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DETROIT | Kresge Bldg. | | | THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) BIG BUSINESS AGAIN! Corned beef and cabbage tops the list of favorite dishes according to a poll being conducted in New York by the United Restaurant Owners’ Association to ascertain the! New Yorker’s favorite dish. A correspondent of the New York Times, writing in a| serio-comic style, sees the hand of big business: “Certainly the meat packer and truck farm ‘interests’ are behind this. It doesn’t seem possible that unadulterated sentiment could be responsible or that imagination could be so feeble as to throng to any such dish as corned beef and cabbage with- out some sinister outside influence. Can’t you do something about it? “The returns also claim that the vegetable din- ner is the second choice of the balloters. That, it seems to me, is prima facie evidence of tampering. It is impossible to believe that more than a mere handful of people could really like vegetable dinners. “If something isn’t done, we are lost. Consider, for instance, the laughing stock beans have made of Boston, and then contemplate with only half an eye what corned beef and cabbage—or vegetable dinners—would do for New York! Visualize, if you can, the prospect of a New Yorker—one time in- vested, whether justly or not, with the glamour which hovers over all those for whom hell was pre- pared — journeying out to the pure, open spaces, manacled to a reputation for liking vegetable din- ners! See him greeted with the ribald laughter which an association with such a plate of food would inevitably produce! See the fading of his glamour! . See him reduced in circumstances to the level of a mere anybody! “And when your mind’s eye has fluttered and drooped before such prospects, please act to pre- vent these calamities.” ? A WISE MOVE Decision of the State Highway Commission to dispose of the equipment department which handled surplus war ma- terial is a wise move. The present regime is not responsible for all of the slovenly methods that developed in that de- partment, but the situation was one that was bound to em- barrass the Highway Department from the first. At the start, it looked like a good business arrangement. The state and counties apparently got something for noth- ing. The reverse turned out to be the case. In many in- stances it cost more to put the surplus material into shape so ab eouldl be used than it would have cost to buy new equip- ment. Decision to close out the department is a wise move and meets with the approval of the taxpayers of the state. Its shortcomings cover several regimes, as the legislative investi- gation disclosed. The Lund report indicated the true course to follow and the Highway Commission is to be commended upon its prompt action after all facts were brought to its attention. Every effort should be made to collect for property pur- chased by certain civil engineers in private practice and a service charge should be assessed against those who have used any of the property for their private business. This will help to liquidate some of the losses of the department. REFLECTS PROSPERITY Unusual prosperity enjoyed by the United States is re- flected in the income tax figures just published at Washing- ton. Net personal incomes earned in 1923 totaled $26,336,- 337,843. This total is three billion larger than in 1920, the period of inflation and great profits. The 1923 net income figure is greater by five billion than earnings reported in These figures only include taxable income. Millions of income was derived in this country from non-taxable securi- ties, but the totals presented by the federal government are sufficiently imposing. That this is a land of opportunity is further reflected in the figures. More than seven million persons made tax re- turns or practically one in every seven of the population. The radical and cynic who are constantly decrying capital and wealth because they are not distributed might well study the income tax returns. It might mitigate, if not cure, their cynicism. “I’m a burglar,” said a tough-looking person, shoving his head and a gun through a half-opened door in Minneapolis the other day. A neatly engraved business card could not have been more effective. IN AN OFF YEAR Although this is an off year in state legislatures, the crop of new statutes comprised at least 11,000 in thirty - eight legislatures, as compared with approximately 13,000 in 1924. These startling figures were given by Frederick Roy Martin in addressing the Rhode Island state college. Mr. Martin maintained that overproduction of laws was not to be restrained by cynical denunciation of legislators ‘but by less frequent and shorter legislative sessions, the in- creased use of the power of veto by executives and less yield- ing to selfish and zealous interests. Legislators can well bear in mind Mr. Martin’s state- ments. Most laws are thought of between legislative ses- sions. The young men whom Horace Greeley advised to go west , bor—would carry a large share of The enlargement of the \ ‘the plow and the harrow, the seed: | Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced in this column may or may not expresa the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here (n order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the préss of the day. WOMALT'S WORK (St. Paul Dispatch) St. Paul trade boosters on their trip westward on the main line of the Northern Pacific were so in- trigueal by the discovery of a an blacksmith at the little vil of Eckelson, misway between Vai- ley City and Jamestown, that when | they arrived at the latter city many | of them returned to Eckelson to! see and visit with Mrs. August Rolpsen, village blacksmith, who | as her husband for assistant. ) Woman blacksmiths are rare and | the interest Mrs. Roupsen aroused | is quite excusable. But, were the | history of North Dakota as a state | and territory written complete, the | labor of woman—hard, manual Ja: | { | i } the story. sphere of woman's work in the cities has ceased to evoke much at tention. They are performing | tasks which, thirty years ago. it| would have ‘been said they were | unequal to or unfitted for. Yet at | that time the pioneer women of the | Western prairies were abing work | of a nature that men now hold to be beyond their strength and cun-j ning. The sod shanties and shacks of the settlers were erected by the labor of women as well as of men. | er and the binder, the rake and the | wagon were as often guided by the women as by the men. and to ‘1y | the woman in the fleld is not a} rare sight. When war came and the government asked for bricks without straw—for wheat without | the young men to raise it—women children planted and prew, such a crop ag has not since been | equaled in volume and acreage. | They were the children of the pio: | neers, and if they know what toil | in the fields is, should it cause sur- prise that they are to be foun:! at | the anvil and the forge. or with, hammer and saw. or with trowel | and chisel? Surely the greater; task includes the less. LEGISLATION BY AMENDMENT (San-Francisco Bulletin) | John H. Wigmore, dean of the; law faculty of Northwestern uni-} versity, delivered himself before the San Francisco Bar association | the other day of seme sound sense | about laws and government which it would be well for some of our ‘more zealous uplifters to take to heart. He deplored the tendency of social rebuilcers to rush to) Washington and iprocure the pass | age of federal laws and constitu-; tional amendments which many of the states do not want and would not enact pf their own choice. The constitution authorizes its own amendment, which is a rare thing in governmental system. But amendment ought to be confined to general and fundamental changes} and should not be resorted to for purposes of particular legislation. Reforms goo in one state may work ‘badly in another; and amend- ment of the federal constitution may easily become an instrument of tyranny by some states over the rest The alternative preposed by Dean Wigmore is voluntary co- operation of the states for uniforn laws. And that would ibe well if we could be certain that the laws so agreed upon represented the wishes of the majority of the peo- ple. But there is too much govern- ment by active minorities and the same abuse might assert itself even in a congress of representa- tives of state governments. || ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTO! “T'll tell you a really truly fairy story about Yellow-Cap Pinknose,” said Mi O’ Mi to the Twins. hat's fine,” said Nancy and Nick. “Once upon a time,” began the Story Teller, “there was a little fairy called Yellow-Cap who lived with his mother and father, Mister and Mrs. Pinknose, in a buckeye blossom on a buckeye tree. “Every spring in April the old buckeye tree first spread a thousand green umbrellas all over its branches, and as it was too early for the man- drake leaves and the toad-stools to be out, all the fairies took their be- longings to the old tree so as to be dry during the April showers. “And about the , the said “It blossomed out all the loveliest white houses (blossoms really) like. huge ice- cream cones upside down. “For as soon as the blossoms were big enough, the fairies moved in. And there they stayed for a whole month until it was time to go into! the deep green forest to the dingle dell to live during the hot spell. “Well, one morning Mrs. Pinknose said to Yellow-Cap, ‘I want you to go and visit your grandmother today, Yellow-Cap. She wants to measure you for mittens and stockings »nd ear-warmers ‘and a nice long muffler for next winter.’ “‘Aw, Ma!’ begged Yellow-Cap. ‘I don’t want —’ ““Off you go,’ said Mrs. Pinknose | —<_--______"_____» | LITTLEJOE | Vs OULONT 1T BE FUN To BE IN ALL T ' THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE hen Is a Vacation Not a Vacation [When Is a Vacati briskly. ‘I have your lunch packed.| You know the way-—you slide down this tree and then you follow the ground-ivy to the old holly bush. hen turn to your left through the violet patch and follow the creek to Orchard Hill. Grandmother lives in the first apple tree. She's keeping house in the hole the wrens nested in last year. “There wasn't another thing for Yellow-Cap to say except ‘Good-bye.’ So he took his lunch and was off to see his grandmother, “Then his adventures began. He hadn't gone far when a large green spider with white spots scurried away in front of him. “He's not very civil,’ said Yellow- ‘He never even looked my “Then suddenly he heard a rustle of wings and Mister Crow flew down on a log. ‘Caw! Caw! Caw!’ croaked the crow, hungrily making a dive for the green spider. “But all he saw was a little yellow cap lying on the ground, for the fairy, seeing the danger his friend was in, threw it over him instantly and popped into the end of the hol- low log himself to wait until the crow was gone. “When the black fellow had flown away in disgust, the fairy ran over and lifted his cap off the ground. “‘Oh, I'm ever so much obliged,’ said the green spider crawling out. ‘Tl do somehting for you some time.’ “You're quite welcome,’ said Yel- low-Cap. Then he picked up his lunch and started off to his grand- mother’s again.” “Is that all?” asked Nick. “No, indeed,” said Mi “There's a lot more.” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) Oo? Mi, Peoples who still hunt for nearly all their food are the bushmen of Africa, the pygmies of Congo, the Eskimos and the tribes in the Ma- layan forests. New York, June 20.—This place is not all mad rush, as may have been suggested in several letters I have written recently. There are many who live by song and laughter and I believe you will find more wander- ing minstrels here than in other cities. There is, for instance, Tony, who turns his wagon into my street sev- eral mornings each week. As he leads his horse around the corner he begins to sing “Yes, We Have No Bananas” in great glee, for he has a wagon full ot bananas. “Now, ladies, all stick your heads out the window. I'm going to sing.” And sing he does, .little Italian folk songs and snatches of opera, cutting high cap- ers in ecstatic dance. And then he sells his bananas, 15 for a quarter, and cares little whether he makes a sale, for at heart he is a song and dance man. And every Friday morning there is the old organ grinder with his little music box. Its reeds are broken and it wheezes and squeals as he turns the crank, but one can distinguish among the sour notes “In the Good Old Summer Time” and other popu- lar hits of a decade ago. At twilight, occasionally there| comes a young Irishman with the most powerful voice I ever heard. He tilts his head to one side and cups one ear with his hand as though ‘his voice were too strong for jis ownjears. He sings “Sweet Rosie O'Grady.” “Bedelia” and “Sidewalks of New York” and pennies and dimes} are tossed from windows. On- jiday mornings such as Christmas and Thanksgiving and Easter, there come an old man and his wife who sing carols and old favorites such as “Silver Threads Among the Gold.” Their voices crack and they are frequently off key, yet they command attention such as no opera singer ever re- ceived, for they take grown men and women back to their mothers’ knees. And so, despite the rumble and the. roar and the “fretting, we have our little moments of happiness. “One-eye” Connolly and Tammany Young are keen rivals for the title of world’s champion gate crasher. Tammany Young has been more suc- cessful in-getting into theatres and the mo Polite gatherings, but! “One-eye” has achieved a national reputation by seeing every fight | in the past 20 yé without i ssi — The Ueber Ry Ae ied T LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE, CON- TINUED Syd says that when he had about reached the rather because landing—he is the point, happening so fast at he could indis- tinetly see two men stoop and pick up an inanimate form and carry it into the drawing room and out through the French window. Still thinking it was I, Syd rushed after them. ‘The automobiie they had parked with the engine running, started off almost before they had thrown poor Zoe into the tonneau. Syd, with great presence of inind, caught hold of the tire rack and clung on, unknown to those in the car. They drove to the warehouse where Jack found Zoe, and two of the men carried her in. He heard one fo the men say that he didn’t think she was dead but that he would kill her if she didn't come across. With a burst of profanity he talked about her double-crossing them. It was here that Syd learned that it was Zoe instead of me and the telephone conversation came back to im. They drove the car into an alley way and as they rounded the corner going in, Syd dropped off, and crouched behind a barrel until the driver had himself entered the building. stil He said he felt he should have telephoned to the police, but it was very late and he knew no place to do| this. Feeling that the emergency| was great he followed as quietly as he could into the warehouse. There he dropped in shadow be- hind a half open door. Zoe was lying on the floor in the middle of a half circle composed of five men—one of whom pulled her roughly to a sitting posture. Her! head, he said, was bleeding badly. The poor girl did not seem to real- ize where she was and dropped back on the floor when the man let go of er. Syd heard them asking over and’ over again, “Come across! Where the — did you put them?” Zoe would only moan in reply. All the men spoke the argot of the. underworld except one who had the manners and the intonation of a gentleman. | While he was standing there won- dering what he should do Syd said that one of the men rushed forward ; to the helpless girl, saying: “She! won't come to. I think you croaked her, Jim.” The other man turned with a snarl! and knocked him down. Immediate ly there was a terrible melee. Syd thought he could get away with Zoe in the scramble, but the one who seemed to be the gentleman saw him and Syd was. caught. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) i to pass Bill Connors ,the doorman of a Broadway theater where a prize- fight comedy is playing. Connors described the fight scene so realist- ically that “One-eye” bought a ticket. for a gallery seat. After the show started he was seen sitting in the orchestra. Competition is keen even among the bootblacks. Heretofore the old fellows and the kids have had quite a battle in Bryant Park and Madi- son Square because the boys would shine shoes for a nickel while the old shiners asked a dime. A truce has been effected whereby the boys have exclusive rights to Bryant Park and the, old men exclusive privileges in Madison Square. —JAMES W. DEAN. MAKES A DIFFERENCE Terrence—'Tis a fine lad ye have here. A magnificent head and noble features. Could ye lend me a couple of dolla: Pat—I could not. child by her first hu Telegraph. HE EARNS IT “What is your opinion of a man who marries for money?” “He earns every penny.”—Karikae "Tis me wife's d.—London ' turen, Oslo. THIS 1S A WAITING ROOM, BUT NOU M4KG I(T ALD FOR WAITING IC IE YOU MUST DO SOME SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1925 WE SHOULD ABOLISH REVOLVER By Chester H. Rowell The “gun” is more dangerous than protection, even in a policeman’s hands. i é You read the story of the Chicago policeman who shot a collector dead because he came into a service station on his route and asked for money. If the collector had not been armed, he would not have aroused the suspicion. And, even if he had been the hold-up man for whom the policeman took him, he could have been stopped with a club. better than with a “gun.” Or, if the circumstances had been such as to require arm- ing, policeman and collector would have been better off with a rifle. The revolver shopld be abolished entirely, for everybody, including policemen. Where the Professor Is Mistaken “Long under the influence of scholarship,” says Profes- sor Moffat of Glasgow, the people of Great Britain regard with surprise any serious attempt to discredit evolution. The professor is making the same mistake that we once made. been, “under the’ influence of scholarship.” The “people” of England are not, and never have Most of them do not know what it is, and would not care if they did. Professor Moffat is thinking of the fraction of the people in which his acquaintance lies. That part are equally sur- prised here. We thotght, fifty years ago, that because they were convinced, people were convinced. We know better now. Professor Moffat can find quite as many people in England as in Amer- ica who are not “under the influence of scholarship,” and doubtless they have just as preposterous notions. The difference is that the profes- sur does not include them in “the people.” Neither did some of us, un- til they suddenly woke up and made us. Nobody In Right All the Time “Better ing Week” served a purpose, in advertising the sorts of mailing blunders people make, and in perhaps reminding some of them not to make them so often. But it may also serve the purpose of reminding all of us of the futility of any reform which involves train- ing the whole people to do anything right all the time. If millions of people mail letters with no address, some of those mil: lions will occasionally look the wrong way in crossing a street, and walk into an automobile. If many of them forget to sign or stamp their letters, some of them are go- ing to step on the gas instead of the brake. Most of us do most things right most of the time. But nobody does everything right alway That is the reason machinery has to be made “fool proof.” There are few fools. But all of us are momentary fools sometimes. Little to Learn of Aethelbert Archaeology makes history news. So when workmen excavating Sher- FABLES ON HEALTH the} borne Abbey dug up the stone coffin of Aethelbert, king of the West Saxons, who had lain in merciful oblivion for over a thousand years, doubtless many newspaper readers had at least a momentary: curiosity aroused as to who this Aethelbert was. There is not much to tell. The five brief years of his reign, from 860 to 865, were among the least glorious of British history. It was the time of the Viking raids, one of which the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describes in what was then the English language. “Ond thaes ilcan wintres waes In- waeres brothur ond Healfdenes on Westseaxum on Defenascire mid xxiii scipum; ond hine mon thaer ofslog ond dece monna mid him, ond xl monna his heres.” Already in the time of Aethel- bert’s grandfather Ecgbert, and of his father Aethelwulf, the Norse raiders came, and during the fifteen vears of the reigns of himself and his two brothers, they ‘overran the Northern country and harried even Wessex. Not until, the time of his younger brother, Alfred the Great, was peace made with them, and with it the foundations of ‘what became the Kingdom of England. It was a sorry reign, of which now, a thousand years later, we are reminded by the digging up of a coffin. ROME FALLS AGAIN Rome.—The crossword puzzle craze is now at its height here, and several firms have posted notices prohibit- Ing employes from working on the brain teasers during working hours. BUY SHOES ON WEEK DAYS Following the war it was believed that much of Amer would be forgotten. Style, however, resumed its place in the say of what folk should wear. So the same old style of uncomfort- able shoes assumed their regular place in the march of tired feet. There are sensible shoes on the market, however. Foot-sore persons should look for them. There is no reason to be ashamed to ask the shoe clerk to show every- thing in the store, if it is necessary ica's foot ailments Shoe salesmen get fussy some- times, and the purchaser takes a shoe that does not suit. Then that person is fussy as long as he wears that shoe. Saturday efternoons and Saturday nights ate bad times to go into a shoe store. The salesmen are too busy to give good service. Try going into the store during the weekdays, and sit right there until you are satisfied that a shoe is found which is not only comfort- able, but good looking. SIMS ‘SAYS J What they ought to do is put signs where you can park instead of where you can’t. A woman with a few children is never among the unemployed. You can’t be polite these days without somebody selling you some- thing before you know it. Worst thing about our clothes be- ing on the bum is, we are the bum. It ig only natu to look sheepish after being fleeced. There are many ways of doing things. The best way to go to sleep is by trying to stay awake. Where did people go to eat pi ple bal nuts before ba: I] was invented? When we cuss a stranger over the phone we always think maybe we could whip him in person. If jazz is dying flinging a wicked la: “certainly is note. “Every man likes @ wife who flirts unless she is his own. In these days of so much bad booze there are lots of people who are nearly dead for a drink. The man who failed to put a nickel in the plate will tell the preacher it was a fine sermon. He who is always pickled will some day be as sour as vinegar. Uneasy lies the head at night thgt lies during the day. Lots of us are looking for the path of least persistence. ~ The girl who got only a stick of candy for her first kiss is and wants @ limousine for th Truth isn’t stranger than a fisher- man. One pretty good reason why a man marries'is some woman, Keep your health at home so you won't ‘have to go away for it. The boy who promised not to drink before he was 21 has a son who promises to swear off then. Very few people in ticklish situa- tions seem Cy be tickled. ickled. The man of the hour has made years. jis pli tor. (COREA TORO NEA. Service, Ind PRINCE NEARLY GOES BROKE FEEDING IMPERIAL HORSES Budapest (#)—When the late emperor harles was banished, Prince Francis Esterhazy, in a moment of ardor, promised to shelter and feed the imperial horses “until such time as the Hapsburgs should want them again.” The undertaking brought to th prince 90 horses to care for a maintain, and the financial. strai recently, has been heavy. Neverthe- jess the prince held to his word, despite the protests of members of is e id ger of the Ester- hazy te journeyed to Spain and explained the situation toex-empress Zita. She was understanding, and the manager returned with a decree signéd by Otto, her eldest son, ab- solving the prince of his promise. The horses were recently sold at auction. TRULY REALISTIC Artist—This is my latest picture. ‘Builders at Work.’ It’s very real- istic.” Friend—But they are not at work! Artist—Yes, that’s the realism!— Dorfbarbier, Berlin. FINANCIALLY ILL “Did you thoroughly examine the patient I sent to you yesterday?” “Yes, scrupulously.” “How long will it take you to cure him?” “I'don't know. I haven’t found out yet what his income is.”—Szopka, A: taxi driver is the only person who can pull down the flag ‘ore am cha ithe tag. ber we nw Wo oe be ae