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The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Wanted -Spankers

A self-spanker is being used in New
York orphanage.
But, to be strictly accurate, the or
phanage self-spanker is partner af-
fair" One child does the spanking for
the other, who, in return, works the
spanker over him.
A really and truly self-spanker hasn't
been turned out yet. But it's needed,
and needed badly.
This self-spanker should have a
strong, hefty arm, and work rapidly, and
il should be used regularly and with eff
feet, personally, by the superintendent
who runs that orphan asylum. There
should be several self-spankers, set up
in the yard where all the children can
see, and the superintendent and all the
people who elect him and support him
should be made to take as thorough a
personal spanking as the self-spankers
will administer.
We'd like to be there among the chill
dren and enjoy that self-spanking bee!
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
EDITORIAL PAGE

vor Of criminality and the pauperizing
of charity. IN.
Judge NeiPs new proposal is that
mothers pensions shall be administered
through the public schools. This new
system must be made entirely construc-
tive. IL must be taken entirely away
from the machinery of courts and char
ity and used for the development of
children into men and women. ready
with strong bodies and loyal spirits to
serve their country and the world" says
Judge Neil.
The public school machinery can
easily and naturally be expanded TO man
aye the mothers pension system. The
pensions will amount 10 more than SlO,-
600. 900 this year. School teachers are
in touch with all the children and they
could be the aids to the mothers in max
ing the system serve its purpose in a
way, with no faint OF char
ity 10 destroy self-respect.
This new plan will make pensioned
mothers responsible to the state for the
health and education of their children,
and their efforts will be intelligently di-
rected by the teachers. Backed by the
instructive interest of women for chill
dren, fine results should follow immedi-
ately.
These ideas and many others in con-
nection with the mothers pension sys-
TEN will be discussed at a mothers pen
sion school teachers congress at the
San Francisco Panama-Pacific exposition
on July 20, p and %.
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Starvation After War
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

In the footsteps Of war comes starva-
ton. After the wholesale murder Of
men comes the slow torture Of women
and children.
All Europe is threatened with hunger,
With the plight of Belgium's 1000, 900
people we are most familiar. Had not
America interviewed with her shiploads
of food, the snarling armies would have
let the Belgians starve.
Italy is hungry. Whether she enters
into the conflict or continues trying to
sit on the fence. there will be empty
stomachs throughout her territory. Last
years harvest was the worst in years.
This year the very wheat brought into
the country for its people finds its way
into Austria and Germany.
Henry Sienkiewicz, the novelist, 10
Gently stated that Poland's case Is even
worse than Beigiums. One hundred
thousand of her $4,000 square miles
have been ravaged by the soldiers, who
have Communicated all food. leaving the
inhabitants 10 starve. Fifteen thousand
villages have been demolished, agricul-
ture everywhere has been ruined, and in
the towns 100000 workers are idle and
foodless.
Paderewski, the pianist, writes in the
Paris Temps from Switzerland to the
same effect concerning Polish conditions.
The Imperial Free Economical society
of Petrograd has just published an ap..
peal "to the citizens of the United
States" telling pitiful story Of the sit
uation in Russia among all classes.
Hordes, hundreds of thousands, OF
Poles, Jews, Lithuanians, Uhanians,
White Russians, Armenians and Geor-
gians, having lost their homes and their
worldly all, are fleeing for their lives.
Women and children, the sick and the
weak, young and old, having little or
nothing TO eat, perish by the way.
Germany's latest frantic gesture,
threatening not only to destroy her en-
emys ships but to assassinate neutral
commerce, is accompanied by the cry
that England is starving her. The whole
nation has been put on rations.
The people in the Balkans, and partic-
ularly in Albania, are in the most appal-
ling state. No words can describe the
horror of the families in this state.
where law has practically ceased, and
men have become little better than raw
ening wolves
In the meanwhile the carnage and de-
struction go on. In the face OF the BILL
lions spent for ruin the thousands ex-
pended for relief is Of little avail
The war, which has no excuse either
in its incipiency or in its continuance but
insane pride, stubbornness and blood
lusty glory. continues.
III the PEOPLE could only catch their
RULERS. lock them all up in a MAD
HOUSE and go back to their farms, it
would be a Gods blessing.
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Same Old Issue

Los Angeles mayor gives Us a view
of the plan of warfare against the jitney
bus business that is likely to be followed
by every corporation-run community in
the country that has the jitney. This
mayor vetoes an ordinance mainly be-
cause it does not prohibit the operation
of jitneys on main streets in the "con-
gested district"-that is, in localities
where most people take conveyance
and because bond of $4,000 is not re-
quired in each case.
Accommodation of the people be hang
ed protection Of the present franchise
holders is the thing. Thus the issue is
once again squarely as to whether the
people shall have something they want
or the public service corporations ALL
they want.
Communities blessed with the referen-
dunn viii be able to decide that issue
pretty considerably.
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Lure of Drink

Russia at war anforces prohibit
ton over all the empire. Great Brit
ain at war now proposes restric-
tions against dram drinking, Il Is
found certain industrial plants
which provide armament for the
British soldiers have been losing
much time because a part OF the
workmen incapaciated themselves
several days % each week by over
drinking of liquors. II Is stated
some OF the workers have refused
10 work full time and that their rea-
son for not doing so has been found
In the lure OF the public house.
where they preferred TO carouse In
working hours
Officially the British government,
has given It out taat in order 20
get full work o,H Of the workshops
and in order 10 command the proper
output OF supplies for the armies OF
the empire. the public houses will
be restricted where necessary In
other WORDS, Great Britain ofnCiali"
a putting finger. at last, on one
OF the weak spots in the armor Of
England II. as has been charged,
degeneracy and decadence have
come to Britain through her drink
ing habits. the war and the emer-
gencies and demands Of great
crisis surely win bring ont the facts
David Lloyd George publicly has
taken cognizanee OF the influence
OF excessive drinking on the efh-
cheney Of England war machine
He finds drunken Iworkmen In the
armament mills as much q menace
az are the fighting foes in the fe,d
George declares the government will
act fearlessly and effectively TO pre-
vent LIQUORS rayages at home He
says the government will use its
DO fer 10 solve the drink evil SO Il,
IS the supreme demand for efficiency
which compels government action
for compulsory reform. indianapolis
Times.
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
By gibson GARDNER.

WASHINGTON. March l0.--The
most important legislation enacted
by the sixtythird congress in the
opinion OF Andrew Feruseth. veteran
president OF the seamen's union tan
opinion which will be shared BY
many other people alsol is the so
called seaman's bill | asked Feru-
seth to explain in detail what the
bill viii accomplish
~In the arst place" said Feruseth-
THE bill does not 90 into immediate
effect 1t win apply TO American
vessels eight months after the fall
OF 1915. On foreign vessels. coming
to American ports. il will take Ell
feet Jan 4. 1916; so some people
are becoming prematurely excited
about the act The law is the most
important legislation, in my judg-
ment. which has been enacted by
congress In 50 years. The biggest
thing that IL does Is 10 abolish In
voluntary seryitude. This Is the last
Involuntary servitude in the juris-
diction OF the United States. ! refer
TO the arrest and detention and re-
turn 20 their vessels OF seamen who
quit work In violation OF their con
tract 20 labor, This Is 10 be true
on all American vessels everywhere
and ON foreign vessels while in the
ports OF the United States Civil
zation has waited long for the cor
rection Of this abuse; this heritage
Of an age OF white man slavery. The
seaman Is entitled under this law TO
onehalf OF his pay, collectabie In
the port no visits, but he cannot col
lect oftener than once in five days IL
case the ship touches at ports more
frequently than once in five days.
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Let the School Teachers
Administer Mothers Pensions

When Illinois adopted its first moth
cr's pension law in the world, new
principle was adopted 1t will be four
years In July since this new system first
came into use, but in that short time %
states have joined the advance and New
York and Indiana probably will adopt
the legislation before their legislatures
adjourn.
Judge Henry Neil, father of the moth
ors' pension idea, has said, from the
first, that the mothers pension system
n no more charity than the public
school system Is a charity. He conceiv-
"a the first law and has led in the
spreading Of the new plan in this coun-
IN. but up to the present the prevail
inf idea has been that the mothers pen
ION system IL simply means of relief
for desperate cases. In most of the
1<o<co the pensions are administered
(hEooGh the courts. This gives the fla
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Let the People
Rule-and Write
Man and the "Isms."
no ,Ae Ealtor o. rhe rime.:

To the Editor Of TIE Times:
AS reader and subscriber OF The
Detroit Times. wish 90 most
heartily indorse your editorial OF
March I. In which you quote az
article from The Public. and com.
ment on the same. might say
here that am a subscriber for The
Public. and read II thoroughly.
] believe that your conclusions.
arrived at through the school OF ex.
perience. is the experience OF all
men who have advocated or tried
out any OF the advanced theories or
fancies for the Ills OF this life. To
the radical enthusiast. who, from
looking at only one point. has be-
come AFFLICTED with mental myopia,
his Is the only way OF salvation. .
whether II be mental. moral, social.
economic or spiritual, but TO the
man who neither falls down or
worships any theory or ISM" hut
is willing TO CLEAN the grain OF
truth from all. he can perceive
errors and pitfalls. truth and rem.
edies.
The fact that the remedies you
have advocated have not worked
out entirely as you had anticipated
Is no evidence that they we're
wrong. but rather that their effect
for good was ceer-estimated. MANY
Of these theories. such as gcverr'
ment ownership. municipal owner
ship. Socialism. or single tar have
some valuable truths incorporated
In them. but where the advocG ties
OF each err. IL, that none contains
-Arl the Truth" and the sad fact Is
forced upon many Of US, thai the
very good which each desires To AZ
tain Is Initiated by the unreconcIi
able attitude OF one toward ths
other. Very much like the Jog
matte religionist. who would -sther
a man 20 10 hell than reach heaven
by any other route than their Own
little pet way.
One fact 4 think you viii aErcs
with. and that Is that there Is moth
ing which viii take the place OF ir.
dividual thrift and economy. NJ
boy can waste his time. talents ard
resources and expect to reap per
feet or desirable harvest And no
ism" will stand between himself
and the consequences OF his acts
A. G. NEWTON
Pontiac, Mich.
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10

drug. When you go long without
sleep the "poisons' increase.
when your system II subjected 70
extreme physical effort the poisons
increase in proportion.
Fatigue. therefore. IL chemical
condition and that's why you are
tired at times and not tired at
others.
Prolonged physical effort-walk'
ing 20 miles, climbing a peak. riding
a bicycle tends to give these poisons
room to bother you in the cells OF
your body.
You feel weary--"all in
And when you are unable 20 sleep.
these poisons are getting the mas
terry OF your body. Many people drug
themselves TO rest but this IL only
a temporary relief and In the end
win make matters worHe-
Take measures to prevent insom'
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Seamen Consider Legislation
In Their Interest of Value
BY Webster

Thus a seaman cannot be compelled
by having all Of his pay withheld TO
complete voyage In case he Ii sub
Jected TO illtreatment or desires 10
terminate his contract OF service.
Gin the interest OF safety" con-
tinued Feruseih. this Law insures a
certain number u skilled men on
board the vessel. by restoring the
rating OF able seamen' and deffn-
ing what Il means For further safe
~ the Law provides that rs per cent
OF the crew In each department OF
the vessel must be able to under
stand and speak the language OF the
officers This Is so that in case Of
emergency the orders can be quickly
transmitted by officers TO crew.
which would not be the case where
they are foreigners depending on IN
terpreters for the translation OF their
orders. as has frequently been the
case in the past
The bill prohibits the payment OF
wages before they are earned, there
by abolishing 'crimping' and 'shang-
hying II provides for better fore
castles and better sanitary arrange
ments. II sets standards for boats
and davits 10 lower them and com
pes the proper equipment OF life
boats. The bill does not provide
enough boats nor the proper man
ming OF the boats, but even on this
score. 1t Is a long step in advance.
On the ocean II provides for 20 per
cent OF boats and % per cent OF
RATS. On bays. and sounds, and
where the water Is not deep enough
to submerge the vessel. the kind and
amount OF llfe-saving equipment and
manning f. left TO the inspection de-
partment OF the department OF com.
merce
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Toxemia!---Rs Fafgue---Thaf Tired
Feelinq": Diet and Relaxation Needed

MIA instead Of trying to cure II by
treatment for the nerves.
Change your diet Don't say, "oh.
I've been eating that sort OF food
for years and II hasn't hurt me
yet" True. II hasn't until now.
That's the point. You have slowly
been filling your system with poison
and now is the first time you have
begun 10 feel Its results. You
can't sleep well. It's fooIhardy TO
experiment with sedatives. Lood for
the systemic abnormaIity.
Chickenpox Is highly contagious
even after the patient s apparently
on the high road to recovery and
parents should warn their children
not 10 play with one who has re-
Gently had the disease.
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Appreciation.


To the Editor o. The Times: /,
The accompanying lines but poor
ly express my appreciation OF, and
admiration for your successful
achievements IN the field OF clean
Journalism. May continued success
be with you, and earth's best sur
round you all the way.
To the Detroft Times. secure On Its
New Homer upsuilied In
Its New Dress.
The goal IL reached. the stake -
Unswerving was the pace:
Now. hopes fruition gilds your brow
And rests upon your face
We trace your course where vaior
strove
LIES nobler task to do.
Where strength and courage reaps
reward,
And wins fair Iaureis. too.
The FIELD you entered with brave
heart
with doubt and cloud around.
Responsive 20 your upward lift.
With progress does resound.
And may success and Joyful days
Tnmeaeured be for you.
May honor. trust and gratitude
Your onward course pursue
\. X. TfIuRSTON
Burr Oak, Mich. Mar 7. 1915.
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Perquisites

Tommy" said the Sunday school
teacher. who had been giving a les
son on the baptismal covenant, "can
you tell me the two things necessary
TO bsptfsmy"
"Yes'm." said Tommy, water and
n baby."-western Mall.
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10

WONDER TALES.


Girls are awful scary.
One time Bessie Hunt
Said her mother seen a rat
big's elephunt.
IL l seen one blk as that
I'd Jest take dagger,
Men I'D chase 10 up a tree
Like l would a tagger.
Huh. we got a old gray cat
Beteha would a ct that rat.
In our hist'ry lesson
One day Thomas Sweet
Ever done wuE sec a king.
Ridin' down the street.
Compositions whut Ia wuE.
An VI all my father
SAID HIS FATHER SEEN . king
Gee I wouldn't bother.
But my father---likc I wrote
- got real Prince Albert coat,
Onct a thousan' robins
Lighted In our yard.
Men l went and counted EN-
IL wuz awful hard,
Thousan'ss more'n ten. guess
That's whut wlllyum Heather
Counted on the way To school
Bet he didn't, either
Praps 'twuz only three r four.
Wtsht I'd seen a thousan' more
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10

The worst thing about the adjourn
ment of this congress is the fact that
Joe Cannon will be in the next one.
When the game is in the ninth and close,
And we've got a man on base,
The umpire says that So-and-So
Will bat in some ones place.
And in life, too, we find the subs
The same as in the game,
There's sub complexion that they sell
To pink the fading dame.
There's the sub that we so often find
On Billy Kay's machine;
The grocer man for coffee oft
Will substitute the bean.
For butter they have introduced
Oleomargarine,
And for the dreadnaught now there bats
The willy submarine.
A Chicago aviator turned 80 somer-
saults in the air in his machine. Nobody
home but cold boiled egg and no chance
to beat it.
Little tough, we would suggest, on the
street car passenger whose pocket con-
tanned only Canadian silver lining.
There is horse in Oconto. Wis. that
is SO years old. Which animal. we be-
lieve, has now qualified for participation
In the Windsor races.
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
Statesmen, Real and Near
BY FRED c. KELLY
Copyright. 1915, by Fred G. keiiy)

wAsHINGToN. March io--Billy Kent mem
Der OF congress- from California, Is one OF me
leading shepherds OF his district unders.anu'
ne does not 20 out into the hills and meadows
with a shepherds crook like Bo.Peep and actual
" attend the sheep: but he knows great many
thousand OF our little woolly friends III you
were 10 walk up TO Kent and ask him. haVe
Won any WOOL and he were To reply, Yes.
three bags full" like the pleasant little sheep IN
the nursery rhyme, he would be underesumauns
his possessions for even az TINS momeh. ne
doubtless has many more bags OF WOOL tnan
that Yet with all his wool he voted TO reduce
the wooilen tariff. to enable those OF US VINO
have no sheep to buy woollen underclothing ana
consequently to wonder IL we aren't caecnns
a mild case OF hives.
However we drifting clear away rom
our brief tale Another sheep owner out IN
evidently with the idea that Kent. being in the
sheep business himself, would catch MS point
OF view
'.The grass Is all dried up" he said. "and the
sheep won't eat II. Kindly arrange with the
agricultural experiment station TO provide me
with few thousand green goggles for my sheep,
SO that I can fool them into thinking the grass
Is a nice spring green.
johnson ~ Camden. who spent a few months
I'm washington senator from Kentucky until
March 4. is a great horseman, and owned one OF
the finest stables In the United States. In or
der to have somebody TO talk TO about horses
back home, Camden brought with him TO Wash
ington old Negdo servant who was the valet
OF Iamdens IhtneT, ohS' Hehaeoi hom Vost W.
ginia.
One day this Negro was called to the senate
TO perform a chore for Camden, and the senator
noticed the old man was suffering from severe
cold II happened that Senator Gailinger OF
New Hampshire and Harry Lane OF Oregon.
both former pill doctors, were standing near by
and Camden asked them TO take look at the
old man.
what seems to be the matter with your"
asked Gallinger. And when Lane came up he
asked, "Just how do you feel?"
Then each told him something to take. Not
being regular physicians any more, they did not
write him out a mysterious prescription but told
him the name of the stuff he TO use In plain
United States.
The next day Camden asked his servant n he
were taking the remedies the senatorial doctors
had suggested
mo sab. thought I'd Just walt I'll gets
home.' he replied. "and then Ill 20 TO some good
vetinary doctah. These doctahs that has to ask
you what's the mattah with you amt no good
doctahs boss doctah has 10 know what's the
mattah without ever askin'---cause boss can't
talk. now. kin he. Thath why boss doctah 10
the best doctah they is."
Associate Justice Pitney In the only member
OF the supreme court who has office I'm the
capitol All the other Justices have their studies
right at home, the same n preacher. Justice
Pitney says he doesn't feel N he's working
for living unless he leaves home right after
breakfast
Alaa eel orraine haa n uonufaffon ~ u>~sNw
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
VIVA, she Looked Ike.

did you see that hussy who sued
our son for breach Of promise7'
Il did
what did she lock ifkezs,
She looked 20 me like son-kist
lemon Judge
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10

What is tox-
emla? Chemical
changes in the
tissues OF your
body-in it's cells
OTTER IN is
chemical change
IL OF the ciarac-
ter OF a narcotic
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10

Mexico City has again been evacuated.
Mexico City holds the record, we are
quite sure, for the number of its evacua-
The Detroit times., 1915-03-10
We Need These Two Men If
We Take Over the ID. U. X.

The directors Of the Detroit United
railway have accepted the offer OF the
street railway commission of S2o,ooo''
600 for the company's lines and equip
ment within the one-fare zone.
II will be necessary for the stockhoid-
ers to ratify the action of the directors
which step by the stockholders may be
considered, undoubtedly, as good as
taken. ...
The recommendation of the directors
Of corporation is generally accepted by
the stockholders.
II win then be necessary for the stock
holders in the city of Detroit to ratlfy
the recommendation of THEIR directors,
or the men they choose to represent
them in making the deal with the
d. II. r.
That Is exactly how near we are here
To the realization of what was termed
Times dream not so many years ago.
THAT IS EXACTLY HOW NEAR
We ARE HERE TO MUNICIPAL OWN
ERSHIP AND OPERATION OF OUR
STREET RAILWAY SYSTEM, first pro-
posed by this newspaper.
We are that near, as matter OF fact,
Il looks to us as II we ought to De look
Ing about for capable men to manage
what win be our biggest city depart
ment.
The Times suggests that Messrs
Hutchins and Brooks should be approach
"a With q view to securing for the city a
continuation of the very able service they
have given the Detroit United railway as
president and general manager, respec-
lively.
with these gentlemen at the head of
the department, the city would be able TO
step into the ownership and operation OF
TIE lines without the possibility Of an in
terruption anywhere
The service at the present time Is de-
lfectiye.
These officers of the company know
that as well and better than anyone else.
They know what the system needs and
where 1t needs it.
They have worked faithfully for greedy
private owners of the lines who wouldn't
Iet them improve the service, relentlessly
Insisting upon increased earnings and in
creased dividends every year from a
plant slowly dying Of starvation.
II they were to work as faithfully FOR
the city as they have worked AGAINST
the city, which, of course, they would do,
they would get US results from revived
plant and would eventually bring about
FOR US the conditions for which we have
fought so long and earnestly.
Their services will be in great demand
as soon as the final step has been taken
toward the purchase of the lines by the
city.
The Detroit United railway viii I'M
doubtedly want to retain them at the
head of its suburban lines.
But Detroit, as an owner of street
railway system. will make a grievous
mistake il 1t is not found in the market
bidding for the experience and the
knowledge and the ability of two street
railway men who have long worked to-
gether efficiently as team and who
have few superiors in street railway man.
agement, as team or as to individual
rapability and competency.
A municipality traction system
will depend as much for success as the
privately-owned traction system does
upon THE MEN AT ITS HEAD.
Messrs. Hutchins and Brooks have op-
Grated the lines for the Detroit ITnitad