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The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
Are We At the Point of
Stepping Back 100 Years?

There are three courses from which congress
will be called upon 10 choose IN the near future
in regard TO the question OF preparedness.
The first is that OF the pacihsts, headed by
William Jennings Bryan, which is, virtually TO
leave things as they and do nothing, Mr..
Bryan and his sympathizers not only believing
that increased armament is unnecessary but that
II is the surest invitation 10 attack.
The next plan is that of the administration
which would increase the army by about $4,000
men and desires 10 create a new volunteer mi
Iitia Of 400 900 which can be called out in any
emergency.
The last is the plan of Colonel Roosevelt,
backed by the war college in Washington. which.
roughly speaking seeks to increase the regular
army to e25 900 men, TO serve two years in the
army and four in the reserve. so that at the
end of few years the country will possess
fully trained troops amounting TO 100000 men.
In addition a second line OF 100000 men is
to be provided and these are to receive rudimen'
tary military training which would make it
possible to make of them efficient soldiers after
a few weeks in camp.
Adequate defense is term which can only
be expressed individually according to the con
vctions of peace or fear OF war residing in
each breast
What seems ample provision to one, will ap
pear utterly inadequate to another.
Unless zeal and courage can stand one in
as good stead as military training IT would
seem hopeless task for any army to start in
now and hope to attain the skill which II has
taken nearly half century for the armies OF
Europe to accomplish
n this awful nightmare of militarism is ever
to be stopped. II would seem that this coun-
try which has blazed the trail for a government
of liberty for and by the people. would be the
one toward which all hope would be directed.
Are we brave enough to stand by our ideal
guns, without powder shell. or must we be
frightened back behind the old artificial ram
parts. which have not served to save Europe
from well nigh utter extinction.
We may place our faith again in the nmsy
sham Of shot and SHE'LL but II we do we will
have stepped back in our path hundred years.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
THE CORNERS OF OUR MEMORY.

The corners Of our Mem'ry
That we all turn every day;
How We come upon them sudden
Leading down a pleasant way.
Where We see familiar faces
And the folks we used TO know
Round the corners OF our Mem'ry
Is the Long Time Ago.
o It's pleasure next 10 Heaven
Just to leave the path Of strife
Just TO tread the primrose pathway
Leading 10 the olden life.
And 70 meet the oldtlme neighbors.
And perhaps again TO see
happy barefoot youngster
Like the boy We used to be.
o, It's Joy TO last lifetime
When In fancy, We may roam
And We turn a sudden corner
In our Mem'ry. leading home.
Leading onward through the Meadows,
With the friendly stars above.
To the old familiar friendships
And the places that We love.
O we're thankful for the pathways
That lead on to rest and peace.
Through the toll and stress OF living.
To the goal where strife shall cease:
But we're thankful--O, SO thankful
For the corners that We know
In our Memory. that lead us
To the Long Time ago
,a. JOHN ID. WELLS
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03

Judge; give me just another chance. y
The judge answered;
"You are reading the harvest from
your wild oats. / hope you won't SOW a
second crop"
What had these young girls done?
They had been foolish enough to mix
up with couple of young men thieves,
whose confession and testimony convict
ed the girls.
The case of these girls will not be ap-
pealed because it costs money to appeal
and the girls have no money.
We suggest that the official sealer OF
weights and measures for Illinois begin
an inspection in his state of the scales of
Justice.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
Bp gibson GARDNER.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The by.
phenated American Is a political
bugaboo. Politicians are easily ter
rified and always have been terri
fed al any suggestion OF solidity.
ing any foreign born vote against
them. In certain states IL is CON
ceivable that hyphensted vote
might. under certain circumstances.
mold the balance of power In a close
contest. but there is no doubt that
the size OF the hypherated vote Is
overestimated.
The census once figures show
that the German-AustriauH Hungar.
isn-Americsn element in the United
States In 1910 reached a total OF TO-
9s4.404 This includes all these ma
tIonslities. including those born
abroad, or in this country who had
both or one parent born abroad or
these. the Germans composed s,2s2.-
Gis the Austrians 2.00l ,559: and
the Hungarians 700,227. These to
tails embraced men, women ana
children The proportion OF voters
To this number of population may be
gathered from the fact that the to-
tai vote in the presidential contest
ri 1912 was approximately 15.000.o 900
on, of a population Of approximately
100 900 900. Carrying out this ratio
The hyphensted Americans OF Ger
man. Austrian. aud Hungarian tinge
would poll approximately l.500. 900
votes. II is inconceivabie that all
these could be swung for or against
any one candidate. Many left their
home countries years ago, and those
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03

Psychical research. as everybody
knows. means the scientific inves-
tigation of occult phenomena II is
an effort to obtain proof regarding
the traditional belief OF mankind
that the soul survives the death OF
the body.
In the effort to obtain such proof
some interesting and important dis
coveries have been made with re-
gard to unsuspected powers of the
human mind. These discoveries are
particularly important because they
can be turned to practical account
in the everyday life Of man.
Psychical researchers. In fact. are
harnessing the occult to the service
of humanity.
Especially impressive In this re-
spect Is the outcome Of investiga-
tion of the phenomenon known as
automatic writing.
In automatic writing, persons
while entranced, semi-entranced, or
even in waking condition. write
without being aware OF what they
are doing. II Is as IL some other
person had taken possession OF
them. and was causing their hand
to write whatever this second per.
son wished to say.
And, indeed, the statements set on
paper in automatic writing often
purport to be written by the spirit
OF some dead person. Many people
believe that they are actually thus
written. and accept the automatists.
or writing mediums" as real in
termediaries between the living and
the dead
In case after case, however, psy-
chical researchers have proved that
instead OF coming from the dead.
automatic writings really represent
nothing more than subconscious
memories in the mind OF the per
son doing the writing.
They may be memories OF persons
and events that have long faded
completely from conscious remem.
! trance. In one case, for example,
/ T. was found that statements pur-
porting to come from the spirit
OF a countess OF the middle ages had
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
Hyphenated Peril is Greatly Ouerrated

born in this country have become
in many instances thoroughly Amer
icanized, and in any case they would
be apt 10 be divided by habit and
party allegiance between the great
parties.
For the frst time since President
Wilson has been in the White
House, the woman suftragists VINO
are working with congress for an
amendment TO the constitution have
received aid from that quarter. II
is Miss Margaret Wilson this time
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
From Another Point of NeD
By c. T. S.

A professional auto racer has been de-
clared sane by Philadelphia court.
Great Britain has seized an American
ship sailing from Halifax. That's IRE
peat last word of foregoing sentence) of
a note.
On the other hand, the average man
gets his life insured merely as a matter
of policy.
"Give whisky to men as they are given
milk and there would soon be an end to
the whisky traffic." declares Virginia
doctor. But think of the way our beau
tiful streets would be overrun with cows.
Ohio c. Barber, aged n, multimilion-
aire head of the match trust, has married
his secretary, "A. The chances are this
is Barber's last match
If advices are true, the Ford party, so
far as Holland is concerned, would ap-
pear to be in Dutch.
An Indiana man is the father of Ia
children. He is probably pretty firm in
his conviction that once year for Christ
mas is plenty.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
ARM BANDS FOR COUGH.

Yellow arm bands for Newark children vvo
have the whooping cough apparently have nsf
proved a success in checking the spread OF tie
disease. In report, Acting Health Officfr
Craster said something must he done TO chelk
the spread OF the disease. The number of casfs
had almost doubled in the last week Newa1
ers who opposed the "whoopIng cough band1"
now say they believe the measure which caused
SO much commotion when II was adopted WI
soon be cast aside by the board Of health.
South Yonkers has measles epidemE.
There were IS cases In one day recently arI
Health officer Coons announced that he would
prosecute parents who sent children subjected
to the disease In their families TO the pubic
schools.-New York Tribune. a.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03

who has unexpectedly consented TO
act with Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont In
receiving the women who have
come across the country by auto
mobile from California bearing the
petition In favor OF the Anthony
amendment, from the Woman vot.
ors' convention OF the Congression-
al Union held this fall. In San Fran
cisco. Before the presidents en-
gagement and declaration for SUI.
fIage state by state" Miss Wilson
had remained neutral.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
A Poem q Day

THE TOLL OF THE TRAIL.
What have I gained by the toll OF
the traiif
I know and know we'll.
have found once again the lore, i
had lost
In the loud city's hell.
have broadened my hand 70 the
cinch and the AK.
have laid my fesh TO the rain.
Was hunter and trailer and guide:
I have touched the most primitive
wlldness again.
I have threaded the wild with the
stealth OF the deer.
No eagle Is freer than ]:
No mountain can thwart me, no tor
rent appal.
defy the stern sky.
so long as I live these joys will re-
main.
I have touched the most primitive
wildness again.
-Hamlin Garland.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
BOOKS FOR CONyICTS.

More than 1000 books were collected during
The book shower inaugurated by Mrs. Frank
NJ GuaIt for the oklahoma state penitentiary.
Books will be received hereafter al the rooms
~ Mr. Frank Gualt president OF the state board
Of agriculture In the Mercantile building. Mrs.
Gault desires TO thank all who have so kindly
contributed A letter received yesterday by
Mrs G,ialt from one OF the prisoners made =
request for Spanish grammer. to AID IN tns
s,ndy Of that language and this Mrs. Guah
succeeded in finding. showers arc being az
ranged for other cities In the state. one being
lust started In Ada.--Oklahoma City Times.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
Questions Motives Of Ford Ship
Critics.


To the Editor OF The Times:
have been reading with contempt
the comments made by representa-
tive men OF Detroit With regard TO
Henry Ford's peace ship plan and
feel thnt ~ In NOT ou. Of place for me-
a. n Detroit citizen 20 ask why men
who are enjoying some OF IN" pros
perity that Henry Ford has made
possible In our city. are taking such
an interest In trying to belittlo his
plan. The least they could do ~ 20
wish II well as compliment 10 the
greatest OF all millionatreS The
citizens were ready to accept his help
In taking over the one million dollar
bonds that they were unable TO selI
elsewherc They were glad To have
him help them ont with the hospital
which he has completed and u credu
10 our beautiful city. Now when ne
starts with q purely unselhsh human
itarian act 10 try and do something
whole world, his own folks az home
try 10 hold him up to rldicuie ana
belittle hte EFFORTS. Instead OF stsnu-
ing behind him AMI ~ least give MN
The sssurance OF their faith In hts
stncerity These men who are criticts-
are not In favor of peace for
commercial or poiitical reasons, ano
in my opinion are not loyal 10 pe-
troit When any man will place
big fortune at the disposal of our
government for the purpose OF bring
Ing happiness to the world. we should
feel proud that we can claim such
man as our own. and ~ we can't
boost hts scheme We should stop
Knocking he won the Seiden patent
case when all tho automobile hrms
were against him and he may pun
this scheme through. 81 tcast he
has started something. and that's
more than the knockers have done.
J. W. DEAN,
No. 3fs Michigan-ave.
Detroit. Dec. 2, 1915.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
THE POSITIVES
By On. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915, by Frank Crane)

III NopyriSht lSlo, Dy FRANK Srane)
One reason why Billy Sunday can sue
ceed In a revival is that he is positive.
DR.. Eliot, Of Harvard, could not get Sun
days enormous crowds to come to listen
to him talk on religion, because he is not
positive.
The multitude wants to hear the evan
gSlist who damns 'em right and left, who
is cocksure as to precisely what the
Deity will do.
No scientist, nor scientific manner,
hestitating, questioning. challenging its
way toward the truth, was ever popular.
In all our affairs we are conscious of
our ignorance, we know mighty little of
what's going on in the star spaces above
US; we can only guess at the meaning
of world movements around us; we don't
understand even the depths Of our own
hearts; hence we grasp at any positive
assertions that may be shouted at us as
bewldered mariners heed any signals in
a fog.
Sometimes, however, the positive fel-
lows get on our nerves. Travelling
around the earth you will find yourself
consigned to hell by hundred different
creeds; Turk. Buddhist, Brahman, Cath
oic, Evangelical, and Mormon will spew
you out.
No movement that draws the masses
hesitates. They all assert. They know.
They are sure as granite. The Saliva
tion Army, Christian Science, Roman
Cathoism, the Methodist revivalist. the
political party, the thing that strikes
you in all of them is their unruffled cer-
tainty. They don't guess, think, sur
mise, or suspect; they know.
There is the same condition of things
in business. Not only the woman who
hesitates is lost, but the man who hesi-
tates is failure. In practical affairs
one round affirmative smashes through
whole army of questionings.
President Harrison once asked an Off
cial in the law department to prepare
statement setting forth the grounds
upon which he could legally carry out
certain law congress had just passed.
The official gave 40 reasons why it could
not be DONE The president sent word to
him: 81 don't want any reasons for not
doing this. / want one good reason for
doing it. Give me this or resign" The
reason was Forthcoming and the thing
was done with general approval.
Nature has her positives. She deals
in facts, laws, and substances. She does
not experiment or fudge. Things are
as they are. There's no use asking
why is fish 2" or why is bird7"
They just are.
What may be the causes back of the
laws that govern electricity or heat or
chemical affinity we may only surmlse'
but the laws themselves are as certain
and indubitable as stone.
There is pleasure in thinking; ques-
tioning and doubt have their rewards in
the mind. but the thing we call effciency
is reserved for the man that can buncn'
his total energy into clear beiief ana
hurl himself solidly at a hesitating world.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03

the gums often re
suit.
Neglect Of the
first teeth is q
frequent cause Of
decay Of the sec.
ond teeth
n n child has
decayed teeth. IL
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03

cannot properly chew It's food. I'm
properly chewed food and an ,un-
clean mouth cause bad digestion.
and then poor general health re.
suits.
n child is not in good health II
cannot keep up with It's studies In
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
Ile Bunco Victims Don't All
Come From the Back Woods

pid you read about Alex Sangi, all the
r from Calumet, in last nights paper.
EIex stopped off in Detroit on his way
Ifudson, N. Y, and with him was a
6n9er he had met on the train and
ID whom he had become quite friendly.
3k1ex had his wife and several children
mn him. but left them in the depot
1l1o hs went with his recently-acquired
Ind to get drink.
~ friend suggested that they pro-
M on to the center Of the city together
ose the sights, but Alex chose to re-
III 10 his wife and children.
Nm the friend decided he would go
Ilt&3e spree by himself, and pulling
~ wallet from his inside pocket, said
tained 5000.
1Ao bills were all of large denomina-
md It would never do, the friend
1xed, for him to carry around so
J money.
y suggested that Alex let him take
o and hold the wallet for security.
x TX dug up $197, the friend departed
- IL and later Alex looked into the
S1hst to find it was filed with tissue
Pour opinion Of Alex is, no doubt, that
Mas seven or eight kinds of chump,
W ~ va
+ 1sIl for one Of the oldest and one
= fawest confidence games on record,
IN there are just q big chumps right
q the city as there are in the coun-
falling every little while for the old
nv aren't taking up with strangers
36 900 wallets and losing their own
Dn otboolks, but just about every so Of
3 they manage to lose their votes and
In11o Ounces Of themselves just as Alex
fn11lned for that long g-eared distinction.
The great political confidence. game
Nh soon be on.
y Already the three-card men in office,
NH records that should retire them to
Gtvate life. are extending the glad hand
1d inviting "the boys who can deliver"
- - the bar.
III And when the tickets are placed be-
l0Go Mr.. Too Busy Good Citizen, prince
e chumps, he will have to choose be-
eWoen the states that have been arranged
- barrooms and approved by the liquor
organizations and vote swappers.
" The game is as old as the hills, but
oyery two years the people fall for it.
" So why pick on poor Alex Sanyi?
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
Prison for the Two Girls;
An Appeal for the Rich Man

A few days ago, in Morris, ILL.,, one
Charles B. Munday was told to stand up
~ court.
u He had been found guilty of embez-
ring 81 900 900 from the affiliated Lori
lmsr banks.
u The Judge sentenced him to five years
a prison, but Munday hasn't reached
$rriDon yet and there is no telling when
~ will begin serving time, if ever
L HE HAS MONEY IN THE BANK
WITH WHICH TO FIGHT, AND WILL
iI5JOY HIS LIBERTY WHILE HIS
CASE Is TAKEN TO THE HIGHER
aColRT AND SEARCHED FOR TECH
{ICALrrIES.
- Ihe present week in Chicago, two
ng girjs were sentenced by judge,
lDor the indeterminate law, to from one
oueteon years in the penitentiary.
~ srs prpbably in prison sarb by
oo1ss Nsilis and Harriet Mclean
~ nomes.
80 - The judge:.
1nnn1k 80 - 49,
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03
The Keep Well Column
TEETH

Decayed teeth cause an unclean
mouth and toothachc and disease Of
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03

school. Its poor physical condition
makes II more likely to contract
contagious disease. and II has not
the proper chance 10 grow into a
robust, healthy child.
Parents should sec that the child's
teeth are brushed after each meal.
using a toothbrush and tooth pow
der.
RI child's teeth are decayed u
should be taken IN a dentist az once
Overheated rooms have killed
moro people that ever froze to
death.
The Detroit times., 1915-12-03

You may count the cost. but can
you pay?
The Washington herald., 1915-11-28

seats are gilded arm-chairs, and are
far more roomy and comfortable than
the seats In the great majority of
regular theaters.
One of its distinctive features is
that n Mr.. Butler II. at the same time,
Its owner, ager, producing man
ager and principal actor and play
wright Judging by the nature of the
plays from his pen, II is fortunate.
perhaps. for him that he has the final
say-so in all these capacities. Last
year he produced a piece which con-
tanned a scene between a girl of four
teen and a titled libertine, which was
regarded unanimously by all the re-
viewers as one of the most loathsome
things ever shown on the New York
stage.
pieces, the first an innocuous set OF
early part of the last century, IN our
own period of high living and fire.
quent divorce, and some time in the
future, when eugenic laws control the
question of marriage. It Is called
''The Courtship of Then, Now and To-
morrow" is from the pen of Anna
wynne; is amusing original and
pretty well done.
The second piece Is another remark
dDlt VI inc DdNcupoAI
and Is founded on a well-remembered
crime in which a very young Italian
girl on the lower East Side deliber-
ately killed her uncle. with whose fam
fly she lived and who had forced her
to become his victim. The author OF
the play makes the girl. a young wife.
ignorant OF the purport OF what had
happened and the murder the result
of her young husbands discovery of
the facts: The atrocious character of
this play is not lessened by the au-
thor's evident delight in dwelling on
the details and making them as
graphic as possible, the revolving quail
ity being heightened by the smallness
of the house and the nearness of the
persons on the stage to those in the
audience Not a word, move or look is
lost.
New York has had some very pur-
pie revelations on the stage, especially
among the one-act pieces, during the
recent few years OF very free thought
and equally free speech. but most OF
them have at least been well written
and well acted. The Davenport efforts
are not conspicuous for even that
partly redeemIng virtue. They seem to
have been written and acted simply on
account OF their subjects and their
creators delight in handling his ma
teriai The word degeneracy has fire.
cuentlv been used in connection with
them and II would seem likely that II
they go much further the authorities
might become interested.
The Washington herald., 1915-11-28
Conductor Of Ballet Russo.

Serge de Diaghileff. the director OF the
famous Ballet Russo, which Will appear
in this city later in the season. has en-
gaEed Ernest Anserment as conductor Of
the orchestra which Is now being organ
lied in New York for the tour. Mr.. An
sermet has been the conductor Of the
Municipal Orchestra in Geneva and Lau-
same. He has been selected by Mr.. de
Diaghileff on account Of his familiarity
with Russian music, and he comes highly
The Washington herald., 1915-11-28
Gayety-BurIe.aue.

special Sunday program has been ar
ranged by Manager Harry Jarboe. Of the
Gayety Theater, for today, introducing .
selection OF vaudeville acts. Edythe Mir
field. In her song surprise; WIN Lester
Algier, presenting I'm the Trenches"
war drama In one act; Frankie Rice. In
specially impersonating stage stars;
singing and dancing number by Frank
Hunter and Florence Davenport. and
Fred and LYDIA Weaver are the leading
features.
The Washington herald., 1915-11-28

Entertained Army and Navy oAcerr
A party OF two hundred and fifty
Army and Navy officers and their
ladies reserved tables for dinner and
witnessed the skating exhibitions At
the Castles in the Air and Ice Palace.
atop the Forty-fourth Street Theater.
New York, last evening.
The Washington herald., 1915-11-28
Cosnos-concert.

Ceifo's new march. "our National
President" the overture from Herold's
Tampa" selections from Leoncavallo's
II Pagliacci." Won Blon's "whispering
Flowers." Arncrs Dissertation Rag"
Czfbulka's Woodland Whispers" Van
Alstyne's Come on Along" and Lampe's
Creole Bellies" will be some of the Sc
lections included in the concert program
70 be presented by an enlarged orchestra
under Arthur Maxwell at the Cosmos
Theater today from , to 1870 D. m. in
addition to number Of new specialties
and other forms OF amusement
The Washington herald., 1915-11-28

recommended by 90 less an authority
than Stravinsky. the composer of the
music for 'TOiseau de Feu'' and "Pe-
trouchkA"
The Washington herald., 1915-11-28
Subtle Wit.

Marguerite McNulty has a subtle wit
She had birthday last week and sent
her mother telegram OF congratula-
tons
The Washington herald., 1915-11-28

Melville Ellis and Maurice Farkoa
are to enter vaudeville together.