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The Detroit times., 1915-11-05
here's Work at Hand
For Railway Board

8ocause the board OF street railway
iissioners is not busy just now max
peeliminary arrangements to take
& he lines of the ID. u. r. on behalf
Iacity il does not follow that there
klng else that august body can do.
o thing should be done, and it is log
= 4rst duty of the street railway
(1Gton, and that is to prevent, if pos
teunonstrance, or if necessary by
3on, the issuance of any more
= hed On the present properties of
81 y. r.
Sinesrs hired by the street car board
1oed the lines within the one-fare
% ~ purchase purposes and declared
worth about $40, O0O, 900, allowing
LII 80 for franchise values. Prof.
~ oppraised the whole property, one
nne and interurban, for bonding
!, md on separation Of the figures
~d IN one-fare zone lines to be
~ 600, 900, allowing $6,O0O,OOO
eaise values.
IbRs d the commission and their
- bittsriy attacked Prof. Cooley's
rl declaring it to be much too
~ should Be willing and should
& So their business to show the state
NV commission that it is too high
oit NJ a interest in the future of
NJ r.. There are too many railway
1S ma stioet railways in the hands
yers now tor the public good, and
r Yot thsrs by one route, over-cap-
I'm md overload Of debt. The D.
8 already loaded about up to the
ooded 70 far that the money which
rs into extensions and service
y 9oes for interest to eastern bond
T. time the system stopped borrow.
~ ~ IT. revenues catch up, SO that
xnGnts could be made as they are
k ordinary business, out of earn.
nd not make q further issue OF
q nocossary every time an extra
~ ~ crossover is to be built, or 8
3 % new cars bought.
D Strest railway commission has the
cbtained through its engineers. II
oarly IT. duty to use those facts to
(1ct the interests Of the public against
n further watering Of the d. U. RS
Mn account.
mother thing the board might do is
nke that traffic survey which cost
ZOO and is guaranteed to simplify the
sling Of the city's traffic so as to
I6t double the efficiency of the street
NV system, and see how much of it
y. u. r. can be coaxed, bullied or
NJ into putting into operation.
the road that prefers to carry a pas
lI6r two miles out of his way rather
W let him transfer at any other than
k&rst transfer point, may find it lit
5oEd to believe that efficiency is neces-
= n handling the people on the street
= but al three members Of the COM
IN have had experience in hammer
fllciency into heads that seemed al
TO solid to get the idea, and they
y even succeed in the case of the D.
N1thow, it is up to them to try to inn
ND the service and prevent further
~ ahd bond watering explorations un-
decided what the next step toward
D3pol ownership shall be.
The Detroit times., 1915-11-05

Seven carloads OF silk from China
have passed through Winnipeg late
ly. coming from the Pacific over
what ~ considered in Winnipeg TO
be the natural hishwa yfor oriental
trafic
The Detroit times., 1915-11-05

Soap and water thoroughly ap.
piled are the best disinfectants az
ter disease. and the best preventive
before.
The Detroit times., 1915-11-05

Measles come to the home and
,chool at all seasons, but most Of
The Detroit times., 1915-11-05

Col. p. w. Ostrander. IS. BROOK
Ign. N. Y. 10 still actively. practic.
Ing law.
The Detroit times., 1915-11-05

because OF the lung complications
Some children have measles twice
The Detroit times., 1915-11-05
RANK

Privat es,B Drummers. LOO 40 zo"V
The me OF clothed by the government
paid government TO the
addition OF MS
$ for her.
paid
month
ment TO he soldier
dependents
fund
oil sums are II need
Mother o
Children OF blowers.
according
n number family
soldier
20
support
month.
The Detroit times., 1915-11-05
FEAR AND DIABETES
az y. Apo,NoroN BRUCE


of
The Detroit times., 1915-11-05
Canada Pays Her Soldiers Well

well
engaged in the war
Allowance Allowance
day per day per month
,o-uo.r 'f'''> 81
po,ts,aa p,.tars n,,mmers e,c
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NEW ENGLAND.
A Brief Examination Of Her Interest
Ing Genius.

To n LDfroR o. THE SUN-Sr: What
IL more dIvertine. ingratlating or ir.
ritating. as one views II. than New Eng
land? Into one Of these moods she ines
capably urges. and for the very good
reason that she is positive, sui generis,
expl!cit-therefore compelling. There
Is nothing OF the siren about New Eng
land: the siren whistle better expresses
her. She does not seduce. has no CO.
Quetries. volupts not. She flaunts no
furbelows. No surgent lingerie sets
of a we'll turned ankle: hers 10 In
termed. She does not yield her way
into your soul. And yet there isn't q
dame on the hither side OF tho Atlantic
who so untrisues mes interest.
II Is simply q matter Of the petri.
faction Of attributes rendering those at
tributes compelling and exacting. The
New England esprit is hard. perhaps be-
cause hard won. perhaps jealousy but
dressed for that a - granite hard and
granite impressive. Its impact 10 az
stunning as Ia the rebound from II. Yet
there is. in the upper reaches Of IL en-
cheney. a anelioration. a cushion to the
blow. without relaxation Of its force be
II understood. the which to my mind ex-
plains New England as she should be
but has not always been explained.
This beatihed attribute blends the
consciousness OF utter certainty with an
!nassertive, almost deprecatory, asser-
ton OF II. II is a sweet certainty. II
Is certainty with contentment. There
are no doubts. Gelett BURGESS bromide
was not more hawai- OF his disease.
This attitude is Of course death TO con-
troversy IL Is the al admit that am
right" OF the stage buffoon. But what a
remove from b~uffoonery!
Deferential TO "A fault in externais,
guarded and austere OF t~erminology,
Too certain TO be right.
Yet too content to night,
New England presents an unquestion-
ably dirnIfed and noble image. Brow
of conscious invulnerability married 10
soft smile Of sanctity New England,
sufficient and equal to myself! The
world toasts thee whom II can never
teach :. X. WILSON.
SwARrH MORE, IA. November 10.
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Uncle Ike and Battle Bob.

Senator ROBERT NJ. la TOILETTE,
for n long time the most virtuous and
unselfish politician in the United
States, finds himself pilloried In the
book his enemy ex-senator ISAAC
SrEPHENsoS has written. but there Is
nothing new in the old gentleman's
account OF his relations with the
Half-Breed leader. The story that
Battle Bon turned against his finan.
cial hacker when Uncle IKE, who is
made Of money. refused to put up
S25O,OOO to grease the ways for the
La Toilette Presidential boom is more
than five years old. Mr.. STEPHENSON
testified to the incident In a suit
brought by one member Of the Wis
consin Legislature against another at
Milwaukee In January. 1910.
A,member Of the United States Sen
ate who signed the majority report
generating Mr.. LA F%oLLETTE's col
league from the charge OF securing
his reelection to the Senate by cor
rupt methods said that Uncle IKE had
been an "easy mark" SO the right
eOus LA TOILETTE always found him
until he declined to be a good angel
any longer. AS n matter Of fact, the
venerable junior Senator ceased to be
an "easy mark" after Smelling out
$107 900 for primary expenses In 1909
A Senate subcommittee reported that
It was spent legitimately in various
ways, chiefly for advertising. but Mr..
Ia TOILETTE, who inspired the inves.
tlgation to unseat his old friend, was
dreadfully shocked and voted against
him. Nearly half the Senators who
saved Uncle IKE from expulsion were
! Democrats. He was so fond Of dis
playing drafts for large amounts
once a check for S1,5OO,OO0 went the
rounds-that his liberality In Wis
consin politics was well understood
The movement to GUST him from the
Senate was n Hnlf-Breed conspiracy,
and In the final vote there was more
politics than conviction.
At the same time Senator STEPHEN
SON was not a novice In public life
In the House of Representatives al
Washington he preceded ROBERT NJ
LA TOILETTE by one term and served
three times c~onsecutively before cleo
ton to the Senate to fiji ont the un
expired term Of JOHN c. SOONER, Ont
Of the leaders of the Old Guard, q
great constitutional lawyer and M
honest nan STEPHENSON and III
TOILETTE were, of course, mutually
useful TO each other. Rattle Boz
was In the heyday Of his power M
an unctuous reformer when Uncle Xxi
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To rHs EprroR ov Tux rS-sir Through
lonr r~sidenc. in a sac,aon Of the city
where subway elevators srs used To carry
persons from the street level 10 IN. train
nlatsorms I hay, had am'pls onuor,upt.y
10 obs>re that A crowded ANYWAY ele-
vator has a pecuiinr fleet on women mas.
senR.rs when IL f.. IN motion. 1, make.
them Rtxele
Obviously there IL soms reason for thi,
effect on sh~ fair sex. bu, I'm 20 tho nre,ent
I have been unabl. 70 learn tho cause Of
Il. perhans some Of your readers can
~explain.
Whether m. x,rrunr A., IN. r.s,lt Of
a psychological or neryou. .reo, canno,
be denn,,ely answered nv M. a,though
I haye a theory, bu, I nm incIined IN
think ,ha, a in IN. -e.nl, ~ al. altar
for n f. automatic that women rroy ex.
trem.ly nervous when riding in elevators.
They continually keen IN mind thu though,
Suppose the car should drop,,
Now this "nle,san,r ,houyh, 4. M, an.
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4 Singular All1snee.

A strange combination Of circum.
stances brought PETE On LACY. the
poolroom keeper and gambler. shout.
der to shoulder with the eminent
clefUmen and rsformers who fought
the racetracks for years and finally
under the vigorous leadership Of Gov.
ernor HUGHES dealt them q blow from
which they have not yet recovered.
On LAoY's motive was not the same
a that which inspired his associates
in the crusade for the new betting
law. but his object was the same. He
Was out for revenge and he fought
at least 10 vigorously a. any other a.
sallant Of the tracks.
The ALLxN-he OF the police proof
poolroom-once said DE- LACY was the
only honest gambler in New York.
What Governor HUoHEs thought of
his strange ally against gambling has
never been recorded.
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SCHOOLMASTER DUNCAN.
Taught at Lower Dublin. Pa. In the
Seventeenth Century.

To THE EpIToR OF THE SrN-Sir: The
statement In THE SuN from the rhi,a-
dclphla Public Lcdgcr that Christopher
Dock was tho frst schoolmaster I'm the
State pennsylvania. opening his school
at ~Skipback IN l7l4.' is very interest
ing, but II is not historic truth. claim
that Thomas DUNCAN was Pennsylvania
frst schoolmaster and Governor Rum.
baugh, himself an educator OF some note
should have knowledge OF thi. fact.
As early rs 1856, or only three yaar.
after William Penn obtained his patent
from Charles II. And reference 10 nm
Irish teacher in Pennsylvania. In tho
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-16
The Great Annual spy Apprepris'
ton Bill.

Our neighbor the Tribune informs
US that Congress will be asked for
millions Of dollars this fall to estab-
lish for Uncle SAN an elaborate spy
system. matching that Of any Eu-
ropean Power.
There are many interesting details.
The agents Of this vast secret service
would be drawn from all occupations
and professions, they would be desig-
mated only by numbers, and they would
report to their head spy everything
that struck them as interesting.
Candidly, we don't believe Congress
will authorize n service Of this kind /;
1t already has the river and harbor
bill and the public buildings bill to
attend to.
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The wlnnetks Incident.

Perhaps the Postmaster at wlnnetka,
ILL.,, II merely lacking in tact: pos
sibly he II one Of those u~nfortunates
who mistake zeal for good Judgment ;
for all we know he has been after his
assistants oficial scalp for months,
and arsd that loQuacious guardian Of
social customs really to make room
for a deserving Democrat. Whatever
his failings or purpose may have been,
II he listens to good advice he will
keep away from Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington. d. c. until q time comes
when he aspires to have his head
punched. We are not anxious that he
should not be thumped; he IL an ass,
and deserves what u ~roister1ns
friends call q sinner. What the Pres.
ident thinks Of this solicitous under.
ling the reinstatement of the assist.
ant, accomplished through the intsr
vention Of the Chief Executive yes.
terday. sufficiently indicates.
Therp Is, az the correspondent
whose letters we print near this spot
to-day point out, a serious side to the
, Winnetka incident. The censordous a.
sistant was unquestionably within hil
constitutional rights when he emitted
the thoughts for uttering which he
suffered %amputation from the payroll.
To be sure. the immediate subject Of
his philosophical reflections II q matter
that Is none Of his business. but the
discussion Of other folks affairs r.
one Of the chief and most nourishins
industries Of this free land. It must
and shall be preserved. and every
bureaucrat must learn to restrain the
vandal impulse to assail It
Meanwhile, let the elect remain
calm. and rejoice with their brothers
who are eligible to membership In the
most exclusive association in America
the Society Of Those Who Mind
Their Own Business.
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! THE QUESTION OF THE
THUMB.
Testimony That Impesehes the Ten'
lernsss Of tAs vestsl vlrgins.

ODb~0vU " w vowsos ss
To % Eprron or THE suN-Sir: The
explanation givcn by Mr.. R~athborne OF
Latin phrases referring to signals made
with the thumb 10 the same a. that
which Professor Short Of Columbia Col
lego gave his classes. The passage
under discussion was In the Third Satire
Of Juvenai. verse 30 mot ~. Or.
Anthem. whose edition We read. may
have cut out thirty lines, He was q
great s~xpureator.
The satire 10 the M which tells how
Umbritius. tired Of Rome. was bound
for Gums and the simple life. The text
says: 'verso police vulg." with the
turned thumb Of h mob" There II
nothing here TO show whether II was
turned up or down. DR.. Anthem says
In his notes hat II the spectators wanted
the man spared. "they pressed down the
thumb" Observe that he does not say
'rurned down." He adds: VI they
wished him put to death. . : they
turned the thumb upward" The phrases
are: '.poiiicem premiere" meaning 10
save" ''to spare" and 'poliicem vertere."
meaning "to siay." According TO Pro-
fessor Short ''up' mean from tho
hand" md did not necessarily imply d.
rection toward the zenith.
remember a picture which was on
exhibition at the art gallery on tho
northwest corner Of Twenty-third street
and Fourth went during the Centen-
NAL year. The defeated gladiator was
lying In the blood stained arsnA. Tho
victor was turning to the spectators for
their verdict. The vestai Virgins, with
their muscular forearms extended. had
their thumbs turned from their hands
and toward the earth. My father. who
was with me. afterward said. what I
had not observed. that the Emperor was
pointing his thumb the other way. He
thought It meant that the Emperor
wanted 70 see tho man killed. while the
virgins wanted TO s@ him spared. But
may not the Emperor and the virgins
have been giving the same signal In
different ways?
The vestai Virgins were not averse TO
a little blood letting, II We are 70 be-
lieve Spartacus. When he took of his
victims helmet and found he had killed
the friend Of his boyhood 'the holy Wiz
gins they call vestals shouted In de-
r~ision.' O. X. II.
New YORK. November Is.
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and bishop RurSu.Aspvs, Tusopcu

Hoosyvytr. H. Ft-ros CrrriSo. jus
iir ItAHrNcg 7. SurAnS. PrIER CooS.
~ IIrwIrr and others Of like promi.
ncnce may or may not bc "chief ON.
ciais'' or promoters" OF the league,
but W have Colonel THoxrsoS'e word
for II that they arc on record A
either money contributors or sympa.
thiSers with the leagues objects,
Mr.. BAILEY Il a Representative In
Congress from IN important district
In an important State. Coming from
such a source charges 90 grave al
those quoted and involving BY impli'
cation men Of such standing a. thoss
above named are serious matters and
not to be lightly passed over. VIII
Colonel THOMPSON call upon Congress
man BAI1EY to retract or denyf
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Rlsy's Curative Power.

There 10 q widespread and growing
conviction that the professional stage
has not yet como into its own. The
dynamics Of the drama has been a
subject for learned discussion for cen
turieA but it, full scope has only re-
Gently been suspected, largely through
the efforts of newly formed organiza-
tons devoted to stage uplift.
That any dramatic performance
should possess a higher objective than
the mere tickling Of the faded fancy
Of the tired business man Is a prop
osition that has aroused enthusiastic
response in all parts Of the country,
and thousands Of highly intellectual
men and women have rallied to the
support Of societies. leagues. &C.. en-
deavoring to elevate the American
stage and bur dramatic output.
And now rises Mr.. s. r. AUSTIN Of
New York to give a further Sanction
to the efforts being made to establish
our drama upon a higher plane than
1t has occupied hitherto. In a paper
entitled "Dramatdxlng P~sycho.thera-
peutics." recently read by Mr.. AUSTIN
to an ambitious group Of u younger
playwrights. the author asserted that
As a medium through which the power
Of suggestion can be employed a play
may be used to exert curative effects
upon an audience.
That q drama deliberately designed
to spray an audience with therapeu-
tics can cure every chronic invalid
who has passed the box Office Is, Of
course, not maintained by Mr.. AUS
TIN. His contention appears to be
that slight colds. touches OF neuralgia,
temporary indigestion and some other
minor Ills might be relieved among
the audience during the two hours
traffic Of the stage II the playwright
has done his work with due regard to
his opportunity as q medico-drama-
turgic practitioner. Warm advocates
Of Mr.. AusTIN's interesting view ar
que that even a severe attack OF tooth
ache might be deprived Of Its power
by the middle of the last act II the
dramatist has grasped the full sig
! %nificance Of therapeutic suggestion in
Its hypnotic influence upon exposed
, nerves.
The Imagination Is staggered by the
possibilities that contemporary up
llfters Of u stage e approaching
In the near future. possibilities that
promise most astounding results.
More than half a million men. women
and children attend the theatres daily
in this country.
II u younger dramatists will ap-
preciate the fact that the curse Of pow
erty may be eliminated by the dram
atization Of psycho-political economy,
or the craving for alcohol removed
by plays suggesting the psycho-thera-
peutic powers Of grape Juice, they
may push forward to useful achieve
ments that will make the plays Of
SHAKESPEARE look in comparison like
the work Of a tritier.
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wantsh IN 70 10 IA Senate Oncs 10
stalled tbere he sst up for himself
~ a politician and dispenser Of pat
ronaee, and a break With his old ally
was Inevitable.
Cnclo Ike Ii getting even in pub-
fishing his "Kccollectlons." The
s~earchlisht had already exposed Bat.
tie Ron 40 a false friend and a dem.
agogue. but It IL hard to rcpress a
smile when one reads in the old gen.
tleman's book that he has discovered
how quickly In the como and 70 of
politics convictions can be discarded,
principles abandoned and obligations
overlooked"
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OTHELLO'S AGE.
What Weight Of Years Did the Moor
Bear?

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SuN-sir: How
old was Othello?
In one Of his soliloauies he speaks OF
himself as having descended into the
vale OF years" Now II is popularity
considered that the vale Of years II
from 60 onward. Thus from birth to
40 Wa climb the mountain OF life, from
10 to so We cross the plateau. from so
TO co We make the descent $50 rapidly.
alas, that we seem 10 tumble downD
and from 90 onward We rest n babble
In tho vale.
This. j say, is the popular view OF the
matter. But Shakespeare's must hav.
been different. He must have considered
that a man entered the vale at so. for
certainly Othello could not have been
60. IT Is possible hat there is a GER
tain poetic license In the Moor's words.
as quoted. n that he merely meant TO
say he was no longer young enough TO
play the lover. SrRIHrs.
New York. Novenl Der -
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Will Mr.. Bailey Re Next?

All the Philadelphia papers which
quoted Mr.. BRYAN AS saying In a
speech on November 3 that the Navy
League was subsidized by munitions
makers and shipbuilders were In err
or, it seems. Mr.. BRYAN did not
make that statement. He says so
himself.
When a telegram from Colonel
THOMPSON, president OF the league,
demanding that Mr.. BRYAN either re-
tract or deny the statement attributed
10 him remained for several days un-
answered 1t was followed by a letter
very clearly indicating that in default
Of such denial or retraction court
proceedings under the libel laws would
speedily follow, and Mr.. BRYAN met the
issue with a denial. Therefore all the
reporters who heard the speech and
recorded the words in question as ut
tered by Mr.. BRYAN were either DELHI
erately or unwittingly guilty Of doing
a good man a ~grievOus and embarrass,
ing wrong.
Now that the Bryan case Is thus
disposed of and the %inaccuracy or
worse of Philadelphia newspaper re
porters established. what will Colonel
THOMPSON do about the Ease of Rep.
resentative W. w. BAILEY of the
Nineteenth Congress district of Penn
~sylvnnia? In what purports to be q
formal statement given to the press
and as such published In the Wash
ing,on Star Of recent date appear
these words:
"And there is little evidence that any
sentiment favorable TO preparedness' 81
lists outside that known to have beer
manufactured by the Navy League o.
the United States. whose chief officials
and promoters are VIGOROUSLY interested
financially in committing the country Il
lavish expenditures on the military anC
aaval establishments"
Such men as Cardinal G1BBoNl
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Says She Has Seen on the stage
Twenty eight Of S~hakespeare's Plays.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS--Sir, There
is some rumor OF n celebration on April
% OF next year. 1878. 81 Shakespeare,
death that being the 30Oth anniversary
OF hts dcCease.
Admitting that he IL the author Of
th!rty-six plays. ! am curious 70 know
IL any one has seen them all. As for
myself. | have seen with The sensible
and true ayouoh OF mine own eyes
tweutv-o.ght of them n have the pro-
gramlncs,
therefore wish to know II any one
has seen them all played upon the stage.
pCTAvGA BoIlE.
WARRINGTON. n. c.. November Is.
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II Is unpleasant to note in a news
telegram from Norfolk the statement
that one Of the mere enlisted lei of
the informed German cruiser Eitel
Friedrich has apparently violated his
parole and disappeared. Heretofore II
has only been the officers and gentle
men Of the Imperial German navy on
the interned vessel who have deliber-
ately broken their solemnly plighted
words of honor and run away. A ten
dency TO ape the aristocracy on the
part Of the lower classes is always
reprehcnsible.