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The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
Business Men Who Fail.
~ n. ADDINGToN BRUCE,
Author OF The Riddle Of Personality"
Psychology and Parenthood." etc.

Failure is by no means the unmixed evil that
most people suppose. II accepted philosoph!c-
ally 1t may prove to be the forerunner of an
astonishing success
When a man fails in business or In profess
sional calling the fault usually rests with him
self.
Sometimes OF course he fails because OF cir
cumstances quite beyond his control.
Sudden social changes may wipe out the de-
mand for the goods he Is making. The incubus
of financial panic may crush him out OF bust
ness existence. Or he may be forced to the wall
by the unfair tactics OF powerful competitors
But In probably nine cases out OF ten the man
who fails cannot Justly attribute his failure to
influences such as these.
II he is candid with himself and II he care
fully analyses the reasons for his having failed.
the chances are he will be forced to one of two
conclusions
Either he has failed because he is not natural.
y adapted to the work ne has been trying to
Or, II he has natural aptitude for IT, he has
failed because he has not been applying himself
with INTELLLGENTLY DIRECTED ENERGY.
Many men, as is well known, fail because they
deliberately neglect their business
In such cases whether or not the neglect take
the form OF reckless dissipation IL usually hap
pens that the work neglected was In the first
| place BADLY CHOSEN.
Work that really appeals to a man is not like
| ly to be neglected by him. Yet. no matter how
much his work interests him. a man may have
| defects of temperament or training that debar
! him from success.
| He may be tactless and domineering thereby
| alternating customers and employees
He may waste too much energy in attending
| to petty details, to which suborlnates could and
| should attend.
He may never have cultivated the precious
gift OF imagination necessary TO success In the
| bushes world as In the worlds OF art literature
and music.
/ Or he may suffer from one or more OF man,
other personal shortcomings that enter into &C
count for his failure
| The point Is that when he falls. he ought no
to give way to despair. He ought. instead. man
| fully to acknowledge that in all likelihood ths
failure Is entirely his own fault And he ough
| then to study himself as dispassionately as h,
| can.
II this selfanalysis reveals an obvious incom
patibility between his natural aptitudes and IN,
work at which he has failed his next step should
be TO try To find more congenial vocation.
| IT, however, he discovers serious defects n
his character or his training. he should start a
once to try to remedy these.
To yield 10 gloom or TO try TO throw the blame
on others is not the way to wrest success from
| defeat
Selfstudy is the way, and the only sure way
| Selfstudy, In truth is imperative on every man
| who would achieve a real success in life II Is
doubly imperative on the man who has failed
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
Peace Is Put Up to Germany

Frank Harris with an experience
OF IS years of Journalism in Lon
don. himself an Englishman, has
this 10 say TO the Germans through
The Fatherland," the German or
gan printed in New York. for the
PRONUNCIATION Of German sympathy
in the United States.
you remind me Of the birth Of
The fatherland nearly a year ago
and ask me to say something on the
anniversary.
AS a poet you know as well as l
do. that all the victories of war are
lefeats. We conquer men by love
and kindness. not by wounding and
killing.
The worst OF strife is that IL Is
apt TO degrade all those engaged in
IL: to take a part. makes a man q
partisan. You will reply that there
are righteous causes and that you
have fought a good fight But when
think OF the horrors OF this world
war and the soul sickening cost OF
IL from day to day In noble men
dying In the trenches, sweet women
whose hearts Gre breaking by empty
hearths. carnot find any consola-
ton In reason.
"One thing I will admit; most
people In August, 1914. believed that
the war would end within the year
with the defeat OF the Germans.
But the onslaught Napoleon and his
allies couldn't sustain for a month,
the Germanic peoples have borne
now for year, and still hold the
vantage: they have accomplished
the greatest feat OF arms in the an,
mails of recorded time.
But courage and efficiency alone
cannot move men to that reverence
We reserve for the unselfish virtues
We want the brave and able man
also TO be gentle. kindly and peace
loving.
Now on this appalling anniver
sary. will you set yourself TO per
suade the great German people and
their war lord to show the divinel
quality? Let them be the first to
propose peace. and let their condi
tons serve as an eternal example
Let them say:
I'VE will give back their pro
vinces TO the French. and Belgium
10 the Belgians, and leave the Rus
sian boundaries unchanged. In re
/ turn we desire nothing but securit,
for enduring peace. nothing but
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
Using Up a Yard
OF Ticket
COUPON -.

On our way TO the Grand Canyon
we stop for dinner at the house by
the side OF the road (Harvey'D at
Needles. Arizona. Here we meet
the Colorado river. which has Just
been through the canyon.
Besides running through the
greatest gorge known to man. the
Colorado goes very easily through
Needles, which the Bible says is
very difficult for camels. even.
No telling about distances here.
You think you are only IL hours
and so minutes from the canyon at
Needles, but 1t " IL hours before
you get there.
Just to make II doubly sure that
no rain should fall upon the track.
less wastes OF the desert, as well as
upon the Santa Fe tracks. an eight
column rainbow confronted US for
an hour or so in the afternoon.
But the sunset over the noun
tains was so gorgeous 1t looked az
IL Old Sol had borrowed the Grand
Canyons makeup box.
The FL Tovar hotel at Grand Can.
yon was named after the Spanish
discoverer OF the canyon who was
sort OF advance agent for Mr..
Harvey In the fifteenth century.
The hotel overlooks the canyon.
but nobody else does unless IL be
the tourist awaiting his turn In the
one-chair barber shop.
When the first adventurous Amer
leans explored the canyon, they
were as ignorant Of what lay before
them as a second section Pullman
conductor and porter.
III you are one. you can take the
all-day Bright Angel trail trip down
into the canyon on a mule.
The government takes great pre-
cautions against forest fires In the
park. There are towers for look
outs. 1re-fghting apparatus. and nc
brush is permitted in the wash
room OF the Ell Tovar.
Across from Dana Butte you see
the figure ~" standing out from a
wall of granite. II Is $40 feet Ions
and 81 less than the price OF car
rage ride TO Grand View Point and
along the Hermit-rd.
A mule tax OF 81 keeps the coun
~ roads In repair. but all who hit
the trail must settle their own FIRST
aid expenses.
Water must be brought from Flag
stan. The automobiles carry II In
great tin canteens. Sometimes you
will see a Ford and Packard
drinking from the same canteen.
II will be worth your while tc
stay until sunset so you can see the
native reading his evening paper
on the stone wall in front of tho
hotel with his feet hanging oveI
the Grand Canyon. 5000 feet deep
Another argument against print
ing sensational news.
II you don't visit Cremation
Point. you can at least call on thu
cashier of the Ell Tovar.
A Suicide Point Ia provided FOL
those who don't care to go back b,
way of the desert.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
The Worlds Supreme Horror
1t Is Beyond Language, Beyond Pity, Beyond Our Ability
to Conceive Or Feel
Q Keeper OF the acred Key.

20 Keeper OF the acred Key.
And the Great Seal OF Destiny.
Whose eye Is the blue canopy.
Look down upon this warning world,
and tell us what the end will be-
SO wrote soldier of the Civil
war, under the inspiration OF our
Tuny little conflict. He thought II
was the limit Of mans capabilities
la war.
How far beyond human language
or human thought IL this world
crisis? Poetry falls fat. Homer
could not have grasped It. Shakes
reare would have been stricken
dumb by It, Millions Battle in
Heaven" does not rise to the foot
Hills Of it. Goethe's soul would
have covered before It.
No human mind except that OF the
writer 81 the Book OF Job or Revela-
ton could cope with IL; and II out
Of the whirlwind could come Voice
capable Of dealing with IL. or IL the
heavens should open and dictate to
some John the Divine the epic OF
this war, no human soul could en-
dure the dreadful message.
Like blight OF thrown rope line
runs on three sides OF Warsaw. II
lie military investment; but II Is
unimaginable in horror. II starts on
the Baltic Sea, and running south
wards. ends near the Black Sea.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
A Poem a Day
BEFORE SEDAN.

bEFOHE SEDAN.
Here, In this lsafy place.
Cold. with his sightiess face
Turned to the skies:
It's but another dead;
All you can say 10 said.
Carry his body hence,
Kings must have slaves;
Kings climb to eminence
over mems araves;
SO this mans eye 10 dim;
Throw the earth over him.
What was the white you touched
There, at his side?
Paper his hand had clutched
Tight ere he died:
Message or wish. maybe:
Smooth the folds out and see.
Hardly the worst Of US
Here could have smiled!
Only the tremulous
Words OF q child;
Prattle that has for stops
Just few rudy drops.
Look. She 10 said to miss.
Morning and night,
His--her dead father's--kiss;
Tries to be bright.
Good to mamma. and sweet.
That In all. Marguerite"
All. II beside the dead
Slumbered the pain.
All, IL the hearts that bled
Slept with the slain!
II the grief died, but no.
Death will not have IL so.
Austin Dobson.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11

naturalization of the seas and the
air and universal disarmament. IL
all nations can be brought 10 con.
sent TO IT, But, above all. let pri.
vate property be henceforth as sa-
cred on the sea and in the air. as II
is ON the land. and let US guard il
oy an international naval police so
that the horrors or war may De
forever diminished and some soul
OF goodness will have come even Of
this worldwide catastrophe
You may say that the Germans
are willing 10 accept such terms.
With or without Justification they
believe that the war was forced
upon them and have stated that
they regard 1t as war of defense,
pure and simple. Let them give the
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11

absolute proof OF this by being the
first to propose peace on unselfish
terms and leave with the Allies the
odious responsibility OF refusing.
of the Allies refuse to accept
such peace. these United States
would be morally compelled 10 act
at least to the extent OF refusing
further aid in munitions and equip
ment to the nations who prolong
the war in the hope OF some I'M
avcwed profit.
Let US all then work and write
for peace: the dreadful deadlock
continues; even the most combative
must now be aware that there Ia no
triumph possible for either side ex.
ccpt in peace; let Us take care TO
avoid any word that may embitter
controversy; let US even at the
eleventh hour. choose that better
part which alone benefits reason
loving men,"
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
INDIANA CITY REDUCING DEBTS

Mayor McCarty with a Democratic council
took up the reins Of the city on the third day
Of January, 1910. BY July. 1913, the city
had paid off. including interest and principal,
S27,374.75 Of the citys bonded Indebtedness and
had also made reduction OF is cents on the tar
levy. BY July, 1914. the citys debt and interest
charges had been reduced 81, 1856. the reduc.
ton Of the tax levy was also maintained and the
neat sum OF e26.382.93 was on deposit In the
various banks OF Washington to the credit OF
the city. The latest report Of the city treasurer
which was made July 1. 1915. shows that S45-
617.06 including interest and principal had been
paid off and the sum OF 322.210.24 remained In
the city treasury. Besides this the tar rata
was kept at S1.10 on the 500. which included q
per cent levy for the oil fund.--washington
(lnd) Democrat.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
City As a Summer Resort
Nv Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915, by Frank Crane)

It is commonly supposed that every
body is out of town in the summer. All
the resorts advertised are in the country.
To look ut the newspapers you would
imagine that all of the city's inhabitants
had gone to the lakes. the sea, and the
woods.
But as q matter of fact the streets
are as crowded as in winter The hotels
are full, the sidewalks are thronged, the
street cars are packed.
The truth is that, while city people go
to the country, country people come to
the city for their vacation.
What everybody wants is something
else. The family that has been eleven
months in fiat longs to spend the holi-
day month at some place where they can
find trees, grass, water and other out
door luxuries. But when one has spent
his eleven-twelfths Of time on farm
or in sleepy village he Graves q bit
of city experience.
The provincial wants to walk the
jostling streets and feel the inspiration
of the multitude. He wants to take long
side is scant-humanity.
He wants to explore the tall buildings
and see the unfamiliar habitat Of the
cliff dwellers."
He wants to wander in the buzzing
corridors of the huge hotels and eat
meal that costs him as much as weeks
board at home.
He wants to peep into the tinselled
saloons, to watch in cabarets the life OF
the night birds, to ride on the tramways
for miles between rows of shops, to mix
in the confusion Of department stores,
and altogether to safe his imagination
with sounds and sights strange and WON
derful.
1t all tastes good to him, as good AZ
shady nook. stream, and fishing
line taste to city person.
So the cities are as full in hot as in
cold weather. And city is after all
quite as much of show place, mid
way plaisance" as it is place for bus
mess and dwelling.
Hence everybody that can get away
| from the little towns in Kansas and Mis-
souri, come to Kansas City. the sur
rounding villages empty into Omaha,
Denver, Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati.
And New York is the greatest OF all
cities of strangers. Every citizen OF the
United States wants to go there once.
1t is the permanent fair and market place
| of the new world.
II is a sign of health. 1t shows the
constant circulation of the people.
Travel Is the essence of civilization,
Just as provincialism is of barbarism.
To go about is to reduce egotism, to
broaden opinion. to make patriotism
come nearer to meaning humanity.
The railroads and the newspapers have
! made democracy practical in America,
have dissipated the fermenting tendency
of isolation.
| The constant instream OF country
people into the city and UPSTREAM OF
city folks into the country keep us all
from spelling.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11

are sleeping exactly as much an
when they are walking. Yet scores
Of men and women forget apparent
ly that there Is any need OF an exit
for the impure breath, or that II In
quite as essential to have q source
Of fresh air as In the waking hours.
On retiring the bedroom windows
should be raised from the bottom
and lowered from the top. II there
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
Pointed Paragraphs

Love makes the heart light and
the parlor dark.
A heart Of gold IL far better than
q cheek Of brass.
Talk isn't necessarily cheap even
when . nickel talks.
Those who are fond Of harmony
have no earthly use for chin music.
Customs inspectors are patriotic.
They always 80 where duty calls
them
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11

tilate n bedroom
properly - but
many people do
not do this even
during the sum
mer time.
Impurities OF the
body are thrown
of when people
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
SOMETHING DOING

Patience-And they say the women in New
York are indolent; that they don't dooanything
from morning until night.
Patrfce-Ridiculousi Why this paper SAYS II
is estimated that the women in New York
city use seven and one-half tons OF face powder
IN Q day.-Yonkers Statesman
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
Point Of View.

Mr.. Ham, never had your edu.
cational advantages, my son!
Bobble-Tt would have been alb.
solete now II you had. dad! Imag.
inc that old underhand baseball
pitching nowadays"
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
From Another Point of Vie.O
sY c. T. s.

Oscar Witt was hit, or to be technical
w excat, ebaned by Walter Johnson IN
Yesterdays game Incomplete reports fau
tn mention the name of the hospital
We feel called upon to observe that the
divorce action started by Mrs. Good looks
a little bad for Good.
The counterfeiter is the man
Who's always making money,
The kind we hear
That's known as queer,
But no one thinks is funny.
The COPS have the Bertillion
OF this queer-looking feller:
Two mO1ds in place,
One on his face
Another in his cellar.
A coined expression on his mug,
Cuts capers with the focus,
He's some sure pill,
His name is Bill,
And that one, too, is bogus.
As we understand the complaint of the
workmen, the Detroit Speedway is slow
pay.
The typhoid germ has no wings, at all,
either, but keeps us boiling.
Our city hall isn't alone in the matter,
anyway. Kovno, also, the dispatches say,
is in danger of falling.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
THEY WON'T RHYME

To invent word "jtney." that would not
rhyme with any other word was something OF
feat Only two other words in the English
language have no rhyme-"silver" and orange
Or are there others kansas City Times
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
Why, May We Ask Again, Is
a State Railway Commission?

Corporation Counsel Dingeman was
surprised when Chairman Glasgow, OF
The state railroad commission, informed
him that the burden of proof rests on the
~, in It's fight against higher tele-
hous rates-
~ ! lawyer, he had right to be sur
fIised; but g = citizen of Detroit. deal
III with the state railroad commission,
~ Ind none whatever.
S We are surprised at his surprise.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11
ES:Z:zS@z$}z
The Keep Well Column
BEDROOM VENTILATION

Every person should remember
that It Is essential TO health TO ven.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11

.N2Ax JU0 Inv mS6uS JIllS, Ilcu WHY uOeS
i've : corporation the power to appeal
4 0n rulings Of the commission to the
zxcnit court?
4s e he law means this, why does it pro-
~ (Section No. 81 that "a hearing will
r. 6lven said telephone company"
Ihe1e Il nothing about hearing to be
1lvon to city or to private citizens; the
oarins Is to be given the telephone COM
pony, after an order granting rates is is
ed BY the commission.
sH evidence shall be introduced BY
sxHE COMPLAINANT which is found by
60 eourt to b different from that offer
II mon the hearing before the commits
& 1ion,s says another section Of the act.
y Who = this complainant?
The telephone company, to be sure,
1inco the act gives the commission power
- AZ rates, and allows the company to
AaSe : hearing after the rates are fixed,
md take an appeal to the courts.
Then follows section No. 16:
In au actions under this section, THE
nuRDEN OF PROOF SHALL BE UP
'soN THE COMPLAINANT to show by
nv clear and satisfactory evidence that
~ order Of the commission complained
IT, = unlawful or unreasonable, as the
6sa may be-"
WhO, then, under the law, is the COM
s. n1nti
~ - plain as the nose on your face
TELEPHONE COMPANY.
ypen whom, then, is the burden of
Qag THE TELEPHONE COMPANY.
~ II. Glasgow says that it is upon
~ eity of Detroiti
N city can b made the complainant
~ wU-by the commission ordering
~ Jrtpoesd rates to be put in force.
n stAef words, BY taking the side of
sphans company, against the peo-
- = suzzrisins Il the state
The Detroit times., 1915-08-11

Il Ihese Ii still peculiar notion which
or1ist3 In many minds that the state
11kVad commission was created to look
t III the interests Of the people when
nb1lc service corporation wants to
o rats or take some other action det-
1911 to safety, service or the peoples
zbok
coroful reading Of the law which
16iid ths commission tends to foster
n nsariy every section there is
6Ies that shows that the people of
~ az Michigan. in creating the
4 c0nmission, expected it to be to
I what the interstate commerce COM
|1( ~ y - the people Of the United
{ - bulwark and buffer against
rfdl and unscrupulous corporations.
Az HI this q not the view which Messrs.
~. Humans and Cunningham have
~ rsad the law. they are consti-
pnpires between the corporations
~ peop1e; judges holding the scales,
& 0S1te court for the trial Of disputes
1en corporations and people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-22

Col and Mrs. George A. Dodd are
expected To arrive in Topeka soon to
be guests at the home of Mr., and
Mrs A. A Hurd- Col. Dodd has
been stationed at Columbus Barracks,
and is now going to Fort Douglass,
Arizona, to be in command of the
will go from Topeka to Fort Sill to
visit a daughter before going to their
new post They will visit Mrs Dor
sey Cullen, whose husband, Captain
Barracks at the time Col. and Mrs.
Dodd were there. She is now visit
ing at the Hurd home
News has been received of the
marriage of Mr.. Charles w. Dodd, of
Utica, New York, a son of Col and
Mrs Dodd, to a Miss Dougherty,
sister of Captain Dougherty- Cap
tain Dougherty is an army man,
much discussed in army circles and
widely heralded in the newspapers.
His wife was Miss Sing Foo, of Homo
lulu. She was one of the wealthiest
of the native Hawaiian women, and
was said to be very beautiful Mr.
Charles Dodd is engaged in civil en-
cheering work in Utica
Mrs. A. A. Scott and Mrs. Willis
Coston entertained at bridge this aft
ernoon at Mrs. Scouts home in West
Tenth avenue The party was rather
informal in it's nature, and saturday
the same hostesses will entertain at
a formal afternoon tea at Mrs Cos
tons residence in Buchanan street.
The decorations for today were
ferns and pink roses, arranged
through the rooms open to the guests.
A number of out-of-town women
were included in the company. Among
the visiting women who played were:
Mrs. c. A Morse and Mrs. B. T. Lewis,
of Chicago, who are visiting Mrs. w.
A Morton, and who were both FOR
ner Topeka women; Mrs. Dorsey Gull
len. of Roanoke, Virginia, who be-
fore her marriage was Miss Kathleen
Moreland, and who is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Della Moreland, and her
aunt. Mrs A A Hurd; Mrs Robert
Air. of Kansas City, a niece of Mrs
Coston's, and also Mrs. Coston's
daughter, Mrs. w A. Shipe, of Kan
sas CITY: Mrs. j. c. Anderson, of Fort