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The Detroit times., 1915-12-18
From Another Point of TeD
This, Also, Happened Over in Our
SaryaSalf
Bu c. 7. 5.

Hungry Man. (among crowd at coun-
ter)-SAY, how long does fellow have
to wait here for his order.
Counter Man-(Always there with
the punch h)-Generally, my friend, un-
til it's cooked. What did you order?
Hungry Mani ordered cold pork
sandwich.
"Austrias Reply Is Not Satisfactory"
says headline Today's big event in
Washington suggests, however, that
Mrs Galt's was.
What'll become Of the ponies when pro-
hibition lets down the bars?
Isabella Patton of Chicago owns 80
cats. And. consequently. we take it, no
canary.
Postmaster General Burleson is op-
posed to the appointment of one p. }.
Cleary as postmaster in Brooklyn, and =
Brooklyn paper says that if Cleary is
named, Burleson will resign. If there is
no more serious obstacle in the way
Cleary ought to get the job.
G.. T.. Marchand. Lowell, Mass, we
read. continues at his work as a chauf-
feur since elected to the state senate.
That's what we call real information.
It's so hard to get an idea, particularly
from his speeches. as to just what a
state senator is driving at.
Now they have invented wireless
telephone And what will become of the
party phone subscriber who is always
on the line?
President Wilson says there is such
a thing as being too proud to fight. Bet
ter yet, too fleetto fight.
"Our idea Of sinecure: locktender
on the Panama canal. Wall Street
Journal.
ours is stoker on a German liner. =
Columbia State.
ours is war correspondent on peace
ship."-Brooklyn Times.
Ours is iineman in wireless -tele-
graph station.
Barney Dreyfuss reached the peace
conference Of base ball magnates in chi
cago before he had time 20 visit the
barber The Fed club owners presented
/ themselves, ~on the other hand. SO they
reported satisfactorily trimmed.
Italy's chief product the past year wa,
hemp. The copnpositor wouldn't be fal
out of the way if he made it hump.
Now they have introduced the Kis
dance. Very simple, they say, being an!
old dance done under the mistetoe. Tn,
trick. We imagine. is to keep the awk
ward man from stepping on it.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18
For a Clean Drama.

10 the Editor of The Times:
The Citizens Vigilance committee
desires to express its appreciation
Of your support OF the cause OF
clean drama in Detroit through your
editorial columns.
We propose to reprint and circu-
late the editorials that have recently
appeared in The Times and other
papers bearing on this subject, hop
ing we may thereby enlist public
opinion in the movement TO secure
censors under the direction of the
Recreation commission.
EUGENE X. SH1PPEN,
Chairman Vigilance Com.
Detroit, Dec rs. 1915.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18

The fellow in this picture was a
bay guy named Saturn from whom
Saturday was named. Re was the
son of Uranus. the Heavens, and
Gaes. the earth
When he Was a youngster Of only
a fen thousand years ~ age he got
in trouble with he police from
naughty habit of eating up his chill.
dren. SO he had TO change his
name from Cranus 10 Saturn and
grew whiskers for disguise.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18
Wants a Decent Newspaper.

To the Editor Of TIE Times:
Enclosed please find my check for
one years subscription to your very
valuable. clean family paper. May
your good work go on. and may you
always be strong for good citizen
ship and purity OF the press.
T.. J. SMART.
Chief Probation Officer.
Sault ste. Marie, Mich, Dec. IA, 15.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18

~ responsible for
certain disorders
Of the human sys-
TEN
People who are
subject 20 spells
OF worrying are
found to have an
irregular pulse
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18
ALLIGATOR ASLEEP IN SEWER.

GREENSBORO. ~ C.. Dec. 1S--It was while
number OF the workers on the job we're pre-
pairing TO put storm sewer the proper
grade that an astonishing discovery was made.
find for which many solutions have been Of
fered. but none accepted An alligator boast
ing a growth. or length OF twelve inches. one
foot, was found reposing and snoozing in the
mud at the bottom OF this storm sewer.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18

Respiration often Is repressed, the
blood circulation impaired and the
extremltios become cold
And Just AZ worry impairs the
blood circulation 40, too, II inter.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18
The Keep Well Column
WORRY.

feres with the proper action Of the
stomach's digestive apparatus.
This interference with the secre'
tions ~ tho stomach is apt to make
the worried man or woman con-
frmed dyspeptic.
Worry by continuously interfer.
Ing with sleep often leads TO moro
or less chronic insomnia.
All places OF public assembly
should be- we'll ventilated and by
the same token 30 should the home
----------
France before the war had 37,0O0
Industrial concerns,
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18
Let the People Rule---And Write

less TO Try can't have any OF my
time.
II any young man happens 10 read
this. wish he'd let this one piece
OF advice soak into his brain OF
brains There's word in the
dictionary called cant" Leave 1t
there, Never use it,
Instead say "Fll try" or better
still "I'll henryford"
CARL LAEMMiE,
New York. Dec IL. 1915.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18
Thanks God for The Times.

tn the Editor Of The Times:
Annie l.. Diggs. No. 1873 Forest
ave. west, forwards to The Times
the following communication. with
the notation: 81 fully share in its
words OF appreciation Of the Times. -
Mrs Annie l.. DiEgz
Dear Made M thank you for your
letter Ia Detroit Times of Friday.
Dee .. on "Irternational court" Have
seen NOTHING better on the subject. |
save the editorial page 20 read when
not too tired or too preoccupied to
sense" the good things there said.
II. as Whittier says, Good but wish
ed. with GOD. ~ done" may the mum
her OF the "wishCrs and prayers for
the way you advocate. so increase
that our nation need not he pushed
over the edge OF this precipice into
aconies and sins of war that need not
be. thank God for such daily as
The Times FOR such a man as Henry
Ford. for such women AZ you and
those ike you. Nnd may God help
the efforts for world peace and re-
strain the rnwise clamor for war
moves.
Mrs. 4. s. X BURTON.
Fennville Mich. Dec. IL. 1915
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18

WAVE AND WIND AND WILLOW
TREE.
Wave ana winu ana willow tree
Speak speech that no man knoweth !,
Tree that sigheth. wind that bloweth,
wave that noweth TO the sea;
Wave and wind and willow tree.
Peerless. perfect poets ye.
Singing songs all songs eNcelling,
Fine as cry stall music dwelling
In yelling fountain free;
Peerless, perfect poets three
waya- and wind and willow tree
Know not aught OF poets rhyming.
Yet they make "A silver Ginning,
Sunward- climbing minstrelsy,
Soothcr than all songs that be.
William Watson,
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18

Worry hurts health. Worry not
,nly lggravates. but in many casea
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18

human bodies among all the billions
that in the stretch of time have appear
ed on earth, not one, with the excep-
tion of Jesus, was greater than Soc
rates.
There is, therefore, o youth, no man
you should more study to know. The
more you make him your familiar the
more successful you will be. | use the
word successful" carefully.
Read all you can about MIN. Read
Plato and Xenophon, who report him.
You do not need to know Greek, though
that helps; there are good English
translations If they do not interest you
the first time. read them twice. thrice,
20 times till you come up with them.
Here are some facts about him which
it is hoped will pique your curiosity.
He was born of the common people.
like Lincoln and Leonardo. He was the
incarnation of humanity.
He never held office (but once, minor
one, temporarily. He did not seek pre-
ferment, or riches. or luxury, or Get
ting On. He was independently poor.
Not caring for the worlds gifts, he could
not be bribed.
He was without fear, especially the
worst fear Of ALL the fear to do right.
Like Jesus. he utterly trusted the
higher laws of the universe. and hence
refused to take any hand in establish
ing Righteousness by force" the persist
ent delusion of ignorant sincerity.
So he did not resist evil and thought
he could do more good by dying beneath
it than by contending against it. He.
too. was soldier of the cross. The
loftiest souls have even known that
while the Sword triumphs for an hour.
the Cross triumphs through the CEN
turies.
Like Jesus he constructed no system
of thought, founded no cult, formed no
| organization, no institution. These came
after him.
Life is strange, complex, contradic-
| tory, fluid You cannot box it into
creed. He was like life. He walked and
talked, with the great and the small,
with philosophers, harness makers. rich
men, beggars. the refined and cultured,
and the prostitutes "The life of So
crates was one long conversation, as Mo
hammed's was one long harangue."
Yet he belonged to narrow circle,
| though it be open TO all comers, the cir
Gle of the enlightened. Down through
! the years the ancestral clan of the en-
! lghtened has been the smallest organ
ization on the planet.
He was dangerous, as all enlighten-
ment is dangerous. The absurdest
superstitions may house the sturdiest
ethics, and the destruction Of the former
| is too likely for a time to turn the lat
ter out of doors"
He is one of the chief figures, if not
the chief figure, in the real history OF
| the race, which is the history Of in
telligence. as opposed to that history
which is but "a record of human vanities
and insanities
He called himself midwife" be-
cause he went about to deliver people
of their own ideas. He did not impart
| information, he made others think for
themselves.
He defined virtue as knowledge. ITO
be lust is to know what is due men, to
be courageous is to know what is to be
feared and what is not to be temperate
is to know how to use what is good"
He was not Hebrew, and hence did not
teach that character is perfected by
struggle; he was Greek, and held that
character comes from the finely poised
r u
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18
HIS CHANCE

Arabella--Oh Mr. Durkey, know that my IN.
tie sister, Eta, is looking at us through the
curtainsl
Durkey-well, let's crafty her curiosity and
then maybe she'll 60 away.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18

knowledge to him was the essential
But not knowledge Of mathematics, or
languages or science; rather, knowledge
of ones self and of moral values. A
great life is impossible without great and
truthful thought as its foundation. II is
a fictitious grandeur that rests on nom
facts or hocus-pocus, no matter how de-
votedly believed
The virtue Greek. arete) Socrates
urged meant not the negative thing often
implied by our word goodness" it meant
efficiency, Tuechtigkeit; but not eff
cheney in killing Belgians or building
steel plants, but efficiency in perfecting
self-expression for the individual. and
full opportunity and equity for all citi-
Zens.
Xenophon says his formula of prayer
was, "Give me that which is best for
me-" There can be no better.
Socrates is not obsolete. "The things
he deemed good, we deem good; the
Righteousness he fulfilled is the same
we seek to fulfill. He is the first in
carnation in Europe Of the moral law"
These notes | have set down after
reading w. F.. Leonard's Socrates,
Master Of Life" book you would do
well to own. The quotations are from
him.
You can judge any man pretty we'll
by what he thinks Of, and how much
he knows about Socrates.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18
SOCRATES
eV DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

OF all the souls that ever dwelt with
human bodies, among all the billions
that in the stretch of time have appear
ed on earth, not one. with the excep-
tion of Jesus. was greater than Soc
The Detroit times., 1915-12-18

"Austria's Reply Is Not Satisfactory,
says a headline. Today's big event in
suggests, however, that
Mrs. Cats was.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-03
First Pnsparedness Plan

TIME military policy recently announced BY the
I secretary OF war and which the adfnini1tra-
ton proposes for the country originated with the
greatest of all American military authorities, Gen
Emory Upton. His report Of the subject, entitled
"The Military Policy of the United States is a
classic, and it has been said Of Elihu Root that
his greatest service while secretary of war was
that he caused to be unearthed from the depart
nisnt records this able thesis on vital subject.
General Upton, after studying our checkered
experiences in war and giving particular atten-
ton to the four years struggle between the
states, so costly in life and treasure, recon-
mended that athe military system of the nation
should consist Of the regular army, federal yolun-
teers and the militia. This recommendation was
written nearly forty years ago. All these years
it has gone UNDECIDED. The Spanish war found
the country in q woeful state of unpreparedness
with mobile regular army OF twenty-five thou
sand men and half trained militia whose only
junction under the Constitution was to repel
invasion. #tr +... r's..
Upton believed that the Republic would never
tolerate large standing army and he proposed
an auxiliary force to be called federal volun-
teers' to be organized in each congressional dis
trict, supported by the national government and
subject to summons by the President for service
outside the country if necessary. Both Secretary
Of War Root and his successor, Mr.. Taft,
approved the plan in outline ~. ~
=. In 1912 it was brought to the attention of con-
gress in billswhich provided for, the organiza-
ton Of one htiidrcd thousand federal volunteers,
with officers to be appointed by the President
This bill passed the house. but met with defeat
in the senate because Of the opposition of certain
senators who were adverse to taking from the
governors control of volunteers raised in their
States, and who even argued that the bill was I'M
constitutional Mr.. Root took issue with them in
powerful speech before the committee, point
ing out that whenever war comes we are obliged
to increase the army which is not subject to the
restrictions resting upon the use of the militia,
and maintaining that there was sanction in the
authorization in Section of Article |, ito raise
and support armies" for the organization of fed
eral volunteers in time of peace. Now Score
tary Garrison is urging comprehensive system
of national defense and under the shadow of the
great war in Europe the measure will undoubted-
be accepted by congress and the advice, of oui
greatest military authority given the recognition
it has so long deserved. .E...' ~.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-03
ASSISTANT HUMANE
OFFICER /. APPOINTED TIED
NeWIy-Created Position Given To
Mrs. Augustus E. Murphy E..

The Humane Society at its regular
monthly meeting yesterday appointed
Mrs. Augustus L. Murphy, widow Of the
late clerk of the United States dis
trict court, as assistant humane officer.
She will work undcr the direction Of
Miss Lucy X. Ward, who has been do,
ing such splendid work in behalf Of
children and dumb beasts since her
appointment to the position. In the
past several months the work has so
greatly increased that it was found
necessary to have assistance ito take
some of the detail off the hands of
Miss Ward and for this reason Mrs.
Murphy was appointed. a'
The humane officer made her report
for the month of November, showing
that she had handled during that time
eleven children s cases and the cases
of 6fty-three animals. IN
The report for the fiscal year recent
ly closed was distributed to the mem.
beers in printed form. The pamphlets
contain senator Vest s eulogy on the
dog and pictures of various officers past
and present with the reports of. the
president, secretary, treasurer and hu.
name officer Besides a history of the
society from its beginning Ehere are
also printed extracts from the revised
laws concerning children and animals,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-03
Only Good May Drink

TSHE Stockholm system" of allowing each
citizen only fixed quantity of spirituous
drink which was naugurated just after the
started, has now been extended to thirty-One Of
the one hundred districts in Sweden. The sys-
tenn which is now in operation was devised by
DIR. Ivan Bratt. 1t allows every citizen in good
standing to buy one liter and no more of spiritu-
Gus liquor every FIVE days. T. To make this plan
feasible, eaCn person is provided with small book
resembling Communication railroad ticket from
which coupon is torn every time the consumer
buys his liter of whisky, brandy, cognac, punch,
schnapps, or whatever kind of alcoholic beverage
he fances At the same time his book is stamped
with the date of the purchase, that it is clear
to the dealer when he made his last purchase
Without showing his book, no citizen of Stock
holm has the remotest chance of obtaining a bot
tie OF liquor anywhere in the city. 1t is true that
in some cases, however exceptions are made. If
one persuade the authorities that on account
othiS social position and the demands of constant
entertainment one liter every five days is totally
inadequate, and il the authorities are convinced
that suchua person be trusted with more liquor
without abusing the privilege conferred upon him,
he is then given a special license to purchase two,
three, or more liters, according to the circum-
stances. On the other hand, if the person is a
drunkard, has police record. or has in any other
way incurred the displeasure OF tile authorities,
he is allowed no liquor at all
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-03
QUEEN OPPOSES KUH|O'S
ACTION, CLAIMS IAUkEA

Service of the papers in the bill in
equity instituted by Delegate Kuhio to
terminate the LiliuoKalani Trust was
made on a number of the respondents
YESTERDAY. John A. Dominis was ser.
we'd late yesterday morning. He had
but little to say, however.
~ do not think that Delegate Ku,
hio is considering the welfare Of the
Queen in fling this suit" Mr., Dominis
said. off ! am not much mistaken,
Queen LiIiuOkalani does not look with
favor on the proposition. She is much
advanced in age and feeble and the
ruction the suit will bring about is not
going to do Her Majesty any mental
good. " .-''
Col Curtis p Iaukea, a trustee men,
toned among the respondents, did not
care to make any extended announce.
ment of what will be his position in
opposing the action. 1t was too early
to discuss the merits of the suit, which
is only renewal of the old fight begun
early in 1910, he thought.
"The Queen is very much opposed to
the suit he said yesterday. ttPrince
KaianianaOle certainly took action
without her consent. There is very
little / can say at this time regarding
the matter
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-03
Make 1t Unanimous

WIITHoUT regard to party Affiliations or pre-
w vious tariff leanngs, comments Fact About
Sugar, the newspapers Of the country continue to
approve the action of the administration in nov
ing to repeal the free sugar clause of the Under
wood tariff law. The Baltimore Sun, leading
Democratic paper of the South, says this sub
ject: ~ ~. A&Af d. ...". =
There is nothing inconsistent with Democratic doc
trine in maintaining the present tariff sugar, in
stead of abandoning it, as had been intended by
e Congress. There would be inconsistency if the
tariff should be increased. A., .-,
Referring to the failure of the reduction in the
customs duty to cheaper the price of sugar to the
consumer, the Brooklyn Eagle comments: Z
AS a matter of fact sugar is now dearer than it h
before the rates upon it revised downward,
The consumer is worse off than he was before.
That he would have been better off, but for
the outbreak of the is of cOntended, but
the proof Of the pudding the eating thereof Theory
has not been verified by fact.
That sugar was unjustly Disseminated against
in the Underwood law is the view OF the Jackson
vile, Florida, Times Union. 1t says:
The duty sugar is mainly duty and
such is that Democrats should favor. When
abolished while other duties highly protective and
therefore furnishing little left with only
slight reduction the Democrats departed from their
own principles.
1T was a mistake, when reforming the tariff
on revenue basis" remarks the Louisville Cour-
sugar" The Louisville Post points OUT that "there
is not the slightest departure from Democratic
doctrine in retaining the duty" and on this point
the Beoit Wisconsin, Press adds
The Wilson Administration decision in favor of
its temporary retention does not has been suggest
ed, involve a change of Democratic policy II does
concession to the needs of the hour by Presi-
dent Wilson personally, but it actually involves
turn to the policy long upheld by majority Of the
Democratic leaders.
The Houston, Texas Post expresses the opin-
ion that the retention of the sugar duty will be
permanent 1t says:
So far the sugar tax is concerned, believe its
recitation, decided upon, will be permanent be-
cause there any good reason for repeating
it, 1t is the most general and most natural
tax have and the tax that enables all the peo-
pie to contribute moderately to the support of the
government Even if we had not the vestige
Of sugar industry in the United States, the sugar
duty would be desirable for this reason alone
While the retention of the duty may decrease
to some extent the profits OF the big reineries of
the sugar trust located in the east, says the Bay
City, Michigan, Times, sentiment generally is
in favor of the change the surest and easiest
means,of raising large sum for the government
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-03
KUH|O GETS
AWAY FOR WASHINGTON

{ Delegate Kphic got away at last yes.
,terday, He left in the Wilhelmina for
San Francisco and should he not tarry
in the Big Coast city the delegate will
arrive in Washington week after the
opening of Congress. The delegate .
family did not accompany him on the
trip. - d.. -"
X uhio off, among these Governor Pink
ham, Mayor Lane. John +. Colburn,
Rev. Akaiko Akana and John IL. Wise.
As the delegate, accompanied by the
mayor, walked up the gangPlank the
Hawaiiaa band played Hawaii Ponoi, a
goodly number of the spectators d0fling
DIR their hats in hanOr of the old Hawa'
iian royal anthem.
"The Advertiser put over two strikes
OIL me, all right enough, but ! IN max
ing hit now for home run, said
the delegate yesterday, smiling, as a
representative OF this paper shook
hands with him, .,
Kuhil had reference to the fact that
he had been booked twice before and
had not got away until his third at
tempt yesterday.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-03
STEVENSON I
.FOREMBEzzLEMENTI
Grand Jury Takes Up Unlawful
Assembly Charge Against
WaiaIee Mutineers l

( gtd htilctmentS for emBeEzlehentI
were returned by the territorial grand
Jury yesterday against Frank /. Steven
SON. former foreman Of the schuman
Carriage Company. steyenson's finan-
ciaf dificuitieS with his former en-.
ployeE have already been told in The
Advertiser. 1t is alleged that, he en-
bezzled sums Of money aggregating
5000. - "a
The defendant has been under $3.50
bonds in the district court, where the
bchsfk9s against himtwere given pre-
liminary airing. City Attorney Brown
yesterday told Judge Ashford that
Stevenson s bondsmap Was anxious to
surrender his man, Judge Ashford
dxcd bond in one cRse at $5bO, steven.
sons reeognizanee being sufficient in
the second. A bench warrant was or
dered issued for the defendants ar
rest, his arraignmont and the taking
Of his pleas to the charges being con
.tinued to nine O'Clock tomorrow morn
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ing. 49,. ..r. -. ta#. s-E i
The grand jury had two other mat.
tiers under Investigation yesterday,
both Of which, however, were continued
TO two o'clock next Thursday after.
noon for further action. One Of these
was the perjury charge against Ching
Vim Sing, and the other is the charge
of unlawful assembly against Dan Ka.
paha and number Of other so-called
ringleaders in the late mutiny -.
ported at the Boys Industrial Sch.gl
at Waialee, this island.
On the Waialee mutiny subject the
grand jury called before it John M.
Johnson, assistant superintendent Of
the Waialee school; George 8. Roor.
bach and John Thennis, also of the
school, The prosecution seeks to in.
diet about fifteen inmates Of the school
on charges Of unlawful assembly.
Among others called before the
grand jury yesterday were s. s. Pax.
son, Theodore Baumann, Manuel G.
| Correa Jr., Nicholas Peterson, A. Me
DufTie, Goo Wan Hoy, Wong Wong,
Lum Wal, Chan Now Pho and Chang
Hong. 49,; ..n -. ~. w.