECAUSE OUR WATER
ISN'T MUDDY.
IL Detroit river water contained little
silt, enough to make the stream a de-
Hcious brown, chocolate-color, we would
have had fit ration many months ago.
st. Louis passed up the mud, more
\ than decade ago; Cincinnati also has re-
fused to dirty its inner man; Toledo has
declined to coat itself with the upper
\ Naumee valley.
But Detroit, blest with clear water,
eoes merrily, if perilously, onward in the
belief that what you don't see doesn't
hurt you.
It's comfortable theory; but theories
! don't kill B. coli, and screening water
Through one-inch screen doesn't even
remove the garden worms.
The chlorine treatment will doubtless
\ b of great advantage in killing the
germs, but the health men and the water
\ experts admit that il is merely a pallia-
n tive-it doesn't remove all the danger,
\ By any means.
For the chlorine treatment won't re.
/ move the dirt from the water. and dirt
may smuggle many bacillus into the
water pipes.
In st. Louis, they have installed a
\ filtration plant that is saving the COM
\ munity s72 day.
81 Yes, il is actually manufacturing S72
= day for the people of the city, while II
q protects them against disease and gives
4 them soft water 10 wash in.
The st. Louis waterworks supplies 70
i zoe, 900 people a maximum of 10000
y 600 gallons of pure, soft water day.
The water comes out Of one Of the
n muddiest rivers in the world, the Mis-
Vi aissippi.
First, the sand and gravel is removed
4 By gravity; then the water receives some
\ milk of lime. to soften it, then sulphate
Of iron is added, which settles the mud !;
then the water passes into the filters Of
sand and gravel, which removes all the
E1.maining impurities: and at some point
4 u It's progress. il is treated with chlorine
y 20 kill the germs.
k The water goes into the plant dirty,
3 hard, dangerous; it comes out clean, soft,
kpure.
MA Il costs $I24 day to run the plant /;
Eond Il saves $496 day in soap bills.
y Best of all. the plant cost, not 81 ,0oO,-
roo, ~ one engineer estimated for De-
Bolt, but $l.360,000.
70 Detroit can actually save money by
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

Deacon Burdock announc-
ed after countin' tn collection
FIR tn week that there scems
little likelihood Of gettin' Billy
Sunday L come & Elm Corners.
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

IN Cochin China. the inhabitants prefer rotten
eggs 20 fresh ones.
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

The Germans are reported 20 have
taken 10000 more Russian prisoners day
before yesterday. II may have been in
Russia that they started that expression :
Nobody home
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

a st. Louis woman was found carry
ing complete set Of burglar tools. Get
ting money from husbands looks 10 be
getting harder than ever.
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

Il Detroit can actually save money by
The Detroit times., 1915-05-27

ard feet may come OF in large
fnkeE
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05


selves through their representatives
had said should be put into effect for
the safety of employees.
1.-THE immediate effect of this cam
paign was, under better system of
accident reporting, the number of in
dustrial accidents fell fifty per cent
and the fatal ones were reduced from
nearly four hundred to one hundred
ninety two in 1912, and there has been
more safeguarding done in any one of
the last four years than for every five
prior thereto.
"But study of the accident roll for
the last two and half or three years
reveals the fact that not one accident
out of hundred is occurring on a
machine or in place which is capable
of being guarded. Of the $4,000 ac-
cidents occurring during this period
1900 occurred by the use Of hand tools
such as saws, hammers, etc; 1880 by
flying objects such as chips, splinters,
ETC.; 2,400 by falls off of chairs lad
ders, etc.; 400 by piles of lumber,
stone, barrels, bags of cement, parts
Of machines, ETC., falling down on
workmen.
ESQ, the commission feels that if
there is to be any material further re-
duction of accidents the men them
selves must be reached, and the moving
picture and slide method is one of the
methods adopted for reaching them. /"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05


than 100000 per year, that after the
expenses Of the litigation necessary to
secure this amount, such as attorney
fees, court expenses, hospital and doctor
bills, were paid, it left a net sum of
something like $4,000 to pay for 400
deaths and $4,000 other industrial ac-
cidents, to say nothing about the in
tense bitter feeling which such sit
.uation was fostering and maturing be-
tween employer and employee. Again,
this investigation showed that while
nearly all other forms of litigation
were on the decrease compared with
the increase in population and increase
in legislation, the number of suits for
damages for accidents was rapidly ias
creasing and the time of our courts
more and more taken up by this class
of litigation, and / have it from no less
authority than one Of our supreme
court justices that this class of htiga-
ton was costing the taxpayers OF the
state no less than $5,O00,000 a year.
During the last few years prior to the
enactment of the workmen's compensa-
tion act the number of circuit pudges
was increased from Is to "a, and there
has been no increase since that time.
The expense of maintaining any two
Of these circuits costs the people more
money than the administration of the
compensation act costs for the whole
state.
After studying this situation for
two more years, the legislature enact
ed the workmen' compensation act
and repealed all the old safety laws
and enacted the industrial commission
law which gives the commission au-
thority to determine what is safe and
to issue orders necessary to make I'M
safe places safe.
The first step in this campaign for
safety was to collect three exhibits Of
twelve hundred photographs and blue
prints, each Of common ordinary me-
ty devices in common use and such as
could be made by any ordinary me-
chanic in the shop. These exhibits
were placed at the disposal of the en-
ployers in all the industrial centers of
the state. One of these was in your
city for two weeks and it was visited
by practically all employers, superin
tendents and foremen in Kenosha
The next step in this program for
safety was the appointment of safety
committee composed of both employers
belonging to the state employer IS as
ISOLATION, and the State Federation Of
Labor, to study the accident roll of
the state and recommend to the com
mission orders for industrial safety,
and one of the most valuable members
of that committee is one of the en-
ployers Of the city Of Kenosha.
After these orders. were issued the
deputies of the commission were sent
into the field to be of every possible
assistance to employers in putting into
effect those rules which they them
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05
MARRIED ON SATURDAY.
Miss Amy K. Hansen Becomes Bride of
G. E. Binninger in Pretty Ceremony.

There was pretty little wedding
at the First Baptist Church on Satur-
day afternoon when Miss Amy K.
Hansen became the bride of George
E. Binninger. Both are well known
young people of Kenosha. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. I. w. Corey in
the presence Of a few close friends and
relatives of the bride and groom. The
bride was attended by Miss Elsie
Stevens of Kenosha, as maid of honor,
and Edward Lindstrom of Kenosha
acted as best man. After the ceremony
at the church wedding dinner was
served after which Mr.. and Mrs. Bin
ninger left on their honeymoon for an
extended trip through the west They
will be home with their friends about
the middle of August
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05
Mission Of America Is to Propagate the
Ideals Of Right Over Might
By President CHARLES W DABNEY. unverasy i Cincinnati

the Of America to show the nations how to live together
like brethren great federation modelled after these United
States
L we only keep hands clean Of innocent blood help
make peace between the bleeding nations L keep
clear AMERICA MAY BECOME THE CONSCIENCE OF THE
WORLD AND PROPAGATE THE IDEALS OF. RIGHT OVER
MIGHT, OF Law OVER FORCE, OF SERVICE OVER CON
QUEST
America best mankind this awful time keeping right
herself The higher and keep standard of
the greater will be the better
nation to discharge the task which the
calls it as the champion of humanity
NOT OUR OWN SALVATION NOT OUR OWN GLORY BUT
HuANiTVs SAKE THEREFORE, NOW REcoNsEcRATE
OURSELVES TRUTH RIGHTEOUSNESS
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05

Without presuming to decide how
much ground there is for it, suspic-
ion is growing among the police OH
ciais around the state that when there
is an escape from any of the penal
institutions or the asylums an attempt
As made to shield the heads Of the IN
stitution by not making the facts pub
he at once. If the escaped prisoners
hre believed to be making for a certain
city, the police of that city are warned
to be on the watch but no general
alarm that would put all of the officers
OF all cities on the lookout is sent out.
Ut this is the case the system is wrong.
The public should be warned. Grimm
ais or insane with ingenuity or wit
enough to get away are the ones that
IT is dangerous to have at large and
the more publicity that is given to
every escape the better chance there
Is Of catching them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05
MANY DEATHS IN STATE.
Report. of State Board of Health
Shows Total of 6,793.

During the months of April, May
and June, 1915, six thousand seven
hundred and ninety-three deaths were
reported by the various local registrars
throughout Wisconsin. The number
corresponds to an annual death rate Of
11.6 per thousand population. 1t COM
pares with rate of ia for 1908, 1872
for 1909; 11.8 for 1910; III for 1911;
lis for 1892; 11.9 for 1913, and Ill
for 1914. Thus the rate for the second
quarter of 1915 is not higher than the
average for the preceding six years.
1t is an average mortality rate for the
season of the year covered by the re-
port A slight decline is reported in
the deaths from all the communicable
diseases except whooping cough and
infantile paralysis.
The very marked decline in deaths
reported from scarlet fever and diph-
liberia, as compared with the number Of
deaths reported from these diseases
during the months of April, May and
June, 1914, indicates greater care in
diagnosing these diseases and in prop
erly quarantining them as soon as dis
covered, +" says the bureau Of vital
statistics in its quarterly report. "The
saving Of sixty-three lives, which
would have resulted from scarlet
fever had the rate been as high as in
previous years, is most valuable
work and fully justifes the expendi-
lures incurred in making proper dag
noses, providing adequate quarantine
and proper disinfection after the death
or recovery Of the patient.
There is noted a decrease Of three
hundred thirty-six deaths over SINH
lar period of last year. There is a de-
cline of ninety three in deaths among
children under one year of age, and
one hundred and forty in the group
from one to four years of age, but an
increase Of sixty-eight among persons
sixty five years of age and over, COM
pared with the mortality of 1914.
Important causes of death, with the
number, follow: Pulmonary tuberculo-
sis, sol; other tuberculosis, 70; typhoid
fever, "a; diphtheria, 45; scarlet fever,
is; measles, Z; whooping cough, %;
pneumonia, 683; meningitis, SO; in
fluenza, 38; puerperal septicemia, 10;
cancer, 42s; violence, 423; still
births, 425.
The northern portion of the state has
a death rate for this period of 90 per
thousand population; the central sec
ton 11.2, and the southern section ia
Considering deaths from violence,
the report discloses that eighty-one re-
suited from suicide, fftyfve from ac-
cidental drowning, ffty-one from rail
road accidents, twenty eight from
scalds and burns, twenty-four from
accidental falls, fifteen from horse
vehicles and horses, fourteen from au-
tomobile accidents, eleven from acci-
dental gunshot wounds, ten from
homicides, five from street car accidents
and four from dynamite explosions.
There were two deaths from small
pox, five from ptomaine poisoning, five
from syphilis and one from infantile
paralysis. The one death from infan-
tile paralysis occurred in Rock county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05
Successful Business Men Actuated BY High
er Motives Than Wealth and Power
By ALEXANDER NEW, Business Expert

THE American business graspng have called him an
ideals The greater number Of big business
business for something besides money and there is little lust for
among them Most Of them asonishirgly modest
The impulse toward high minded business
Of the significant social symptoms the world today
SCARCELY SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN WHO IS NOT
TRYING FIGURE USE HIS MONEY FOR THE
GENERAL GOOD THEY DIFFER THEY FINAL
LY DECIDE UPON, BUT ALMOST EVERY ONE is TRYING
The business this generation infinitely less selfish than the
business OF the last generation He doing
he wants motors residences diamonds for his
wife, but because he nbued with REAL PAS
SION FOR ACHIEVEMENT, WHICH IN THE LAST ANALYSIS
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05
PLAN MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS
Racine and Kenosha May Cooperate in
Forming Naval Militia Company

An agitation has been started TO
form a naval militia company in Ra-
cine and Kenosha with the understand
ing that the company is to be made up
from recruits from the two cities. One
company of this kind is now being
formed in Milwaukee to be added to
the Wisconsin Naval militia which
now has two divisions, one located at
Ashland and the other at Superior.
The proposition is new one for the
Kenosha men but they have signifed
a willingness to join with Racine in
the effort to form the company. Some
formal announcement of the plans for
the organization will be made within
the next few days.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05
BIG IMPETUS FOR MOVEMENT
Factory Workers Are Expected to Take
An Especial Interest in Films Which
Have Been Prepared With a Great
Deal of Care and Expense


A big impetus isto be given to the
|" Safety First movement among man
ufacturers in the city within short
time when the State Industrial Com
mission will send to Kenosha a series
of moving pictures which are expected
to aid materially in teaching lessons
of safety to factory workmen The
pictures have been prepared at consid-
cradle expense and with great deal
of care and they are said to be doing a
lot of good wherever they have been
shown in the state. In speaking Of
the entertainment j. D. Beck, indus
trial commissioner, has made the fol
lowing statement.
HThe entertainment of the evening
IS part of the program for industrial
safety inaugurated by the industrial
commission nearly four years ago. Up
until that time the safety work IN
places of employment was carried on
by factory inspectors who were com
PEELED by law to visit factories, ascer-
tain what danger points existed in VIC
laiton of the law, serve notice on the
employer to comply with the law in
80, go or ninety days as the case might
be, and then at the end Of the time
limit revisit the factory and if these
places still existed in violation of law
the inspector would proceed before the
courts to secure compliance. Proseca-
items for such violations increased from
few per year te $50 per year and the
strange part of it allwas, The accident
roll increased in about the same pro-
portion
This situation lead the bureau of
labor, which I represented at that time,
to wonder where this method of at
lacking the safety problem would end,
whether we might not find solution
elsewhere. We therefore made an in
vestigation of the subject of employers
liability and Workmen 5 compensation.
That inquiry lead to the fact that only
about forty per cent of the employers
were carrying insurance; that these
employers were paying something like
$650,000 to insurance companies for
protection against liability for acct
dents; that this protection did not pro-
tect. It also revealed the fact, that,
under somewhat defective system Of
accident reporting there were annually
$4,000 industrial accidents occurring in
the state, each of which caused a loss
of two week s time or more; that near
" 400 of these accidents were fatal;
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05
MANY RECEIVING AID.
Quarterly Report Of Pauper Commits
sion Shows Many People Supported.

The quarterly report of the pauper
committee, which has just been fled
with the city clerk, shows that during
the past three months ffty-one fami-
lies with total of Isl people in them
received part Or full support from the
city. This included SO children under
fourteen years Of age and 20 children
over the age of fourteen. The report
shows that in the three months nine
families, which had been receiving aid
from the city, had been taken off the
city lists. It is notable fact that a
majority of the cases where aid is be-
ing extended are cases where aid has
been demanded on account of the fact
that the wage earners of the family
are disabled. The report shows that
there are at present 13 inmates in the
city poor house. The city has main
tanned two patients N the Kenosha
hospital during the quarter. The re-
port as a whole reflects vastly improv-
ed conditions over the former three
months period.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-05

Adam Bernok, arrested several days
ago on a charge of making a brutal
assault on his wife, pleaded guilty to
charges of assault and battery in the
municipal court this morning. Mrs.
Bernok, who was at the time thought
to have been very seriously injured,
was in court. Bernok was sentenced
to three months at hard labor in the
county Jail. He is expected to work
but to eat and sleep at the Jail and
his earnings viii be turned over to
the wife.