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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26
For Stay-at-Homes
nv ~. ADpINGr0N DRUCE
Author ~ "rhc Riddle ~ Person
hilty Psychology aud
parcuthood etc.

There suu are people In this couu.
try Who do uot seem 10 realize chat
We are ar war
Certainly. az any rate they DO not
realize that 90 win thc war; they
themselves must render war service.
Loyalty. earnestly and .ntoiusent'y
Private affairs must by every
body. be subordnated % public sus
mess Without exception those who
staS home must fnd place in am
army back OF Tho army at fhs 'front.'
o. illness prevents active effort
ta,re can Al least bc personal par
ue.paaon In The war 10 the extent
~ Swing within one means tor fhc
sappor, of fhe Hshtiug mon
Ou au bat the positively TIL tho
obligation IS both so give and %
work for 'he N nniac ~ thc NRr
You who read fhrsc lines pnt no
yo.rse.f the question
Am really wing my country
a- can and should in thi5 uwe oi
Ue honest in your answer
Remcmher ihat Young men the
a0war pf fhe nation. are TODAY ONcr
ing their ly, 500 foreier .oi 10
order mar yua. as enc W their frl
low coVn'rymen may I've AZ home
n neFre ard security
Some Have already Iaid down
their Hives Your behalf
While 7 write fhe cable is bring
ing details 30 the FIRST hand 90 hand
conflict between American soldiers
and German trench raiders Three
killed. five wounded and ~ missing
Us given as the t0H paid by our
brave boys
There VII. no mora casualties
many more This is Inevitable
And every casualty wdl represent
supreme sacrifice made by ap
American hero for dis Gas and for
tha f0iss ar home
Can son afford even 20 seem In
different t0 The sacrifices thus being
made for yoVf
can vow coolly continue 20 attend
to Your personal busIness. perfume
to-gy giv.rE perhaps some money
20. war interests. tu, sharing va no
active war workf
The war VIII end some aay When
70 does and fhe mrn .h7k' como
home y0u want '0 be Lhie 90 give a
good account ~ yourself AZ they
VIII be able 20 give good accounts
OF themseives
You VIII want 20 have their TO
sroct and yoGr own respect Yon
VIII want 90 - able to meet their
iuqniring gaze eye 20 eve
You vil no. want anybody 20 -
IN a position 20 point the Anger ot
scOrn 40 you snd say. Re was n
Stacker
n then you have 20 confess nat
ur 20 fhe present vou have not
thrown yourself wholehearfed ly into
EFFORT FOR your country begin az
once 20 make amends
There are a Thousand var actlvi.
ties from which you can make
7 choice
Better han anybody else. Won
know your capabilities mental and
physical Sc-utiuize The various war
work opportunities. select ne work
for which Won recognize chat y0u are
best fitted and plunge into a.
Don't continue 20 DE mere look
eron DOM 90 satisfied wi'h tongue
patriotism Scr mind and body q.
work for tho nations good
Enlist NoW I'D fhe army bark 81
The army ~ tho front
wake ur' Energize Yourself ~
what you can with AL your might
and main
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26
The Bug House

and what" asked Tho visitor ~
the intelligent lunatic. who imar
iaed he vas a p0ached egg "Rhat
seems 20 give tho greatest hope to
The milo cases here"
We'll" said The nut looking
around FOR q piece % toast so he
could sit down. che fool question:
asked by some ~ orr callers give
ne fho hope chat We amt go bad on
"A NO rhini'"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26

you for accidents under the workmen S
compensation act
The TIMES IS more than p.ea-ei 20.
know that such a broad human policy
obtains n Detroit
NeXtl
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26
To BE Expected

Madre The new rector ie very
progressive
Marjorie They even saw hos so.
lnr 90 aet aside room FOR fhe con.
grepauon 20 store their golf clubE
during service Life
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26
Why Our Aldermen
Should Never Fail TO Read
Electric Railway Service


In the last number Of Electric Railway
Service, one Of which we took" the COM
pany tells us Of the demands that have
been made upon it by the growth Of the
city and Of business.
II tells us in this manner:
In 1915 the one-fare zone cars oper-
ated total Of 80, 696,O 52 miles as against
1864 1893 in the year before This was
an increase OF more than a million miles.
"The jump in 1916, due to the marked
development Of Detroit. was six times
greater In 1916, the passenger cars ran
the wonderful total of S9,54l 246 miles
the increase over 1915 being 6.o04,l94
miles.
"The present year Of 1917 continued TO
produce a progressive business condition
and we kept pace, as you will note Dur
ing the first nine months Of 1916 the car
miles totaled %, 781 ,273, and for the same
period of this year, January to the end
of September, the mileage reached the
huge sum Of 32,s07 ,253, an increase OF
4O25. $50. That increase was a. the rate
of 447331 car miles a month, :, that had
that rate been maintained turnout the
year the twelve months gain would have
been 1857, 972p'
We are given the figures as propagan- /
da leading up to something the company
wants-more skip stops or higher fares
Or something, the exact nature OF
which we are left to guess.
Whatever it is will dawn upon us with 4
much force sooner or later, and the COM
pany will get it, so we won't worry about
that end Of it.
However. the company adds in setting
forth the extent of the extensions il has 1
made:
"AND THE COMPANY HAS MADE
THESE INCREASES OF ITS OWN
FREE WILL AND ACCORD-WHOLLH /
VOLUNTARILY"
And repeats in another place:
"AS WE HAVE SAID. THE IN
CREASES WE ARE HERE DIS
CUSSING HAVE BEEN VOLUNTA-
RILY MADE"
And little farther on:
1--WE AGAIN REPEAT THESE IN !
CREASES IN THE NUMBER OF CAR
MILES WERE MADE BY THE COM 1
PANY WITHOUT ANY SOLICITATION I
BY THE PEOPLE OR THEIR REPRE- /
SENTATIVES. IT WAS PROPER /
THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE
The Times is not disposed to with
hold from the Detroit United Railway
any of the praise that is due it for the
manner in which it has sought 70 keep
pace with the growth Of the city. That
leaves US free to criticize its faults.
1t is evident that the company has
been put to heavy expense in meeting
Detroit's rapid expansion and we COM
mend it here for its public spirit in that
connection.
But why, in telling US about It, does it
repeat again and again that it did it Of
its own volition
Does the ID. L. r. imagine for a mo-
ment that anybody in Detroit would
think that our present common council
FORCED it to make the extensions?
The chances are that there are several
members of that august body who didn't I
know the extensions had been made until (
they read about them in Electric Railway (
Service
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26

Edt mckv dear your oh
.froef. snf itf
birt'. Zee Why
Tdfh That's What u told
plpa Ile made snch % funny
mistake about sou yesterday
IIe -md he'd been looking YOU
M in Bradstreet
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26
One Hope

" -for le going up
Gibbs Good Maybe they vii BE-
Obliged 1 cW down the number az
pins u Numbered shirt life
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26

applied ar mo ORDERLY room
and asked his commanding of-
fcer n bo might have n few
DAYS leave ar Ills wife was ili.
and had ent him letter ask
INK him tu come M once
ruf his commanding officer.
getting tired az him always
wanting leave. eaid This is
nIr.urn IrIIrL. lhnnk- na nnlN
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26
Health ovestLons Ans~ered

Health Questions Answered
Mise T.. " writes "Have been
told thst wearing vel Injuries
tho oycsiEht Is this 'ruc7'
Occulists agree that me wearing
n, wells O. injurious 20 tho eyes To
see thlngs thru netting must handi
cap the vision
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26
The Keep Well
Column
FEVER

Scarlet fever varies more IA iuten-
ity than any other eruptive fever.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26

been The order or The evening,
and lhe FUN waved fast and
furious.
rhen the quiet man spoke
"ffs easy De began TO an
3wer such riddles as why Is
your hat Ike a babvT which
Only contain one simle. but
some % those with TWO and
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26

n your boss isn't satisfactory iuT
mention tho fact 20 nim and per
hapg ~ viii permit you 20 resign
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26

fpw hoWR2
IIvcryman n vii cost you
60 for tho nrft hour and 81 Tor
each additional hour.
lady VOL I'll use be- Tor
tI0 additional hours I've Fof
SOME shopping 200 DO and VIII
net require y for the first
hourS
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26
A Pious Wish

Dr Dosem Times are awfuliy
dull can't imagine hafs become
90 all the patients used 20 have
Mrs - Lets nope Cor me best
dear browning Magazine
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26

private ~ a well known regiment who was
always wanting leave on some excuse or other.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-11-26
Laugh With Us

There was Tia usual collection OF drummers IN
the smoke room. and among them the inevitable
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27
ARMED NEUTRALITY

The Presidents announcement that the
United States is TO take the position of
armed neutrality, for which he says there
are precedents in our history, probably re-
ferred to the famous Armed Neutrality, an
association of Powers brought about by
Catharine of Russia in 1880 Prussia pro-
claimed the doctrine of free ships, free
goods" in 1852 and France proclaimed 1t
in 177S. Great Britain in her wars with
America, France and Spain insisted on her
rights to search neutral ships for enemy
goods interfering with the commerce of the
world. on March 8, 1880, Catharine Issued
her famous proclamation laying down the
principles, G) that neutral ships may
freely sail from port to port and along the
coasts of belligerents 90 that blockade
to be recognized must be effectual and real
and go that except in the case of CONTRA
band free ships make free goods
The United States, Spain and France inn
mediatey indorsed the principles Of the
declaration. An association of the principal
nations of Europe was formed for the pur-
pose of enforcing these principles upon the
of this association was to embarrass Eng
land by the consolidation of European senti-
ment against her. The armed neutrality
meant that the neutrals would defend their
shipping by arms If it was nterfered with.
The United States has contended for the
principle of free ships and free goods, and
it has a treaty with Prussia in which that
principle is recognized as binding on the
two Powers in the event of war by either
of them upon third Power.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27
A SURFEIT OF HORRORS

TNHE sinking by a German submarine
l. Of the Cunard liner Laconia is as in
defensible as the sinking of the Lusitania.
She was a passenger ship, carrying 270
men and women besides the crew. If this
were the first example of German sub,
marine frightfulness the world would be
shocked beyond measure. But the unlaw-
full, intolerable course Of Germany has
brought about a surfeit OF horrors, and
we say that this is only another instance
Of that invasion of the freedom of the
seas which has become common in a war
avowedly fought to insure their freedom
to the commerce of all nations.
Yet in spite of the multiplicity Of such
horrors there still remains enough of the
sense of justice and humanity to be
shocked at the action Of a nation in sink,
ing without warning a great ocean liner
loaded with passengers. No excuse can
be found for it in the principles of con.
duct Of any civilized power.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27
FROM A PRO-GERMAN

To the Editor Of the EUenin1 Ledger
Sir-The majority of Americans who
sympathize with Germany in this ragged
hour have shown themselves truer and
better natriots than the majority of Amer
leans who sympathze with Britain. For the
German exponents among us have mainly
pIeaded merely for strictly equitable
attitude on the part of the United states to-
ward the nation which they believe in,
while our British exponents have almost
Invariably argued with but little regard for
sound Judgment in their conclusions and
with virtually no consideration whatever
for exact justice TO all the belligerents
alike. ...'.''
The latter class has allowed the invasion
of Belgium to blind them worse than a
bunch of bats at high noon on clear day.
They have utterly failed to appreciate that
every fort in Belgium was pointed straight
at Germany, that the Government of Bel
gium had a treaty with both France and
Britain which was vital sti iategic menace
TO the regions of the lower Rhine In case
Of armed conflict, and that the German
military staff clearly saw. that France was
about 10 attack the western frontier OF
Germany by way of Belgium and with the
consent of Belgium, making a condition
of affairs at that time which now actually
and powerfully tends to completely reverse
the popular conception of responsibility for
the terrible experience which that unhappy
country has gone through with and in
tensely suffered on account Of the folly and
obtuseness of its own rulers and the bitter
harshness and extreme severity OF others.
French Government, officials and British
press agents can deny this view until they
are black and blue in the face. but impartial
history will emphatically assertSit to have
been a fact along with the deliberately in
citing character of the dual cargo on board
the Lusitania- And II these toryized cham
MONS of Britain in our midst could only Just
once get that fact into their heads they
would soon be on the road TO recovery and
willing to acknowledge that we German
sympatnizers have been far more In the
| right than they on the whole war situation
| ever since the row started Then their hands
| will stretch out and clnsp ours and Va
ahAlL y friends again 4n1 xolfe1 wltl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27
CasuaIs of the Days Work


CIHE is a clever lady and she lives in
y Chicago Our correspondence has been
elusively intermittent, but when she writes
she writes sooth. Thus
As TO what is current in this part OF
the world we have here more queer
people who write free verse than any
other place can boast / belong to n
few clubs (wimminsD and / get a dose
of 1t every few minutes.
Then we came back at her with William
Sharp's--Fiona McLeods--statement: Con
cerning the use of unrhymed meter what
can be done in Greek and German can be
done in English. This has been proved,
for some of Matthew Arnold's finest work
is in unrhymed verse. 1 feel that there is
in verse, as in painting, a borderland for
impressionism pure and simple, for the sug-
gestion of a certain color and emotion a
vivid actualty, which are apt to be dis
sipated by the effort and restrictions of
rhyme"
Then she: ''You believe all this? You be-
lIeye that the big Irishman poet person
was right when he said that what could
be done in Greek and German can as well
be done ih J1nglish2"
The impeachment, being soft. we admit
ted It. -.
don't You do itf' she wrote.
( And yet they say the ~ q Isuer writ
Inv 4 don0> 9 ~. - I. t q 4 I, "a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27
LET THE FARCE GO ON

NTTIEN reduced to it's lowest terms, the
w Governors veto of the Sproul reso-
luton means that If he is to be inves.
tigated he wishes to be investigated by
his friends and not by his enemies.
He charges that the proposed inquiry
was for the purpose of putting him in
hole" The kind of an investigation
which he would like would be one that
would put him on a pinnacle.
The veto rings the curtain down on
one act of the farce which both factions
have been playing. 1t remains to be
seen whether, when the curtain goes up
again. it will show the factionaiists fall
ing on one another's necks in a moving
reconciliation scene while there sticks out
OF the pockets of each a contract for a
division OF the yspoils of Office in which
the rights Of the people are ignored.
Neither faction Is anxious for an IN
vestigation, for each has the goods" on
the otner. A conspiracy OF addition,
division and silence which seems to be
under way win hasten the time when a
Hiram johnson Of Psnnsylvania win And
1&nI1 1&1on1 f1nn ~ no<1ou ~. .,.iI
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
How We Might Have Bullied
England-A Pro-German
Speaks
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

To the Editor Of the EUcnin0 Ledger:
Sir-I have read the letter of c. II. on
the U-boat question, and there is much
truth in what he says.
When England first announced her ille-
gal blockade against Germany, President
Wilson protested vigorously, and declared
the blockade Illegal and entirely inde-
fensible. AS England paid no attention to
the protest and continued the blockade,
Germany in reprisal announced the sub
marine blockade against England Presl-
dent Wilson sent protest to Germany and
said we would hold her strictly accountable.
President Wilson then, very properly, sent
n note to England asking If she would
stop the illegal blockade IL Germany would
stop the illegal submarine blockade. He
also sent a note to Germany asking If she
would stop the submarine blockade if Eng
land would stop her blockade of Ger
many.
days and agreed to stop the submarine
blockade under those conditions, as re-
quested. England did not answer for over
three weeks. and then she answered not so
courteously but rather brusquely, that she
would not relnquish the blockade of the
Central Powers.
Now all that President Wilson had said
so far was perfectly proper legally and
automatically. But the whole world was
amazed that he left the matter rest there
and nothing further was done to stop the
Illegal blockade by England, which pro-
hibited us dealing with tho Central Pow
ers in noncontraband goods.
The American Review Of Reviews OF
May, 1916, in an excellent editorial, says
Now we need not have gone to war with
England to stop her Illegal blockade. 1t
would not even have been necessary to
write another note to her about L. All that
was necessary was for an official of our
Administration simply to have whispered
to the English Ambassador that we were
in earnest and meant business, and that
the illegal blockade must be stopped, ana
it would have been stopped Immediately
England was dependent on US for mu-
nitions of war and could not have risked
our putting an embargo on them. BY our
insistence at this time we would have
compelled compliance with international
law by both nations and would nave
avoided the submarine difficulties. j. w.
Philadelnha, February "a.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. The Indian Ocean IL bounded on the north
by Arabia. India, siam and the Malay
peninsula; on the south by the Antarctic
Ocean, and extends from Australia to the
east coast of Africa. Two arms, formed
on the north by wedge-shaped India, are
the Arabian Sea and the Bay of BENGAL.
2. Samp, or coarse hominy. is said to owe its
name to the unparched meal pOrridge
called "nasaump" by the Indians.
8. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Associate Justice Of
the supreme Court, Is son OF Oliver
Wendell Holmes, poet and essayist.
A. Yesterday was the birthday anniversary OF
Victor HUGO.
B. Sir Percy Sykes Is the leader of the British
expedition In Persia.
o. Ghetto means section OF a city where Jews
live In greatest numbers, the name COM
Ing from places, especially In Italy, which
were set aside for Jews.
I. President Polk Is buried in Polk Place, Nash
Vile, Tenn.
8. Noah's ark was made "of gopher wood"
tcypress? pine?) and calked with
pitch.
o. An elephant drinks water by filling his
trunk and then squirting the water into
his mouth
10. "Yiddish" comes from the German word
"J9edisch." pronounced ''Yeedsh," with
long 200" sound mingled with the
"ee." 1t means Jewish In German.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27

The colleagues of Representative
woodward who would not take seriously
his plan to pay bounty for rats did not
appreciate the ravages of these rodents
It is capable of proof that rats destroy
as much as the birds save Yet it is seri
ously proposed that cats be taxed in order
to reduce their number and save the birds
which eat noxious insects and the seeds
of pestiferous plants. Japan prior TO her
war with Russia paid a bounty for rats
in order to wipe out the bubonic plague
and with unusual foresight saved the
skins and made earmuffs of them for her
soldiers who fought the Russians in
northern Korea. Food here would be a
little cheaper if the rats were extermi,
mated
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27

1. About what is the cost OF a submarine
torpedo?
2. What Is n chinauapin?
g. What are clogs. which the British now are
said to be wearing?
4. Who Is Hans Wagner?
8. Where Is President Grant buried?
9. When was Belgium established a separate
Kingdom?
7. In what American cities have food riots
recently occurred?
8. What Is the largest vessel sunk by Germany
since the new submarine decree was is
sued? J
o. How many men q year would the Army
General StaT's universal military train
Ing bill train as soldiers?
10. Where Is Danish America?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27
There's something hurts us so
In tb;s IN, e,t,,, notbctic do,y

TOM HOGAN, whose fine baritone al.
ways rings answering bells in our bosom,
was one.quarter of a big musical feature
at a recent Glover Club dinner. 1t was an
unusually crowded dinner, and seating
exigencies separated Tom from the other
three-fourths. Well, the quartet sang its
first offering splendidly, and Tom went
back to his green turtle soup. A thick.
necked guest who sat next to him looked
up: Been out?" says he. "They was
on'y some slngin'. You didn't miss
much"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27

l.. f. W.-The two brotherhoods are
separate bodies. The brotherhood of An
drew and Philip, founded at Reading, Pa,
in 1888, has $4,000 members belonging to
fifteen different evangelical denominations.
The general secretary is Norman j. Smith,
1914 Widener Building, Philadelphia. The
Brotherhood of st. Andrew is a Protestant
Episcopal Church organization with 13, 900
members. The secretary is G.. II. Randall.
Church House, Twelfth and Walnut streets,
Philadelphia. The aims of both brother
hoods are about the same; i. e., prayer for
the spread of Christianity and efforts to
bring others under its influence.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27
El-Amarna Letters

w. Il. R.-The El-Amarna letters are
about 400 clay tablets throwing much light
on ancient Palestine and neighboring coun-
tries. They We're discovered by an Egyn-
tian woman in the ground at Tell el-Amar-
ma in 1887, according to one account, which
has it that she sold the right to the tabiets
for the equivalent of fifty cents The tah-
let's are inscribed in the Babylonian Ian
guage. Some authorities hold that most
OF them were written long before the He.
brew conquest ( others that they are con-
temporary with that event. Seven were
written by Ebed-hepa, King OF JerusaIen,
about 1860 B. c. Others were written in
Phoenicia. .. .H. "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27

OF COURSE, It was Gothamite tnee,
Podunkian, very likely who first said.
Nobody ever wants to go to Phiadel.
phia; they merely have to, sometimes"
Well, the movies men should have caught
Grif Alexander when he received word
in st. Marys, Nd, to report for duty with
our most distinguished eve. contemp. He
started his journey at 8 a. m. with the
Star Route man in a mud-covered buggy
and Travelled two miles; then nine miles
in carriage to Leonardtown; then sixty
miles to Washington in an autobus The
rest Of the trip was conventional, and
he was here at IL p. m. of the same
day. Some Of us will travel far to get
Whit of the old familiar paste pot.