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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
Being Prosecutor of Oscoda
County Is Our Idea of a
Nice, Soft, Steady Job

And, again, there is the case of Oscoda
county.
Oscoda county is dry.
The other day the prosecutor up there
nat down to make a report to the attor-
ney general in Lansing, to let the attor-
ney general know how many arrests had
been made in the first six months of
1916; how many warrants had been
sworn out and how many evildoers he
had prosecuted.
His report was as follows:
Arrests during the first six months,
NONE.
Warrants sworn out the first six
months, NONE.
It follows that his report on prosecu-
lions was NONE.
To repeat, Oscoda county is DRY.
10 repeat again, THERE WAS NO
ARREST MADE, NOT EVEN A WAR
liant SWORN OUT IN OSCODA
COUNTY DURING THE FIRST SIX
MONTHS OF THE PRESENT YEAR.
The claim of the supporters of prohi-
ht3on Is that It takes five years for any
community to begin to reap the full ben
oftS Of booze Punishment.
Y
10 repeat again, OSCODA COUNTY
HAS BEEN DRY FIVE YEARS.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
' Plenty of Leather.

The impression has gotten into
the daily newspapers that there IS
big shortage Of shoes and leather
in America. In consequence, for
about the first time In history, near
ly every daily paper, large and small.
in the United States has been pub.
fishing warnings about this alleged
shortage, without giving study or ee-
rious attention to the matter. II is
not surprising. therefore, that much
leather, many shoes and consider
able leather merchandise OF all
kinds has been hurricdly purchased
and accumulated as much a. pos
sible by nervous and excited buy
ers. II can hardly be logically as.
serted that there Is any shortage OF
shoes and leather in America. For
fully nine months our shoe and
leather factories. as rule, have
been running az. or near. full ca
pacity. This meant tremendous
output Of shoes and leather Even
allowing for increased exports, We
yet seem TO be carrying a fairly lib
eral supply OF shoes and leather, al
though some shortage may appear
here and there. for special reasons
Hide and Leather.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
Purpose of This Wide
Movement Bespeaks a Great
Faith in the Present Day

THERE'S tremendous movement on
foot, headed by such men as Justice
Louis Brandeis, Judge Hugo Pam, Ma
than Straus and other prominent Jews,
70 unite the entire Hebrew race in one
organization.
This is done in an effort to bring pres
sure to bear, when the peace treaties Of
III the warning countries are drawn up,
70 safeguard the Jews in future, from
the terrible persecution of the past.
Every city in America is to have a
heal branch composed of every Jewish
activity, synagogue, temple, society,
which will be affiliated with Jewish
National congress, which, in turn, will
be q part of the International Jewish
congress.
This congress will represent the eleven
million Jews Of the world, and when
tpf1ns are drawn up, at the close of
he war, it believes that its organiza-
4 I'm will be sufficiently strong and CO.
coive to demand that treaties shall
arantee TO Jews equal political, ma
66noI. civil and religious rights in com.
~ with other races Of the world,
II this can be successfully carried out
IS war will have served one good end
hri liberty and democracy and have
neht about the most merciless ant
- persecution In all history.
R he Jews are mighty people
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17

strong beyond all others in racial Soldar-
ity; so steadfast i'll their own religion
that it might put to shame many OF their
oppressors true to their principles; tai
ented beyond other peoples along artistic
and cultural lines.
A weaker race, subjected TO the same
treatment, would have been eXterminated
long since.
A weaker race would have tamely sub
mitted, given UP its traditions and reIi-
gion and become submerged in the count
less strains surrounding il.
For it has emigrated to every cline,
seeking only q living and to worship Goa
in its own way.
Centuries ago. the Jews were deprived
of the privilege of owning land III Euro
pean countries. so that from being an
agricultural people they were obliged to
turn their attention to barterng IN the
market places.
How well they succeeded at this form
of business enterprise we all know.
Although despised with an unreaSon-
ing prejudice in the middle ages and al
ter. the countries of Europe depended up
on them to finance their governments in
times of stress.
In more modern times they have help
ed to tide over panics and negotiate big
loans in America and France the French
holdings of Russia being largely respon-
sible for the curious alliance called the
triple entente.
The persecution of this race is not con-
fined to Russia, although that country,
in the name of religion, carries on this
medieval system with open animosity
Germany. France and the United
States have a more refined form of in
Justice by discriminating against its peo-
pie in social matters, clubs, societies, and
other distinctions.
Although willing to be party to this
form of persecution, all the countries at
war were eager to accept the Jew in
their armies and he has responded to the
call to arms in as large proportion to his
numbers as have others.
Although the old prejudice still holds
sway, we hope that the people OF the
United States will see the light before
many years are over.
The placing of Louis Brandeis upon
the supreme bench of this country would
suggest that we are at last coming TO our
senses.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17

fnl for baby Even bathing baby
daily will not keep Il clean II rs
clothes are soiled.
After each daily bath baby should
have complete OUTFIT Of clean
clothes-outor and uuderciufhps
This can be arranged % jhc mother
will wash out the soiIed clothes az
soon as the change is made Then
there will always be a set Of clean
clothes ready for the infant.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17

lul navy SOON "
comes a sick baby
especially dur
ing the trying hot
days Of summer
Clean clothes are
the most comfort.
able as well a.
the most health.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
AT the Bottom of Silence.
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

Little Willy could not sleep The doc
tors said his brain was too active for the
rest OF his body. And certainly when
you looked at his big eyes and pinched
face you seemed to be gazing at a soul
too scantily bodied. Those eyes had the
air of looking past you, at invisible
things behind you.
One morning as l sat by his bed he
fell TO talking.
do you know" he said, ut seems as
If at night am slipping down into the
deep funnel Of silence. All the fore part
of the night go down, and toward morn
ing come up. Early In the evening the
street under my window is full Of noises,
men and women and children pass and
talk, horses hoofs clatter on the asphalt,
automobiles chug by and toot horns,
wagons rumble, newsboys and peddlers
cry; it gradually thins out; it gets stiller
and stiller; and along about two o'clock
| reach the bottom Of the silence.
Then hear things never hear Of
days steamboats, hoarse voices over the
river, locomotives going "hoooo-hoooo-
hoo hoooo,' belated rat-tat-tat of heels
on the sidewalk, sometimes a drunken
man singing woman sobbing, a dog
barking, sometimes away off the dim
roar of train.
And then all out beyond these sounds
there are others that l hear with my
minds ear. hear the steady boom
boom boom Of the cannon over In Eu-
rope, like far-off drums rolling. | hear
the screams of men bayonetted. hear
women weeping, millions of them. and it
sounds like the wind in the chimney in
winter.
Il hear the pattering of feet in China,
where it is day. and the myriad voices
of the yellow people, like brook CUR
Cling over stones.
II hear the waves tapping on the
shores of India. masts creaking on the
ships that labor in the Seven Seas, and
Arabs in the desert grooming, and the
harsh voices Of camels.
Il hear the worlds music: negroes
singing in Louisiana guitars tinkling in
Andalusia, Sicilian love songs, Kaffir
wailings, and tom-toms pulsing, congre-
Igatious hymning in churches, roisterers
: carousing in brothels all going up in a
! confused wave of human sound to Gods
: ears. And / wonder what He thinks
Of it,
Il hear mothers chanting to their
babies, and lovers kissing and signing,
/. and battle men cursing And hear the
sound Of the rever-ending worship in the
Catholic churches all over the world,
which Zangwill likens to the roar of
Niagara.
81 hear unnumbered prayers ascend
ing, and heart beatngs like fluttering
birds, and humanity breathing like the
wind in the palmetto leaves.
Sometimes it all seems so sordid and
p petty and mean, and | wonder what God
B made il for. And then it seems at other
times wonderful and majestic and beau
tlfuI
And sometimes, when it's the very
aticst, and get way down TO the very
+ bottom tip Of the funnel Of silence, can
hear cod thinking. And what He thinks
at night happens during the day"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
Somewhere"

Europe war cloud Is casting IT'S shadow even
across jho seas Here is n heart breaking tale
from Los Angeles. Little Jimmie 81 Dlzier Is
years old. was called home from school 10 his
mother. bedside. few moments after his ar
rival she passed away.
Mamma o. dead / don want to live any
more want TO die with her. Jimmie sobbed
An hour later they found him dead: he had
taken poison.
Jimmie's father Is somewhere in France"
You older little Jmmics. aren't you glad you-
name is Smith or Brown or Jones. and that you
have a president who keeps your daddies out OF
ware
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
A Poem a Day
JUST 4 SMILE.

Just "a smile little while.
And hold the !ard-c'Hqp tighter
Just 10 thiuE with every mile
tn" sky Is GROWING tr.Eutar
Just 90 feel the world t- t~Ia.
And choke the sOnS barN faster.
Just 20 know mat YOU just you
Arr meant 20 serve th. Master.
Just 70 hope and trust ard love.
And help me man beside v.u.
JUST 20 look for strength above
Where God awIIta t1 eu.sa YOU
clara ShIpuraY
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
The Daily Reminder
TopAY,s ANNIVERSARIES.

i76S--John Jacob Aston. whose
great fortune was made through
states born at Waldorf. Germany.
Died I'm New YORK. March 20, lNiN
1Sl2-The American commander
surrendered Fort Mackinac to the
iSis-Jacob Reed. an officer OF the
Revolution and United states sena-
tor from south Carolina. died at
Charleston, ). c. Born In South Car
i iss4"Tench COKE, famous pub
licist, who was the first 20 urge the
people o. the south 20 cultivate cot
isli-'Tunch,' Englsnds famous
humorous publication. fret issued ny
Mark Lemon. Douglas Jerrold and
Issi-Mexican congress suspended
payments to foreigncrs for two
isst-Gen. Johnston was succeeded
by Gen. Hood IN tho defense OF At
iSse-The italian army captured
BorEcforte from the Austrians after
iS73-The French declaration Of
war AGAINST Prussia was signed.
the act admitting Utah 70 statehood.
ls96--The Venezuelan arbitration
correspondence between Secretary
Olney and the Marquis OF Salisbury
was made public.
lsqS--Tho United States flag was
ing the evacuation Of the city by the
spanish troops.
lsoo--Great British armada Of
more than $50 ships assembled In
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY IN THE
Won Mackensen broke the Lubiin-
Cholm line at krasnostaw.
Paris reported German infantry
attacks In Arsonnc, Lorraine. Vos-
/ italians CAPTURED two passes 10000
/ feet high. after throwing back an
/ Austrian assault.
British board u trade inquiry into
/ verdict ahsolving all bu; the Ger
/ mans.
ToDAN's nIRTHDANs.
Dr Bernhard DcrnhurE. late chief
! ~ the GeIma0 propaganda In the
! United states, born 81 years ago to-
Gen Henry s Uu'dckoper. civil
war commander and intimate friend
~ Abraham IArcoln. born az Mead
| Vile. IA. = years 9Ea today.
RI ligv. John - KIM. EPISCOPAL
missionary bishop ~ Toxic. born al
/ TlttsNeld Mass, - years ago today
Luis Munoz Rivera. resident CONS
missioner % Porto Rico az Washing
ton born IN Porto Rico. . years
/ R.ra Fornia. widely celebrated as
= dr1ma'.. soprano. horn .u Sar
Fr~rrI~,p. 40 wears ago TODAY
Joseph Dawson one - tho arst
r-rw,u""' g4fomoh.i. race drivers ir
America. horn at odon, Ind. g, year.
Erres, : Barnard. secretary of the
cleveland American I"aEu" baS,hU,
. club. born az Columbia W Va. l..
years ago today
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17

Mabel--WHl nc fight at tho drop
OF the hat?
Ethel-Sumeumcs. when one drops
FROM twenty TO nineteen ninety.eight
and his wife improves the opportu-
nifty 10 saye.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
Hope On, Mere Man!

University Of Oregon has a course for the
bcautfying Of girls feet. hey?
Well it's all right. We will hope for the best
n II becomes a fad, maybe they'll go barefoot
which would be blessed change from what
they're now doing To their feet, at heavy cost.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
Woman ea.her Too LeIsurely

An Edmonton barber, who was
given temporary exemption. stated
that be had tried 2 woman assistant
but she took half an hour TO shave
one man london Telegraph
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
Reverse Action.

First Farmor--So III Hayrack's
prodigal son has come back home?
Second Farmer--Yes. his farm Is
on the bum. now his bum Is on the
farm
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17

Wife--But II We don't keep a ser.
want what will the neighbors say?
Husband-If we don't keep a ser
want Ne won't know.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17

George" quered the curious passenger OF the
elevated conductor. how far do you 20 in a
day."
The boy thought moment
when get TO tho top | stop and when get
to the bottom STOP" he said--Iudge.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
Irish Girls Seek Work

The arrival OF 200 Irish girls who
intend 70 enter domestic service in
the United States. will help solve
the servant girl problem. More are
10 follow these.
They are the first girls 10 come
here since the Dublin rebellion, The
girls told the immigration officials
that they could have made from S.
10 sl5 week in the ammunition
factories at home, but they pre-.
ferred 10 come 10 America and work
in Observation-Disclosures York Letter, ID
the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Arrangements are being made for
a direct steamship service between
Enntb frfra md South
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
ANSWERED

George" aueried The curious passenger OF
the elevated conductor. how far do you 90 In
day."
The boy thought moment.
when got 10 the top stop and when I get
20 the bottom ! stop. he said.-Judge
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
NOT FILLING

| You cay you haven't had anything to eat To-
| day?
Tramp Lady, dc only ting I've swalered to.
| dav Is an insut.--Answers.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17

A tract OF 500 acres near ChiIds point a SUI
burb VI Omaha. Neb.. will be- set aside az a bird
sanctuary, thanks 10 the efforts of Ernest Har.
old Baynes, the naturalist, and the cooperation
OF Omaha's bird lovers.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17
From Another Point OF TeD
By c. 7. S.

The new Annette Kellermann pictures,
"a Daughter of the Gods" have been
held I'D. we are advised, on account OF
the hot weather. Having seen few of
the advance pictures, we fail to follow
the announcement.
Nothing that has ever come to Detroit
has anything on Annette's latest pictures.
AS a matter of fact some of them
haven't anything on themselves.
Water From Heaven-Bresd From orin9o
Land
I'll betcha IL the Mexican branch
OF that Pluvius water supply,
To cool off those poor, hot, chillifed
They'd turn old Carranza out on the plains
And muzzle that villa Guy, ..
Col. Hitemwithpie.
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CT. SIS II true that all future war op-
erations are TO be in alignment with the ten
commandments?
Is n true that American ammunition max
ers are now loading shells with peace litera'
ture?
Does Carranza underwrite all issues Of
villa money!
primaries?
In denying Charles A. Lynch a di'
vorce, after Lynch had found boardei
kissing Mrs. Lynch, Judge Hosmer said
The husband was guilty OF criminal negi-
gence IN not throwing correspondent out OF
the house.
But suppose, Judge, just for an ex,
ample, that correspondent should happen
to be truck driver or something like
that?
wANTED-sh Good old bench
man; steady job--Liner ad,
They didn't need clock in town
Twas seven sharp when he got down
And DER his knee would draw the strap
That held the shoe in his aproned lap,
Bent with years and work, and gray,
| But there he'd SIT and peg away
| Tappin' soles that had worn through
And making old shoes good as new;
! With hammer, knife and aul and tacks,
And thread that he always had to wax,
lie gave to shoes new soles again.
| Too bad he couldn't have worked on men,
We now recall in the distant past
The pair OF shoes that proved the last
His work was donei his day was DER;
He'd set up shop on distant shore
| It's all machinery today,
| But IL don't compare with the other way
And the work don't set on a fellows feet
Like "the good old bench mans down the street
|
All you have to do, according to several
authorities, is to forget it is hot.
|
i How does it work.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17

n baby's clothes are not comfort.
able It becomes fretful aud fret
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17

I'll betcha IL the Mexican branch
OF that Pluvius water supply,
Would send down a lot of dandy cold rains
To cool of those poor, hot, chillifed
brains,
They'd turn old Carranza out on the plains
And muzzle that villa Guy,
Col. Hitemwithpie.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-17

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Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
RERuRLIcANA VICTORY

From all indications and the ten dency of the returns at a late hour there was good assurance that the na- tional republican ticket has won by a substantial majority.
 From the early returns 1t was evil dent that Charles Evans Hughes had received the endorsement of the elec- torate and as the figures continued to pile up this was emphasized. There were surprises and Connecticut con- tributed its share of them but there was nevertheless an underground swell for Hughes and he continued to gain as the counting advanced.
 Not only throughout the east with solid New England and New York and New Jersey back of him, hut the big states of the middle west swung into line and those further west show ed a lead for Hughes which gave added assurance of his victory even with the uncertainty which prevails in a number of the states. and thS claims which have been made by the national republican committee in his behalf appear to be fully supported.
 This means vindication of the policies which have been advanced by the republican party and MT. Hughes and it means that the people are de- sirous that they shall be put into ef- feet. It is a republican victory of far reaching effect, and a repudiation of the present administration.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
WHY THEY LOST SLEEP

Nothing dramatically asserted the matron, telling the story, nothing ever will convince that hotel force that they entertained anything less than a band of suspicious persons be- longing to an asylum, out for an air ing, with most indifferent keepers!
 Our only intention when we drew up there near midnight after driving some 200 miles that day was to go to sleep. 1t seemed to me at the time that a thousand dollars would be a small sum to barter for a good mat tress and peace. John was so groggy as he walked, but we had to bear up because we were the official chaperons of the trip.
 "An of us started up together on the elevator. When we reached the fifth floor it turned out that we alone were blinking from sleepiness, elected to remain seated in the elevator while we got settled, while Bert. who was on the eighth floor, got off with us temporarily.
 When he bade us good might, John gave one gasp, cleared his clothes with one jump and was in bed with another dead to the world Presently the tel ephone rang. It was Bert. He want ed to know whether by any chance Belle was in my room visiting. He said that when he got back to the ele- vator he had found Grace, still riding up and down, telling him that Belle had grown tired of ascentions and descents and that sine had got off at their floor, the fourth, and had prom ised to wait in the hall. They had searched the fourth floor and she was nowhere to be found and the elevator man was becoming very indignant at being forced to continue going up and down and something must be done. She could not be in their room because the bellboy still had the key.
 T got back into my clothes and joined the search. The night clerk and all the bel1boys came to help. We sleuthed around those halls n1adly, and there was no trace of the missing one.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
THE |, w, w, AT EVERETT.

For some time there has been little evidence of the activities of the I. w. w., and their policy of securing what they think they ought to have with out regard to right or reason by means of violence. This part of the country has had recent industrial disputes, strikes and even the display of vio- lence but they were not started or en- couraged under the name of the I. w. w, and barring the, trouble at Bayonne they did not disclose the dan gerous conditions and the total disre- gard for law and order which were manifested in the disturbaDces at Law renee and Paterson.
 That the Pacific coast is undergoing it's experiences in this respect is in dicated by the trouble which devel- oped at Everett, Wash, where the I. w. w. undertook to take control of the local strike and not being able to put its leaders in touch with the sit nation by land chartered a steamer and sent an expedition by water to take command. The party was armed and 1t manifested it's determination to have its own way by firing upon the authorities gathered upon the wharf to resist their interference. The ex- change of shots resulted in a number of deaths upon both sides but it made plain that the people of Everett were determined that such a disturb Ing influence would not be tolerated in their city. They have taught such awless mobs a lesson which should have much influence in that section in he future and given them to under stand that law and order must be respected. ..r--
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
I'M KoENLG,S FAVOR

Whether or not Captain Koenig will have the Deutschland ready for de- parture on Friday, in accordance with some of the predictions it will prob ably make little or no difference whether he attempts to leave this country for Bremen this week or next or the week following. There are good reasons for believing that he will be able to make as safe a get away this time as on the occasion of his previous visit.
 Then it was predicted that he would be forced to run the gauntlet of allied Harships but after he slipped out of he Chesapeake bay and submerged ne encountered no trouble. Once out side the three mile limit the under water merchantmen would be legiti- mate preD for the enemy's vessels e-ovided they observed the rules of