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. 1} 6 TIMBER TRUST LOOMS GREATEST, CONGRESS TOL tion, Is Official Report VAST TRACTS NOW HELD 4 Corporations | Smith Names Southern Pa- citic Company in Findings. WASHINGTON aasere| ton that a vast tin dwarfing ; Standant Ot by ts in the ma < showing how Jost miitiona in dispo: are com. tained Herbert Knox 8m © of Corpora tions, Taft and which was went t and fhree vast of thé Southern Weyerhaeuser tHe Northern (neluding npagies), together . ge nearly 11 per wned timber. lxs."” tho report nding timber to or six room frame fre 16,000,000 families ted Stages in 1900. If sawed! into lumber andy placed in cars thelr timber would jogd a train about 100,000} ong. Hold A The large of their tiny themselves which are Railway subsidiary for Themselves. | holders are cutting little r. They thus reserve to} those incalculable profits; AN to accrue with the growth | Evils Threaten to Be Worse] Than Any Other Combina- | | Professor of Economics at John [kins University, who said to a 1 | charitable soctety the other da ‘Meving poverty an inevitable and Manent condition. erations will look back on th of our time with the «ame a: We feel in contemplating #1 effort now being made to « ca tion of the whole problem.” | ery of the eupply control who ntry, the diminishing Umber the further concentration and | hereof. Many of the very men/ ej protesting against conserva-| 1d the national forest system be- of the ‘tying up’ of natural re- | are thesnselves deliberately ty- up far more effectively for private | Frne report deciages the timber now ing will last aniy about fifty-five | “Rich concentration in standing tim-) Der.” the report states, “If permitted to fontinue and increase, makes probable ) @ final central control of the whole x industry A few strong in- Naareets ultimately holding the bulk of the timber can the price of timber and its products. Land Trust, Too. “AVhen the timber’ has been cut, the Jand remains. There has been created, “therefore, not only the framework of Bh enormous Umber monopoly, but also fan equally dinister land concentration In extensive sections. “Finally, to timber concentration to land concentration is add “most important timber section, eonnected railroad. domination. The formidabie possibilities of this com- “bination in the Pacific-Northwest and 4 e of the gravest public im- and ortan “The possibilities of power Involved 4m such a concentration of land owner Ship, irrespective of the timber, hardly ‘Pequire discussion. ‘The danger of abuso of that power, in the absence of “tive regulations, is obvious. T! $ also occupy dominating pot | | Mon of private property and the elimin- | ation of both personal wealth and per- the man to whom I showe Devine, Banization Society, | Dr. Edward T. Devine, Charity and Social Worker, So Declares, but He Believes That All Conditions Which Cause Suffering Can and Will Be Eradicated. | By Morguerite Mooers Marshall “The poor we shall not have atways| with us!"* Two wise men make that happy pre-! “Phe modern world is all wr I believe fut t the! es of poverty will lead to a solu The other cheerful prognosticator |i Hol and. r secretary of the Chi remarks yesterday Professor Beonomy at Columbia, director of the) New York School of Philanthropy and| author of an interesting book on “Mis- ery and Its Causes : n en years It has been y and my opportunity to know | ng of the misery of the poor| in New York,” said Dr, Devi ‘and I agree with Dr, Hollander that this mis- js not in any sense inevitable, Misery, as we say of° tuberculosis, 1s ommunicable, curable and preventable. It lies not in the unalterable nature of things but in our particular human tn- stitutions, our social arrangements, our tenements and streets and subways, our Jaws and courts and jails, our religion, our education, our philanthropy, our politics, our industry and our business, “It is merely a matter of social maiad- Justment. “Don't think that T make light of It as it exists at present. The difference between the mis- ery of the Inferno and the misery of Mow York is not one of degree. Men and women and children here suffer, 1f not eo much as in hell, at least to the full Umit of their human capacity. And there are more kinds of misery in New York than Miltom ever dreamed of in his blindness, But the great fact is that this human, earthly suffer- ing is at once economic, accidental and—not hopeless.” Not a Property Question. “Do you speak from the Socialist view. point?’ I asked, “Does your programme of soctal adjustment include the aboli- sonal property?" “I would not overthrew the great social institution of property if I could,” réplied Dr. Devine earnestly, “And no revolutionists could overthrow tt if they would. Poverty, a¥ I define it, is not the absence of property. Temporary, even if complete, lack of wealth 1s mere- | ly an incentive to wholesome labor, To be poor in this sense, to be penni- less or in debt, may be of no disadvan- tage. I have in that condition | myself, and I have no expectation of | ever being far removed from it, Most of my personal friends have known poverty in this sense; many of them pass out of it but @ little way, and | ne back into ft again and again, But there ts another kind of poverty, which I have distinguisehd by calling {t misery, which, while tt implies lack | raiiroad transportation over great sections of the country.” Company, Fulton Stat Flatbush Ave Brooklyn _—————— The report says the greatest owner | ™ the country ts the | Wo with its | spect 01 considered, are g¢ S2ason in our history. $18, $20 & $22.50 Suits & Overcoats, 12.50 of wealth, iinplies also otner grave dis- advantages. is a low standard of living, over- . disease, friendlessuess, and other fic forms of misery, Is a very seri- matter, I have no expectation, To be poor, when poverty |? Here Than Milton Saw | in Dream ot Interno” nor even desire, t sense will be ab ery ardent oft new. . We have courts of J where our laws may be put into prac- tice, We have bu: ‘ We have religion, edu throphy. We have the fra -| ganization, the labor union, and other | economle and social institutions which | I believe to be fully equal to the ‘ask of establishing a more perfect Justice and diffusing among all classes the Need of | evitable ¢ individual ter for t understand wha’ from their por do special uses its great for schools and parks, for health and = morals, “Personally, to the teac! be known as ‘Egnorance which my ter. brought very directly diminish of definite polict Prominent Doc! formula, but It ha who have tried 1 rheuma meal and at bed before using, Res Any druggist hi hand or will qu FOREMOST CLOTHIERS SINCE 1845. Here are combined quality, assort- ment and value as never before in the Smith Gray stores. The quality gives that assurance of worthi- ness, naturaliy sequential to acceptance by three generations of New York’s better dressed men— the assortment is as complete and comprehensive as you would find in most stores at the beginning of the season; in fact, the greater amount is only just from the hands of our tailors within the last two or three weeks—and the values, all things reater than in any corresponding $22.50, $25 & $27.50 Sults & Overcoats, 15 $25, $27.50 & $30 Suits & Overcoats, 17.00 wholesale 00 4 Smith Gray & Co. machinery We benefits of prosperity: e the natural and tn- ences of his acts. F -maker, law enforce: result of his vote, tration or his decls! prosperity. Mo fault can be found with their public spirit. schools as the the greater part of the misery It seems to me that the re- sponsibility for that misery is of Education and the Board timate, ery of New York would be hed by the carrying out jes which are urged by Thie is a very simple and harmless hat povert olished, 1 we ldenly have individual Effort. nt is personal ery individual the highest to the low- must be shown that he} he social welfare, must | t really happens as a his routine adminis- tions of powel vice in this battle eo are the ‘The daily undertaken influence continually for justice and , I have long looked rin the elementary t entitled to cial worker. t the bottom of trict agents excoun- directly home to the not @ phenomenon of ties alone, In villages d towus it represents social mal- nts, just as it does in ur. 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On February 9, 1911, the Senate Postoffice Com- mittee, under the leadership of Senators Penrose and Carter, reported favorably to the Senate for action the Postoffice Appropriation bill, containing a pro- vision, put in without allowing public hearing or open consideration, but under political pressure from the White House, that increases the postage rate on maga- zines and periodicals to such an extent that it prac- tically absorbs all the profits of the publishing busi- ness of the country and makes the further production of popular-priced magazines impossible. It imposes a tax that is confiscatory. Notwithstanding, within the year Senator Boies Penrose said, referring to the Carter-Wecks bill: “These are some of the big features of the bill. The whole intent is to systematize and to modernize the entire postal system. It is idle to take up such questions as apportion- ing the cost for carrying second-class mail matter or the proper compensation of rail- roads for transporting the mails until we shall have established business methods in postoffice affairs by a reorganization of the whole postal system. “The commission unanimously recom- mended the passage of the projected bill. Personally I have been very much interested in all the details and, of course, am heartily in favor of the changes to be made.” Senator Carter said last March: “But I must forego further pursuit of details. The bill was cordially approved by Postmaster General Meyer and his assistants, and likewise has the approval of Postmaster General Hitchcock. It failed of rete dur- ing the last Congress owing to lack of time for its proper consideration, but I have re- introduced the bill, which is now designated Senate 62 Second Session, Sixty-first Congress. ¢ Committee on Postoffices and Postroads will favorably report the bill to the Senate, and it should be enacted into law before the close of this session, I believe not only that it will increase efficiency, but that, after the expense of installation is absorbed, it will result in such economies in the admin- istration of the department and service as will ere long wipe out the deficiency. In operatin, under it the department will be able wit! almost unerring certainty to determine the actual cost of each service performed, thereby reaching a sound basis for legislation such as is neither available nor obtainable under the present system. ; “I deeply sympathize with the earnest desire of the department officials to get rid of the deficiency they are fated to encounter each year, but I submit that the first real move- ment toward that end must begin with the substitution of a modern, up-to-date business organization for the existing antiquated system, which rests upon a few sections of law enacted in 1835, supplemented by statutory fragments added from time to time since that year.” John Wanamaker said recently: “With Mr. Hitchcock’s suggestion, how- ever, there will be no general agreement. The magazines are supported, not by the rice paid for the magazine by the readers, put by the advertisers. _ 7 “In a sense, magazines are private con- cerns; but they have a public function to per- form—an educational function. To tax the advertisements is to tax the quality of the educational matter contained in the pages, for the advertisements enable the publishers to pay high prices for literature and edu tional articles. The price paid for a maga- zine does not pay for the printing and the paper. If Mr. Hitchcock’s suggestion should Recon part of the President's plan it would mean that the public would suffer in the loss of much educational material that the pub- lishers then would be unable to buy.” We urge every friend of honest politics, economi- cal government and a free press to telegraph or write an immediate protest to their Senators and Repre- sentatives at Washington, THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY The Saturday Evening Post The Ladies’ Home Journal Philadelphia, Pennsylvania