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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
Using Up a Yard
OF Ticket
COUPON II.

Inc hlte-Snhptu tEaCk taxes you
to San Bernardino. Riverside and
Redlands. II has long tale OF
luxuriance and fruitidlness.
Riverside has many delights. II
you can bring yourself to forego
| for few moments tie tranquil
charms of her famous Mission Inn.
The spirit OF this restful retreat
is written In the motto over the
desk OF the Master Of the Inn. Mr.
Frank A. Mlller-"Next TO love
quietness."
II thu outspoken Irish girl who
served uA on the roof garden at
Long Beach, should go on duty In
the candle-lishted patio OF the inn
at tea time, everybody would rush
to consult the seismograph.
Mt Roubideau. which you ascend
by gentle windinss. has cross and
tablet dedicated TO the leading char.
acter In the Mission Play at San
Gabriel.
II has also q view of the resplen-
dent Valley OF Santa Ana which Is
worth motoring a considerable alti.
tude to see.
Redlands has mountain park
and an uncovered auditorium. show
ing that they believe their charms
win stand comparison with heaven
any day.
Having the celestial concave for
canopy gives the Redlands Fourth
Of July orator some soaring room.
We gave a Redlands newsboy Q
IS goldpiece by mistake. and he re.
turned II as naturally as IL II were
Canadian quarter.
Proving how the true blue OF the
California sky and the gold Of her
succulent fruit get into the heart
and soul OF her boys.
You can get variety In the climate
OF Southern California. A Michigan
girl who got 1899 boxes Of oranges
last year. got 800 this year.
The progressiveness Of the Golden
State In explained. Michigan col.
leges sends more diplomas out here,
accompanied by teachers. than any
other eastern state.
But II didn't get those magnificent
country roads either from Michigan
prccept or example.
California considers II a good In
vestment to pay from $4,000 to S1o..
900 mile for all the year round
good going.
II you stay long enough you'll
catch them having a day Of Michi.
gan humidity.
Ezra Kendall reported the sleep
ing car problem to be: Shall I pull
down the covers and get pneumonia
or pull them up and freeze my feet
In journeying over the desert It's a
choice Of shutting the window and
suffocating or opening II and being
Generated.
You can't leave II to the insin-
cere porter to decide because he
makes MP everything.
A young lady from stranded
transcontinental automobile trip
Joins us In the hot sands. and II
grieved to find ,all the lowers gone.
Again on my uppers." she mourns.
Between meals at Mr.. Harvey's
taverns, we ride In the Santa Fe
train.
The manager OF the Mission Play
at San Gabriel, invited the gentle
men TO remove their coats before
the curtain went up. The manager
OF the Harvey dining hall at Bar
stow commanded the gentlemen to
20 back and put their coats on be-
fore the dinner. went down.
What In needed out here. next to
rain, IL uniform rule Of etiquette
until the sands Of the desert grow
cold.
The shirt.waisted suffrs gists ought
TO rejoice And b exceedingly glad
over the determination IN their
favor at the dinner hosr m Bar
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
Trial By Battle, BY
Repetition of Formula
and By Endurance
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)


The mind Of English-speaking peoples
is vitiated by sport.
They conceive of everything in terms
Of conquest.
The whole world shares this bias.
| War is settling International questions.
not by ascertaining what is just, and
what is the peoples welfare, but by see
ing which nation can whip.
Law is similarly corrupted, partic-
ularly in America.
The common people here have no faith
in law nor lawyers, and little in courts.
The reason is that lawsuit is game;
each side is to try to outpoint the other;
the Judge is the referee.
Hence, American law is cluttered with
rules of procedure, loaded down with
old precedents. vitiated by a possibility
of endless technicalities.
We come by it honestly. The virus is
inherited.
In times past contentious were settled
in three ways; by battle, by repetition of
formula, and by endurance.
BY Battle: Two men, for instance,
having a difference over the boundaries
of forty-acre lot, would be given battle
axes. and the one who hewed the other
down would be awarded the verdict. OF
course, battle-axe efficiency had no con-
nection with surveying, but it was q
good sporting proposition.
Repetition of Formula: The litigant
who could repeat a certain formula with
the least mistakes was declared winner.
| This again had nothing to do with jus.
tice, but it was fun.
Endurance: The man who could en-
dure the most torture, or eat the most
beef, or drink the most beer, won his
case.
European courts have pretty generally
swept aside the rubbish that encumbers
American procedure.
Twenty-one days after Crippen killed
his wife. in England, he was hanged and
under the ground in quicklime, and he
had appealed in the mean time.
Thaw killed his man in a public place
in the presence of scores of witnesses.
His trial lasted nine years and now he
is free.
1t is impossible to convict wealthy
malefactors In the courts Nobody was
| jailed for footing the Rock Island nor
for wrecking the New Haven. 1t can't
be done.
All the most skilful attorneys are
grabbed up by the huge wealth units.
When case comes up these are the
best experts in battle, in repetition Of
| formula. and in endurance.
If courts were constituted with no end
in view but to get at the truth every
quasi-criminal wealth combination would
hunt cover before night, and every yegg-
man would seek an honest living.
But so long as a lawsuit is game.
like baseball or chess and is won by the
side that can juggle precedent AM
shuttle technicalities the most skilfully,
why should the sharpers fear?
The law in the United States is .
dirty Augean stable, and the Hercules
who will clean it out has not yet APP
peared.
We have too many liable lawyers" and
Learned judges" and too few men OF
plain honesty and sound sense.
American law is inefficient, and the
sooner we see why, and remedy the evil.
the better
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10

.suOulQ institute
himself a health
officer for his own
protection a II q
comfort.
There are CO.
tain niceties Q.
camp life whicil
a n experienced
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
A Poem a Day #.

FATE.
Some human hearts misfortune parts
That nature tuned together.
That they should cheer each other
here
In calm or stormy weather;
From breezes bright. rise storms OF
Aight.
Such trusting hearts to sever:
And torn apart. each loving heart
Seems doomed to bleed forever.
II. Howard Vert
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
Let the People
Rule-and Write

A Voice For . Clean City.
10 the Editor OF The Tinsss:
Will you kindly print the en-
closed open letter TO our common
council. and oblige,
Yours truly,
AUGUSTA PETERS.
sc Macomb-st. Aug. 7, 1915.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10

into the stream. Burn or dit pit
for IT, Cover all the waste which
goes into IL with a sprinkling OF
chlorinated lime and then with a
light covering OF earth. This will In
sure a freedom from fly breeding and
Eoisome odors In the hot weather.
II mosquitoes abound. for the sake
81 comfort and as a protection
against the possibility OF mslarial
infection, screens or netting should
be used II conditions will permit
and II not some antimosquito wash
should be used. such as oil OF citro-
nella. n bitten. a mixture OF one
part OF aqua-ammonia and three
parts OF spirits OF camphor will de
stroy the poison.
After reaching the age OF one
month, children derive much benefit
from sleeping outdoors In the day.
time. This should be encouraged
when the weather viii permit, esps-
ciaily IN the summer tine.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
The Keep Well Column
CAMP SANITATION

Every fisherman, hunter or lover
OF Nature who turns 10 camp life
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10

IN sense the legal" hanging, with
1ts display Of british instincts, seems as
*hod - lynching by mob.
We naturally expect the conservers of
~ and order to do things decently when
they have the power in their own hands.
Is IL significant fact that this crowd
z2 spectators was not composed of
n 1egrues but was rather equally divided
totMeen whites and blacks.
Nlssissippi, the state where Booker
l Washington has toiled so Loyalty for his
bl8ee and where the Tuskegee institute
- done such remarkable work, has i'll
|1upaid this public benefactor by the ex-
4 hzbftion It permitted to take place at
Ifesco.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-10
For Shame, This Gala Day
Hanging Down in Mississippi

g#T ~ the reports Of the double hanging
4 II Mississippi are true, it is high time
I HIT the higher authorities of that state
St1ke . hand in suppressing such bar
Y boxuus exhibitions of sensationalism as
{ 1870, allowed to occur at Fresco.
The hanging, we are told, was planned
IN view to spectacular effects, a
1 Sotural amphitheater being chosen with
4 h4 eall0ws In the middle.
The thing was well advertised and
4 lhxrners and their families began to
\ arrive the day before and bargained for
best places.
u sort Of continuous picnic took place
10 "a hours and wide-awake vendors
1T up shop at the foot Of the gallows,
4 lIGpensing the drinks and eatables which
naIly accompany circus.
Rolitical aspirants took advantage OF
S(hfS occasion to make free speeches from
nv platform Of the sallows, the con-
ned men sitting there for the greater
Y Sloc&aticu Of the spectators, and were
lly chesred; while religious emotion
~ punctuated the other proceedings
~ Iodically, with various hymns sung
NH great gusto by the assembled
j q M ~ the first legal public hang
\ which had taken place in Mississippi
HI years, and It was too big thing, il
" - of the authorities Of Fresno, te
Z tdden away and treated with the re
& 1) with which the taking Of the lives
n ~ human beings is regarded by the
I'D of this country.
~ TO the natural moral law of man
can say nothing.
q n seems to have been absolutely lack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-05
EUGENE SCHNIITZ

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 San Francisco's satisfaction over the re- jection of Eugene Schnitz's candidacy for mayor may be tempered by the recollec- ton of the considerable strength he showed at the polls on Tuesday. He was second in the betting with a field of eight and, true to form ran second in the voting. Mayor Rolf was renomnated and, from the incomplete figures at hand, may havs been reelected by the same vote.
 The exposition city need not boast much O. the performance. Schmitz gathered a large following for his attempted come back. Had less experienced man. one less well known and without the prestige of successful administration of the mayors office, been opposed to Schmitz the latter might we'll have succeeded in his ambitious proposal.
 Eugene Schmitz. it will be remembered, was the mayor who with tho notorious Abe Ruef scandalized the Pacific coast with their municipal grating and who, in 19O7, was convicted and sentenced to a five-year term in the penitentiary. That he never served his sentence did not af- fec: the fact of his guilt. Schmtz evi- dently thought San Francisco's memory was short The result snows that while the majority memory was still alive, there were many thousands of Friscans who either had forgotten or did noi care.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-05
NOT A SANITARY DROP

three looked as though they mig have tuberculosis. and three had [ eruption upon the face"
 Any device for promoting publ health which contemplates univers and intelligently taken precautions failure. Many of us jumped at u sanitary fountain as a solution of tf problem created by the abolition of u public drinking cup. Now we are tol that the fountain is not more sanitai than the least sanitary drinker, al provided with illustrations of the il sanitariness and infected condition |, many drinkers. So far so bad. No what next shall we do? Close the bull bling fountains, put a spigot in plad of the bubble and try sanitary drinl ing cups? Will not the iconoclas who offered the revelation that u "old oaken bucket" was a purveyor disease; that the gourd at the sprin menaced life; that the tin cup in u railway station was more terrible thd an army with banners. find that san tary drinking cups would be first ra sanitary devices but for the fact th| they are made, or packed, in an Il sanitary manner?
 Many of us may be driven fro water. But do the barkeepers sterili| the glasses? Are alcoholic beverag| necessarily. and always, germicides? {?
 Is there any hope that man m} quench his thirst and keep his healtI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-05
A Uniuue Crusader

H. Abraham Cohen, who attracted wide attention some years ago by starting the Anti-Suicide league in America, died recently in his office in Paterson, N. J. He was a justice of the peace and an auctioneer. When the Anti-Suicide league was organ ized Cohen obtained the signature of more than 10000 persons throughout the country who pledged themselves never to commit suicide.
 There can be no doubt but that Cohen thought he was working for the good of his fellow man, and so he was. Probably nine out of ten persons who kill themselves do so on the spur of the moment; in fit of passion or despair. Instant release from this world of turmoil and trou- ble is what they want, so they take the short cut to eternity.
 A pledge, however lightly regarded, is still deterrent factor. Would that all other promises made by frail mor- tals were as easy to keep!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-05
GRANDMA,s HOUSE

From the Kansas City Times.
 There are always prim or stately or homely flowers nodding in the back gar den. Within, there is always an old fn shioned cloclS-ticking atmosphere of plea sant peace that will not fret the tenn pers of little boys and girls; always, eyes the years have filled with tender wisdom to watch lovingly above the play of grand children; always. cookies waiting in the great old, battered can in the pantry fo- the arrival of sweetheart fingers; al- ways, a deep closet in which are the toys of bygone years, all patched and mended by grandma when her little ones grew away from them, and kept here by her against this time just waiting. Such toys that must suffer to be cast aside and yet must be always ready and never fail- ing when next pudgy hands come to take them up, hold the mellowest heartaches in the world. and tragedies as great and dumb as the worn shoes of babies who went off on a day with the angels.
 This is grandma's house. And the more houses of grandma a city holds the more blessed it is above it's fellows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-05

From Bruno's Weekly
 Scene: Private office in police head.
 quarters)
 President of Police: 'If you join oul | forces and decide to be detective instead
 of reyolutionsts, you will be freed i'm
 medatelyl Otherwise you will be hanged l today! Your death warrant Is as good as signed !" Revolutionist: "All right, I accept" Lieutenant of Police (thinking of him. self' T have to report this immediately | to the revolutionary committee! Such a
 WI etched traitorl" President of Police We are offering
 you 1000 rubles if you betray to us the
 plots of all the assassinations planned at present. Police Sergeant (thinking for himselD "Oh Lordl if he only does not betray mev'
 RevolUtionist: 'They are preparing to kill the village priest" Police Sergeant Ohinking): Blessed be the Lord; he doesn't seem to know any thing about our plot!" Revolutionist "Dimitri ,Nicolaitsch was chosen to kill him." Police at the Door thinking): He evil dently knows what he Is talking about.
 The name is correct" RSvolutionist: Everything will be ready tonNrrow evening at o'cIock. Then the priest will be killed" President Secretary (thnking): Tn yes- terdays meeting we postponed 1t till the day after tomorrow President of Police Gin terrible rage, to the revolUtionist: "Ha! Scoundrel! So you are going to betray the plans of our revo- lution To hell with yout Gle fires a shot without injuring hini.) Revolutionst: Place him under arrest! I am the secretary of police! A Scrubbing Woman: Then you must die CThrowng herself against his big frame she buries a stlletto in his heart) Policeman at the Door Crying to over
 power her): "Nikolisch! What did you do that for?" (The house is blown into the air because the letter carrier stumbled over a bomb as he came through the main en- frl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-05
Dreadnaught Still Supreme

When Germany's successful under. sea warfare was apparently playing havoc with British shipping, it was proclaimed in some quarters that the dreadnaught had proved failure. It would fall an easy victim to a sub- marine costing far less to build, ob- servers said. Immediately cam paign was started in this country for building great many submarines at the expense of dreadnaughts.
 The English admiralty was mean time quietly going about the business of coping with Germany's undersea attacks. Strict secrecy was main- tained and the impression was cre- nted abroad that nothing could stop the victorious career of the Germans However, Great Britain has developed a successful plan for combating tht submarine peril and as result there will be modification of the tentative plans adopted for the improvement o1 the American navy during the coming year. Confidential reports have beer received disclosing the fact that from 50 to 70 German submarines have been destroyed by the use of nets, sub. marine telephones, new types ot mines and by covering the submarine area with fleet of swift motor. boats, armed with rapid fire guns.
 The noticeable lull in Germany's subsea warfare was probably brought about by something more urgent thar American diplomacy and lends colol to the British claims that they nov have the situation we'll in hand While the submarine of the higl power, seagoing type will continue tt be an extremely useful adjunct to navy and the United States should b, all means be provided with an ade quate number of submarines, tn, dreadnaught type remains supreme a. the most effective fighting force ant its prestige, for awhile threatened b, the submarine, has been fully re
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-05
More Food; Better Farming

Marinette county, Wis, has a farmer, w. c. Wyckoff, who has cleared and cultivated 80 acres of land without ever having a horse upon the place.
 Wyckoff is not disciple of old time methods either; in fact, he goes to the other extreme and uses noth- ing but gasoline power. His 11-ton tractor supplied all the power for clearing and breaking the land, plow- ing, planting the crop and for culti- vating and harvesting it. For travel ing Wyckoff uses his automobile and therefore dispenses with a driving horse.
 Not many years ago men were har- vesting with scythe and cradle; then the harvester brought a wonderful change in farming methods and a corresponding extension of farming operations. Now the horse is proving too slow and inefficient for modern methods and the power tractor su- persedes mans old-time friend.
 Pessimists may deplore the dimin- ishing demand for the horse on senti- mental grounds, but the fact remains that increased production is the result of modern methods-and whatever adds to the food supply increases gen. eral prosperity and betters conditions
 The population of the country is steadily and rapidly increasing. Pro. duction must keep pace with this growth, or poverty and hardship will result in increasing ratio.
 The world TO longer needs "the man with the hoe" On the contrary,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-05
SENSIBLE OLD YUAN
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Since leaving China Tor this country Prof. Frank A. Goodnow, formerly of Co., lumbia university, refuses to talk abou! his strong recommendation to Yuan Shi Kai to make an Emperor out of himself And, indeed, what is there he could say to his own countrymen about that re-
 markable plea to destroy the Chinese re- public that contained more nonsequiturs than anything any other college professor, even a Chicago university professor, has
 written in years. As time goes on MT. Gooenow will feel more and more like keeping mighty still about it.
 Yuar does not want to follow the ad- vice He says that the idea of changing from modern President to a backnum- Der Emperor is dstasteful to him, and he may be sincere in it.
 Old Yuan seems to have lot more sense than Professor Goodnow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-05
A TRIUMPH FOR SANTA CLAUS

r rom the bOStOn Herald.
 Santa Claus has run the blockade Voicing the protests of millions oi American boys and girls, he smiled his way into the private offices of the great men in London and said: What have hobby-horses, and speaking dolls. and music boxes and mechanical toys to do with war? Why should the chill dren across the ocean be deprived of half the joy of Christmas because these playthings were made in Germany :? Is it necessary for you to check the laughter of these proteges of mine in order to carry on your struggle with the Kaiser? These toys were made al their firesides by the simple hearted peasant of Thuringia and Nuremburg and for them 1t was joy as we'll as a business. And unless you let these toys leave Rotterdam my pack will be half empty when I make my rounds in America. Let them go."
 For months the great men in Lon- don held out against the plea. These were German goods and the order of prescription covered them. American business men were anxious their old stocks were almost exhausted, domes- tic production did not entirely supply the deficiency. and Santa Claus, the ambassador of good will to all the world, presented again and again his claims. And now the great men in London have yielded. The embargo which has brought America and Europe to the verge of war has been lifted, and what statesmen and diplomats have failed to do Santa Claus has ac- complished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-05
sLEEP-TALK DIvoRCEs HIM

From the New York World.
 John Hutchinson talked in his sleep, so is single today.
 Mrs. Mary Hutchinson, wife of for mer Paretson, N. J., bartender. told on the stand in chancery chambers yester- day how her husband murmured of Min ne' in slumber She convinced Vice Cham cellor Stevenson Minnie" exists, and ob- tained a divorce. Hutchinson denied talking in his sleep. [ No, mo- he said, "I merely said, How many?' must have thought I was tend ing bar"
 Hutchinson was married while he was bartender and his wife owned the Or pheum cafe.