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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25
Cold Figures Prove the
Lie Aimed Against Kansas

The National Wholesale Liquor Deal
ers' association is supplying the evidence
of its desperation by circulating an ar
ticle by Royal z. Cabell on Facts About
Prohibition in Kansas"
The unfair tactics, the falsehood, in
uendo and subterfuge resorted to by the
liquor dealers to hold Kansas up as a
horrible example" of what prohibition
has done have, however, been promptly
and sharply met by Gov. Capper with
figures.
Cabell in his article prepared for the
liquor dealers, infers that Kansas has a
rate Of death by violence, excluding sui
eide, Of 123.
Gov. Capper in his reply shows that
according to DR.. j. S. Crumbine, secre-
tary of the state board of health, the
rate of violent deaths in Kansas in 1912
was 60.8, including both accidents and
homicides.
Cabell infers that the rate Of suicide
in Kansas is % to the 100000.
According to the figures of DR.. Crum-
bine, the rate of suicide in 1912 was
12.2.
Cabell figures that Kansas has d.
vorce rate Of 286, but the latest available
reports from the United States govern
mont do not agree with him.
For the five years, 1893 to 1902 in
elusive, the rate of divorce in Kansas,
according to the United States govern
nent, was 100.
The divorce rate i'm the prohibition
otate Of North Dakota is only So; in Ari-
Gona (then license) It was 100; in Ar
kansas (then license) 1876; in Colorado
zen hcense) 158; in Idaho (then IL
crn1o) 40; in Indiana 142; in Montana
1GI: II Oregon tthen license) 1874: in
MAIZENA, (then license) 129: in Wy
1re 11o: in Texas 1871: in Washing
|&hon lioonse) 1874.
~. C1hell avs that is license states
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25
Oil Lands and HomesteadS Are
Up for Government Disposal

some point on the gulf and acquir-
ing oil lands and producing trans
porting and refining oil for the pur-
pose OF providing at all times an
adequate. dependable. and econom-
ical supply OF tuel for the navy
A few more homestead sites are
To be opened in North and South
Dakota. BY a recent order Of the
president. lands within the stand
ing Rock Indian reservation have
been taken from the reservation and
opened to entry under the home
stead acts There are approximate
ly $4,000 acres in NORTH Dakota and
1900 acres in South Dakota APP
pIications must be presented at the
land once at Timber Lake. s. D., or
Bismark. ~. ID. The lands viii aver.
age S. an acre. and one-fifth OF the
purchase price must be rendered
with all homestead applications.
Further details are to be secured
from the general land once at
Washington.
The announcement BY Senator
Root that he does not care for the
Republican presidential nomination
In 1915 recalls the fact that Root
hoped 10 be the Republican candi
date AZ the time TAFT was chosen.
So keen was Mr.. Roots desire at
that time TO make the presidential
race. that when II became evident
that Roosevelt intended TO favor
Taft. Root suffered a physical and
nervous breakdown. due. his friends
said. TO disappointment. Mr.. Root
spent several weeks In a sanatorium
ending up with a course In physical
training at Msldoon's famous farm
Roosevelt would have preferred
Root to Taft as his successor. but
vas dIssuaded on account OF Roots
connection with the Tweed scandal
and his notorious afhliation as coun.
sci for various big business enter
prises.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25
A Poem a Day.
PENCE ON AMnpLANcn.


Twas a dangerous cliu. as they
freely confessed.
Though TO walk near Its crest was
so pleasant,
But over its terrible edge there had
a duke and FUN many a peasant:
so the people said something would
have TO be done.
But their projects did not at all
tally.
some said. Put fence round the
some. IAN ambulance down In the
valley"
But the cry for the ambulance car
ried the day.
For IL spread through the neigh
A tenc, may be useful or not It is
true.
But each heart became brimful Of
pity
For those who clipped over that dan
gerous clin,
And the jewellers In highway and
Gave pounds or gave pence. not TO
put mp q fence.
But an ambulance down In tho
valley.
For the ciIn Is all right u you're
careful" they said.
And u folks even slip and are
dropping.
IL isn't the slipping that hurts them
80 much.
they're stoppins"
SO day after day as those mishaps oc-
curred.
Quick forth would these rescuers
sally.
To pick w the victims who fell OF
the elifr
With the ambulance down in the
Then an old sage remarked. "Its n
marvel to me
That people give far more atten-
ton
To repairing results than to stopping
when they'd much better aim at
prevention.
Let as stop az It's source all this
mischief" cried he.
Come. neighbors and friends. let
us rally.
II the ciin We will fence we might
ALMOST dispense
With the ambulance down In the
.oh. he's fanatic" the others re-
Dispense with the ambulance
He'd dispense with all charities. too.
N he could.
No. 10. We'll support them for
ever
Aren't We picking folk up jus, as fas,
~ they fall
And shall this man dictate 10 u.s.
Shall he,
why should people 90 sense stop TO
put up fence
While their ambulance works IN
the vaiiey-
But a sensible few. who are rrse-
VIII not bear with such nonsense
much longer.
They believe that prevention Is bet
And ,heir party viii soon be the
stronger.
encourage them. then. with your
purse. voice and pen.
And while other philan,hropisis
They viii .eorn all pretense and put
stout fence
ON the ella that hangs over the
valley
Better guide well the YOUNG than re-
claim them when old.
For the voice of true wisdom ~
calling
To rescue the fallen is good. but us
best
To prevent other people from fan-
Ing;
Better close NJ the source ~ temp
tntion and crime
Than deliver from dungeon or gal
lev.
Better nut strong fence round the
top OF the ciin.
Than an ambulance down In the
valley.
Joseph Mains.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25

have a rate of divorce 20 wives because
of husbands drunkenness lower than the
rate in Kansas.
But he fails to refer TO the II .rtant
fact that drunkenness is not ease for
divorce in Vermont, New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Maryland. Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina and
Texas.
The prison rate in 1910 for the entire
United States was 1914; in Kansas II
was ell: in North Dakota, another pro-
hibition state, il was 63.
In the same year the rate of commit
ments TO prison in the United States was
$50, and in Kansas il was only 200, while
the average rate of the license states
in the west north central division, In
which Kansas is located, was 100.
A pauper rate lower than that of Kan
sas is claimed for II states, which means
that SO states must have HIGHER
pauper rate than Kansas.
The United States as whole, accord
ing TO the figures Of the census Of 1910,
had a poorhouse commitment rate of
96.3.
The license states of the Union have n
rate Of 10. and the prohibition states a
rate of 29.S.
Gov. Capper more than answers the
article which the liquor dealers must
know TO be untrue.
He shows that every state official who
has spoken out says prohibition sue
ceeds.
More than roo editors and newspaper
men of Kansas, in state convention, unan-
imously endorsed prohibition.
Every political party in Kansas favors
the prohibition law.
No minister has ever opened his mouth
in favor of return to license; neither has
any school teacher.
The president of the State Bankers
says prohibition pays.
The president of the State Bankers
association believes that prohibition is
a tremendous asset TO Kansas.
One hundred and sixty-six bankers
have filed their testimony in favor OF
the law with the Temperance Society of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and only
six could be found in all the state who
doubted the wisdom of this legislation
The president of the Kansas Medical
society believes in prohibition.
The president of the Commercial
Clubs of Kansas has said that prohibit
ton has added real value to every acre
of Kansas land.
The supreme court of Kansas has tes-
tilted in the following strong language
to the benefits of the prohibition law:
'The prohibitory law is well enforced
throughout the state II is as generally
well enforced as any other criminal law.
The enforcement of the law distinctly
promotes social welfare and reduces 10
a minimum economic waste consequent
1pon the liquor traffic and allied evils.
The saloonkeeper and his comrades have
been excluded from effective participa-
ton in the politics of the state
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25
BEADS PLACE IN ART

In the archaic art OF all the prehistoric civ.
iliEation the use Of beads Is shown on even the
crudest paintings and sculptures; and. as We ap.
proach the later ages, OF which We possess at
least crude written records. we find the bead
sim maintaining its importance ss the chief
feminine decoration. In fact. Il may be accept.
ed without hesitation that practically all our
own articles OF jewelry are derived from proto-
types which were originally but manners OF
wearing strings or pendants of beads.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25
Glue Nerves FREQUENT Rests
And DraU Health Dividends

even to themselves, do not get
enough sound" sleep.
Excessive use OF coffee, tea. cocoa,
tobacco and alcohol results In over
stimulation OF the brain and pre-
vents natural healthy sleep.
Because Of this artificial stimula-
ton many people postpone their hour
OF going 70 bed long past the time
at which nature IL not tempered
with would dictate. The result Is
sleep that does not satisfy.
People can avoid hives BY using
care in their diet. Avoid eating
heavily OF foods that are very heat
ing to the blood and keep the bow
els moving freely.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25
The Thinker as
Wealth Maker
nv Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

II is favorite theorem among de-
baters on economic questions that all
wealth is produced from the three
sources--land, labor. and capital.
But there is fourth element over
looked. The greatest Of all wealth prol
ducers is MIND.
II might be classed under labor, but il
is not exactly labor; it is not work; il Is
the power to see, TO invent, to co-ordi-
nate. A man can sit on his shoulder
blades and smoke cigar, and, II his
think-works operate sufficiently. add
more wealth TO the country than ten
thousand hand-workers.
II is not the amount of land man
has, il is the amount of gumption that
determines his productivity.
once asked an Illinois farmer how
much land man needed in order to
make a good living. He answered.: IF
he's got brains enough all he needs Is
land enough to stand on"
President Wallis report of the Tele-
phone Company for 1914, just received,
is illustrative Here is a business that
has climbed from zero in 1876 TO over
billion in 1914. The whole thing GER
minated in an idea. Ii is not capital, il
is not land, il is the vision of an inventor
that is the cause of this amazing bust.
ness structure.
What the nation needs is not more
things, il is more brains.
Intelligence is creative. Ignorance is
destructive.
The simple reason why Europe is now
devastating and destroying is ignorance.
They do not understand the art of gov
eminent. They haven't sense enough
TO devise the necessary machinery with
which international disputes may be set !,
tied by law. They haven't even sense
enough to try.
Sometimes we grid at the railroad for
paying its president $4,000 year. IL
he has the real molecules in his occiput
he is cheap at twice the price. One
ounce of understanding, acumen, and
foresight is worth more to the road than
five thousand strong arms-really worth
it in wealth-producing capacity.
]. II. Lockwood in a recently published
work, THE Creation Of Wealth" gives
list of the ways intelligence makes
wealth. Among the items are: The
initial idea, the invention, project, plan;
Increasing the efficiency of labor by or
ganization: Improvement in materials
and machinery: elimination of waste;
advertising; :. securing necessary capital;
securing proper adjustment of the bust
ness to public opinion and to legislation.
But these are only phases Of the great
truth that mans spirit mind creates
wealth, even as God created the world,
for man is the son of God.
All wealth springs from thought-seed:
II was the steam thought in the mind of
Watt that grew into the enormous rail-
way, steamship, and factory wealth
today.
Both laborer and capitalist are apt to
get little too chesty at times.
The thinker is worth the two of them.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25
From Another
Point of VieU

But when the country has gone over TO
prohibition, what is TO become OF that
old-fashioned phrase: "All nature seems
to smile"
Russia, first thing. changed the spell
ing of Przemysl, which had beer re
generally done, however. befoc
The visit of Annette Kellerl.. ~
Detroit calls to mind those famous lines.
ENVY
BY CAD
Tousled-head, with eyes of blue,
How / wish that were you;
How the heart for childhood yearns
AS my fancy backward turns;
Deep within the longing burns
Youths pleasures TO renew.
Curly-head, with eyes so bright,
Let me fly with you tonight
To your fairyland of dreams,
Where the world enchanted seems;
Where. beside the crystal streams,
Love basks and hearts are light
Child of mine, II you but knew
Just how much envy you,
Never would you care to stray
From your care-free land Of play;
Where life's always at the May
And skies are ever blue.
st. Louis estimates that every year
q 900 tons of SCOT fall in its streets.
Some Of it, apparently, escapes the pc
destrians.
Gen French says the Germans arc
running short of ammunition. This may
be fact or Gen. French may have want
I ed to see how "the Germans are running
would look in print.
(
They spell Przemysl now a little like
1t was misspelled before.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25

what - G o m
N o ~ called
spring fever"
Energy seems 10
oOze away. one
becomes listless,
tired and good
Tor nothing
Generally this
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25

I have at last discovered the very
meanest man. He In the fellow who
somehow manages TO get you to tell
everything about yourself. and then
shuts up like a clam and manages
TO make you feel you have been a
garrulous fool.---Judge.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25

their pistols with
out eject. where
upon one Of the
seconds iDterposed
and proposed that
the cornbatants
should shake hands
To this the other
second objected rs
unnecessary.
said he. have been
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25

As the warm days approach
one is apt 10 get a bad case Of
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25
They Had Been.

At the duel the parties discharged
,hefr ntstoIa ,vfth-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25
The Me.nest Man once More.

Their hands" said he. have be
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-25

They spell Przemysl now little like
I was misspelled before.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-19
MUSIC ANDMUSICIANS

The National Quartet, composed Of
Elisabeth g. Maxwell. soprano; Lillian
Chcnoweth. contralto: william e.
Braithwaite. tenor; Joseph X. schoheld.
oasso: gave the following program at
the reception given by the Master Ma
sons organization Of the District, The
Trowel Club, at the Home Club Building
on Wednesday evening; THE Miller's
Wooins." by Faning: Star Of Descend
ing Night" by Emerson: "Rockin' In De
VIM" by Neidlinger: Garry Me Back
Night. Good Night. Beloved" by Pin
suti
Miss Alma N. Thomas. soprano. OF the
Washington College of Music Faculty.
has been egaged as soloist in the can
tata The Coming of the King" by
Dudley Buck, to be given in Rockville.
January l. Miss Thomas has also an
engagements TO sing in Baltimore the
latter part Of January. -.
Members of the faculty of the WASH
ington College of Music will give re-
cital at Guriey Memorial CNprch. Four
teenth and Meridian streets. January -.
Tickets will be sold at a nominal price
and the proceeds will be for the benefil
Of the church.
The orchestra of the Washington Col
iege of Music is working on the pro-
gram for the next public recital to be
given some time In January. Rehearsals
are held at the college every Friday
evening at 7:3O o'clock and musician.
wishing orchestral practice are cordially
invited to join.
The Students Club Of the Washington
College Of Music gave a special program
last Thursday evening In the recital hal
Of the college. Invitations were mailed
to all students In the college and their
friends The club will hold these special
meetings once a month throughout the
balance of the school year. The program
which follows was well given:
Violin and piano. Sonata No. l.
(SchuberU. Edward Stitt. Roderick. Dun.
lap: voice. Won Ewiger Liebe'
sBrahms,, "Widmung'' ISchumanny. Mis-,
Agusta Bergmann: piano. lie Lucciole'
U.eschetizky). Miss Isabel Gladding: vio.
lin, Air Variee. No. s. Danclab. Charlie.
Runge: piano. "Romanza" (Schumann,
Miss Gertrude Backer: voice. The Vain
Suit" (Brahms). Where the Sunshine
Grows" BROWN. Miss Mary Thompson
piano, "Rhapsodie. No. H. UiszD. Mist
Effie Drexilius; violin. Concerto. No. Z
(de Beriot, Harry Waller: piano
"Scherzo'' Uitolf). Miss Kathryn Bouck
voice. Aria. One Fine Day" tPuccinD
Miss Alma Thomas: piano. .'Andante anc
Polonaise" Chopin. George Thompson
The Washington herald., 1915-12-19

was given at the Wallace PresbytsFlan
Church on Friday evening for the bsne3
fit Of the building fund. Those who tooh
part were: Miss Louise Santarelh. pianS
list; Miss Sadie Lewis. soprano: Md
Margery Snyder. violinist: Mrs. Henr30tto
Flynn. contralto. Male quartet: NsssrA
Dorsey. Taylor, Lowell and Weston: M
H. A. Andrews. zither solo: Miss LulS
Brenner. soprano; Miss Mary AbrahamA
organist; Mr.. Walter Taylor. tenor, Aisd
Francis Tutilius, pianist
William ]. Palmer. the choir d1rec@
tor of Fifth Baptist Church. has Az
ranged an elaborate and unique Christ<
mas service for his choir of more than
forty voices and the principal service
will be held Sunday evening. Dscembe1
10. at 7:45 o'clock.
In addition to the choral and organ
numbers which will be interpreted
with appropriate scriptural readings
senting the herald angels. the shops
herds watching their flocks. the wfsS
men. the angelic host the starry
heavens. the Star in the East and q
large painting of the Nativity.
The choir numbers will includes
Organ prelude. THE Manger Cradle''
Lerman), There Shall Come q STAR
(Harris). And the Glory Of the Lord"
HaendeD There Were shephsrds''
Cwarren). "Shine. o Star" (Geibel).
"Stille Macht." German carol. "sancs
tus" from Bucks Te Deum in c. .
Holy Night (Adam-Buck). "HallerI-
jah Chorus" from The Messiah" re-
cessional. I'm a Manger Lowly" IW-
man) postlude. 'Marche in c. Je-
febure-Wely).
At the morning service the following
musical program will be given.
Organ. second movement. symphony in
G. Schubert Blessed be the Lord"
/ Wood: solo. THE Newborn FsinsS
lL'Espoir: Gloria in Excesis" (Mo.
| zarD; "Postlude in c. (Costa).
The soloists will include Mrs. Pearla
Grigsby Windsor. Mrs. Esther johnson
Robinson. Mrs. BERTHE Dement,, Mrs.
Virginia Thompson. Miss Gladys Price,
Mr.. s. Percy Thompson. and Mr.. c,
| Edgar Webb.
The personnel of the choir Is Earle
Dement,, organist; William J. Palmer.
director; soprani. Mesdames Grixsby.
, Windsor. Clampitt. Price, Cummings,
| Nowland. Robinson and Cochran.
Misses Brewer. Elicit. Porter. Price.
Torbert. Dennis. Goodenough. A. Ryan,
| Purks. Munday, Jones. Reeves. Elicit,
| Redman. and F. Ryan.
Alti. Mesdames Thompson. Richards,
Mooney. Dement,. tune: Misses Price,
| Grigsby and Thompson.
Tenori. Messrs. Beck. Brewer. ]. n.
Ingram. B. w. Ingram. Powell and
| Popkins.
Bassi. Messrs S. Percy Thompson,
Webb. Stanley, r. James. A James,
Ryan, Handy. Wsple. Cessford, Rich-
ards and Bryant.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-19

he u doing noble things for his art-by
letting II alone-and that. from now on
he 10 going to lead the idylic. bucolic.
simple and almost simpieton life. He has
q Il-year-old daughter who has just
come down with an attack OF poetry.
One Of her ''pieces" was puoiished land
paid for) in 4 last months magazine. Its
concluding line Is: -,
For what IL art but q speaking soul
A new auditorium u to be built AZ
Hampton Institute in memory OF Robert
C. Ogden, the distinguished merchant ana
philanthropist. The idea was only re.
Gently started. and the promoters set out
to raise fund Of 100000 for the purpose;
Already "a 900 has been subscribed. and
the Rockefeller Foundation has offered
as 900 a. q maintenance fund for the
building. This means an assured success
for tho undertaking. The present audi
torium will be used for dining-room.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-19

Now York. Dec. Is-Fifteen dollars
week was the exact amount or Safnuei
L. Rothapfels' earnings three years ago.
and he looked forward to a merry CHRIST
mas BECAUSE In the preceding three years
he had increased his income from hSe
dollars a week to that sum- ,o
He Is now receiving more tnan sA'o'O
a year and in a few months tneIe Is
IttfIe doubt that he will be getuns
twice that sum.
Flatbush shoemaker. Living near
Coney Island. he got his first job carry
ing COPY for the Coney Island reporters
up to the New York newspaper omces;
THAT paid three dollars week. ana
that's all he was paid for quite num-
ber of wears, although 1t was he VINO de-
ytsed the scheme of Transforming tne
hare cages of the Bostock animal arena
into a Jungle. This idea was SUBSEQUENT
ly put to use in London and fortune
made out of 1t, but not for samuel. IN
time, though, he managed to get out OF
the three-doliar-a-week rut by nndins a
quicker way to get to New York and
back in time to make a second trip with
COPY. This extra trip brought his pay
up to five dollars . week.
First He Fell in Love.
Then he began to develop. He Joined
the Marine corps and he fell In love
with a pretty girl in Carbondale. Pa
whose father had a hall that he trans
formed into a moving picture house.
II was there. at SIS a week, that he
brought out the Daylight Pictures" The
Keith people promptly got hold of him
at 5000 a year. Then he was selected
TO direct the affairs of the Strand theater,
which claims to be the finest movie in the
world.
Some folks down in Wall Street noticed
that the Strand was making quarter
Of a million dollars year and Offered
a ten-year contract to the man who was
responsible-Rothapfel They are now
building for him the Rialto Theater,
where Hammerstein's stood, and the
Mayfair farther uptown Next year.
they are to build eight more theaters
fo- him in other cities. During the last
few months. he has directed the produc-
tion of many of the big movie attractions.
such as Fsrrar in Carmen, 'Trilby.
The Battle Cry Of Peace" and with
the Fighting Forces in Europe"