Let All Contribute.

Let All Contribute. 

A Timely Suggestion Made to Michigan Cities.

The Detroit Free Press Pokes Fun at the Suggestion of the News Relative to Removing the University.

The Detroit Free Press speaking of the idea promulgated at various times in the Detroit News and Tribune of moving the university to Detroit as well as the state capital on the occasion on the bicentenary celebration rises to the occasion in these words;

Au enthusiastic bicentenary suggester comes forward with a moving proposition. Celebrate Chevalier Cadillac's visit to these shores 200 years ago, suggests he, by bringing the University of Michigan from Ann Arbor to Detroit for a sojourn of a few centuries. It will add buildings, business, brains, circulating medium, class fracases, fair renown and wild and impetuous student rushes to the features of this town. Besides, it is immaterial to Cadillac whether the university remains at Ann Arbor or comes to the city.

True and not a pity. With the plans for the transfer of the capital to Detroit already outlined and with the wheels set to rolling under the university after the fashion of portable county seats in the Dakotas, we can look for something distinctive, entirely new and of a just-came-to-town order in 1901

But now that Ann Arbor and Lansing have been called upon to contribute something substantial and important, what are other cities of the state doing toward making the bicentenary a state affair? Will Grand Rapids tender the Soldiers' Home? And Sault Ste. Marie her seething rapids? And the North Shore its precious copper mines? Nothing will stimulate interest and co-operation in our celebration so much in every section of the state as to have it understood that every city and hamlet will be expected to move the best thing it has to Detroit at the earliest possible moment.

The faith of some of the idea commissioners of the bicentenary seems to be sufficient to remove mountains, universities, capitals and other ponderous and long-established things.