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The Detroit times., 1916-05-20
RESCUED FROM EPICURES

Miss Marie Sackow. Of Newton. Kas. and
three other missionaries to Liberia, were res.
cued I'm December from death AT the hands Of
cannibals by the United States scout cruiser
Chester On account OF economic conditions
natives among whom the missionaries had been
working returned to their former canniba prac-
tices The missionaries were I'm great danger
since the cannibals prefer the meat OF white
persons rather than black. The missionaries
had been stationed at Jacktown, Liberia, and
managed TO make their way TO Greenvillc but
could not get n boat 10 carry them 10 Monroyia
News OF the disturbances carried TO Mon.
rovia by native runners. Shortly after the mis-.
slonaries reached Greenvllle the American scout
cruiser steamed into the bay, landed 200 natiye
soldiers. and took the missionaries on board
Christian Herald.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-20
A Poem a Day
Ir SHOULD EVER BE A KING.

IL | should ever be King
Id mingie with the crowd.
And In the highways OF the land
woul proclaim aloud
The majesty supreme OF law.
Cnwritten or in tome,
The solidarity OF life.
The sanctity OF home.
II should ever be n King
No iron heel OF wrong
should stifc In the humblest child
The voice Of Joy and song
Id batter down the prison walls
That hold the souls OF men.
That they might tread the plains
and hills
or liberty again.
II 7 should ever be a King,
j would not wear a crown.
I'd seek with hand OF sympathy
The fellows out and down.
With courage In my look and tone.
Id whisper In the ear
OF every son OF poverty
word OF hope and cheer.
II should ever be King.
I'D open wide the door
or opportunity TO all
The rich as well as poor.
I'd teach the miserly 10 give.
The cruel To he kind,
And use my utmost powers TO break
The shackles OF the mind.
II should ever be King
I'd raise the standard high
or honesty in heart and life.
And Loves supremacy.
I'd teach the bards OF pen and brush,
The guild Of hoe and hod.
The sacred brotherhood of man.
The Fatherland OF God.
-. NJ CavanesE
The Detroit times., 1916-05-20
The Shanbles Bureau.

To the Editor of The Times:
Shambles & Co, humbly present
the following plea. in connection
with the preparedness parades
which the spring weather is so gen.
erously indorsing:
WANTED. O0O. 600 men and boys.
for cannon fodder Ia the Old World,
10 be shot bavonetted. disembowled
blown 10 shreds. pierced with aerial
arrows, drowned, ma med. dismem
bered blinded, burned. starved. be-
headed and otherwise disposed OF for
tho purpose of prolonginR the war.
until the forces of democracy can be
beaten into subnission by the forces
and We need YOU now. n you do
not assist. We will he forced 20 end
tho war In compromise.
our preparedness" subterfuge can
not longer uislcah the American
people. 49, 70 did tho other nations
our special session for congress
and billion dollar war-sppropriation
nnoSeU1ents failed.
our iarg" armament plans have
failed most conspicuousIy and now
we want you 10 know the Truth. We
are after YOU. We arc In the sham
bios huriuess Give us assistance
alone
War means profit IN the munitions
concerns Civilization is founded
upon force. az the Navy League OF
Washington will assure you.
War benefits the surgeons. specula-
tors and undcrtskers. when the vic
Tins can be recovered from the
slaughter pen. War IL boon "a
lingo editors and to defunct poiiti.
clans. Old type defense plants boom
for Immediate preparation. Do
not be molly -coddle like Roose-
Welt Re an open-minded. above
board agltstor. who delights IN red
blood. such as do Shambles A. Co.
G. Y. PARSONS.
Detroit, May 1s, 1916.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-20
From Another Point OF NeD

The Colonel asked to have it made
plain that he did not invite himself to
an interview with Henry Ford. The con-
trary impression got out, no doubt, be-
cause the Colonel is SO very often a self
starter.
There were only dozen or so boy
scouts to address, but enough for a
speech to introduce a warning against
being mollycoddles.
As we understand Mr.. Roosevelt.
Hughie Jennings took his Tigers down
south for preparedness. Up to the time
MIR. Roosevelt spoke, we hadn't noticed
it.
If there are any sore spots on the Col
onel for the manner in which he was
treated by the Old Guard in Chicago,
we did not notice them.
| And if there are any sore spots on the
| Old Guard over the fact that the Colonel
helped Mr.. Wilson beat Mr. Taft, they
we're not noticeable, either.
"De-lightedv he told them at the
train. He is still hitting on all twelve
cylinders.
;. The photo Of CIRCUIT Judge Murph,
in the carriage with the Colonel did mo-
show the judge presenting the Colone
with a bouquet for some things the Col
onel has had TO say about the recall o
Judicial decisions.
The more he got to thinking about il
the more Mr.. Roosevelt seems TO hav,
become convinced that he should hav,
had some opinion concerning Belgium il
the first place.
]
However we presume he noticed th'
signs proclaimng the fact to the Who'll,
world that gasoline here is 20 cents tht
gal.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-20
NOTICE.
~ DIR. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1916. by Frank Crane)

If there happens to be one typograph-
ical error in this article you will notice
it, and you will not reflect on how re-
markable it is that the typesetter got all
the rest of the letters right
If pretty girl puts little piece Of
court plaster on her cheek your eye will
go right to- that spot, as dotted line in
the comic pictures.
If you have tooth missing from the
front row my attention will be fixed on
the gap; all the perfectly good teeth are
nothing to me.
The human mind is attracted to the
thing that is wrong. In the arena Of
human interest the man that is out Of
order has the floor.
There may be thousand WE'LL
behaved dogs in town, but it is the mad
dog that draws the crowd.
1t is the squalling baby in the family
that attracts attention.
The young man with a spotted past is
far more fascinating to the young ladies
than the youth who has remained decent
and saved his money.
A little scandal is highly valuable to
the press agent of the prima donna.
We all gaze at cannon being trun-
died through the streets, for it is to kill;
but who would stop and look at bread
wagon, which is only to feed people?
Newspapers collect the crimes of the
community for our delectation. We love
the unusual. 1t is compliment to hu-
man nature, for it shows that 1t is usuai
for people to behave themselves.
In totally wicked world, as the stom-
ach ache school of poets would have US
believe this world to be, the man who did
right one day would be featured on the
first page.
FauItfinding, carping. hostile criticism,
sneers, and denunciations are vastly
more diverting than appreciation and
praise.
Doubtless Benedict Arnold in his little|
day caused more and hotter tongue wag-
ging than George Washington.
'Tis a mad world!
have sore finger. ] have some
seven million or so other nerves. glands,
ducts, ganglia. and things on and IN my
person. but the sore finger is all cam
think about
So in the body polite it is easy enough
for any one to get in the 4 pot-light.
Simply do something indecent or crimi-
nal. and the stage is yours. And we all
love to be noticed. Perhaps this is theI
cause of deal Of the crime. 1t is mott
that we want to be bad, but that wei
want 20 bet.
By the way, there's a hole in yourI
stocking.
And there's fleck of bad English inl
my next line.
Funny, amt it?
The Detroit times., 1916-05-20
FARM CLEANUP DAY SUGGESTED

Here is another thought: Some one has sug.
gested that we have farm cleanup day" the
same az we have in towns and cities. That is al
good idea. for there are many farms scattered
throughout the country which need "dresslng ID
up" bit just the same that residence property
I'm town needs overhaulng Look over vour
plantation. IN YOU happen 10 have one and try
10 make u as attractive as possible: n will be al
source Of pride to you, and will be an advertise
ment Of your place that YOU could not hope FOL
gain otherwise. e.-Lufkin (Tex) News.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-20
The Old Gardener Says

That Shirley poppies are at
home anywhere in the garden
and are worth planting freely,
especially as there are many new
sorts. II the flowers are cut in
the morning just as they are be
ginning to open and the stems
then thrust Immediately into half
an inch of boiling water for two
minutes, afterward being trans
fcrred TO cold water. they will
keep for several days. The large
blossoms look like crinkled satin
and make exceedingly beautiful
bouquets.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-20

TO the Editor of The Times:
admire your clean, valuable pa
per. and am not ashamed to have
my family read It's pages which are
free from unwholesome ads.
NJ. CUMMINGS.
Bad Axe. Mich, May II. 1916.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-20

Small Harry had been whipped by
his father for telling a falsehood. and
he ran 10 his mother for consolation.
why. never told falsehood
when WAS your age" said his
mother
when did you begin. mamma?'
a. ked the. little fellow.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-20
Then COntented Citizens
Went Home and Asked:
Preparedness? What FOr?'

went Home anu ASkeu'
Preparedness? What For?'
Theodore Roosevelt has been here and
made few speeches, in all of which ne
said exactly what it was to be expected
he would say.
None of these speeches was remark
able for the unexpected.
Furthermore. he did not say that
which it was to be expected he would
Ieave unsaid.
He did not explain, for one thing, what
6 detained some conclusions of his which,
apparently, have just arrived.
He told the boy scouts to be ASHAMED
y " Be mollycoddles."
He told the opponents of preparedness
that they are "copperheads.
Could there be anything more Roose-
seltian than that?
And the rest that he said simply am
paifed these two speeches.
The Roosevelt visit was an exhibit
i Hon Of temperament-a "two gun" tenn
4 apeFamentr and test of temperament
~ lust how well the most prosperous.
4 1nost contented, most peaceable people OF
I ks most prosperous and the fastest
6rowing city in the world could keep
their heads in the face of what was so
paIpably an appeal to their passions.
@ Il Detroit is anything it is American,
Z clsar 70 the dividing line out in the
river.
Theodore Roosevelt knows the blood
and knows what will warm it and stir it.
He used all of his cunning while ne
was here, but it did not avail.
II Detroit is anything, it is patriotic.
But there is different understanding
y 81 what constitutes patriotism and the
potriotism of some is beyond the under
Standing of man like Theodore Roose-
volt.
The brand of patriotism which Theo-
dore Roosevelt cannot understand was
given expression here recently by the
votes of the great majority of Detroiters
for Henry Ford.
Theodore Roosevelt cannot understand
! patriotism that doesn't carry a six
! shooter in its hip pocket, is positive
there can be no patriotism unless it is
capable of shaking its fist under the 9TH
Y q fellows nose, threatening to lick the
stufhng out of him, and is positive that
4 those whom he cannot understand are
3 mistaken because HE cannot understand
them, and is just as positive that they
are weaklings and towards.
These are the terms he has applied to
those with whom he disagrees; these
are the terms he came to apply to the
b great majority of Detroiters who voted
( for Henry Ford, pacifist. the man who is
kind to the birds and to his workingmer
and who does not believe it is right that
d men should kill each other to settle fol
nations the disputes that courts settle
\ Tor individuals.
81 It Is fitting here to turn to the reasol
& Why Theodore Roosevelt came to De
/ stroit to convert the pacifist from tn
s uatxiotism of the thinking, the country
# tgjn9 and the home-loving, to the pa
iotjsm Of the savage, which Indian
foosed with paint and by dancin
ut while aving5dEipping scalps.
c11nl for which preparedness spell
was given an awful jolt il
\ &1&xtno following the vote for Henr
\ IA 81 Michigan and Nebraska whel
- Republican representation in tn
- party IN congress- was found to hav
>ed serious detection.
roposaI TO increase our regula
900 men was defeated tn
80 4 ~ = !.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
Favor Pari-Mutuels.

Charles W. Clark, son of W. A.
Clark, and formerly a well known re-
sldent of Montana, president of the
Golden Gate Thoroughbred Breeders
association, is out in a statement to
the effect that the organization which
he represents will ask the California
Legislature to enact a law which will
permit of the pari-mutuel form of bet
ting at race meets. Mr.. Clark says
horsemen of California are a unit in
favor of the measure, claiming that
it furnishes the greatest incentive for
the breeding of good stock, and that
the pari-mutuel system being me-
chanical, eliminates the "tout'' and
race track manipulation.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
AGRICULTURAL STATES
BUYING AUTOMOBILES
MORE CARS BEING SOLD IN
THE MIDDLE WEST THAN
EVER BEFORE. .

New York.-P. J. Colhoun, general
sales agent of Quaker City Rubber
company, returned from a western
trip where he has been compiling sta
tistics regarding growth in automobile
business, says: "More cars are now
being sold in the middle west than
ever before. Sale Of ears thus far
this year in Indiana has been 100 per
cent greater than 1914. In Iowa one
person in 21-about five per cent
owns on automobile. In California
the ratio is one in 23-about Az per
cent-and in Nebraska one in 25, or
exactly 4 per cent. In the three states
mentioned one family out of every
five or six has an automobile.
"Tn Kansas 10000 ears were sold
in less than six months, and the
strange part of the business is that
th~ree-fourths of new cars sold this
year have been DISPOSED of in agricul'
tural states"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
METZ DEALER WILL use
BUTTE HEADQUARTERS
q
B. e. SCEARCE WILL DISTRIB-
UTE POPULAR CAR IN
MONTANA-IDAHO

B. E. Scarce, factory representa-
tive of the Metz Motorcar company,
handling the territory of Montana and
Idaho, has opened headquarters in
Butte and will make the mining city
the center of distribution of the cars
for the two states. At present Mr..
Scarce may be reached by addressing
postoffice box No. 287.
The Metz line for 1917 includes
seven models. Specifications include
Gray & Davis two-unit starting and
lighting system, Willard battery,
Dixie magnetic, shock absorbers, one
man top, speedometer, gasoline guage,
deep upholstery, a wheel vas of Jos
inches and a horsepower rating OF 20
S. A. E.
Mr.. Scarce is said to be a live wire
in the auto distribution game and
he will probably not be as scarce as
his name would indicate.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
PRES-0-VACUUM BRAKE
Is NEW CONVENIENCE
ENABLES MOTORIST TO BRING
HIS CAR TO A GRAD
UAL STOP.

The Prest-O-Lite company, makers
of the Prest-O-Lite storage battery
and the Prest-O-Li gas tank, have
developed and placed on the market a
"self-stopper," which they have just
announced.
This latest automobile convenience
is a C u brake which enables the
motorist to bring his car to a gradual
stop with ease and smoothness, or to
stop it instantly with a minimum Of
personal effort.
The name of the new Prest-O-Lite
"self-stopper" is the Prest-O-Vac-
uum Brake. 1t is a device of few
parts and can be used on any make
or model Of car, large or small, having
the ordinary foot brake.
There is some similarity in the ac-
ton of the new vacuum brake and the
air brake systems on present-day rail
way trains, because both employ the
same sort Of cylinder and piston, con
nected to the brake rods. But there
is this important difference, that the
vacuum brake operates wholly by the
normal suction Of the engine, employ.
ing no air compressor and no all
storage tank.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
MILK RIVER ORGANIZES
TO GROW SUGAR BETS
MILK RIVER VALLEY DEvEL-
OPMENT LEAGUE TO BE
FORMED SHORTLY.

Delegates from all towns along the
Milk river will meet in Malta at an
early date for the purpose Of organic
ing the Milk River Valley Develop
ment League, the purpose of which is
to induce farmers to plant a large
acreage to alfalfa so as to prepare the
ground for sugar beets, admittedly the
most prosperous crop that can be
grown on irrigated land. The Malta
Commercial club is back Of the idea.
and a number of towns of the dis
trict are cooperating with the organ
ization.
The towns Interested in the league
stretch from Chinook to Nashua, and
the movement is inspired by the pos
sibility of the construction of a sugar
beet factory somewhere in the Milk
river country. Tests OF the soil are
said to indicate it's adaptability tc
sugar beet culture. =
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
MOTORING NEWS OF THE WEEK
One Out of Euery Fifteen
Motor Vehicles Exported

One-fifteenth Of the motor vehicles
made in the United States during the
last fiscal year were exported; seven
ty-eight different countries bought au-
tomobiles of American manufacturers;
the value of the ears shipped abroad
amounted to $100,25S,22O; this is one
tenth Of the gross value of the total
output-these facts give some idea of
the volume of the export business of
American auto manufacturers. The
statistics are taken from a report is
sued last week by the department of
commerce.
The total number Of motor vehicles
exported during the last fiscal year
was S0,65S. There were shipped to
foreign countries, not including Amer
lean possessions, 21,265s acommercial
vehicles valued at $56,805,549, and
56,234 passenger cars valued at $40,-
$3.50, 1858. England, France and Russia
took nearly all of the trucks, 19,02S,
and nearly %one-quarter of the passen-
ger ears, 13,94S, or, in all, two-thirds
of the total value of the exports. The
Philippine islands and the American
possessions, Alaska, Hawaii and Por-
to Rico, received 4,4SS motor vehicles.
worth So, 740,145. Among the IS diff
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
TO DISCUSS
MARKETS AT BOHEMIAN
CONVENTION WILL BE HELD
IN JANUARY; EXPERTS TO
MAKE SELLING EASY.

All phases of the farm market will
be discussed at a farmers convention
which will be held in Bozeman, Jan
uary % to 81: Livestock, grain, farm
credit, produce, fruit and all that the
farmer sells will be discussed, and
some plan of selling which may elm
mate the middleman may be evolved.
The farmers r expecting that some
ideas of value will be developed. Men
who r experts in marketing prob
lens will address the convention, a
specialist dealing with each subject.
Among those who will take an active
part in this important convention will
be Hon. Carl Schurtz Vrooman, assist
ant secretary of agriculture; Chancel-
lor Edward Charles Elliott, University
of Montana; Hon. A. E. De Ricqles,
Denver, secretary National Livestock
association; Miss Mary P. Rausch, Sc
attic, Washington, University : of
Washington; Hans Mendelson, Den
yer, Great Western Sugar company
President j. M. Hamilton Montana
State college; Charles J. Brand, Wash
ington, d. c., office of markets; W. L.
Beers, Big Sandy, Montana, organizer
Fla mers' Elevator company.
1t is proposed to take up n of the
important marketing activities of the
farm daily during the week: Live
stock, grain, farm credit, dairy, pro-
duce and fruit, when the farmers
wife goes to market. For each SUBJ
ject professional and expert instruc-
ton will be secured, and there will
also be a strong back ground Of actual
Montana marketing experience.
Conventions Of farmers organize
tons will be held in Bozeman during
the week or just before or after the
market conference.
Farmers week Of the college will
be coincident with its short courses
of instruction. These farmers short
courses will be scheduled at hours
not conflicting with the market con-
vention, and will include courses in
farm crops, livestock, potato and gar
den culture, beekeep1ng, poultry,
dairy. There will be the strongest
and best course for home-making for
farm women ever given in Montana.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
COURT ORDER CHANGES
SATURDAY TO SUNDAY
LITIGANT HAD RELIGIOUS
SCRUPLES AGAINST SATUR-
DAY WORK.

1t isn't often that anything of a
humorous nature creeps into the rec
ords of any probate court, where all
matters whatsoever pertaining to
wills, estates, trusts, guardianship,
etc., IRE settled. Occasionally, how
ever, there is something that brings a
smile.
Application was made before Judge
Jere B. Leslie, in the district court of
Cascade county, for letters of guard
ianship in connection with an estate
involving minors. The court was about
to set the following Saturday for the
hearing, when the applicant, a wom-
an, stated that she belonged to a
church which did not believe in work
ing on Saturdays and asked for a
hearing on Sunday. The court there
upon made the following order:
"In the matter of the estate of
Andrew J. Lofgren and Jennie Lof-
gren, minors, such applicant for the
issuance of letters of guardianship by
her counsel having appeared and rep
resented to the court that such appli-
cant entertains religious scruples
against the doing of secular work on
Saturday, and the court being equally
scrupulous about doing secular work
on Sunday, it is hereby ordered that
the hearing of such application be, and
the same hereby is, continued until
Monday"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
WILLIS OVERLAND IS
MAKING HUGE SALES

Boston.-President WHY'S of Will
lys-Overland company says: "During
the II months ending September 80.
1916, we sold 174,273 Overland and
Willys-Knight cars-a volume of bust,
ness totaling almost 800, 0OO, 900. This
compares with 1895 ears from Sep,
TENDER. 30, 1914, to September 80.
1915, or a total volume of business OF
more than $4,000, 000.
SIN spite of meager shipping facil,
tiles we have been able to export this
season as many ears as we sent abroad
during all the preceding years."
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17

ferent countries to which motor vehi-
Giles were sent are Rumania, Switzer-
land, Serbia, the Azores, Madagascar,
French Africa, Tasmania, Korea, Pa
raguay, Guianas, Nicaragua, Haiti and
the Danish West Indies. Nearly 80
per cent of all the automobile exports
were taken by II countries, as follows :
England, France, Russia, Canada,
Australia and Tasmania, Cuba, New
Zealand, Argentina, British South At
rica, British India, Philippines, and
Dutch East Indies.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
CHALMERS

Boston.-That the period of auto
mobile promotion and reorganization
has not run its course is the deduction
to be drawn from the refinancing of
the prospective reorganization at an
early date of the Chalmers Motor COM
pany. 1t is understood that a bank,
ing syndicate headed by C.. d. Barney
& Company, and j. S. Baehe & Com
pany have completed arrangements ia
finance the Chalmers company. Pres.
ent company has outstanding $4,000.
600 common and $1,457, 900 preferred
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
THE WORLD IN BRIEF

able without security, England is pre-
pared to form a new pool with Rus
sla and France to send $1,000, 000, 900
to the United States. The latter coun-
tries have hesitated because their note
circulation is based on their gold re-
serve. 1t is now agreed to form a new
pool for sending gold here if England
will agree to demonetize gold. This
is, indeed, a serious problem for the
United States, demanding quick ac-
tiOn.D
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
Hooray!

Miss America Wilson, of Thurn-
mond, W. Va, has joined the Club.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-17
WEAR
A TRUSS!
After Thirty Years Experience ]
Have Produced An Appliance for
Men, Women or Children That
Cures Rupture.
I Send It On Trial.

Z NoHU ~ OH 414dI'
II you have tried most everything else,
come to me. Where others fail Is where !
have my greatest success. Send attached