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The Detroit times., 1916-08-17

beer and whisky serve 20 acceatua',
already deprsved instincts 81 me
regular ha5i'uas and The youth
~ both sexes ~ the city Is given
ms start on the road that leads
God only knoas where a drunken
quartet % so-called cabaret perform
OTIS furnish numbers and stunts
thar make -he worst dens Of ne
Wild west o- New York and Chicago
l7 rho old v.de-open DAVIS seem as
mild and harmless AS pink teas ny
comparison And 'he man who owns
and conducts this hellhoia look
after The political interests" IN
Ham.ranrk ~ The present sheriff In
his candida, 'or tho once % coun
" ole-' Shades ~ Tweed. cox
and Bath House John. and this in
modern Heau''rf civ 20 bore ne o.
gVr posed 20 ta worth living
Reile lslc 81. he.oz used almost
daily ard SUNDAY FOR beer garden
With co.o'v officials % 'Ae b7-tord
ers H7p DO won Ike tho picture.
res~oo's bic sfIzr-- - Detroit
Does tte decent rrfIzerry ~ No
rroir sroR Thar In order 20 curry
favor and votes hundreds OF 50
loo0koauars and har'onde-s have
been depl'lzet ard ziyon badges 1y
our present sherry"
This la~iess. Vide-opon CONDITION
~ orr city has been hera,dcd FAR
and aide and criminals are aockinR
~ Detroit 70 share On the crime and
nIUnder that such wan'on and dis.
graceful laxreea on tho part of
trusted l'l officials lrsg-es
7 could 70 on and on. enumers'.
i~g case after case which would
show Tho astounding and disgusting
condition now prevailing. but re-
alize 'ha' y0Ir space iq TOO valuable
, and surely Hhai 7 have set down
should DO enough 70 open the eyos
% all who have Tho future Interests
~ their c.'y ~ heart and move
them 70 vote 20 Dust forever The
conscious'css -as~als who permit
such a demoraliziug condition M ar
fairs 'or their own personal prefer
men' and ss1n
= STEDMAN.
Hotel s'a'ler
Detroit Aug Is. 1915
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17

morning inefiiciency squad, due 20 Satur-
day night drinking bouts, has practically
disappeared.
What is YOUR opinion about John
Barleycorn and his little brother Billy
hagerbeer, being indispensable
There is another lesson for Detroit and
Michigan coming from Seattle.
John and Billy have little duet THAR
they are fond Of rendering.
II goes something like this:
prohibition does not prohibit
But prohibition prohibits in Seattle
Il prohibits because Mayor Gill organ.
led an AK squad 10 make sure that il
WOULD prohibit.
Il wasn't 'ong before this AK had come
Gown ON al the bootleggers and all the
imitation booze and had driven both out
IF town, close on the heels Of John and
Billy.
The mayor has two boys who are grow
ing up and he says he wants a city
where the boys won't have TO pass a
saloon in every block
Guess John and Billy would almost
be willing to admit that prohibition Will
pretty near prohibit if the people can
get public officers with an interest in
boys ike that Of Mayor Gill.
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
The Keep Well Column
SUNSHINE AND AIR.

Get some fresh air into your home
TOO Take long breaths Get your
cellars and closets open and you
Rill discourage the causes ~ your
Illness.
Remember the houses back
home" where. when visitors were
aeen coming someone had 20 run
In and put up the shades In the
best room Remember how damp
and musfy that room used ~ 3mell'
some people refer 10 them a.
those good old-fashioned" houses
D,dfashkned. yes. but after 500.
irg some records Of those who died
there from tuberculosis. We can't
say much for their goodness.
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
Pointed Paragraphs

skin deep beauty IL all right O.
The Eirl has the money
In order 70 hold his job A diplo
mat must hold his tongue.
4 man may boa to Tho inevitable.
but he doesn't INIT his hat
\ fool is a person who is no, al
dicted TO your own brand Of folly
Most young lawyers spend more
time practicins economy than laV
There arc bur fee unhappy mar.
riaEes The unhappIness shows up
later.
Even the man Who admits that he
caught only one hsh may lie about
It's weight
A prude IL sometimes a woman
Who noses around FOR something 10
get shocked A.
And lots ot people seem to 20 10
church for the purpose OF picking
flaws In sermons
Occasionally man succeeds IN
getting In on the ground floor only
70 find that The elevator isn't run.
ming
In a short time after laying aside
her weddjng gown the average bride
begins 10 wonder how she will look
In black
And many young man doesn't
know that he Is in love until the
girl in the case hands him the in
formation in a diplomatic way
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
Blooming Object Lesson

on this mobilization Of tho National Guard ia
going 10 get va a reputation. all right
Now comes the var department and advises
that Ruardsmen. discharged because of tho no
cessity % supporting families. VIII have 10 pay
their own expenses home. since under the reg.
ulatlons ~ tho service this compensation cannot
be allowed And most ~ those cuardsmen arc
several thousand miles away from homo---to
which point they were transported by Uncle Sam
and some without dollar I'm their
pockets
And they arc mustered out because they are
urgently needed al home by destitute women
and children.
great and wise and generous nation. this
OF ours. truly,
But We bet IT, doesn't ever GET any ~ these
men, nor their brothers. nor their sons. nor their
nearest friends 10 shoulder a muske again soon.
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
The Daily Reminder
roDAI~ ANNIyERs,nIrs

1905 - Wellington defeated the
French at battle 90 Rolria.the fret
action Fought by the British In the
leninsular war
$50 e hsrles y. ~ France. retired
lSt0-Natlonal Whig convention
met ~ Nashville. Tenn
StS-Commodpre stockton was
proclaimed governor ot California
iS63-Congrcss ~ German sovrr.
rtEu~ ruut NJ Frankfort n reconstruct
the GermaniC confederation
ls'e- Wendell Phillips was nomln-
ated FOR governor 81 MassAchusetts
By the Prohibition party.
lsi7-Tercenteuhry ~ Peter Paul
Rubsns celebrated at Antwerp.
lSa-John G Brown. noted Cunfed-
crate commando and sx governor 81
Tennessee. died in Red Boiling
Springs. Tenn Rorn in Giles county
Tenn, Jan. s is3T.
lSso-Limited kansas city express
on Missouri PsciHc railroad stopped
hy ghwaymen az Otterviur. No.
and robbed OF $4,000
ls9t-ChArles Robinson. nrst state
governor OF Kansas. died In Law
renee. kas Born IN HardWick Mass.
lsoS-Sorway voted In favor - 4,
dissolution 81 the union With sweden.
lp5-Leo " Frank. convicted o4
the murder ~ Mary rraEAu lp Allan
ca e., ''n'n'd ~ a mob near Marietta
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY ~ THE
WAR
Balkan states reported busy with
war preparations
Italians begin another general as
! sault on Austrian lines
Won MRckensen army cut the
-hoIrn- Rrest Litovsk railway
Esrpelns again rsided English east
| cast killing 10 civilians
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
The Old Gardener Says

II is not too late 10 start a
strawberry bed for next year. but
potted plants must be- used Be.
ing In pots the roots are not dis
turbed by transplanting II care is
taken not 10 break the ball OF
earth around them, and II the
plants are kept well wstered they
will become established In few
weeks. II II well 10 remember
IN choosing varieties that some
kinds have imperfect fowers and
will not bear fruit unless other
kinds with which they can be
cross fortified are planted near
by.
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
WAITING

The man getting his hair cut noticed that tho
BARRIERS dog, which lying On the floor beside
the chair, had his eyes fixed on hIs master al
work
Nice dog. that" said tho customer
lie r., sir +"
He seems very fond Of watching YOU cut
hair"
1T alnt that, air." explainod-tbo barber You
see. sometimes / make q mistake ard snlp of
a bit OF customers ar'-People's Home
Journal
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
Mr.. Tibbets' Vacation
BN Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

Mr.. TibbetS came back 10 his desk af-
ter his vacation and began answering his
letters. His stenographer noticed some
thing strange in him. Stenographcrs
become expert in reading the Indian
signs the vague, unnoticeabe little
things in the man whose mind they tran
scribe daily.
The business Of Tibbets, Meecham e.
Marks roll on. The senior partner had
dropped bN into his rut.
After Il bit affairs at the Tibbcts home
proceeded at the accustomed quiet am
BILE. At first Mrs. Tbbets was worried
Her husband would not tell her where he
had been. Being entirely superficial
Mrs. Tibbets abhorred anything that had
depth, such, for instance, as a mystery
But to all her inquiries Nh. Tibbets re-
piled simply that he had been away on
a vacation. and that he preferred not to
say anything further
! will tell you what Tbbets had been
up TO.
He had been taking a vacation from
oO years of respectabihty
All his life he had been reputable. As
child he was always dressed in clean
clothes watched by careful nurses, and
never allowed 10 play with the ragamuf-
ms. He had been sent 10 a frSt-class
boarding school He had spent four
years at Bowdoin college, and had
emerged therefrom with honors. He
had entered into his fathers business
and taken charge of things when his
father died. He had married a perfectly
respectable girl, and was the father Of
our perfectly respectable children. He
vas vestryman in a perfectly respectable
hurch where he attended every Sunday
and listened 70 a pastor who never made
break. He belonged to three clubs,
aminently respectable He expected when
le died TO be laid away i'm a perfectly
respectable lot in the cemetery the place
vas all picked out
Nobody suspected. but Mr. Tbbets
vas tired Of it: and month ago he
quietly left his handsome home and
took plunge into that other world that
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The Detroit times., 1916-08-17

Whenever you have 10 0pp0rIr
ty let in 'hn sGnasinr % May fade
some Of your carpets it mas han
some dust or spot on fhs 2a' f
nay even make SON Jess rou'tr'a
bic for whsle. HIf b. viii lurn 20
death the germs Of disease.
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17

nothing 10 does
Jess 20 preserve
Yet the fOun
tain ~ youth Is
everywhere about
"a u gives on
the elixirs ~ life
sunshine q % 4
fresh air
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
Clubbing 1t

Des MONIES News IS campaigning 'er a Lonely
Girls club But there's no more reason FOR p-S
M7nes 70 feel lonely than. for Kansas ri'v e.
ledo. Detroit and other girls The Lord always
El'h them. and they can hold each others
-ands
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
Answer TO Query.

Subscriber. 81 Johns. Mich.-In
case ~ defeat for prohibition In the
coming election, counties now dry
would remain dry.
Joseph OLoughlin. No 80 John r.
st-The Queen Elizabeth has not
been sunk In The var.
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
1t Looks As If John and
His Brother, Billy. Would
Have To Change Their Tune

II is like this, to hear John Barley
corn and his little brother, Billy Lager
beer, tell it:
I'VE are indispensable to the commu-
nifty.
without US, society would be unable
to exist.
"Cities would become anaemic, dry up
and blow away.
"We pay the freight of government.
I'VE save money for the taxpayers.
"Only for the revenues derived from
as, the burden of the taxpayer would
be more than he could stand; the indus
tries would fail, the shops would close
and the stores would be forced out Of
business.
"Close the saloons where we hang out
IF YOU DARE-that is the defy Of
John Barleycorn and his little brother
Billy Lagerbeer.
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17

There is nothing man thinks
of as life. and there Is
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
from Another Point OF UeD
By {. I. 5

Bb - d -
The police have clue in the Burroughs
lpay roll robbery. The engine Of the ban
dit car was missing.
We have another clue. So was the pay
roll
No wonder. We have just read that
Russia has 80 grand dukes.
1t may surprise you somewhat to learn.
incidentally. that the per capita wealth
If the United States is $4,000.
Some little concern is expressed be
cause the Deutschland has not been heard
/ from. The idea was, We presume, TO
keep London fully advised.
With our last telephone Bill the com
pany sent along a picture OF its operators
IN foot race at Bots Blanc. The event
is described as a 50-yard dash. That's
exactly what We would like TO use son. =
times when she says Mistake; beg pa
don'-a 50-yard dash.
Inc DtSL OllG VI LI4C4il NpNl't 'A'' W "a
was 20 finish t-h-i-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-d
We note that good old "Tody" Hanjl-
ton. advance agent for Barnum & haley
for an age and known TO every new spapeI
man from coast to coast, mas gone on 10
where he was booked ahead
In the navy it used to be "Yo no. and
a bottle rum" That has been changed
now to hippity-hop and a bottle OF pop
Oh, see the Brave AJAX Behind That Inky
I'm beteha that aside from courts
There's 0nly one male g8s
who Is 90 Fixed that DO can char
And talk back 20 his batter hall
And get 30 safely by
And hes the column building cuss
That leads the easy life.
lie sklds all round bout abstract things.
Like flowers and birds and cows and kings
Then shoots some small stun thrs big
rings
Ard aims 10 a, his wife
Col Hhemwifhp.'.
A former bellhop in Chicago hotel is
now its manager. Bet he can come down
on that bell and yell Front.
The speeches Of Charles f. Hughes
from the west are taken by some 10 indi-
cate that he may eventually break the
silence.
Judge VanZHe expressed the opinion
while he was hearing "A divorce case. that
|quarrelng couples should Immediately
take a hot bath Looks 20 Us Ike a fine
chance 10 start another fight over who
+ is 20 get the first crack at the hot water.
/ A weIl-knovn busineN man on For
est-ave. would like % observe that com
'pletiQn Of the repair job on the Cross
towr line seems 20 be waiting for a car
70 come along that has a seat.
~Irrlra photographic Who aroused the
ire Of John d Rockefeller by attempting
10 get his picture. didn't know. appar-
emily. that gasoline had dropped a cent
1t seems to be up % somebody in au-
I thority. by the way, TO convince the gaso-
line vendors Of the truth ofsthe report
that il has dropped said cent.
What was the last word from Villa?
Or is 1t everybody's misfortune that
he hasn't spoken it?
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17

But let's see!
Let's see what Seattle has to say
about the indispensability of John Bar
leycorn and his little brother, Billy
Lagerbeer.
1t was just seven months ago that
Seattle reached the conclusion that this
pair COULD be dispensed with, and
DISPENSED WITH THEM
And Seattle is still there on the map,
right where it was when it kicked the
pair of strong breaths out, only more
securely.
Seattle stood once upon the sands.
Having banished the booze family, it
stands today upon solid rock.
Was business hurt when John and
Billy were banished from Seattle?
Did any of the industries fail?
Did any of the shops close?
Were any of the merchants forced out
Of business?
This is the answer:
BANK CLEARINGS INCREASED.
The everyday business of the mer-
chant has assumed holiday proportions.
Was Seattle boycotted by outside
towns that sympathized with John and
Billy?
This is the answer TO that:
THE BUSINESS OF WHOLESALE
GROCERS AND DRY GOODS DEAL
Frs HAS INCREASED TO A POINT
Nrr,xyI-I T-lInITlsIIr DnCCJDI
Did the owners of property that was
bringing in rent from saloonkeepers suf-
fer when John and Billy were thrown
out bodily?
They did not.
The buildings that were occupied by
saloonkeepers are now occupied by GRO
Gerry STORES, MEAT MARKETS,
BAKERIES, SHOE STORES, AND DRY
GOODS STORES.
There are only Is empty buildings in
90 downtown blocks where saloons once
Hourished.
II the idea is that courts and a police
force must be maintained by city at a
tremendous expense and heavy burden 70
the taxpayers, then, it would seem, John
Barleycorn and his little brother Billy
Lagerbeer, are QUITE Indispensable
The Seattle record shows that il viii
not be long before the taxpayers will be
saving a whole lot of money.
Arrests for the first six months II
1915 totaled 1882. A corresponding
period this year showed only 5,4il ar
rests. la0
The police blotter showed 2.277 drunk
md disorderly charges for the first half
of 1915: for the same time in 1916, only
1877.
Suicides and homcides have decreased
one-half.
Employers declare that the Monday
The Detroit times., 1916-08-17
YOUR MORNING MAIL

ApONGToh BRUCE
~rsychooSy aud PAsnthood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-27
BY mere CHANCE
Easement Was Discovered by
Strange Turn of Fate.
Farmer Got Up at Daybreak to
Replenish Water Supply.
BY WILBUR S. FORREST.

London, June 27.-Only the fact
that the water supply in the home of
a Kerry county farmer ran out on the
night before Good Friday, led to the
uncovering of Sir Roger Easements
plot to head a rebellion in Ireland.
John Mccarthy, a Curraghane
farmer and the first witness when
Easements trial was resumed today,
revealed that fact.
Mccarthy arose before daylight on
Good Friday morning and discovered
that there was no water in the house.
He went to a well a mile distant. On
his return he saw drifting near shore
the collapsible boat in which Sir
Roger and his confederates had
landed from a German submarine.
Mccarthy testified that he found a
dagger in the boat and noticed the
footprints of three persons in the sand.
His little girl found three pistols mar
by. These discoveries aroused his
suspicious, he said, and he sent one of
his laborers, Patrick Driscoll, to the
nearest barracks to inform the police.
Aiming for Domestic War
Mary German, living on a nearby
farm, told of seeing three men go by
the farmyard shortly after dawn on
Good Friday morning. Easement
as enc of the trio.
Sergt Thomas ]. O'Hearn of the
Irish constabulary, who found Case
ment hiding in an old fort and arrest
ed him, admitted on cross exa NINA
ton that large part of Ireland was
arming in preparation for domestic
war. He said it was common knowl-
edge that large quantities of arms had
been imported into Ulster.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-27
ARE FACE TO FACE
U. s. and Mexican Forces Await
Orders at Ahumada.
Tension at Breaking Point Be-
tween Juarez and Ell PasO.
BY III. II. sTANsBURY.

Ell Pso, Tex, June 27.-General
Pershing's forces are reported to be
within striking distance of General
Trevinos army at Villa Ahumada. The
Mexicans are throwing up earthen
breastworkS in anticipation of an at
tack. The American column is said to
have halted, awaiting such orders as
may follow the reply of First Chief
Carranza to President Wilson's last
ultimatum.
A steady movement of Mexican
troop trains from Chihuahua City to
Villa Ahumada brought reinforce
ments numbering approximately 1000
for the Carranza army.
Tension between, JuareZ and Ell PasO
is still at the breaking point. The
Mexican town has not been evacuated
by General Gonzales as reported. Con-
the civilian army which is supporting
Gen. Francisco Gonzales.
Silence Mexican Guns.
Garcia states that the big buildings,
of which there are several in Ell Paso
which tower above the general sky
line, would be the first targets of the
Mexican artillery in the event of trou-
BILE. General Bell claims the prepon-
derance of artillery is on the Ameri-
can side of the river and has an
nouEced that he could quickly silence
the Mexican batteries.
Inc last OF the Americans in the
Parra1 district have started for the
border. They are employees of the
| Alvarado Mining & Milling company.
| The party is in charge of T. G. Haw-
kins, an official of the company.
| Active preparations are under way
here and at Columbus to receive big
| allotments of militia. Camp sites have
| been chosen at both places and large
force is at work sinking wells for an
! adequate water supply. The first OF
the new troops are expected here with
| in forty-eight hours.
| Forty carloads of supp1ies-every-
| thing from a motor car tire to a can
| of sardines-have arrived at the E.
| Paso yards for distribution to the
| state troops.
| Fourteen carloads of supplies, the
| heaviest shipment yet made to the
American troops in Mexico in a single
| day, left Ell PaSo for Columbus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-27
EXIT MEDIATION
Is Dead Issue Until CarranZa
Makes Answer.
e. S. Attitude Attacked by Dep
uty in Brazil Chamber.

Mexico City, June 27.-Tne charge
that the United States is attempting to
seek d preteXt for intervention in Mex
leo is made by Foreign Secretary Agui-
lar in a message to the Latin-Ameri-
caE republics.
apparently the American govern
ment. without adequate reasons for
declaring war on Mexico, wishes to
make hostilities Inevitable wired the
foreign secretary.
Mexico should win or succumb
with dignity
An earlier communication sent to
the Latin-American republic last night
declared that the United States is con-
centrating forces against the Mexican
border and that war appears newt
able.
THE Mexican people are ready to
defend their sovereignty and indie
pend at any cost of blood and destruc-
ton of their welfare" said the COM
munication. 1.-The Mexican govern
ment firmly believes that the attitude
of the American government is not in
accordance with its friendly protests
to the Pan-American republics, that
the acts against Mexico affect all other
countries of this continent, and direct
ly the friendly ties that bind them at
this moment and should bind them in
the future"
Asks Latin American Support.
Minister jose Luis Murature has re-
ceived a message from Gen. Candida
Aguilar, Mexican minister of foreign
affairs, containing an appeal for the
support of the governments of Latin
America in MeXicoS controversy with
the United States.
General Aguilar asserts the United
States is attempting to maintain 10y
force in weak countries unjust claims
on the part of its citizens. He con-
ore
in Mexico who acquire property after
certain period of time renounce the
protection of their respective coun
tries and governments
Buenos Ayres, June PA lengthy
telegram expressing a war sympathy
forwarded to General Carranza today
following a mass meeting held here
/ last night.
| Several pro-Mexican speeches were
made, the orators charging the ex
istence of an expansionist party in the
United States with designs on al
South America
Foreign Minister Murature has re
ceived a communication from Foreign
: Secretary Aguilar of Mexico. intimatine
| that President Wilson's decision to pur
sue a strong policy toward Mexico /:
| only for political purposes.
South American governments con
Ptinue to exchange messages with refer
ences to mediation proposals. It wa
semiofficially limited today that SOM
| diplomats are verging on the over
Jealous in moving for mediation. Ger
| tain smaller governments are also &C
| cused of indiscreet interference
| Urge He Release Prisoners.
| Washington, June 27.-Severa
lLatin-American diplomats in Washing
ton have telegraphed General Car
rama urging release of seventeen
/ American troopers held prisoners a
chihuahua City, it was learned today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-27
U-BOAT SINKS z
British and French Steamers
Victims of TOrpedOes.
Lake Steamer Loaded With
Wheat Down in Collision.

Marseilles, June 27.-The French
steamer Fournel and the English
steamer Cardiff have been sunk by
submarine in the Mediterranean. The
French steamer Vile de Madrid, with
fifty-two passengers on board, was
pursued and cannonaded by a sub
marine but escaped.
The Fournel was vessel of 2,O47
tons built in Glasgow in 1880. There
are two British steamers named Car
diff one of 2,8OS tons and the other a
trawler. The larger boat had been
engaged in the transatlantic trade
and was last reported on her way to
Sydney.
Lake Steamer Sinks.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, June FL
In collision in a dense fog last night
late with The steamer Hill of the
Pittsburg Stea mship company the
steamer Panther owned by the Mas
sey Steamship company, was sunk
abreast of Partisan Island after her
crew had been rescued by the Hill.
The Panther was downbound with a
cargo of wheat.