The evening world. Newspaper, October 28, 1911, Page 10

i f ce rE ae a eg en er tt Padtished Patty Except Sunde by, the Brons Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to 63 P Ww, New ork. 3. ANGUS SITAW, Pres, and Treas, JOSEPH PULITZER Juntor, Bee'y 3 Park’ Row. 63 Park Row. as Second-Clnen Matter. For Iand and the Continent and All Count ny is nvernewonss ostal Union, $9.75 85 ——_—___—_ Qebecri Entered at the Fost-Ofice at Now, ¥ tion Rates to Tho Evening World for the United States Canada, verestees $3.60] Ono Year, + .80| One Month and VOLUME 52......... teveveecee eNO, 18,330 IMPROVING THE NATIONAL DIGESTION. HEN a Government suit to dissolve the United States Steel W Corporation was mooted it was affirmed that the actual filing of the suit might clear the air, since business then would know the worst. Suit has been brought against this giant corporation, but is not the “worst” also the best, as it is fabled to) be East of Suez? Will not the effect be to rid industry of an incu- bus, rather than deprive it of an incentive? For half a century the persisting struggle of American enter- prise has been against inflation, which may be called the national mania. One section after another, one cl after another, has a tempted to get something for nothing or sell nothing for something. When the inflation craze raged around the greenback, business men of the West were behind it. When it raged around the fifty-cent silver dollar, farmers were behind it. Is not the era of which “the billion dollar trust” is the flower just another inflation craze, this time with the business interests of the industrial East behind it? Are not all three “get-rich-quick” phenomena manifestations of the national delusion that one may lift himself over the stile by his | bootstraps? The Greenbackers wanted an irredeemable paper currency 80 that money could be had without the tedious process of saving it, and debts could be scaled off by paying them in a debased medium. The advocates of Sixteen-to-One wanted to halve the debtor’s burden by taking the gold guarantee from behind the silver dollar; they wanted to give producers of silver a hundred per cent. bonus by put- ting the dollar mark on fifty cents’ worth of ore. Has not Big Business essayed a like thing. Herbert Knox Smith, Federal Commissioner of Corporations. says as much when he reports that the United States Steel Corporation is capitalized at $1,468,000,000 but has a valuation of $682,000,000. Com- binations of its type have not inflated the currency as those benighted | Populists, Weaver and Pfeffer and Bryan, sought to do, but they have inflated their securities and exchanged them for currency. Does it make much difference whether the Government or the American Bank Note Company “creates” a value by stamping a piece of paper, so long as the value is not there? Two great landmarks have been set up in the fight against in- flation. One was Grant’s veto in 1874 of a bill increasing the issue of greenbacke to $400,000,000. John Sherman said then: “If now, in this time of temporary panic, we yield one single inch to the desire for paper money in this country, we shall pass the Rubicon, and there will be no power in Congress to check the issue.” Congre: did pass the Rubicon, but Grant turned it back, and the historian Rhodes calls his veto the most praiseworthy act of that. adminis- tration. The American people set up the second landmark in 1896 when they defeated Bryan on the free silver issue. The leadership in that fight to put a dollar’s worth of value behind every dollar of currency was taken by the business men of the East. Then they proceeded to do in the era of combination what they had decried when the farmer, the Populist and the silver miner undertook it. They put two and two together and called the sum eight instead of four, and issued and sold securities for the larger amount. Ia not the third landmark in the war against inflation the euit just begun against the biggest of these corporations—the euit to which the Supreme Court decisions in the Standard Oil and Tobacco ‘Trust cases have led up? It was good for the nation when Grant pierced the greenback inflation bubble with a veto. It was good for the nation when the voters shattered the silver inflation bubble with a hostile majority. It will be good for the nation that the Taft Administration has sub- fected the stock inflation bubble to the solvent processes of the courts. In Grant’s Administration business carried the unensy load of wndigested greenbacks. In Bryan’s heyday business was menaced with a dict of half-digested silver. Ever since, business has been oppressed by what Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan—who ought to know— has called “undigested securities.” The vain effort to digest them has made about all the economic phenomena of a dozen years—the alternate fever and chills of Wall street speculation; the emergence of the “Pittsburgh millionaire ;” the periodic flurries over the cost of living; a diffused if formless aense of grievance; a pervasive political unrest. Stock inflation carried with it not only the purpose but the necessity that all benefits possible to combinations should be appro- priated by the combining companies, and that instead of being shared by the consumer they should be taken out of his skin. ‘The only way to put value into the paper securities of the big trusts was to extract it from consumers’ pockets, That was done through higher prices, and the process spelled naked oppression. It is absurd to call Government action against this inflation a mischievous purpose to arrest economic law. Economic law equally abhors the attempts to make paper money, standard silver dollars and marketable securities by fiat alone. It visits each offense with impartial penalties, and rewards in the general well-being every refusal to accept shadow for substance, every return ‘to sound practice. | Letters From the People ‘The Pawned $1.50. ‘To the FAitor of The Evening World: In answer to Edward D. Ohl's “Fren- ~ ‘Fan’ Finanes" problem I would the gentleman from Philly was out $1 and a fe nts interest, He gave the frenzied “‘fan' $1.60 for the ticket and at the pawnbroker's gave out another $1.60 and inter That ts $3 paid out, He gets the $2 bill from the pawnbroker, Therefore he |# out $1 and interest, BE. REGEL, Women tn Busine men for other office duties, told me that for ordinary stenographic work they found women satisfactory, but for the detail work they Why #0 many women not on account of thelr ability but be- cause they will work for a small salary, often not having to pay board, and spending al! thelr wages on dress, Em. ployers find the girls spend too much time before the looking glass, to say nothing of the destre to secure bargains at the dry goods and muste stores. If ERE yn tle Me toy your employer hag found men unsatis- MC. H. saya that women are auperior | fc\ory perhaps he paya a small salary to men as office workers, In refuting | W. H her #tatement I would say that a man-| 1904 Was Leap Year, 1900 Was Not, ter of one of the largest corporations r of The By n America, employing @ great y 1900 and 1904 | men and women stenographers and only JOHN, CAN | Tate To You? 18 THAT You, SOHN, (WANT To Tack To You Copyright, 1011, by The i's Publishing Oo. (The'Now York Word). 6EA.TOW, for goodness sake,” sald N Mra, Jarr, as she held her hus- ‘band up tn the hall and sank her vatce @o the visitors in the front room ould not hear her, ‘do not try to tell your old funny stories to Prof, Ponsonby Pomfret and his wife They @re intellectual people and will not be at all interested in the elde-splitting whimatcalities that you retall about your friend Gus, the saloonkeeper, and Mr. Slavinsky, the glass-put-in man. “Me? I'm the high brow guy,” said Mr. Jarr. No word shall escape me to affront the most erudite or shook the supersensitive and fastidious.’ And he allowed himself to be led into the front room and to be introduced to Prof. Ponsonby Pomfret of Pompton, and his wife. The Professor was a Uiny, smug looking man with an aqut- line nose and a hi long. His wife waa @ little blue-eyed, yellow-haired woman, who looked Itke @ canary, and, aa it transpired, had about the same mental equipment as that feathered twitterer. at last, although I suppose tt was good “In P ladelphia. “How did you manage to cell all ‘Jack’ in ‘ack the To Tack Ta You JOHN, LWANT } vy mop of hatr, worn | “Tam eo glad it has stopped raining | AFTER DINNER | (CAN'T EAT, READ 4N0 Tauty 4T THE Same TIME JOHN, WAIT A MINUTE Can You Beat It? By Maurice Ketten. . eae, Cpe — —— q ” 28, 1911. “ October (WANT To Taute To You JoxN, 'Would LIKE To Tau You AFTER DINNER CAN'T WAIT 1AM NOW LATE For THE OFFICE G wirey.! ME PLACE To TAL pusy for the crops," said M-s, Jarr, starting the conversation. The people of Harlem discuss the ¢rops continually, hence it is always @ safe topic, especially tn the winter. “Since deforestation has denuded the Atlantic seaboard States,” sald Prof. Pomfret, (who could talk interestingly on any subject, even crops and the weather) “the precipitation of moisture in this section has been erratic and Intermittent.” “The modern aclence of irrigation,” ventured Mr. Jarr, “especially in what were formerly arid lands in the We has had, I understand, a wonderful ef- Rr ther ahalal al al al fal of alal al afakalalalal ak ak ak ak ahi Mr, Jarr Is Awed by A Man From Pompton Vee AOA A EA IIE EE IE EE EE fect in influencing @ rainfall where there was none before. In other words, putting water on the land brings water on the land.” “The so-called arid lands, when ir- tigated, are wondrously fertile,” replied Prof. Pomfret. “In the New England States, on sandy or clay soil, It ts nec- essary to use elght to twelve tons of fertilizer per acre for one crop per year, while, without the ald of fertilizers, they can raise two crops a year on most irrigated land, especially in the case of alfalfa.” "* asked Mrs. Pomfri who had been gabbling in an under- Memoirs of la Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publ: A Tragedy of the Housemaids’ Union, FTER 4 eleepless night, during| Which I speculated over the pleas- @nt prospect of turning my villa over to the Dog- Wood Terrace Local No, 18 of the Gen-} eral Houseworkers' | Union and bondi myself to the walk- ing delegates of the union as @ peon, I met my neighbor, Sigismund Ro b b,! and Journeyed, across the Hacken- sack flats with him, “How ta it," 1 asked Nelghbor Robb, “that you never mentioned this union to me?” He did not reply for five full seconds, and I maw that his face was writhing. “It is not @ subject I choose to dis- cuss," he said in low, passionate tones. “Had I murdered both my grandmothers I would as soon talk about that. I tried | to buck that union,” he went on in tones BARTONW.CURRIE of Infinite melancholy, “I was a big, |strong man then, three inches talier| than Tam to-day, with @ fivedneh chest | expans‘on and biceps of triple-brass, There was pink in my cheek, fire in my eye and I had thick, curly hatr, Look | at me now! Little better than @ lving skeleton, bald, sallow, with a lack-lustre | eye and a fluttering lp. sleep 1s fied with nightmares and my waking | hours made hideous py the Jumps, "It seems ages ago, Mr. Riddle, but It} was only @ few years, We began with Ja greenhorn from Winland whose intel: | \tect seamed capable of only one feat- ‘counting money. You couldn't fool her She could figure out her wages] "She unlon paid absolutely no heed to By Barton Wood Currie jence, You a Commuter ishing Oo, (The New York World), Yenna while Mrs. Robb and I were teaching her English and doing her work for her. It was not until after she had let three sneak thieves into the house and given the plano to @ strange truckman that the walking delegate came around and signed her up. ‘He couldn't speak Finnish, but he made her understand and gave her one of those placards of rules. ‘The union wages called for were double her salary, #0 of ise she Joined on the jump, Naturally Mrs. Robb and I were a trifle warm and somewhat bitter, We had both slaved to teach that girl the rudimentals, I didn't exert any physt- cal violence in firing her, but I did throw her trunk out of the attle window. The trunk broke and two new dresses of Mrs. Robb fell out, also about twenty pieces of silverware, Nevertheless | was ar- rested on a charge of endangering the lives of Dogwood Terracers. And Yenna got away with her trunk plus plunder. “After that we began bringing in non- union m of all covors and designs. But they never remained longer than two days. If we had chained them in the cellar those union pickets woulda have reached them, Pretty soon It fell to my Jot to do the washing. And I can flatter myself that I turn out a good wash—am @ thoroughly competent laun- dress, as it were. Also I can cook, sweep and polish Mke an expert, My wife, though she wel@hs 20 pounds, ls very delicate, “You may not know, but the union has 4 serenading quartet, four singers in four languages. Somehow they get a permit to carol In front of the homes of e of non-union general house- wor I have thrown things and shot at that quartet, but never @uc- sfully, ‘They were as elusive ghosts, After six months of positive those fairy tale books so quickly?” there !f you carnied the sum into calcu-| inferno T pald @ forfelt of $100 and made ‘Substituted the name ‘Baker’ for lus. Glantkiller’ down to the value of a minute, @ flat surrender, Such was my experl- may be more fortunate,” (To By Continued.) tone, with Mrs. Jarr, as to whether Maude A*~ms was more like Mary An- derson than Mary Anderson had been Uke Maude Adams, and as to “hich of them had been sweeter to her mother. “Eh?” sald the professor, with a start, “What ts {t, my dea The lady canary stamped her little foot. “I just want you to stop boasting a grass"— chirruped the canary, in her piping lUttle voice. “A grass @ the very worst “Why, alfalfa kina!” ‘The Professor sighed and rolled up his eyes, and then turned to Mr. Jarr and continued: “In the Central and Western States corn may be planted along about April 1, while in the New England States tt 1s not safe to seed before May 10 to the 0th. In Irrigation” — “I just knew he was going to say something mean!" cried the canary-like lady again, flourishing her handker- chief, as she spoke. “He has no regard for my feelings, no matter where we are or who 1s presen’ “Why, what have I sald now, my dear?” asked the hapless Professor. ‘ou said that I was irritating you all the time,” chirruped the Professor's lady, heatedly. “Why, my dear, I was speaking of ‘r- rigation;’ I did not mention the word tion’ at all, ‘Irrigation!’ ” It's all the same thing!" was the reply, and, to prove it, she wept cop!- ously on Mrs, Jarr’s shoulder; and that good lady patted her comfortingly, and | ¢, sald: “There, there, dear, I know he didn't mean tt!"* remarked the Professor to Mr. “Don't you know any haven of @ saloon near by, Where they ve gol beer?" You bet I do," sald Mr. Jarr, “ard I'd like you to meet the man that ru is it; his name's Gus and he's a char- acter." “Then let's beat it!" sald the Pro- * fessor. ‘And they ald. ——EEEE THE IDEA AT LAST. Suburbs—Well, I've fust engaged two girls at tho Intelligence office, Urbano—Golng to have two malas now? Suburbs—Mercy, no! I engaged one to come Monday and the other a week from Monday, when No. 1 will no doubt be leaving. I can't spend all my time hunting intelligence offices, — Judge REVERIES OF A RIB panne Aa— Snes ES ' By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1911, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Wesld}, The Passing of the ‘Old Maid.” > Are lots of things in the world besides husband: oe. bs! It is only lately that this fact has dawned on us; but then ét ts only lately that there have been such things as beauty doctors, women's clubs, stenography, suffrage and women doctors, lawyers end Journalists, Of course there {s nothing quite @o nice as the “RIGH husband.” ‘Nothing ever has been found equal to a man’s shoul- der to cry on.” “Art’ ts thrilling—but through {ts hatr, A career is absorting, but you can’t tle pink ribbons round the curls of your “brain children.” Work {s beautiful and ennobling, but {t never comes around and pets you or calls you “Baby when you have & nervous headache; it never takes you to dinner or tucks ‘a pillow under your head or telle you that you have the “outest little nose in the world.” ‘And all these things the ideal husband {se supposed to 40, and—sometimes does. Oh, yes. it le quite true that there never wae @ woman 80 closely wedded to a “career” that she would not divorce it in @ twinkling ia order to marry the right man. But, a the RIGHT men are becoming scarcer than mosquitoes in Janu- ary. There aren't even enough of the wrong ones or of any kind to go all the way around unless we are willing to adopt Mormonism and to be eatiafied with one-tenth of a man apiece. Therefore the world ts just a little fuller of spin- ters than it ever wai But where are the “old maids gone? Where are those pathetic, pining creatures in corkscrew curls whose blighted lives were spent in making the rest of the world miserable? I'll tell you where they are: they have all gone into vaudeville. Nobody even BELIEVES in them any more except the joke-writers and the comic artists. In real life they are as much @ myth of the past es witches and ogres. An “old maid” I have before defined ae “an unmarried woman with more wrinkles than money.” But in these daya of wrinkle eradicatore and money- making opportunities there is not a woman living who can't keep the ratio of wrinkles to dollars as one to a hundred. An “old maid” ts a Mt of driftwood on the tide of life who has lost her youth, her fIlustons and her usefulness. As long as a woman hi Avid interest in life, as long as she ts sccom- plishing things, as long as she has the energy to curl her hair, wear « straight- front corset and go to work every morning, she may be called @ “maid” —bui she 1s NOT “old.” Some time ago The Evening World held a symposium on the question “Whe is a man old?” My answer to that was, “When he ceases to find the game Ife worth the candle," And the same answer holds true with a woman, fs never old so long as she has her hopes and her {llusions, no matter thoug! all her teeth may be false; she is never old so long as there 1s one thing in life! that Interests her so much that she would HATE to die! And in these days there are so many things in life besides a man to interest & woman—all the professions, the arts, literature, the stage, settlement work, trained nursing and, above all. the absorbing Interest of money-making. Adam, bless his heart, may be the MOST interesting thing in creation, but he ts not ALL of it. Yes, there is ALL you can’t run your fingers “CREATIO’ And any woman who {s creator, whether a mother or a poet, is one with the Divine Spirit—the Spirit of Eternal Youth, The woman who turns out pictures or books or turns over money may not be doing as great a work as the woman who turns out good sons and daughters, but she is doing something Infinttely greater than the woman who turns out bad or {ndifferent sons and daughters, and she {s tasting the same thrilling Joy of creation, the only real and lasting joy that the world holds for anybody, man or woman. Moreover, a successful laundress 1s of more use tn the world and distinctly happier than an unsuccessful wife. The very young girl fancies that when she succeeds tn getting a husband her fortune 1s made. Nonsense! It is no more “made” than that of the girl who succeeds in getting a Job. The “making” consists in MAKING GOOD, And the woman who doesn't make good sa “fatlure,"" whether she has failed in matrimony or out of it. As for the woman who DOES make good, believe me, girlies, she can marry at any hour of the day from that moment on. For, while there are so few men Willing to share thelr fortunes with a woman nowa- | days, there are mighty few who are not willing to share her success with her, Somehow they never think of her as an “old matd"—because an old maid a woman who has shut the dodr of Mfe on herself and left hope behind! And where will you find one like that to-day? The Week’s Wash — By Martin Green-— Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), 66 ELL," remarked the head) tee, headed by one Stanley, at the Steet W polisher, ‘they've done {t at! Trust. And safd Stanley has been gare Old Uncle Sam has nering the goods, Now comes a Gov- started to put the ernment sult to run coincidentally with Steel Trust on the the Stanley investigation, pum." “This dissolution business gives me a pain in the ankle, Suppose you ang I e rival businesses and have been cutting each other's throats, We get together and form a trust for the pur. last. old Uncle Sam!" ejaculated the laundry man. x about those silly women who make ‘How many po-! such a fuss over you, Ponsy,” she litieal tricks are pose of keeping up prices and garner= twittered, turned with Uncle Ing money. The Government makes us “Whom do you meant" asked the Sam as the goat! dissolve, Are we going back to the wiotesucr, “Par, far be it throat-cutting tactice after we have c asted the sweets of combination and “ woman, Alfalfa,” erted the from me to say tas 8 Preumeraivis ba that the Steel orkanization? If 80, we might es w@ rf ‘Trust should not call up the lunatic asylum and engage be dissolved if It is an unlawful comui-|& couple 0° sunny roome,”* nation, But it is a queer recommenda- tion of our system of government that it has taken us more than ten years to) find out that the United States Steel | “Accelerated Roars.” | cose eaeee Corporation is @ combination in re-) ¢¢7 HEAR a lot of roars about the straint of trade. City Budget golr > to $188,000,000,"" The Sherman law was on the statute said the head polisher. books in 191, Everybody in the country; ‘Mostly accelerated roart replied that could read and write knew that/the laundry man. |J. Pierpont Morgan and others were | city. gathering together a lot of competing! stecl companies and organizing them into a trust—everybody but the officers of the Government. That great and good man, Andrew Carnegie, take MH |$)87000.000 from himself, cleaned up more than $20,000,000 by selling his plant to the Trust. He knew !t was a Trust, too, “Well, the Trust unloads about a billion dollars worth of securities on the | people of the U. 8. A. and other coun-| . tries, More than 120,00 individuals own |*bout fifteen years Jateet atocka or bonds, Horny handed |#0t to keep it up. “We are no cheap We hit a pace in development go and we have brakes we cause hard tim | Atal it mils of Pitts- | SORA J 58 SU odd “Taxpayers' associatione meet and oad i protest against improvements. It must seven days in the week, are stockholders jand so are many widows and orphans. You can't lose the widow and ithe han when it comes to holding stock, Not an official Sand was raised to |be a terrible thing to be @ taxpayer. If awning property entails such fright- ful misery as taxpayers describe in (et- ters to the newspapers it's a wonder they wouldn't sell out, “It I owned property and had to shriek aloud every time I came across with $11 to the tax collector I'd secretly |ings and my troubles on him, But Mr, Taxpayer isn’t built that way. The ‘owner of property in New York is gen- erally looking for more of It. | ‘“Dhey say we are approaching the jstage when It will cost us $200,000,000 a year to run the oty. Well, if te are a $19,000,000 towk what's the matter with making a $200,000,000 front?" crease of the coc people of Brooklyn “However,” said the laundry man, |stap Mr, Morgan and his fellow con- spirators in the organization of the Steel Trust. Not a Governmen) sema- phore or flag was set against the scheme. So far as was apparent the Government acquiesced. Everybody | thought the Steel Trust was violation of the Sherman law, bu* we are so used to see the law thrown down and kicked tm the face that nobody pald any at tention to !t ow the Government has awakened to a realization that the Steol Trust Is against the law just asa national elec-| “you've got to make some allowance tion {# approaching. A Democratic| for people who have to live in Brooke |Congress hae been launching commit-|iye" e habit among tne look up some boob and unload my hold. ©