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The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
Hungry Tramp Doves, a
Woman With An Umbrella,
and q World Peace Thought!

We looked on. window of The Times
yssterday morning and saw something
that was mighty pleasing and mighty
eOul-satisfying.
We saw man feeding flock of doves.
They were all around him on the side
walk in front of his place of business, in
dicating that the man hadpfed them be-
tore, and had made it his business to
;1epd them.
G The man does not own the doves.
& They are tramp birds, living down town
horsvsr cupola, belfry or what-not
1I6Es shelter.
g 11koGhen often find them flying about
0(1E down town fires, when they have
.o(n driven from their resting places by
D6or or BY the flames of burning build
- man whom we saw feeding them
Dintes that at this season Of the
~ krds have . hard time of it get
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12

Faith in an irrational formula, or
in a fetish. whether material or
intellectual, has cured and is curing
many persons of chronic rheuma-
tism. But il is at the same time inn
priscning thei: minds in false ideas
OF God. man. and the universe.
1T is when we leave the physiolog-
ical realm and enter the world OF
morals and OF spirit that the import
ance of The object on which faith
rests becomes apparent.
lit IL obvious that faith IN a
superstition which is only a super.
stition has no power TO reconstruct
character or wake a soul under the
ribs Of death
For here salvation comes by an
ideal which .mbodies the highest
hopes and aspirations of the soul.
We surrender 10 this idea. We &C.
eept it as for us the controlling mo-
tive OF our liy,s. And the result is
freedom. power. expansion
Not alone 10 keep strong ia body,
but TO keep happy in mind: not
alone TO prosper materially but TO
grow spiritually, is esseptial 10 the
waIl-being of us all.
Every man in his heart knows
this. And many a man, by actual
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
A Poem a Day

WAITING.
Serene I fold my arms and wait.
Nor care for wind. or tide. or sea,
For To- my own shall come To me.
l stay my haste. I make delays.
For what avails this eager pace?
i stand smid the eternal ways.
And what IL mine shall know my
face.
Asleep. awake. hy night or day,
The friends I seek are seeking mc.
Nor wind can drive my bark astray.
Nor change the tide OF destiny.
What matter II stand alones
I walt with JOY the coming years;
My heart shall reap whore Il has
sown,
Aud garner up IT'S fruit of tears.
The waters know their own, and
The S, brook that springs IN yondor
50 flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul OF pure delight
The fioweret nodding in the wind
Is ready piightcd To the bce,
And. maiden. why that look unkindr
For 10! thy lover seeketh thee.
The stars come nightly 20 the sky;
The tidal wave unto the sea:
Nor time. nor space. nor deep. nor
high
Can Keep my own away from M.
John Burroughs.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
ey MARY BOYLE o'seILLY.

LONDON. Eng. Feb. l2.--England
is today enjoying fictitious pros
perity. Wages have risen. though
not In proportion TO the rise In food
prices and tax rates: cxtravagance
is rife. and everyone Is squandering
borrowed money Most OF the spend
ing dces not help win the war. The
Crlted Kingdom Is threatened with
grave money difficulties but norody
seems TO Gaze.
Great Britain's last worlc war cost
the .Cuntry three times what IL was
worth. The Napoleon!c war bills
were not paid for half n century.
This was costs the British empire
t25 900 0OG a day. Kitchener's three
year" war wouif create debt OF "
TO 10 billions Of dollars, a stagger'
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
Garrison Being a Big
Man, There Was Nothing
Else That He Could Do

Lindley NJ. Garrison, resigned secre-
I tary of war, is big man.
Whether we agree with him or not IN
the convictions that led him to bow him
self out of his place in the Wilson cabl-
net, we have to admit that he has proved
his bigness by refusing to compromise
these convictions.
He has demonstrated to the country
at large why he was looked upon by Pres
nent Wilson among the members of his
( administration as man of superior ca
pacity and why his judgment was sought
md deferred to when big issues were up.
He has embarrassed the Democratic
party by leaving the cabinet on the eve
AZ presidential election that is going
= b : hard-fought one, but in this sare
Judgment which the party so much re-
lpected, he appears to have reached the
cunclusion that principle should come be-
1ofS either party or place.
he does his country service by re-
r1Gning, too, because his resignation will
awaken the people to the big issue, create
discussion and compel THOUGHT.
We are still of our opinion that this
preparedness proposition will be adjust
a satisfactorily, on basis that VIII ties!
/ pretty well up to the standard of civiliza-
ljcn which we claim for ourselves, if the
roop1e can be made to think
The Garrison continental army plan
1pos not impress congress as plan de-
uponded by public sentiment
h has been criticised by preparedness
uupporters as impracticable.
President Wilson had been urged by
Garrison to '.force" the plan through con-
SxssA rather than yield to compromise
MON the point which had been sug-
gssted.
Here the president crossed Garrison;
here Garrison's further connection with
the administration, as part of it. be-
came Inconsistent in his own reasoning,
and here Garrison and the administration
parted company.
He will be missed by the administra-
Hon, for he was power in it and sup
pprt to it.
Garrison's resignation goes to prove,
toos that man with real, positive and
desp-rocted convictions is out of place in
my political office.
The break is bound to come, just as
soon as such man is asked to sink his
convictions as a matter of duty to the
party or trade them as matter of politi-
cal expediency.
Which is just exactly what Lindley NJ.
Garrison refused to do.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
When War Debts BlOdf
Budget People Must Pay

ing charge on the national income.
Today fortnight's bills equal the
total cost OF the Crimean war, two
months expenses would pay the to.
tai cost OF the Boer war This gen
GRAFTON will not live to ray on the
great debt.
Already the people realize
that unless taxation be shifted
10 the shoulders OF men who
buy investments II is the poor
who must pay for the war.
An instance: Compare these costs
for necessities with the charges on
citizens at peace Manchester is a
worklngman's town, the quality and
prices of staple foods IN London
runs higher:
Beef, joint. 81 cents per pound.
Mutton, joint, 80 cents per pound.
Pork, joint, 80 cents per pound.
Suet. % cents.
Tea. 60 to o. cents per pound.
Sofree, 81 TO ~ cents per pound.
Butter. 81 10 ~ cents per pound.
Lard. IS cents per pound
Sugar. III cents per pound.
Flour. "a cents per l2 pounds.
Bacon. % TO 81 cents per pound.
Cheese, 25 cents per pound
Rice. \ cents per pound
MIX. 10 cents per quart
Since the recent treasury warning
that at least half every family in
come must be put at the service
OF the state " has been announced
that the revenue from the income
tax must be Increased from s5s.37o.-
900 10 1922, 100000!
Family incomes under $500 year
are not taxable hut every man o.
woman earning si2 a week or more
must Gay taxes
Here follows the scale OF income
taxation:
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
Pointed Paragraphs

Let's not worry. we'll get the
earth sooner or later.
Dignity may stoop 10 conquer but
IL never grovels in the dust
And many a man who was born
To succeed dies of heart failure.
There are times when the cork
screw is mightier than the type
writer.
The average man is apt TO belle
what the world doesn't say about
him
Procrastination is the thief OF time
and the plunder cannot be recov-
cred
The weather vane Is the only wind
instrument that doesn't annoy the
neighbors.
In the contest for happiness it's a
draw between the young girl with
her frst beau and the young mother
with her first baby.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12

ting this waste out Of the system.
In the case Of the skin there are
millions OF little pockets called the
sweat glands which lave this work
10 do. for sweat II nothing more
than a wstery extract OF the waste
products OF the bod
Another OF the very important
things which the skin does IL TO
help regulate the body temperature
This Is done by automatic changes
In the size Of the blood vessels o.
the skin and by changes In the So.
crotiou OF sweat.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
KINGDOM COME
ey DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1916. b. Frank Cranel

What do we want? What precisely
do we mean by the Millennium. or the
Golden Age, or Utopia? What sort of
"a Kingdom Come" is it We pray for?
Sit down some time and think it over;
try to get rid of the vagueness of the
idea and to determine exactly what con-
ditions would satisfy you and all of US.
The etort may not be without good re-
suits upon your present notions.
Just as suggestion let me give one
statement of the kind of Millennium that
appeals to me-
IL 1T that state of society and that per-
fecion of government in which there
shall be secured for every human being
intellectual Liberty, Equality of Oppor-
tunity, Justice in all Human Relations,
and free Spiritual Fraternity.
This is somewhat like the French mot
to, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, only
the terms are defined bit and Justice
is added.
First, Intellectual Liberty. The last
element of coercion, direct or indirect
must be removed from the processes of
the mind. The Ethics of the Intellect
must be acknowledged The mind must
work absolutely unbribed by expediency,
the opinions of others, fear, or authority.
There can be no perfect unity Of love
and service that does not rest on perfect
freedom of thought.
There must be entire Equality of OPP
portunity. The state ought to see to it
that every baby coming into the world
has an equal start with every other baby.
All inheritance of wealth that interferes
with this should be abated. Every child
should receive training for the worlds
work There will never be equality of
intelligence, of physical force, of genius,
nor of any other kind Of ability; Unequal
ity in these respects adds zest to life.
And the advantages Of personal ability
do not cause Injustice it is custom-but-
tressed and law-intrenched privilege, un-
earned and undeserved yet pe~petuated,
that oppresses the world.
Justice is essential When that comes
there shall be no more benevolence and
charity as we now practice them. The
great hunger of mankind is not for kind
ness and mercy and pity, it is for JUS
tice. When we have justice we shall
have peace, as it is written: Righteous
ness and peace kiss each other
Lastly we shall have free Spiritual
Fraternity. The problem of the race is
one of fraternizng. We now get to-
gether in sects and nations. Reigiously
and politically we as yet feel but faint
lly the universal breeze. We do not real
izc humanity The human nerve is
feeble. Some day the idea of universal
brotherhood shall burn in the race with
a heat and shine far stronger than the
present sectaran, partisan, and patriotic
enthusiasms.
do not think human nature will have
TO be transformed to get these things.
It is a question of vision. We need 10
see. When once we understand what we
,.ont ,,a will or0aniZe and get III.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
From Another Point of TeD
BH c. t. S.

Among an African tribe there is a
custom of butting heads together to in
dicate friendship. Over here it would be
looked upon at times as a sign it was
being cemented.
A headline says Gamblers Lay Low
At Present" And the hens aren't laying
at all.
Denatured alcohol made from vege-
tables is proposed as a substitute for gas
oline. The idea is, we presume. that We
will be able to get more than a little over
five gallons from bean.
Imagine an 88-pounder in those con-
versation stockings. Twould leave, in
deed, little TO be said.
Ptomaine poison.
We've been reading,
Turks within the
Canned Fardina;
Which suggests there's
Been discovered
one more deadly
Submarine.
Daisy is suing for divorce from La
verne Snow. on the ground. perhaps,
that married life with Laverne was
tough shedding.
! All we ever had against Abraham Lin
:oln is these birthday banquets that Will
liam Alden Smith comes home to ad-
dress.
A local taxidermist is being sued be-
cause he failed to deliver to its owner the
hide of pet wolf that was taken to
him to mount. The case is being heard in
the stuffy atmosphere of our justice
Icourts.
Three law volumes are missing from
the circuit court library. Citing the
case Of the People VS.. The Person Who
Lifted EN-.
We note among the items from the
bankruptcy court that the Acme Electric
Heater Co. is in hot water.
Aid. John Lodge wants to know from
the corporation counsel what steps are
necessary for the city to construct sub
way. We noted one time when we were
. in New York, if it will help any, that il
is necessary to have exactly as many
leading up as there are leading down.
&. T. s: Il It kitchen zinc or sink. 10
decide bet?-A1.
Dear Al: II is sink the same as
Jones good money in oil we'll stock.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
-Ry Webster.

experience. has proved that religious
faith above everything else has this
twofold influence.
Thsu faith. especially faith in God,
pays, and pays handsomely.
How to gain this faith? Turn 10
The pages OF Dr. McConb's splendid
little book and YOU will fnd helpful
guidance.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
JOHN p. GLENDoN,

. Small Paul had been spending the
afternoon with a boy In the neigh.
borhood
Did you have a nice tlme?" ask.
ed his mother or his return
Not very" replied PAIL Toms
mother kept hanging around all the
time
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12

the body u con.
stantly forming
Just az Are forms
ashes In the proc
ess OF burning.
The Kidneys and
liver. the lungs
and the skin all
play a part in get
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12

When It In hot outside, the skin
blood vessels expand and carry a
larger amount OF blood through the
skin 10 be cooled of. while sweat
Is discharged freely and cools the
body by Its evaporation.
In winter the blood vessels con
tract and keep the blood In the In.
ner parts Of the body. while the
sweat glands cease 10 discharge a.
freely IA In summer.
For that reason the question of
proper clothing Is important in win
ter. N too much eavy clothing II
worn IL makes the body too warm
and weakens the machinery OF tenn.
perature regulation in the skin with
the result that a rorson feels dull
and sleepy.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
HIS NUMBER

Teacher I'm surprised at you. Sammy
Wcks, that YOU cannot tell me when Christopher
Columbus discovered Americal What does the
chapter heading OF the weeks lesson readT'
Sammy. "Columbus-1f92"
Teacher: Well. isn't that plain enough' Did
you never see u before?
Sammy: Yes'm. yes'm: but always thought
II was his telephone number-Harper's Magar
xinAl
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12

England will pay-and pay-and
pay until the year 1000 A. -.
And when war debts hloat ma
tion's budgets II is the people who
pay.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12
The Keep Well Column

The skin Is one OF the principal
rgans for throwing of waste which
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12

A concelted young lady says the
men are d coyetous lot.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12

Clean milk, clean mothers,
healthy fathers-better babies.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12

Let's think about these things.
Before you reach a conclusion that you
are in favor of more fighting ships, more
guns and more men as means to peace.
ask yourself if those who advocate peace
by such means are really not the ones
who are for peace AT ANY PRICE?
And instead of throwing the crumbs
from the dinner table into the garbage,
carry them on the tray to the back door
and throw them out on the snow where
hungry birds may get them.
Whatever you do, if you should hap
pen to come upon birds that are
eating, anywhere or at any time, don't
poke an umbrella at them.
The Detroit times., 1916-02-12

| ting their food, and when there Is snow
on the ground they have an even harder
time of il and often have to go without
food.
Those doves were good and hungry
YOU could tell that by the way they went
after the food the man put down Tor
them.
While the doves were eating though,
something happened that was not so good
to look upon.
Along came woman, carrying an UNI
brella.
AS she passed the doves whom the man
by his goodness had taught to be un-
afraid, she poked her umbrella at them
several times, frightening them away
from their food.
nthinkingly. this woman did this.
We do not believe she did it viciousiy.
She just simply didn't stop to consider
the hardShips the birds encounter in win
ter.
And, by the way, II Is our opinion Vilat
whole lot of people who favor prepared
ness, the thing which analyzes MILL
TARISM. do so because they haven't Civ
en- the matter the thought the subject
deserves.
When they say they are for this thing
that makes and invites war, we cannot
believe that they can possibly be in favor
of what war means, in lives. in arms and
legs and eyes, and blood and tears.
Bother the dollars and cents part OF IT.
The man came out of his store across
the street TO feed the beautiful bird that
has typifed peace since it brought the
olive branch back to the ark.
The unthinking supporter of prepared
ness would tear it into bits with shrapnel,
at a season when the crumbs of brother
ly love are scarcest for a hard winter or
profit in munition making from war.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-16
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
Romnn Women WON Higher Place
n> Rcsuit uf punlr
Wars,

what eom" prophets are saying viii
happen TO European women after tho
present war did actually happen TO
i'oinah women az the result Of the
rune wars before the Christian era
'he'r ieSa! and social status was bet
tered
Prior 10 this time Roman na,ron.
which highly respected. had 70 legal
status AS "a person" before the law
and no separate property rishts sb.
passed out OF the ''potestas'-pow err
OF her father. into the "mauus' of hcr
h"S"ahI' IT WAS written in the imsti-
uu'o" "i roman law that nothing could
be granted in the way Of justice 10
nose under power that is, 10 slaves,
th''"f'h am" wives for ii is reasonable
|" conclude mat since these persons
can own no property. they are incom-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-16
STRIKE OIL IN AUSTRALIA
Message Tells OF n big Petroleum
Field Found Near
Grafton,

Discovery OF tho first gas and pc
trolcum field on tho continent of Ans
tralin was announced In Il cable mes
sage received yesterday by l.. L.. Quinn.
trade commissioner OF New South
Wales. Australia, 81 East Forty second
street. Tho message, which came from
L. III. Palmer, acting assistant suporin-
tendent OF tho Immigration and Tourist
bureau. Sydney, contained only the
information that tho petroleum and gas
HELD had been found near Grafton. on
the Clarence River IN the extreme
northeastern part of New South Wales
mat the newly found supply is cx-
'eHsiNc Is Indicated by the fact that
news or the discovery was cablcd also
W Nlei Nielsen, Australian trade COM
missioner In San Francisco. and other
-NuStralian representatives. who are
secNihs 10 bring about closer CONNER
''"i ic'"'iohS between the United States
anu the Australian commonwealth.
commissioner Quinn said the oil and
gas supply nearest Australia was tha,
discovered in recent years i'm Nov.
tIuinea. lie was able to estimate how
the American market of these produc, {
might be affected. but he pointed our
that Australia annually has bought
from thus country more than 40 nno :
90" worth of gasoline, benzol. lubricat
ing oils and other petroleum uro,Inc,u
ihc message said that the Federal
treasurer had prohibited tn. cxpor, az
Sold To America for the puruoso Of
meeting Austrnlia's foreign OBLIGATIONS
I" deputation representing the assoc
Grated banks Of the Australian com
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-16
CoNEiRMS I.ETCHERS REP0RT
OF CLASH At PARRAI,

SAN ANTONIO. TEN. April l5.-It
was am 'unprovoi<ed attack" on uu-
armed American soldiers, who had cn-
tered Iarral merely for the purpose OF
purchasing supplies. that precipita,ed
an action hctwccn Mcxicaus and Amer
leans there Wednesday. according TO an
ciiicial report received tonight from
General pershing.
lie said that a part of the soldiers
leaving their arms outside the town
entered To buy food. They were fired
upon and rctrcatcd in the direction OF
the camp. The troops there moved for
ward 10 meet the Mcxicans, who wero
pursuing the retreating troops and
Logan Il sharp fire killing forty Mex
leans. Two Americans were reported
dead.
y" mention of wounded, either Amer
leans or MeNicans, WAS made. This was
the first news received OF tho incident
which drew from Carranza the urgent
recommendation that American troops
DO withdrawn |, confirmed Consul
Lctcher's report from chihuahua on
Thursday.
Gcueral rcrShine sen, his report in
duplicate from Sacvo, ninety miles
northwest OF Parral. 1t appeared that
he did not receive II report from tho
troops i'm tn" vicinity of P.rral until
to-day, and that upon its receipt he
communicated with General Funston
immcdiatcly.
The American troops were n dctach-
ment Of the Tenth Cavalry. and IL wac
indicated that they were commanded
by Colonel w. &. Browr.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-16
Beers AIDING ENGLAND

somewhere In Africa" n handfuI
Germans is lighting to retain IN. i,
small remnant of that great coloniI
system which tho Kaiser so luboriou.
had built and upon which he lavi.,,
so many millions before the war .rl|
Germans have boosted that after a,
most two years conflict the enemy /:
seized hardly a square mile of the l.,
thcrland. but one by one Germany H.;
lost her overseas possessions, each o,
an empire almost as great as WI
hci"S realm ut home And now Ger
many retains only one colony, AN
that In East Africa. which hangs u
so slender a thread that it may h
lost any day or any hour.
Aud. by strange streak OF fate IN
last OF the kaiscr'a colonies is mo,
accd by an army Of Beers who Gf,eo
years ago were willing to stake tboI
lives that Wilhelm was their opl
friend in the world and that his fanor
telegram 10 'Oom" Paul Kruger NEAR
he would come TO their assistance. J,c
II is ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Jan Smut
fifteen years ago lighting with all hi
might and soul TO prevent British don
ination in South Africa, who to-day
COMMUNICATIVE hief Of the Britis
forces In East Africa, and who slnwI
is wiping out Of existence the la,
particle "f German interest In Arric
and adding 10 British territory stri
OF land which VIII make complete Nh
dream Of Britain's great empire buil
der. Cecil Rhodes.-Ncw York Herald
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-16
LOSS OF APPETITE
""sf successfully Treated NV T,Ei,c
Hoods SnrsnpnriIIu.

Loss OF app"tit" is accompanied bv
MSS Of vitality. which j. serious
IL Is common in The spring because
at this time the blood is impure ana
inpo vcrished and fails to give the al
ScStiNe organs what is absolutely ne
''SS"rE TOR me proper performance OF
their functions
Hoods Sarsaparilla. the old rcliorlo
hII-thc- ycar-round medicine is cs-
rccially useful In the spring &c; il
from your druggist to-day. rs purify
ting and cnriching the blood and civ
Ing vitality, viGor and tone. il rs won.
dcrfuliy successful in the treatment of
loss "i aprctit" and the other ailments
prevalent at this time. II Is not sim :
ply u spring mcdicim"--it Is much more
than that-but II is the best spring
medicine.
Hoods Sarsapariiia makes the rich
rcd blood the digestive organs need
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-16

crcdcncc by the Mexican people that
the United states has announced its
Intention OF withdrawing the troops
now pursuing villa. High officials Of
the government to-day expressed great
pleasure at this. but neither General
Carran2a nor amy members of his Cabi
net would discuss the matter officially.
They desire TO await official adviccS.
they said, from the Mexican ambas-
sador Al Washington, Eliseo Are
dondo.
In The War Department assurances
We're given that there are sufficient
Mexican troops now in the north to
wipe out" Villa, and his followers.
whose number is reported to have so
dwindled as 10 make ii insignificant.