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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
From Another Point of VieV

Roosevelt refuses to 90 to the Root of
the trouble in Chicago in 1917.
The balladist whose career began with
How Would You Like to BE the Ice
Man," has answered the final summons
and his first song.
In a little while we will have orators
coming here to tell the Board of Com
merce how the City of Mexico overcame
the liquor iniquity.
1t is announced that the traffic ordi-
nances become effective today, but too
much should not be expected OF the police
until they become familiar with them.
The Railway Age Gazette pays tribute
TO the efficiency of the $4,000 French
women who are working on the railways.
Not one of them has been found asleep
1t the switch.
Col. Oliver II. Payne, Standard Oil
magnate, has asked to have the taxes on
his winter home quadrupled Still, men
often go to pieces at the CoonelS age.
Now and then one Of the German pro-
fessors comes out OF the Notifications at
Harvard and makes ferocious drive at
this defenseless nation.
Chicago has closed the Sunday saloons.
hut it is offering something Just as good
wide open street cars for all winter
Say, whoever supposed Serbia had so
1nuch territory to fall Back in?
With the exception Of 'imbecility and
Republican house leader
Mann thinks the Democrats are doing all
right.
Patriots that they are, London work.
men oppose shorter hours at this critical
| eriod-for keeping sober.
We are pretty dry here below; next,
dry u. Z.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
New YOrk's Barge Canal

One OF the few proposals indors-
ed by the New York electorate was
the s27000,000 bond issue necessary
TO complete the Erie barge canal
New York states transportation de
velopment Is closely concerned with
the old Erie canal. ana 1t IS ex-
pected that the enlarged and I'm
proved canal will do for shippers
today even more than the Old canal
did in the years preceding the dc
yelopment ~ the railway systems
The canal referendum had the
support OF many OF the most con
servative business concerns OF the
state The commercial organiza-
tons Of New York city were in IA
yor OF H. Nevertheless. some bad
arguments were made, as well as
good II was said for example. that
800. 000,0 had already been spent.
under a previous bond issue, and
that the results OF this work would
30 lost were the $4,000 900 with
held: that the courts had sustains d
condemnation proceedings. whereby
tho state was required 20 pay for
sl7.0O0000 worth of property along
the waterway. whether the new Is
sue was accepted OF rejected Now
that the Issue Is approved. this sl7.-
900 900 may be paid and leave s1o.-
600 900 FOR the completion OF tho
engineering work n Is doubtful
whether this amount will be suffi.
client.
The canal referendum appears 10
have been remarkably free from
politics. II was argued that the
railways were unable 20 carry all
the freight, and that their terminate
would be too small within a few
years. Expansion IN limited areas
was held possible only by means
% the barge canal Furthermore,
the promise OF reduced freight rates
seems 70 have been made freely.
too freely, IN fact, IN view OF the
history ~ water transportation. II
IL probable that the canal referen.
DUN was aided by the hope that,
in the competition thus introduced.
rail rates between Buffalo and New
York-or between the Great Lake
ports and the would be
reduced
Plans for the speedy completion
Of the canal have long ago been pre-
pared, and work will be FASTENED.
This will also mean tho rejuvena.
ton OF many small cities and towns
along the waterway which have
only lately provided themselves
with wharyes and warehouses;
indianapolis News
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
Pointed Paragraphs

And the sillier some men are the
louder thy talk.
How strange II is that Only sensi-
bic folks agree with US,
Some men think that a luxurious
stand Of whiskers adds 10 their dig.
nifty.
As long as a young man can't tell
the color OF a girls eyes nc IL safe
Adam had h's troubles, but he
missed the dressmaking and milli-
merry bills.
A woman's face may be her for.
tune, but men usually get by on
their nerve y.
Improved machinery enables a
man ia accomplish almost rs many
things as a woman can with hair.
pin
Satan cares nothing whatever
abort O. mans attending church on
The Sabbath IN he gets his services
the other six days In the week.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
HOSPITAL NOISES.
X. AoDiNeToN


rooms OF patients who may be seri.
ously i'll.
All this perhaps seems a trt1ing
matter to you. But you are in per.
feet health And. even when 81
perfect health, is it not true that
II you happen 10 be fatigued or in
any way nervously upset noises OF
this sort arc most annoying 10 you +?
To the person who IS III they are
more than annoying. People who
have been through surgical opera.
tions have wildly described 20 me
the agony afterwsrd caused to the n
by so slight thing as the creahng
OF hinge tina. needed only a drop
of oil to silence 1t.
Il thought / should go crazy" is
the way one woman put IL to me.
II kept listening for that terrible
creak. and vixen II came had all
1 could do to prevent myself from
Shrieking."
Such a mental state is not con.
duciye to healthy working OF the
vital processes. On the contrary II
acts as real depressant TO them,
ard thus, by direct influencing them
adversely. retards the return OF
treugth.
Think about this, urge you. And
do not" simply think about il. Agi.
tate about e.
Talk OF it TO every physician you
know Let them understand that
they should make II their business
10 inquire closely into the nolsiness
or noiselessness OF the hospitals 10
which they will have occasion 10
send their patients.
II is a matter which some day
may be OF direct personal concern
10 you. or 10 some member OF your
family.
You are well now, but perhaps
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
Social Note-Dreadnaught
Christening Delayed

If reports are correct, the estimated
cost of building the hulls and putting
in the machinery of our two new super
dreadnaughts is S7,800000 This is the
governments estimate; all private con-
Germs go up to eight million dollars, the
highest being S8,240,500. Besides this
it will take forty months for the process
Of building after which must come all
the rest of The cost of work and equip
ment.
The bids are so high that the govern
ment is considering doing the work itself
in which case there is a suggestion that
an embargo be put upon the foreign
shipment of steel by this country.
All this is very perplexing. If the
ship builders are not given the job of
building our battleships, what will be
their attitude on the subject of prepar-
edness?
What would the steel people do if
there were an embargo on steel and their
market were America?
would the stoppage OF the export OF
steel mean raw steel or munitions of
war? In either case Germany would
be delighted and the allies would be the
losers.
BY the time the great hulks were COM
pleted, it is reasonable to suppose that
the war will be thing of the past, but
we will have our huge fighting machines,
which we must maintain and we can all
dig into our pockets and pay the bills.
It will be a glorious day when we read
the big headlines of their launching and
when Miss Somebody or other breaks
bottle of something or other on their
iron prows. Then can we all sing hal
lelujah-and go on with our digging
sowing reaping or automobile making as
if nothing had happened.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22

The modern hospital is a splen-
did institution II plays an import.
ant--a most imp0rtant-part in the
civic life OF today. With It's excel.
lent equipment, and its stan OF well
trained nurses. it Is boon for
which We should feel thankful
But there is one respect In which
the modern hospital often Is
strangely defcients This is in la
mentable lack Of adequate provision
against unnecessary noise.
IT Is no exaggerstion 10 say that
the convalescence Of many a hos
pltal patient has been greatly de-
layel by noises which should have
no place in a really well-ordered hos
pital
This Is particularly true of pa
tents who are temperamentally
nervous, and patients who are re-
covering from the effects OF some
operation.
After an operation the whole
nervous system is on edge. Rest
and quiet are Indispensable to pro-
mote normal recovery from surgi-
cal shock.
Yet In too many hospitals the
quiet which should prevail is con
tinuslly broken in ways which. TO
put 4 mildly, testify 90 a singular
thouGhtlessness on the part OF the
hospital authorities
In some hospitals the rafting 81
dishes that are being washed may
be plainly hearY patients. Win
dows and doors are hung so badly
that they squeak lad creak.
Chairs are not always fitted with
sound. killing devices The rum.
bling Of elevators is not properly
stilled. Sounds from bells and buz.
GERS penetrate needlessly into the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
A Poem a Day

ON THE ROAD TO CHoRRERA.
Three horsemen galloped the dusty
way
while sun and moon were both IN
the sky
An old crone crouched in the cactus
shade.
Ana. crayed an aims as they rode
By
4 frleudiess bag she seemed TO be.
Eut the queen OF a bandit crew
was she
One h9rseman tossed her seanfy
dole
a soothing coupIet the second troll
nut tho third from HE blue frank
ewes and free.
No glance vOuchsafed tho hejdam
a. tauard the sunset and the sea.
No evil fearing. rode the three
4 curse she gave FOR the pittanes
a gibe Tor tho eouplers rlbald
Brit trsi which once had been her
At s.sht Of tho si,n, horseman
And safe through the ambush
hand they spaced
For tho sake - The rider who
-Ario Bates
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22

the sands of the desert and are multiply
ing daily.
We seem TO be experimentalists and
each group has its own little laboratory
where it is trying out its own ideas,
passing them on for good or i'll upon
I'm Indifferent public which does not even
realize that it is the end in view.
Anyway. one of these minor move
ments is this Of the publishers (for in
tellectual and commercial reasons, we
must suppose) for instituting Home
Library Week" and bringing to our no
tice through attractive exhibits in the
bio cities. "the best books Of the year
that we may see them, handle them and
know what we may have for our own.
This is library week" and such a dis
play is now on exhibition in Detroit
To the book lover II will be rare
treat and 70 those who have never
learned to love books and TO find in them
friends who sympathize with tender
words in times of stress, or rejoice with
glowing phrases in times of success and
Happiness may have responsive chord
touched in their hearts; for next best to
the living presence Of great souls is the
presence Of their written words.
These symbols Of JOY, sorrow, hope
and achievement are preserved to US for
ever for our immortal happiness and
satisfaction, and if we do not avail our
selves of the comfort and delight they
bring, one part of our being has been
denied an incalculable aid in its develop
ment
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
Library Week-He Who
Motors May Read

We hear that there Is q national "re-
vival of reading; that the American
people, so prone to devour the uewspa-
pers for their intellectual sustcnancc and
read neurotic love stories for their
amusement, are being "uplifted, in spite
of themselves, by the publishers Of the
country who desire to set before them
the best and not the poorest literary food
FOR their consumption.
"a We are told by Europeans who come
over here with more or less regularity
for the purpose of repenishing their
finances, that we are not thinkers and
we listen with great good humor to all
the things we are not, and the various
things we are, as if we were new sort
of specimen with a pin stuck through it,
but we do not wriggle, and some of us
think enough to believe that the stranger
in our midst may be right.
How can we tell? We are in no posi-
ton TO see ourselves in perspective.
Whether we are thinkers or not, we
Fare making wild scramble to get some
where and do something, which is shown
~ the leagues, societies, organizations
- associations which are already as
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
Gladstone's Optimism

His temperament is extraordinary
ly optimistic. he told me himself
that he never had had low spirits In
his life nothing but a continuation
OF bad weather could affect his
spirits. Mature must speak TO me.
and speak to me kindly" II seemed
strange 10 me 10 have no moods. His
critical faculty Is not fine. Any one
knowing him and wishing 10 i'm
press him as clever could easily i'm
pose on him. He is impersonal, in
terested in the topic, whether he
reads OF II In "The Star" or hears
II spoken OF by Newman, lie does
not want to hear wha: you think,
but what you know; he, therefore.
seldom asks you question. and you
need never bctray yourself; n wo-
man would have TO be very stupid or
very honest 10 persuade Mr.. Glad
stone that she was not "a remark
able woman" u would be hard 10
say where the dominant interest OF
this man Is. but am sure il is not
in his mind II y In his tempera-
ment He believes in life as much
as he believes in immortality; he
respects Il, he has glow and faith.
blazing courage His impotence and
steam power appeal to me. He is
dangerously plausible 10 himself as
we'll az TO other people He has no
Ito, hoo. much no Iowa upUor II
IS HIS passion It has como out OF
his heart into his head. AZ times II
has carried him away. He has got
too near what he was working at;
he is out OF proportlon.--Mrs. As.
quith, In the Cornhill Magazine.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
Detroit Needs a
Maternity Hospital

!. The case of Mrs. Szumansk, midwife,
recalls an editorial In the Times last
June urging the city Of Detroit TO take
more stringent measures In regard to
I the practice of midwifery In this city.
II was pointed out at that time, that
: large number of infants deaths and
much harm to the mother was due to
HE inefficiency of these women and
especially was the subject Of blindness
noted, 30 per cent of which is said to be
due to the carelessness Of the midwife IN
not properly caring for the eyes Of the
new born infant.
II was also suggested that an exam
nation much more stringent than that
required should be passed by them and
that school of midwifery should be &C
cessory to the Medical college or one Of
the hospitals. This is in operation in
Bellevue, New York, and is very success
ful.
Foreign women are accusomed to en-
ploying midwives instead Of doctors, the
cost being so much less, and European
countries are very strict regarding the
irving of licenses for this practice. The
Immigrant coming to America natur-
ally takes it for granted that the same
care is exercised here.
Whereas the requirements of the last
book we have seen (1914) published by
the Detroit Board of Health are merely
Z that the woman shall be of certain age,
rhall be clean and shall have cared for
20 women at the lying-in period.
This is, of course, very inadequate and
leaves plenty of room for the midwife
to get out of any unpleasant conse.
ouences resulting from her acts or care
lesmess.
The city of Detroit needs, of all things
: maternity hospital where poor wo
man may be confined in sanitary sur
roundings, receive proper care and b'
reasonably sure of normal baby anc
recovery for herself at price within hel
means.
Now she is obliged to stay in her owl
\ home, no matter how crowded, poor OF
unsanitary it may be, and trust herself
and her child in hands of an unskilled
woman who may not even know the
rudiments of the profession.
It is high time that the health depart
ment of the city investigated this i'm
portant matter.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
TIE VANISHING TREES

From ore farm iu Bourbon county $50 black
alnut logs have been sold FOR export to Der.
iu.' according 10 report. How the Germans
con I'D visa to Go anything 80 wicked as 20 buy
tuH7.o g ID America 70 prolong the war" no
body who reads the German protests against
sales ~ munitions 20 the Allies can possibly un.
dc1e-and The question 0f how the trees viii be
exported lo Germany also cries out for answer
hut tat is another matter. II concerns Ken.
lucky tlst walnuts for gunstocks are being cut
pretty regularly and pretty widely, and freight
cars piled high With them are seen at country
SO Charlottesville Courier Journal
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
'RAUS NIT EN-.

According 10 a Suuatra paper, the Germans
have resolved to eliminate every sporting term
OF English origin in use in Germany The fol.
lowing terms are suggested 10 supplant them:
Golf-Locherbalspiel
Cricket-Dreistaben
Leg before Biueschwindel
Not t--Nochnichta bgemacht
W,cket--Dre istaben einrichtuns
eCme-iialbsp ielwartepause
Faufs-Handefehler
start-abgauRsstelle
Btarter-hauptahgapg sst ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We can now understand The position OF the
German WHO says he has no time for sport
Punch.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22

the time will come when you will
have 10 make a sojourn In a hos
pitaI
And in any event, II only for the
sake Of unfortunate unknown TO
YOU, but human beings ike ycur-
self, DO all YOU can 10 help Bring
about the abolition OF unnecessary
noises in hospitals
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
DIES AS HE LIVED.

Gen G.. Rhys Pryce has been killed fighting
with the Canadians in France
The famous soldier OF fortune who command
ed a foreign legion I'm Mexico, during the Madero
revolution fell in n fierce bayonet charge at
Neuve Chappelle. lie was stabbed in the stOm-
ach and shoulder. dying in agony hours later.
when his comrades found him his jaws were
set on his rifle butt where they had clampcd In
the death agony.
He had announced premonition that he would
die thus.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
The Keep Well Column
THE NOSE.

II this condition continues the
child especially liable to contract
tuberculosis or other infectious dis
eases.
Every child should be given a
handkerchief and taught how 70
blow the nose thoroughly several
times day. Then IL the child still
has trouble with It's breathing, a
physician should be consulted
The pneumonia season Is here.
To escape II don't hibernate-ventl.
ia g.
Great Britain comprises an area
about the size Of Michigan.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
Let the People
Rule--and Write
Nauseated by Publicity over chiea
60 Baby Case.
To the Editor Of The Times;

Nauseated by Publicity over Chica-
60 Baby Case.
To the Editor Of The Times:
May | have u little space in your
peoples column to express an opin-
ion?
We are grieyed TO see in most OF
the daily papers OF Nov. II, the
nauseating controversy entitled
"Malformed Chicago child will be
allowed to die" Am glad that The
Times took the quieter and more
sensible stand.
Can II be thinkable that the read.
ing public OF today class such ar
ticles as "news?"
Any physician who will allow his
name TO be associated with such a
story is below the cheapest quack
and is simply seeking low class
OF free advertising and notoriety
through the public press. and q
mother roped into such an interview
is subject OF devout pity.
We are glad TO know that we
have plenty Of good physicians who
know their places and do without
fear or frowning what they know
90 be right. But a sissy who must
tell mamma everything that he
plans to do, is a menace 10 the COM
munity In which he pretends TO
practice and should be quarantined
With other pests
W. w BOUGHTON.
No COZ Loraine-ave., Detroit. Nov
IS, 1915.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
J. Clarence Kaufman An American
To nc Editor Of The Times.

j. Clarence Kaufman An American.
To nc Editor Of The Times
Two articles appearing IN The
Times have Just beer brought to
my attention bv schoolmates OF
Northwestern high. In these. you
have informed your readers that |
am q foreigner. cannot imagine
who has informed you falsely | am
an American, born In Detroit Fur
thermore. my mother and father
were born IN Detroit. Therefore, !;
think I have every reason TO claim
the title, American youth" In the
full sense OF the word. My school
mates and friends unite with me- In
asking you 10 announce TO your
readers that the American youth Is
still supreme in the English depart
ment OF Detroit high schools.
J. CLARENCE KAUFMAN.
Detroit, Nov. 1s. 1915.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22

breathe through
the mouth be
cause they cannot
breathe properly
or sum ciently
through the nose.
This may be due
20 one or two
things-not keep
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22

ing the nose properly cleaned or 10
growth which Is known AS 'ade-
noids" and which stops up the back
% the nose. when this occurs the
child becomes what Is known as
mouth breather"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
Woman Discusses eirth Control.

woman DISGUISE Btrth Control.
To the Editor Of The Times;
So YOU are positive you have dis
covered tho real and only method Of
birth control. and | am Just as posi-
tive that no frst-class, honest, fair
minded physician will agr@ Wth
you.
Does not the husband Of con
sumptive. cancerous, poverty -strick-
On wife know her conaition equally
"a well as a physician. and woman
who Is too diseased 10 become
mother. Is also too diseased 10 con
tinue 20 marriage relation Ask the
doctors IN our insane asylums the
cause Of nearly all the insanity
among women They will agree
with me that the laws are none too
stringent for what they have TO deal
with Laws and physicians will be
~ no avail until the consclences OF
men are educated As long as chill
dreu are but the fruit OF unhridled
passion so long we viii have plenty
OF inmates for our charity homes
When the laws OF Michigan viii
not license lust and lasciyiousness,
when men can truly keep their
bodies and minds IN subsection.
when men and women can meet In
4 frank and open friendship and
clasp hands as comrades, and work
side by side in helpful intimacy,
when We have free mothers then
the race problem viii have solved
itself And II could be done In q
short time II the right influences
could be brought 20 bear.
OF course believe In segrega-
ton. but also think that the men
and women who cannot control
themselves should BE- classed with
the imbecile and insane and take
tho same treatment.
A mother who Is anxious for the
betterment ~ the ra
FRANCES s MACKLEM
Detroit, Nov. Is. 1915.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
HIS CHOICE EXPLAINED.

81 can't understand how old Rake thought that
the little Angel girl would be congenial az
wife,"
We'll, you know, the devil himself Is always
pictured az hanging around heaven, trying to
get in when he could go back home and have
bully time with his own kind."-Judge.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
QUITE IMPOSSIBLE.

Are you unmarried" inquired the census
man
"Oh dear no." said the little lady blushng;
"Fve never even been married. ladies Home
Journal.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22
LISTENING TO Purpose

Thor IS species 81 sentry groups employed
near the trenches They arc called listening
PATROLS" and their duicS-sr b. be always on the
alert and give timely warning OF any attempted
attack one night an officer on his rounds in
SPECIFIED a listening patrol stationed in an empty
farm. Tie asked. Who are YOU"
The reply was "Lstenin patrol, sir"
'Nhat SIRE your duties2"
we listen FOR the hen cacklin'. and then We
pincles the egg, sir.'-TltBits
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22

In other words, Greece and Rumana will help
the allies lick Germany and Austria soon Is
the allies do IL hrst.-Pittsburgh Press
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-22

Parents should pay particular at
tention 70 the chlds nose. Many