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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
Let the People
Rule-and Write
The Best Book
TO the Editor Of The Times;

TO ihe Editor Of The Times:
Whether the Bible should be read
in the public schools depends upon
what parts OF Il are read. There are
certain stories OF a kind which We
usually do not like to have young
people read. but they are strong
proofs OF the truthfuiness Of the Holy
Scriptures. They tell the good and
the bad about Adam, Abraham. Da-
viz, 81. Paul, st. Peter and others.
There are always two sides to every
story; the Bible tells the truth about
both sides Parts Of Shakespeare
plays are not innocent yet other
parts are read aud studied in the
public schools.
II we read the Bible daily and
oLey its commandments as far as
we are able. we shall find abundance
OF the highest wisdom have had
many profound religious experiences
By real Bible study and the practice
OF what IL commands, with religious
meditation. prayer and fasting. II
anyone wishes TO study the genuine
knowledge OF the future. visions,
miracles. healing the sick, raising
the dead. revelations. discerning OF
holy spirits. angels. etc. which are
deep mysteries 10 the average men
and women who do not understand
their Bibles. let such persons turn
irtelligently. as did. to the Bible. 1t
Is possible to understand all the mys.
teries In due time. The Bible is by
far the best book in the world for
eeryyone.
WILLIAM r. BOLLES,
800 West Wsrren-ave.
March I, 1915.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
A Little Matter That's
Going From Bad to Worse

The Michigan Butter, Egg and Poultry
shippers Association met in the Hotel
Statler, here, and discussed the habits
of common hens egg.
We might add that convention of the
association was sitting at the time.
This is what we would call season
able and reasonable forgetting of war,
business depression, politics and a few
Of the other things that are all too fire.
quently and too much discussed for the
common good.
Discussion of the modern egg can in
no way interfere with the common good
lit IL too commonly bad.
A feature Of the deliberations, we
rood, was "the introduction of pictures
showing all the stages through which an
o0x passes after il is laid"
Our suspicious are, therefore, borne
We have had an idea all along that
tAo Hrocor from whom we have been buy
~ oGrs hes been getting them by stage
80 81 3 slow one at that.
And TIE current price considered, il
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
Incomplete Advice
Mr.. Taft warn. Etri. not Co marry
sserubs.-

Don't marry scrubs" says Mr.. Taft.
and makes a subtle pause
SO all the rapt and listening maids
can ripple their applause
Indeed tbs sage and sound advice, for
once a welded wife.
A girl who's married TO scrub VIII
lead an awful life
A scrut will loaf. a scrub will booze.
he'll gamble " IL please him.
But how. pray tell us. is girl to
n chesty follow comes along with
manners like John Drew.
A knitted tie and green silk socks.
and eyes OF lovely blue
He looks the goods from heels &c
hair regular high life
He might well he n Claude Melnotte.
but how's a girl 10 tsiiI
~ means an awful lot TO her, for II
she liz mistaken
Shell he the one 10 suffer when he
can't bring home the bacon
Another knock .kneed. seedy guy. who
drives n grocery cart.
May have beneath his battered vest,
a fourteen karat heart
And furthermore. inside his head
there stratagems may be
For building up fortune that would
worry old John ID.
Yet looking on him from afar a girl
might say. Tut, tut
mean TO wed a gentleman and not
pie-faced mutt"
We quite agree with Mr.. Taft that
girls should pick out gents
Who mas be mighty Dlutocrats or
even presidenta
But we suggest that anyone can sec
with half an eye
That the advice he kindly gives IA
just n tribe shy.
From doubt and black anxiety ne
certainly would free EN-
II he would only tell them how "a
know 'em when they see EN-,
New Orleans Item.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
A MODERN CRUSADER.

The other day, at the busy noon hour,
in the heart of crowded city. we'll
dressed man walked to and fro. carrying
a big four sided sign.
Hundreds stopped and stared. Among
them words passed like these:
HE doesn't look like hobo!"
See; he's smoking an expensive
cigar He can't be doing it because he's
broke!"
Wonder what it all means?'
The man wasn't broke. He is we'll
to-do publisher happily married; sound
in wind and limb.
He couldn't have been hired to do that
work.
He did il for nothing
He did it as some men worship and
others pray-he did il as an act of testi-
mony TO his religion.
The man is a single taxer. His bug"
Is that we shouldn't let few take the
land values which the many make; we
should take them ourselves-all Of us
and use them to make work for the un-
employed; better opportunities for the
backward, the hard-pressed.
So he painted his creed on transpar-
ency and set out to make converts.
We don't know how many converts he
corner Of Broad and High-sts. in Column
bus, o., nor does the number matter.
The point is that David Gibson was
earnest, sincere.
Folks who care little for his hobby
thought well of the man when thew
learned what his odd stunt meant.
The mere fact one man believed
enough in an idea to go to work for II
without pay put little extra pep" into
other men as they passed by.
1t is a fine thing to have faith. n
creed. a hobby; something to which Won
can gear the sluggish energies of your
soul and get tuned up to higher voltage.
Of course, our faith, creed or hobby is
always a little better. a little dearer
than. the other fellows but any faith
creed or hobby is immeasurably better
than none-if you let it grip your spirit.
DAVID Gibson carrying single-tax
box sign up and down a Columbus side
walk lived a sermon better than many
preachers preach.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
An Electric Battleship

The first electric battieship win
be added 10 the United States navy
in two years. II Is the California.
which Is TO be built at the Brooklyn
navy yard at cost Of $1,000, 900.
II will also be the largest battleship
yet built for our navy-s24 feet
long and 81 feet wide, with a dis
placement OF $4,000 tons. and a
speed OF Fl knots. its main battery
will be twelve 14-inch guns. II will
have torpedo defense battery.
which the European war has shown
TO be OF great importance. This bat
terry will have twenty-five hve-inch
guns. inventors have long dreamed
OF an electric battleship. With the
California this will be realized. and
with Il we lead the world, Just as
we led II by the device OF central
fire. that Is, having the heavy guns
over the keel instead Of at the sides
"a device that new European bat
tleships have copied. The applica-
ton Of electricity has already prov.
en- TO be a success in the results OBJ
tanned with the electric collier Jupi-
ter. which was the first electrically
operated ship In the California
there win be no directly-connected
turbines. The power will be trans
mitted to the four screw propeIlers
through slow speed motors which
will relieve most OF the strain on
the crank shaft. The electric pow
er installation will consist of two
separate plants, each furnishing
power for two screws. II desirable
the ship can be operated on one gen
orator.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
Rr GILsoN GARDNER.


WASHINGTON. March Alt will
not be long before the nations cap
itaI will 20 dry" Recently con.
gress escaped by a hairs breadth
voting liquor out OF the District OF
Columbia: only technicality saved
the liquor interests. Now President
wilson's license board has blown
up" and this viii hasten prohibition.
The licensing board has been doing
all those funny tricks peculiar ~
boards owned by brewing ard dis
filling interests. such as letting sa-
loon close up on one street and open
with a door around the corner. and
measuring acute angles instead OF
straight lines TO determine the dis
lance from church or school house.
The president il much ashamed OF
his choice OF license commits.
sioners. The board Is headed BY a
New Jersey General nv the name
OF Smith. who got his title by legis-
lstive courtesy, the New Jersey leg.
islature having brevetted ali native
sons who survived the Spanish Amer
lean war, even those who did not get
outside OF New Jersey.
Fifty per cent of the reserve army
OF the United States have responded
To the invitation Of Congressman A.
p. Gardner. Of Massachusetts,, to a
huge banquet which he will give
them April or Q. The army mum.
bers Is men and s have written that
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
SERVICE ON THE ROOF

Efforts TO maintain religious worship through
the summer months on the plane OF comfort and
freedom from oppressive heat have resulted In
two churches here holding Sunday evening ser
vices on the roof gardens Of their parish houses.
In both cases the experiment was a success. and
Il was determined to continue the innovation
during the hot weather. We hear other towns
complaining that they have no church roof gar
dens but services in some places have been
held with success and in comfort on church
lawns, and very impressive and beautiful many
OF them have been. Whether the roof or the
lawn IL the place the plan 20 surround worship
ers with more comfort than the church Itself ad-
mits il an excellent one. deserving OF emulation.
New York Press
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
OSBORNE.
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank craneJ

Since Thomas Mott Osborne has been
warden of Sing Sing prison some nave
praised and some have condemned MIN.
Let US see the gist of the matter.
There are two ideas as TO prisons. One
is that prisoners having offended against
society should be punished, Inundated,
hurt, and crushed. So they are to be
paid" for crimes they have committed.
This notion is some 5000 years old.
Under it men have been starved In
dungeons, mutilated in torture chambefs,
and subjected TO every refinement OF
cruelty.
Roman and medieval cells witnessed
horrors outdoing Orcagna's hell. British
prison ships and French galleys OF hum
dred years ago were inconceivably In
human.
Even these days have heard wardens
say that penitentiaries are for punish
ment not reform, and for this reason the
inmates are treated as brutes.
II is all development of the idea that
fear. pain. and terror cure crime.
Under this system Sing Sing and other
prisons have been run for years.
The result has invariably been that
men have come out of these institutions
worse than they went in. Criminals
were hardened and those who entered
only partly criminal came out wholly so.
The criminal class has been solidified.
Iperpetuated, and nourished by peniten-
tiaries.
The opposite idea is that criminals are
cured, and society therefore benefited. by
building them up and not crushing them
down.
The fallen man is to be led to respect
himself, to realize the good in himself;
govern himself. He is not to have his
spirit broken. his will weakened; he is
not to be terrorized by force, and reduced
70 covering, hating, vengeance-seeking
creature by brutality.
This later theory is Osborne's.
Knowing that men fall into crime be-
cause Of lack Of self-respect. he is trying
TO increase their self-respect.
Knowing that many inmates are in
prison because they were brutes, he Is
trying to make men of them.
The result is that prisoners In Sing
Sing now do twice as much work as they
used to, that discipline is far better. and
that they take care Of themselves instead
Of requiring many guards with loaded
guns 10 take care of them.
That anybody can criticize this pro-
gram shows that there are mossback
minds still among US. That there are
those who ridicule the new regime sheer
at such Sunday school methods" cod
ding burglars, feelings murderers ice
.ream and the like, shows that the nasty
influence of centuries of inhumanity still
persists.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
National Capital Steadily
Nearing a Spell of Dryness

they will be present The army will
be entertained in Congressman Card
ner's private dining room. The
Massachusetts congressman has In.
vlted Tol Roosevelt TO debate with
Secretary OF the Navy Daniels for
the entertainment OF the army on
the subject OF ~the preparedness OF
the country for possible, war"
Incidentally Congressman Gardner
has himself accepted an invitation
20 joint debate with Morris Hill
quit. chairman OF the executive com
mittee OF the Socialist party, on the
subject OF increase OF military
force The debate will take place
April al the Rand school OF So
cial Science, i4o East Nineteenth.st..
New York
Attorney General Gregory IL an i'm.
prcvement over McReynolds. He
has earned commendation In hrs Job
II he never does anything more than
his order 10 the federal judges that
they must cease suspending sen
fences. thus rsurping the pardoning
power and that they must cease &C
cepting pleas which are not provid-
ed by law such as ',nolo con
tendere," which Is Latin for 4 don't
care to say anything" Gregory has
started on the track OF some OF the
federal judges like Dayton and Xii.
lets and his support will be import.
ant in securing better remedy than
Impeachment for removing such
deadwood from the federal bench.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
The Dope Fiend's Waterloo.

For some thousands, or hundreds of
thousands-or is il some millions ?--of
our most unfortunate American citizens
March /, 1915, was fateful day. 1t
marked the taking effect of a national
prohibitory law on drugs of the habit
forming sort.
A few years ago there lived in a GER
tain little town a certain doctor whose
practice was the largest in all that coun-
try-side. People who could get no relief
from others went TO him and had their
pains relieved at once.
DIR. Anodyne," they would assert as
they discussed the matter afterwar6,
took away my pain after all the other
doctors had just simply failed. He
knows his business"
In that same little town there are
many now who wonder how they are TO
live For Old Doctor Anodyne has
given them the habit of using the sooth-
ing drugs which finally destroyed the
wills of their victims, and at last their
lives and souls.
Old Doctor Anodyne has gone to
whatever reward he deserved, but the
victims of his practice still live-and
many of them wish they could die. The
dreadful agony known of suffering hu-
mainly.
The law taking effect March l is en-
titled "An act to regulate the production,
importation, manufacture, compromising,
sale, dispensing, or giving away of opium
or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or
preparations" but it may possibly be en-
titled to the name of can act imposing
the death penalty on drug fiends.'
Are drugs menace to the people Of
the United States?
People connected with the drug trade
declare that the use of habit-forming
drugs has increased 10 per cent in the
last year. At this rate of increase, the
thing is a menace. For il is as much
worse than alcoholism as alcoholism is
worse than the coffee habit.
In the future, every doctor and every
druggist dispensing the drug will be re-
luired to do so under such rigid federal
injection that nobody except the most
reckless will break the law. II the law
is efficiently enforced, not single ounce
of opium, morphine, cocaine, codein.
heroin, or any of their sister dopes will
be dispensed in the United States except
under such conditions that the inspectors
can trace the matter down and find out
whether the dispensing has been done
legally.
If your banker. pastor or lawyer goes
suddenly insane after the LIST Of March
and blows out his own or somebody else's
brains, il may be because of this law
one is too high in station to be drug
fiend And as for the thousands Of poor
outcasts who drift from one coke joint
to another in The cities, without friends
and without money, who knows what viii
become of them?
Maybe the smugglers know.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
From Another
Point of VieW
II was some chewing match.

II was some chewing match.
Now that the eats have been du.,
disposed OF. we take this opportun
ity OF reminding the foreman OF IN,
composing room that friendship ono,
more ceases.
To quote the POSTMASTER seyera
times. II reminded us OF an Irish
man.
This column has been asked to re
mark that the story told by Bil
Kelsey was a bear
Let the scoffers SCOT" remarked
one OF the Heinies this morning
but the late Col. Post had the right
idea After swearing on on coffee
for 10 days, and sleeping well. In
dulged IN small black one at The
Times banquet. liquids being scarce
Friend wife called the turn wheu
she said that II would probably re
suit In sleeplessness. Two cats
held a meeting on the back fence
the wifes pet dog scratched and
whined at the cellar door during tn
intervals, and the Heir Apparent
woke up II times. and yelled fol
the reserves 10 help him beat back
the Redskins. You wouldn't hardly
think that lapse back TO one little
black cup would do II. but b-gosh
there was no sleep for me las
night"
All OF the hands were there bui
one and that was Finger.
While the POSTMASTER was tellins
story. the sporting editor excused
himself and left for a prize fight
seeking surroundings more pleasant
Interest In the primaries IL nov
centered In the complete count
They seem to want TO know FOL
which once Proc" Owens wa,
beaten the worst.
To County Auditor Charles A
Buhrer. greetings.
|
Suggests W. X. Know that IN,
March winds are giving us a fore
taste Of spring by making US taste
everything we threw out durinl
the winter. isn't II time to ask Har
old Jarvis 10 favor us with tina
glorious song. my Own untid,
/ States,'
| Glass prices In England are NJ
nearly 100 per cent. at which th'
consumer. also, may 20 broke.
! A bill has been introduced In con
gress TO keep booze out OF the mails
II might provide compulsory use II
all instances OF blotter.
That Miles theater policeman VII,
was stabbed In the neck IL probabl,
thankful he doesn't have TO do thre'
a day.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04

Babies should be naturally like
healthy little animals: II they are
not. II is because OF wrong livins
on the part Of their parents, re
sultink in inherited low vitality:
or wrong environment due to ignor
ance or neglect OF right health meth
DDS.
The well baby needs simple
guidance TO see that he keeps wei
the sick baby needs attention &c
make him well; but the merely
delicate baby. with enfeebled pow
ers OF resistance TO disease and oil
constant low vitality. needs both
guidance and the best attention
that medical science affords.
The basis OF all modern medicine
IL prevention Of disease. To keep
the baby well In far easier. safer
and surer than to cure him after no
has once become III.
n takes very little TO cause III.
ness in the baby. and the result IL
often seemingly out OF all proper
tion 20 the cause.
There In no satisfactory substi-
tute for mothers milk. The infant
was intended by nature TO be as de.
pendent for It's food upon It's moth.
or during the nrst few months Of
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04

II there was a faithful presentation in
the pictures Of the course OF the egg af-
ter the hen has done its part Of IT, the
shippers association certainly looked up
on the interior of somebody's cold stor-
age plant, but We didn't hear of any APP
propriate action being taken.
OF all the food articles, we wish the
egg could be spared from the ice, be-
cause il is the American breakfast, and
what chance has a man of giving the
country his best, if he leaves home in the
morning for the days activities with. a
bad taste in his mouth.
We wish the shippers could have gone
on record with the rest of US against this
crime of making people pay winter prices
for summer eggs and making them take
a long chance in the bargain-did We say
bargain?
We want the cooperation of the ship
pers in behalf OF the American egg,
which, in spite of our protests and in
spite of our boycotts and all that sort Of
thing, seems to be going from bad to
worse.
That is the way it looks and tastes to
US.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04

gued him on the
Importance OF wo-
man.
with mis- ur.
balc smile DR..
a b bott endured
tho young lady's
elouCence till the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04

formed. and no
other period when
illness is so cas-
lily C ira C ted
and meets with
so little bodily
resistance as-dur-
ing infancy and
early childhood.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04

coming OF tho coffee. Then he ven
tured TO say. very mildly:
The Importance OF woman? The
importance ow woman7 I have heard
nothing but the Importance Of wo-
man for the last hour. Yet surely
Scripture teaches us ;hat woman In
but a side issue'"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
STUNG BEFORE

Parshoner Ito departing minIster)-w.,r.
all sorry TO lose you, Mr. Poodle
MT. POODLE (modestly)-Never mind. Mr.
next time e' '"~"
rarishoner-Ah. no. Mr.. Poodle. That's inst
what the last minister said when he left
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
PEPPERY

Women are the spice OF life"
That's the time you said something
And life without spice would be -"
"Spice7 i thought you said spies," replied
the man whose wife had found a poker CHR
In his poeket-Houston Post.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04
GOOD SUBSTITUTE

Wife Cat a. m.)-wake up John. wake up
There's a burglar in the next room.
Husband (sleepily)-well. I've no revolver
You 20 and look daggers at him.-Boston Tran
script
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-04

Tell the conductor TO have a care
that he may be working for you soon.