The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-08-05
To Repeat, Jim" Helmes
In Public Service Are
Few and Far Between.

Once in a while, when il seems there is
law defiance and tolerance OF law defiance
on every hand by lax public officials, and
one falls to wondering just where the
limit viii be drawn. and whether there
is any use hoping against going to the
dogs generally, along comes jim
Helme, down from the state dairy and
food department, and we can say: We'll,
anyhow. there's one department that Is
run right, and there's one official on the
job"
Jim" Helrne always appears on the
scene fit and in the mood TO fight If there
is a fight to be made on behalf of the
consuming public against band OF arch
conspirators who are in business pr1n-
eipally, it sometimes seems, for the mere
sport of skinning this same public.
Fights for Jim" are mighty few and
FAR between these days, for the reason
the fighting is pretty nearly all over.
The official mitt of the state dairy and
food department has been landed square
" on the point of the jaw OF the food
adulterators, patent medicine prisoners
and shortweight robbers, and the MEM
bers of the gang have picked up their
coats and hats and skunk away while
slunking has been good.
Michigan is given wide berth at the
present time by the crooks Jim" Helme's
department watches and protects the
public against, and the reason is Jim
Helme, and the reason "Jim" Helme is
the reason is because he found out on TAX
Ing his office what his duties were going
TO be and having found out, MET them,
squarely, without fear and without favor
Tip for every department and every
official in the city of Detroit and the
state of Michigan.
A tip in particular, we would say, for
4 our Michigan securities commission,
which commission has refused in num-
Der of instances to place its o. X. on in
vestment schemes brought into the state
but which has, IN NO CASE, prosecuted
. newspaper for printing the advertising
Of those schemes before passed upon by
the commission.
Only recently moving picture film
production company came into Michigan
with flaring full-paged advertisement
In the Detroit News, of fortunes to be
made by getting in on the ground floor.
A few weeks later the film production
company was notified by the securities
commission that it could not offer its
stock for sale in Michigan, bat IT All
READY HAD.
And beyond a question, had already
SOLD lots of it.
There is section in the law put there
to provide against the very possibility Of
an outsider slipping into the state and
selling stock in his concern and dlsposing
Of questionable stock before giving the
securities commission time to investigate
This section holds the newspaper car
rying the advertising, responsible, and
fixes penalty, but we haven't heard that
3 the commission has taken any actor
against the News.
"Jim" Helme, as head of the stat,
dairy and food commission, has never
been afraid of any newspaper in the STATE
Of Michigan.
No official, doing his duty, need b.
afraid of any newspaper anywhere.
\ A public faithfully served and satisfied
will back up any official against any
newspaper.
\, Helme's latest service to the people o.
his state was performed in Detroit, day
before yesterday, when he appeared be
fore the weights and measures inspector,
"A Michigan, at their convention, and tolC