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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
Lack of Ships Has Much
To DO With Hard Times

have turned the decision In the rate
case the other way. Yet the fact
that even a president with SO credit
able a record as Wilson, can make
the mistake OF such appointments
and the further fact that such q fight /,
as LaFollette made proved In vain,
add force to the argument which
shows regulation OF monopolies TO bel
no remedy Sor their abuses"
The suggested appointment OF Ed
ward n. Hurley, president OF the Iii.
nois Manufacturers association az o
member OF the federal trade commits
sion, again has raised the question
as TO whether President Wilson ap-
points men to important positions
who reflect the policies enunciated In
the New Freedom" The Illinois
Manufacturers association has for
years been a body Of commercial
gentlemen In the middle west de-
voted chiefly to opposing any and
everything savoring OF larger democ-
racy. 1t Is against popular govern
ment, direct legislation, regulation OF
industries. has opposed before the leg.
islature and before congress scores
OF bills in the public interest. and has
always lined up on the side Of spe-
cial privilege. It's representative
have VIGOROUSLY for years been the
representatives In the Hobbies OF the
state and national legislatures of big
business. IL is not conceivable that
a man who Is backed by the Illinois
Manufacturers association and also
by the National Chamber NJ Nov,
merce, by whom Hurley is also en-
dorsed. can be man who viii repre-
sent the general welfare.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
"7viohf Sleep Truth About Much Discussed Treatment

In fact. the whole impression gained
from published literature ON this sub.
Ject-the literature Is large and not
70 be easily understood by the layman
lis That the method Is not safe for
the child and not always safe or sue
cessful for the mother.
Not the physician, but the credu
lous and unknown public will be
harmed by this unfortunate exploita-
ton. What mother will be satisfied,
having awakened from a labor I'm
which she suffered pain but which
was quickly forgotten, when she hears
that her child was born asphyxiated?
And II but one child In 100 or one
child In 200 Is born dead because OF
the use OF this method, will that moth
er. knowing that the others were spar
ed the pain Of labor, be satisfied that
her child was taken to save other
women discomfort
More recently the furore OF the re.
vival OF the Freiburg method has led
another monthly magazine to enter
the field proclaiming itself the New
messiah for women" and bringing
forth method originating In Paris
involving the use OF drug known as
detoxicated morphin, whatever that
may be-
The editor of the publication states
that his method Is not the Freiburg
method, which Is a dangerous one. to
be administered only In hospitals, but
Is method for every physician to use
in the house.
And the author slightly corrects
this statement when he says that one1
third OF the babies are born voiceless.
but their lives may be restored by
the physician producing artificial res
piration. II is needless to explain to
physicians that many Of the state
ments contained In these articles are
ridiculous.
The time may come when, as Q TO
suit OF clinical investigation cautious,
ly conducted, a harmless agent with
which to lessen or abolish altogether
the pains OF labor may be secured, but
in the opinion Of practically every SCI
entiflc obstetrician that time has not
yet arrived.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06

cific training and gives broad cul.
tural base for mechanics. On this
committee are Mrs. Fernandez, Prof
Dewey, Of Columbia Mr.. Lovejoy, of
the children's bureau; Mr.. Strauben-
mueller. Of the Board Of Education.
and Frederick Calvin, technical ex-
pert In mechanics. Mr.. Calvin was
recently In this city consulting the
heads OF our various automobile
plants and found them all much inter.
estsd and glad TO cooperate. Every.
time a man n discharged and a new
one put on the company loses SIS and
at one Of our largest plants a man II
tried In three different places before
he is finally sent away In another
plant the average length Of time q
man would consent to remain was two
months, a. the work was Of the
monotonous, non-creative sort which
made Of man q machine for assem-
bling one small fraction Of the whole.
With better educated, more generally
ef1cient men all this loss through
change might be done away with and
the men themselves feel that they
were the masters not the servants Of
the machine.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
Vocational Education

With q laudable desire TO aid the
poor child TO gain a livelihood we
have plunged into vocational educa-
ton In a superficial way which II IL
beginning to be felt will at last de-
feat It's own ends. With a violent re-
vulsion from the purely cultural TO
the purely manual we have turned out
lot of boys who may make living
wages II they are able TO At them
selves into the exact groove along
which they have been trained TO run
with more or less friction. The fact
Is that over half OF these boys are
seldom II ever able TO light upon the
psychological moment when their par
ucular groove is unoccupied and are
thus thrown back upon themselves
quite as helplessly az IL this manual
training had never been pursued. II
Is good thing TO cobble shoes, TO put
together foot stools and smoking
stands, TO work lathe. but the shoes
and stools are turned out by the
thousands and nobody wants the hand
made products unless In some way
they are works OF art.
There Is a committee formed in
New York city, called the Vocational
Education Survey OF New York which
is not official but which hopes In
time 10 cooperate with the Board Of
Education Of that city 10 bring about
q broader, truer vocational training
than has 80 far been attempted. The
idea is that OF Alice Barrows Fernan.
dez. former teacher, and its funda-
mental aim Is TO teach the genealogy
OF machinery. II does away with spe-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06

duces loss OF memory. IL has It's own
dangers; snIail uOses sometimes pro-
duce very serious results. there may
be great disturbances Oh the nervous
system or OF the heart or lungs. IL is
impossible TO say wnen such disturb
ances will arise, and they cannot be
guarded against.
Following the first dose OF marco
phin and scopolamin the patient Is
given repeated doses OF scopolamin
alone. The object aimed at Is to
make the women forget their pains,
although she may know OF them at
the time. In order TO test her mental
condition she Is shown some object;
after an interval of about half an
hour the object is again called to her
attention; IL she remembers having
seen II before, an additional dose or
scopolamin Is given.
A natural inference obtained from
reading magazine literature which
has recently appeared on this subject
Is that the physician who withholds
this method from his labor cases Is
negligent OF his patients rights. The
facts are that the method has been
thoroughly investigated over a long
period OF time and has been found
wanting because OF the dangers con-
nected with 1t. These dangers are re-
lated particularly to the direct action
OF the drugs on the mother and on the
child.
For the mother, In a large series
OF cases studied. labor was delayed
on an average Of one hour and half
and often much longer. or the 10
cases seen by DeLee at Freiburg, In
struments were required In five; the
birth pains were weakened and birth
prolonged in all; and excessive tear
ing resulted, following the use OF the
instruments, in the Ave cases. Infants
were born In a narcotic stupor and
suffocated TO a degree.
DR.. DeLee visited the famous hos
pitfalls OF Berlin, Vienna. Munich and
Heidelberg, and in all Of them was
told that this method had been tried
and discarded. The best American
confinement doctors agree that re-
suits in the past with this treatment
have not been satisfactory.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
What the Authors are Doing
BY G. 8. HITCHCOCK.

cial problems. only II Ii administered
in such nice, candied gumdrops that
you don't know you are reading an
essay at all nor delving into some or
the big things which are usually
bound in leather, gotten out by the
Yale press and have lists OF refer
ences (too long to read at the end
Of each chapter. "The Socialite.
only two pages long. is sermon, o
political pamphlet. a treatise In phil
osophy all in one. IF you want 10 be
politically popular. be standpatter
no matter how much green scum col
lects on your intellectual pond" This
Is a real book OF real reforms with
an underpining OF profound under
standing and administered IN popular
form, let US hope the dear public Will
read II. "Whilhkins." Elmer Willis
Serl. Neale Publishing Co.. New
York.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
Balm for the clty-weary.

Sketches, always attractive il they
say anything and quite as attractive
II they do not say anything, provid-
ing they don't say it in the right way.
Elmer Willis Serl must have sick
ened of the corruption OF society and
like the good OF old. planted his feet
upon the earth where alone he could
hope for renewed strength.
The Fraternity OF the Fields" tells
us OF his wanderings in the woods and
fields; II reminds Us OF Thorean, but
with more self-consciousness. Also.
though lover OF nature. Mr.. Serl Is
prominently philosopher and can
not help its outcroppings even when
looking at a mountain. He Is thank
ful 70 get near Mother Earth" but he
and Mother Earth are not one, and
we feel he will fly back TO the crowd
ed city which he thinks he hates as
soon as he Is thoroughly rested and
has squeezed the orange dry. Neale
Publishing Co., New York.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
From Another
Point OF VieW

We resent with all of our vigor the
imputation OF the Federal league that
Byron Bancroft Johnson Is IN baseball
TO make money, after all these years
OF sacrifice on his part for the mere
love OF the game and its players.
Convict Van Vorce failed to get his
parole. Van Vorce. In other words.
seems TO be in for It.
How would IL do for US TO name
vigilance committee OF private citi-
zens 10 prevent these thefts OF police
autos?
Organized baseballs position seems
TO be- that II has nothing to fear but
rotten umpiring.
With -four at $7.15 a barrel, isn't
there likely TO be question as 10
how long the United States can stand
this European war?
A Milwaukee man died from drink
ing brandy. not having heard, perhaps.
OF what II was that made his town
famous.
Submarine statistics indicate that
over In European waters this is the
duck season.
From the earnestness with which
Mr.. Taft advises us 10 hang on to the
Philippines. you'd think we had about
10 stories to fall.
That Is 10 say. Uncle Sam simply
asks Great Britain as mistress of the
seas. 70 be ladylike.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
.The Divided Medal

When will the public come to the
point In its evolution when II will de-
mand something In its books vital.
something lived, something told In q
way that makes II live agains Here
is a story, but IL Is wrapped around a
watch charm and the people who act
are puppets, mummers. with masks
on, and there Is no health In u.s." In
other words we are not alive to draw
ing breath from artificial stimulus. Is
II still necessary that such should
be2 The Divided Medal" by David
Skaats Foster. Franklin Book Co.,
New York.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
"Just MhlIIlkins. {"

Elmer Willis Serl objects Ito the
fallscy that cleanliness and sanitary
living should be made the excuse for
increasing the price Of the necessities
OF life" 1t seems" he says, that
We milk-consumers are paying the
milk-producers TO wash their hands
and clean their stables and their
boots"
Just Whillikins" Is an essay on so
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06

women, quite evidently not medical
authorities, and contained frequent
quotations of statements credited TO
Kronig and Gauss.
The pbulic, on reading this article.
naturally inferred that this method
was something new; as a matter OF
fact. the suggestion for the use OF a
combination of scopolamin (hyoscin)
and morphin was made over IL years
ago and was put to thorough test,
especially In Germany While not al
together obsolete, II has been practi
cally discarded.
The history OF the method is OF In.
terest. Steinbuchel first published a
paper In 1902, telling OF his expert.
rnents. He began with small doses OF
morphin and scopolamin and had no
unfavorable results; that Is, no dan
serous results.
Following his work, many physi-
clans used repeated doses of morphin
"A we'll as OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
excessively large doses; serious con-
sequences resulted, particularly the
death Of the infant.
The method OF Gauss in the clinic
at Freiburg Is substantially as fol-
lows: The patient is given a dose OF
A preparation Of morphin known as
uarcophin. The manufacturers OF this
preparation state that narcophin Is
A double salt Of morphin and narcotin.
containing about 80 per cent OF NOR.
min alkaloid. They claim that II IA
A scientific substitute for opium and
that Il has advantages over morphin:
specifically that II IL much less liable
20 produce disturbances OF the respi.
ration or nausea. These claims have
not been wholly confirmed.
scopoamin II drug which pro
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
Got HIa Anoors.

Mrs. Clayton Eat the opera)-Ths
opera seems TO be boring you terribly.
Paul. Why. you look absolutely dis
gusted.
Mr.. Clayton Ian efficiency expert)
The operas all right. Emma. but
that fool conductor r. making hun.
dreds Of unnecessary motions.-Puok.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
DIsannoIntment

Il never robbed a man but once"
was starving He would not give me
a penny. and couldn't stand the
cravings In my stomach any longer
SO I knocked him down and went
through his pockets. What kind Of
a haul did I make, Just one little
bottle. which read on the label: Pep
sin-For that full feeling after eat
ing"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
BIZ OLSON GARDINER.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.-High ocean
freight rates due 10 the lack OF an
American merchant marine Is re-
sponsible in a large measure for bad
times. Cotton does not move from
the south TO find It's foreign markets
In part because freight rates on cot
ton are almost prohibitive. The pres
ent rate on cotton from Galveston TO
Bremen Is ten times that which ex-
listed year ago. This in spite OF
the fact that cotton is not contraband
and that the belligerent governments
are supposed 10 permit Its free pass
age. This rate is due chiefly TO the
fact that our commerce Is carried by
foreign ships almost exclusively.
In reporting the ship-purchase bill
to the senate, the commerce commit
tee said: I'VE stand hopelessly at
the waterfronts and let others do our
business for US, TO their own great
gain, subject To their own risks. They
do II In their own way as to time,
place, and character of transportation
and no one will pretend they have ex-
tended to us in all respects equal ia
cilities TO those they have furnished
exercised over rates OF transportation
in order that conditions like these ex-
listing shall become impossible.
Freight rates have advanced TO all
portions OF the globe. The least ad-
vance amounts TO 10 per cent; that
on Asiatic business. The depression
In the steel business is due in part
to the fact that rates on steel and
iron goods have advanced 10. 20 and
80 per cent. All South African rates
have advanced 20 per cent; South
American IS per cent, and the rates
TO European ports have advanced all
the way from Ave 10 1000 per cent.
depending on the character or the
merchandise carried and the port OF
destination.
A aforementioned ship line would
remedy this condition, ii is contend
ed. President Wilson says the gov
eminent will run It's ship lines only
so long as private interests wish.
When they are ready to take over the
business the government will abdi-
cate.
II is unusual for THE Public"
WHICH IOT ytdTb was Ohntu tuib-
ed by Louis Post, now holding office
under President Wilson as assistant
secretary Of labor, to speak dispar-
agingly OF the Wilson administration.
However, when the president appoint
ed Henry Clay Hall and Winthrop
Murray Daniels TO the interstate COM
merce commission, THE Public"
voiced a suspicion that these were
not the kind OF men who would repre-
sent the interests OF the consumer
and the shipper "a against the inter
ests OF the railroad corporation. Now
that the commission has granted the
Ave per cent increase In freight rates.
THE Public" concludes that It's pre-
vious objection was well taken. 1.-Two
commissioners" says The Public, Sin
the place OF these men (Hall and
Daniels) OF the caliber OF Franklin
K Lane. or John Fl. Marble. could
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06

ton OF the treat
ment as applied at
Freiburg by Kronig
and Gauss, pub
lished In the June
issue of a popular
magazine. The ar
ticle In question
appeared under the
nInnatnraa Of fWn
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06

The present interest in twilight
sleep must be credited TO an exposi-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06
WE CAN SUPPORT THIS BILL JUST
BECAUSE OUR OLD TEACHER DOES

town. grammar grade
think written asking that do what toward
getting bill for retirement salaries passed by the Legislature
And intend 10 do what she asks to do.
We are with her finish
which support just and
phase gives opportunity repay part
patience probably
Of those preceded those who after and 1t
opportunity pay recognition patriotic
ally the trying and sacifcial Of preparing citizens
Tho bill which this teacher interested has been approved by
the Superintendent Association by the State Federation Of Teachers
c by the State Teachers Association and by the Federation of Women
Cnba
pecuniary help state which asked
simply custodian the fund give stability the
To please and the of all teachers
herewith bill drafted by Judge
It provides n its the following.
m :.: s .. @
n. % 's s ::: s ss sss z:'
.. ~ . & e: .
ss. s. .sS;s
retirement snnutlss paid of by:
,a. noSsS s ssisa al e RS % = @
5 4, r.: s'sssEf; 7F
R ,e ss aos;s s::Aia ;s7 s''ss
% ss s & & s s @ ss15: sa' : ss'
Appropriations by the Lessl nature
% e s: TIE: S
:::s.:s : s II. this
's :a: secure refund o
fund
double annuiss under
Why justice
plain that viii dspel the nightmare old age dependence
which onfont the poorly paid and engaged
portant public service
plain future removed teachers will feel
justified in going expense of taking they
much but have deny themselves It plain
Of health.
Its plain will profession equipped teach,
but who enter other employments.
Why go argue justice say
everybody about school teachers
and about when mans old teacher for it,
She told nothing wrong when went school her.
Everything she told Us has true.
ALI Of her could needed
where they heededn had
should have been DONE and left undon the things
have been done,
We believe petition with the same
kind interest
long ago to learn other lessons ain LIES hard school"
The main why the state Of Michigan should
asks is In opinion, because old teacher asks it.
She always right
We often wrong.
Time has opened
tiles and TO her great service to her country.
Let's pass the bill FOR OUR OLD TEACHERS
III
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06

Convict Van Vorce failed to get his
parole. Van Vorce. In other words.
seems TO be in for It.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06

How would II do for US to name a
vigilance committee OF private citi'
zens 10 prevent these thefts OF police
autos?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06

Organized basebal's position seems
TO be- that II has nothing TO fear but
rotten umpiring
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06

Submarine statistics indicate that
over In European waters this is the
duck season.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-06

From the earnestness with which
Mr.. Taft advises us TO hang on to the
Philippines. you'd think we had about
10 stories to fall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-12
NAY CONE
Jubilee Convention Of Kansas
Sunday Schools Here.
Plans for Greatest lIeeting IN
History Of the State.

An attendance Of between 5000
and 10000 is expected at the jubilee
convention Of the Kansas Sunday
school convention which will be held
in the Topeka auditorium May 4-6,
according to H. w. Bomgardner. who
was appointed today as chairman OF
the general committee on arrange
ments
1T will lie the fiftieth annual con-
vention." said Mr.. Bomgardner this
afternoon. land in towns where from
six to ten delegates were sent last
year to the annual meeting there will
be car loads this year. according to
present indications. There will be
special trains on all lines entering To-
peka.''
]. H. Engle Of Abilene. secretary OF
the State Sunday School association.
was present at the meeting today al
the Compercial club quarters
Fred Knapp was chosen as secre-
tary Of the general committee. The
following were the committee chair
men appointed: c. E. Eldridge.
finance: Miss Mildred Hazelrigg. mu-
sic: Mrs. s. S. Estey. pageant: Gilbert
Fenton. reception Geo. E. Dougherty,
registration and entertainment: p. H.
Forbes, exhibits: C. A. Sloan. pub
licity: David Owen, information: J. J.
Henderson, halls and auditorium: III.
w. McAfee. ushers: Dewitt Lee. pages;
j. E. Wilson, decorations
A feature of the meeting will be the
pageant which will depict the various
stages In the advancement of the Sum
day school work in Kansas. AS there
torium for both delegates and citizens
of Topeka, the pageant will be given
Monday night. MAJ 8. especially for
the Topekans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-12
ELLIOTT AT HEAD
Well known Topekan Is Presi-
dent Commercial Club.
Roy I. Bone. Vice President
J. W. Kelley Secretary Again.

Charles 8. Elliott was chosen today
nx the new directors of the Topeka
Commercial club to head the organiza-
tfon in 1915. Roy D. Bone was named
m vice president and Frank Bone0rake
and George w. Stansfield as joint
treasurers. ]. Will Kelley was re-elect-
ed as secretary.
Mr. Elliott is president of, the Shaw
nee investment company and secre-
tary Of the Capitol Building and Loan
association. AS chairman of the pro-
motion committee of the Commercial
club he rendered excellent service. He
IL one Of the "self-starters" of the CLUB
"a man who does things.
! with the active cooperation OF ev-
cry member of the club much that is
of real value can be accomplished for
the good of Topeka in the ensuing
year." said President Elliott this after
noon. 1.-The work of the Commercial
club should be an 'every-member-on
the-joh' proposition. There is large
amount of work to be done in 1915. and
it is my hope that the club will be a
larger factor than ever in the develop
ment of Topeka" -
Following is list of the new direc-
tors of the clab and the interests they
represent: Retailers, George w. Stans-
field, Fred Voiland; contractors Frank
Spencer: real estate, w. =. Ricken-
bacher; fire insurance. c. s. Elliott;
banks, F.. M. Bonebrake; railroads, r.
L. Copeland, C. E. Bascom; city Off
GERS. r. L. Bone. w. G. Tandy; county
officers, F. E. Nipps: professions, Roy
B. Guild; public utilities. A. NJ. Pat
ten; manufactures, George p. Mem
tire; jobbers w. H. Davis: lawyers.
Robert Stone; at large. w. w. Webb;
life insurance, c. A. Moore.