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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08
Of Course the Reforms
For Detroit Carried-It Was
An Unbeatable Lineup

That the people Of Detroit should have
voted as they did on Tuesday. in favor
of the charter reforms submitted to them,
is not remarkable
1t would have been remarkable if they
had failed to support the measures sub
mitted to them.
Detroit has grown and has passed up
thru the list of cities until it is now
fourth IN POPULATION. but today. in
the matter of the government it lags
far behind cities so small that they DO not
count in the race for numbers.
We have given ourselves a fine start ln
the direction Of more conspicuous place
among the cities as q municipality aim
ing for a high average in efficiency and
for a more heathful growth.
Our first advantage will lie in smaller
common council, for which We have voted,
because from a smaller common council
we are bound to receive better repre-.
sentation of the city's Interests as a
whole.
This step should have been taken many
moons ago and civic conditions would
today reflect It's advantages, but il IS bet
ter late than never, and we will have 10
wait a short time before We can ENJOY
the great benefits that will come from
the elimination of cheap ward politics in
the council, the same as they have come
thru our smaller school board.
That those citizens who voted were in
any way half-hearted in the rebuke they
administered to the present system of
representation in the common council. or.
rather, the lack Of any such thing. is re-
futed in the vote by which they wen,
the limit and expressed themselves IN
favor Of nine-mn common council. "a
be elected at large
\ Once our \charter provides for Chi.
happy state of government I'm Detroit
We should go forward with a bound TO IN,
goal that is set by the slogan or the sea
of the city I'VE hope for better
things"
The happy result of our local election
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08
Pointed Paragraphs

A klss returned ls kiss earned
ANY man has TOO r'neh MONEY
who has more than We have
Success WI, 80 a block oar of its
way fo dodge q lazy man
speatina % women complexion
scsug isn't always believing
A man may pocket HIS pride. bu
toma has 20 conceal hers else
abere
us easy ~ appreciate ne points
~ sermon ~hon they iah the other
fellow
Some mon attempt ia practice
what they preach bur they soon ger
uut ~ De practice.
untU cupid RECEIVERS his sight
aaafraee wil continue 90 be more
n Joss of failure
So wonder The Was oi me Tau
rressor hard whom ono consider
the moun ~ trptel thereon
m ines ~ peace prepare for
var. gofed bc Young man Who
hsa mi squsndred lof OF H@
tard earned DIN on an engagement
rnE
~ 4 man e safiaaed 70 make bofb
ends meet no. "a SIRE 20 have a wife
wb0 thinks he ought 20 make them
iap over
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08

fbrm ere suffering % seems almost
incredible tnai e5 pcr cent az fhe
"a winch come 10 %cuillg arc
hor6ly va he'd disiufpc "a. and
'rard from rruin before fhpv are
taicn 30 their wards And yot fhis
ear .s acc00pl he'd thanh --fu an
Ingenious apparatus which looks Ike
cradle suspended over Tho barh
very quickly without undue pain
and With tho greatest 900 ibie ino
1f both io The patient and The hos
W'al generally
and ass % begins 30 tho patlents
fa E0rs on WhenpVe hi conG'
on permits it. be- has Dis bah u
uof 600 ordinary bath solution
10 cam 1r jstclie IN ihe water Tor
Instance has proved go effective
chat man whose injuries wOuiI
eem to prohibit anything more
hsn an old fashioned Blanket bath
cau be- washed in fun state 20 me
Improvement 90 hts general couh
lion and lhe WOUND l.eif
"The same determnedly cleausing
.r.rif hH srf- - zeal ou the wards
which With two exception are rn
uFfsliy small averaging ~ beds.
There Hehfnese everywhere
Therr ferHns ~ space and
GecHoW nd Wu absence az h'istie
WIr. with fhe white walls and tho
white uniforms uf The nursre and
orderiir- and The general quiet one
feels oneself in land ~ peace and
he shtninel. Immaculate
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08
New Verses For America

America" IS song We al love.
From our earliest days in school We
have been taught to sing it, It is part
Of our youth-time memories. The fact
that We share It's tune with British. who
use it for God save the King" has
never bothered Us
And that makes very apropos a sug-
gestion recently advanced by Lord Aber-
deem. He says in Canada it is now the
fashion to add another set of verses 10
the English anthem and points out this
same set might well be added to our
America.
The verses express the hopes of all of
US. and might we'll be committed to mem
DRY and sung the next time America"
is announced in any patriotic American
assembly:
God bless our splendid men
Send them safe home again
God save our men
Happr and glorious
baGutieas and chIyalrous
Winners % freedom.
God save 0ur men
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08
Signed: Cosmopolitan
New York, For the United
States of America"

If there has been any doubt IN the
mind Of Kaiser Wilhelm II, of Germany
about what the real temper of the Amer
lean people is. on as 10 how closely and
solidly they stand behind President vii
son. there ought not to be al his writ
ing. if word has been broken to him OF
how his allies in this country Jared M
the election Of Tuesday
If he mas the returns from New York
ut hand he knows how badly tillQut,
peace Immediately candidate HIS, the
KAISER'S candidate was repudiated.
If he has the returns from ONO at
hand. he knows that Cleveland Dayton
Toledo, Akron and other cities took aim
at peace Immediately" candidates Tor
mayor, running on the Socialist ticket
and inviting an expression of The senti-
ment of the voters, and got their men
These were candidates designed to
give aid and comfort TO the Hohenzol-
Tern family and the Hohenzolern family
Is entitled to all the aid and comfor. II
gets out of the returns.
New York City, with its large repre-
sentation of foreign-born and recently
made citizens. was the scene OF tremen- I
dous effort put forth by radicals un-
swerved in their traitorous purpose by
advices, within a week, of the spilling
of American blood on the firing line in
France.
By votes Of those counted upon 70 be
more or less ignorant Of the country
purposes in a declaration of war against
or involving nations whence they came /
it was hoped to discredit the Washing I
ton administration, but the PLOT failed. |
They would have signaled 10 Berlin
Look and take heart"
But it is a doleful message that they 1
send in the news that carries the result /
of the voting
1t is written in the Kaiser's own blood 4
in the hand of those whom he once num-
bered among his own, but who have
tasted democracy and are willing to fight 4
for more.
It reads
.NO IMMEDIATE PEACE. NO 4
PEACE WHILE THERE EXISTS. ANY
WHERE, AN AUTOCRACY. NO
PEACE UNTIL THE CRIME OF BEL
GUM, THE MURDER or EDITH
CAyELL AND OF OTHER INNO-
CENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAS
BEEN AVENGED. NO PEACE WITH
OUT VICTORY"
Signed:
"COSMOPOLITAN NEW YORK, for
the UNITED STATES or AMERICA"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08
The Decentifying
Function of Money
BY OR. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. hy Frank Cranel

OF course, people with money are not
better than people without, "a poor but
honest fellow is as good as millionaire,
money does not mean virtue or intell-
gence OF manners a mans man for a
that. and so ON and forth.
Still
1t Is curious but undeniable fact that
money is TO a certain extent and i'm many
actual instances about the best ready
to-hand gauga Of dirt
There's no denying moneys deccnti-
flying function
Decentitying is brand new word.
have Just maze 1t myself beNause in the
place where it ought to bee in the die
uonary there is a hole To decentify is
from decent and ry; fl means to make.
and hence to decentfy means to make
decent, Lots OF people. for instance, are
decent enough, bat are not decentifca-
ciouS, that is. they are not the cause of
decency IN others
Money is sometimes dirty. It is used
10 bllbe, tempt and corrupt Also TO tip.
But in certain conJunctious il is decenti-
flying.
For instance, il is ten to one that if
YOU pay 500 q month for your flat it will
be IN cleaner neighborhood have better
wall paper and more bathtubs and
kitchen with more windows than fiat
you pay $50 for. Why. | don't know.
Soap, am, water and sun are cheap, but
somehow YOU don't get them in an apart
ment unless YOU pay money
a hotel, for some reason, is cleaner
and less smelly when it charges So a day
than when il charges 10 cents a bed for
the night
When YOU go to a restaurant and pay
Sl.35 for a plate OF chicken salad, why
IS 1t that YOU set clean napkins and reem
TO breathe and an attentive waiter. while
if you pay - cents the napkins are pa
per or absent the air is close and the
plate is mcked?
Why does a free show nh up with lot
of rowdies, and a show that costs $3.50
admission have an audience Of quiet,
well-behaved people?
Why does an automobile within the
reach of your pocketbook rattle and
bump and squeak and fall apart, and why
is it that you get one that will go along
as a good automobile should only when
you mortgage the farm to buy it?
Couldn't they screw the nuts tight on the
cheap one?
Why is a hired girl slovenly at SO a
week and neat and efficient at SO? And
why does a stenographer spell correctly
only when she passes the $l5 a week
level? And why does suit Of clothes
fit at 500 and bag at SIS?
What means this? After cursing
money for five thousand years steadily.
must we be compelled after all, to ac-
knowledge that it represents certain de-
sirable things, and somehow implies the
presumably unpurchasable commodities
Of air space, sunshine, cleanliness and
poiteness?
Why this Observation-Disclosures?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08
Enemies of Efficiency
~ ". AnnINcroN nUI'CE
Agthor ~ ~rhe Riddle OF nefson-
iatttv psychology and
partuthuod. etc

FnI.ncy hs- many eutrOr,.
arpIf md small one OF the worst
i. envy Another i- discculeri a
Ihrt or special potency 0. Nouy
rhou-ahi, ol men sre neli hte
r iheu chosen cdiling~ cor no other
ra-ou than lhu they are cut ou-
sud Disconnected.
WISH were I'm John Jones
hoes thDN Sass 90 thcmselYs.. with
reference GA some fellow worker 90
fom thes are ia subordinate po.
81 .aa -!4-a gets iar more pay man
i.aD aud ut7 u Gar oasit- lob
"iic i0o-n have to come grub
hfT- down trrc ihc hrst thing in th,
morning Whom hc d1c~-e e in au
lc bts io Co d. to so az desF and
e.tr orders. While have to SLAVE,
,l fat
li ISN'T fair I'm mst as clever
hr Par hey boos him alopg
uu mover give me chance
rhr meufaI attitude thus yoiced
X indeed uanserous one Tho not
tu hohu ionos it i, dangerous to
the men Who ar" euv.ous of John
laa- Jcd -c0nienfed 80 their oWB
Hnr ot promotion
uls to nAhe thcm. conscious
lt or unroneclou~iv. careless at ihelr
sork deadens whatever fiule iu
fstr-f aey may previously have had
fer 1elr work
ANA Aork done without no stjm
ume of ntersst is WORK That is
prrttr suf. fo be badly done
Btie- their envy and discomfort
arc aoaHd o ancc in Some degree
thfIr nnN-lstl health d.. In adds
mn they wnrry over ibe sloNness
Nllh WhNa fhey are progressing lhe
equ@n to thair health niay bc
dauhlv serious
Tog envy discomfort and worry
arc a.. tgult rc.-cn- as are SITS ch
nIre arsenic and prussic acid
Thrg danee me workings ot
every hods orcan fhe circulation
81 tte blood the digestion ~ food
tfr elimination ~ tAc waste prod
urts ~ digestion
ASIA sul 81 becomes increasing
t dl@cu,t to 81 ork any hlsh lr D
~ rW ancy untu soon or late fhe
enVloHS. DISCONTINUED worrying ones
WUl have real occasion 20 wonder.
nor xhen hey viii be- promoted tu
Bow long hay Wlll be permitted lo
hold 'heit Jobs
SLOW different the outcome would
o. II p sensible menfal attitude
werr adopted. Z those who are f0ni
tshly enyiols woald only tell Them
selves
John Jones has boen promotes
fa-ter than !. and there must be- q
good reason for u
Perhaps I have not worked quite
as faithfully as he Perhaps D.
has discovered secret ol success
which have overlooked
70 mus study b.s personality and
Is methods n am missing any
fh!re that would b. 10 ms advan
age certainly ought 20 nnd oit
ahsf If is
Meantime can only eonEratu
ata Iohn Ione and wish Dim con
rnued good fortune. while J Sef to
work fo eln promotion mNs"lf
An attitude slfh as this abso-
ntply free from lhe noxlous ingrr
clients ~ envy. discomfort and worrT
Is ono that Will help 10 raise. not
lower the level or eg@tncT
And fhe higher the efficiency Level
fan be- raisnd The greater 'he ~
Wards az labor are sur. in b. This
s.. truth which require no demo
srraiio
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08

~ money on that house Of yours remarked the
ncirlbur
.Yog." wa. tho reply %" want 20 make The
place thoroughly NJ home fog gentleman
"Oh then Fou maan To- let N do you?'
tboughfl-ssiy burttd oui the inquirer
why. Thomas what ere Won homo for7' ask.
I'd tho BOYS father ~ isn1 holiday time is
NO replied Thomas look
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08

chased very attractive rural
sifo in mo suburbs whereon fo
build a home betting bis
means
Tho building Operations wore
300 fui swing when orc day "a
nnirhbor noticed thc owner su
prrlufcuding Tho work with
considerable pride
q see YOU arc spcndlng - lot
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08

inc round the place
~ thought you were not COM
ms home until The end ~ The
term ,"
Changed my mind. was the
reply Of the Young hopeful
And I'm not going back.
either
not going back! Whv, how's
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08
Laugh With Us

self made man had accumulated cons ider.
able amount Of wealth q successful building
cheay At The bcnc.t 81 HE wife. he had pur
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08
From Another Pomtof NeU
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49, e: "y
I'i'c az lall4iis 20 liiii q Cibe lfl our latest
sldglng mystery.
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Going over. Nav a.k are +h1rs rsre.
on in Wind .or2 noe
should SOMEONE cor 20 ne sn sass
.Nnrr wfeh is rrtrrlI for traar
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08

fhafI"
"uon'f IKE II there replied Thomas"
~ Thought ~ was nice school" said his
father why that school has turned out some
of fho finest and smarteff men in This country ="
"Yes know that" returned Thomas rs
turned mo out
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08

percy bong down 20 rec To- ~ flr tomperance
corcert sfoodsup 90 do or de- Tie gol along an
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08

right until he REACHED me
.qord "tTa stood brside lhe
biot "F Then hl mcW0TV mn
ID hiW
"Ne\ stEOd beside fhc bier
ho repeated frnrblinr
The OWL sol iIs on thr ba B
beuchrs muWured one 20
another
"IFc stood ho ar fhe bier'"
rroanod Pfrrt Is crew mot
dripping forehead
go or yelled voice from
gel fai while you're waiting y
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08

Also, the Detroit police are losing no
time in failing to find clue in our latest
Staying mystery
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-08

Ut should be borne in mind. quoth
Phyllis this a. ma. that since the move
meut for wheat conservation IL should
always be sung Columbia, the Graham
Gem OF the Ocean
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-10-12

little weight on the henhouse tloo7
that the ordinary solid concrete con
structlon Is not necessary The foun'
dalton walls extend up Is Inches nhoye
grade and about IS inches above the
floor.
The studding are connected with
the top Of the concrete wall by using
sockets which are set In the concrete
After the inside wall board and the
outside drop siding have been carried
up the studs short distance, about
one inch OF fresh cement mortar is
placed In each of the spaces between
studs and worked into the corners
thoroughly, TO prevent cracks through
which the wind can blow and 10 seal
the walls against poultry insects.
Above the stills, the walls and roof are
sealed both outside and inside and n
against the studs under both the wall
board and the siding and against the
rafters under both the wall board and
the sheathlng. The object is to make
dead-air space surrounding the in
closed space so that the temperature
OF the Interior will be held as even
as possible.
To facilitate ventilation and to get
the benefit Of the sunlight, the roof Is
given long slope at the back and
short dip In front, as Is clearly shown
In the perspective view. This also
gives headroom for the attendant In
the front part with low roof at the
back, which Is appreciated In the win
ter time when there Is not much heat
from the sun. The front intake ven
tilatOrs consist of window openings
covered with very thin cotton. Cheese
cloth is recommended as being thin
enough to admit both air and light yet
II Is thick enough to prevent draft.
The inside of the house is divided
into. two rooms; the larger room Is
the general scratching shed and the
smaller one is the nesting room. Both
rooms are supplied with removable
hen furniture, so that everything in
side of the walls may le lifted off and
carried out-of-doors for cleaning. Lice
and mites are so troublesome in pOul-
try houses that facilities for keeping
the place clean are absolutely neces-
sary.
II is for this reason, also, that the in
side Of the poultry house is lined with
wall board which is cemented at the
joints and the whole surface painted
carefully with three coats of thin
paint, thoroughly rubbed in TO fill ev-
cry crack and to cover every rough
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-10-12
FLOOR PLAN
Floor Plan.

them liberal range in an orchard or
some other place where a variety of
seeds may be planted at intervals to
raise. different commodities which the
chickens can harvest themselves.
In the accompanying Illustrations, a
henhouse is shown which is snug and
comfortable, offering the hens every
possible inducement to lay eggs at
close to five cents apiece while the
snow is flying. The building is SO by
IA feet, patterned after a poultry house
adopted by the members of the New
York State poultry association.
It is built on a wall of concrete and
has a good concrete floor, the idea be-
ing permanency and sanitation togeth-
er with protection against rats and
mice. After the concrete walls have
been built, the ground is leveled inside
and settled with water. The floor is
placed above this, the concrete being
in the proportion 1875. Instead of
using rich cement mortar surface
coat, the top of the floor may be COW
cred with One-inch coat of lime NOR
tar made with very fine sand. This
material is softer than cement and Is
better for the poultry. There IS SO
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-10-12
SERUM FO0R RAT-BITE FEVER
Japanese Physicians Declare Cure Is
Obtained From Veins Of Persons
Who Have Recovered.

A group Of eminent Japanese doc
tors has been busy studying rat-bite
fever ever since Futaki, Ishiwara and
their associates reported two years ago
the discovery of the microbe that
causes 1t. This is a spirochete, So
called because its form is spiral or
zig-zag. Several types of this splrO-
chete were found in men who had been
bitten by rats, and in guinea pigs that
had been eXperimentally inoculated.
These were identified by Futaki as in
all probability identical.
Doctors Renjiro, Kaneko and Kikuzo
Okuda of the Imperial university in
Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan, contribute
to the Journal Of Experimental Medi-
cine a confirmation of Futaki's belief:
Doctor RyOkichi Inada contributes a
description of the disease Doctors Yu-
aka'Ido, RokutO Holt, HirOshi Ito and
Hidetsune Wani describe experiments
that prove the rat to be the common
carrier of the SpirOcheta icterOhaemdr-
rhagica, as the microbe of the disease
is called; and Doctors Yutaka lido, Hi
rOshi Ito, Hidetsune Wani and Kikuzo
Okuda discuss the possibility of pro-
ducing immunity.
The latter go into details of their
experiments and come to the cOnclu-
sion that the "serum of persons who
have recovered from rat-bite fever con-
tains an immune body which DESTROYS
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-10-12
BY WILLIAM A. RAJ lord.

Success In raising poultry requires
more than pure-bred or scientifically
cross-bred stock. The poultry house
is of equal importance. II must be
right in design and II must be prop
erly located. The poultry house eff
fects the success In raising poultry In
two ways: 1t has Il direct effect In
providing protection for the fowls and
giving them every advantage which
makes for good health and maximum
laying capacity; It has an indirect eff
feet In placing the fowls under the con-
troll of the farmer, who is able to give
them the attention which they require
II the best results are to be obtained.
Without regard for the size or shape
of the poultry house, there are two
rules which should be followed: One
of these is that the building should
face the south or southeast. The other
is that the north and northwest walls
of the building should be carefully in
sulated against the wind. 1t is neither
necessary or desirable that windows be
placed in these walls. Generally
speaking, poultry houses are built Zoo
high. Domestic poultry requires very
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-10-12
Now. Where Had He Reen2

The little boy who lives farther
down the block had been away for
three weeks. The fact that he had
been away so long aroused the interest
of all the other young Americans in
the street. So they asked Billy where
ne had been, but he wouldn't tell.
That would take all the fun out of hav-
ing been away. So the other children
Of the neighborhood adopted a policy
of watchful waiting and listening, says
the Indianapolis News.
Finally Billy gave himself away.
He was pretending that he was rail-
road engineer, conductor, train-caller
and ticket agent combined.
"Tra-a-ain number four !" he bawled,
initiating in a very uncomfortable way
the real thing, with the exception that
his voice had soprano instead of a
bass characteristic.
"Train on track thirteen; Train for
Columbus, O., New York, Gosport and
st. Paul, Minnesota !"
Now the children know where Billy
was for three weeks
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-10-12
FINDS SOURCE FOR POTASH
Ihyentlon of DR.. F. G. cottrelI Precipl.
'tates Cement Dust From Which
II Is Made.

Enormous growth in the cement in
Isdustry, which has been developed to
meet the demand for building mate
rial, now promises to solve another
important economic problem-that
of our potash supply Independent of
Germany.
In the manufacture of cement there
is expelled into the atmosphere tons
of dust from the smelters which with
the fumes Is carried by the wind and
settles in q destructive sediment on all
vegetation, buildings, and objects In
the neighborhOod of the smelters. Now
an invention made by DR.. F. G. Cott-
rell of the United States bureau of
mines precipitates the dust from the
smelters and enables the saving of the
potash contained in it.
Last year one large California ce-
ment company, that had formerly been
compelled to pay heavy damages for
the dust distributed from its plant Sc
cured $4,000 net profit from the pot
ash recovered by the new process. 1t
is now believed that cement plants at
present operating in this country can
secure a by-prOduct of 100000 tons of
potash that has heretofore been worse
than wasted, and that, as the cement
industry enlarges, the greater part of
Americas potash supply can be Sc
cured from this source and at the
same time reduce the cost of cement
manufacture.-Farm and Fireside.