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a FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919 ‘Australia; Utopia— ~ Nol W. W. And Returned Australian Soldiers Settled the L W. W. Problem by “Direct Action” Method;! Persons Who Incite Strikes Are Arrested; | Eight Hour Day Wage Based on Living Expenses of Man, Wife and Three Unions and Employers Required to Sub- mit Difficulties to Banks Lend Money to Workingmen to Build Homes. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Coorrtgtt, 2829. by The Prom Pubtiching “ce ‘worst; ‘Where there aia’t no I Won't Workers and « man can raise @ thirst"— landlord, the dom all the other prob- hair of us Amert- cans are either Af ES “satistactority. ‘Bhort of transporting ourselves bod-| lent of your Supreme Court. All ay to Australia, there seems to mo| %rts of problems are brought before: fust one thing to do—and that is to| the courts of arbitration—working import a little Australian sense, a few Mf Australia’s methods of handling (he social nettles by which we all tre being stung. I came to this con- ‘lusion yesterday afternoon as I lis- temed to Mark Sheldon, the tall, blue- tyed Gnancier with a winning voice ind smile guarded by a firmly futting thin, whom Australia has sent to New York as commissioner and confiden- al representative of tts business in- torests. Mr. Sheldon has brought his Wife and five children with him, and he expects to remain at least two years in America, When I mot him m hie offices at No, 61 Broadway I asked first about hig published statemeng that Aus- tralia has no LW. W. and that labor Unions must arbitrate. “We DLD have the L W. W, and in, 1917 we had @ big railroad strik observed Mr. Sheldon. “But we hi got rid of the Industrial Workers of the World, and we have gone a long way toward solving our etrike prob- lems. “First of all, our returned soldiers got after the L W. W. There was & gest of them in a certain quarter fn Sydney, and the men back from the front went down there one night 4nd simpiy rushed them, The police jd to be called in to protect what was left. Then we arrested most of ihe worst leaders and jailed them for proved destructive acta, Then we jound out that practically all of them .dme from outside the country—many trom your west coast, So we put shrough @ bill which makes it possi- ble to deport any L W. W. as an undesirable citizen if he has not been in the country more than five years. ‘hat took care of about all the rest. “We do have a little trouble with sirikes, even now, although we also nave a law making it possible to ar- test persons who incite to strike— afd they have been arrested. But we went very carefully into the labor sit- uation some little time ago. First of all, We established two bases, The eight-hour day 1s national in Aus- (alia. We also fixed a minimum wage, based on the living expenses of the typical family—a man, bis wife and three children, So now, in Aus- {rafia, no man earns less than $15 & Company |AKE me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the In plain prose, take the next boat to Australia, where the L W. W,, the H. C. of L, the profiteering war, the Anti-Suffragist, Prohibition, poverty and nearly lems that gray the| week, and no single woman less than non ~ existent or/ &Fe required to submit all difficulties | have been solved! to courts of arbitration. ; Few Strikes No Bolsheviki Established; Minimum Children a Feature; Courts of Arbitration; (The New York Brentng Wort) nestic servant stringency, the labor $7.50, “By law both unions and employers The highest tribunal in these cases ta the equlv- conditions, overtime pay, whether the men shall be given time off to smoke, individual grievances. Hither side may appeal to the Arbitration Court, Instead of resorting to the strike or the lockout. “As a result, there are not many atrikes. ‘The chief difficulty with the present labor arrangements is that the minimum wage tends to become a maximum wage, and thus the un- usually able and clever worker 1s penalized, But we fect we have gone some way towarl solving the labor problem,” added Mr. Sheldon, mod- estly. “Flow about the cost of Ivingt™ I inquired next. “It 1s po much fess than tn Amer- fea,” ‘he replied. “In five years it has advanced but 30 per cent. Even tn {our cities there is no congestion of |living quarters. We have few apart- ments and no tenements. An Aus- |tralian has to go to London or Now York to see a tenement, Most of our people, including the workmen, live in little cottages with a bit of ground Jaround them, which can be obtained half an hour from the centre of Sydney for $25 to $20 a month and can |be bought on easy terms. Our banks lend any reliable workingman almost up to the value of the home he de- sires to purchase, “Wheat is half what tt te m Amer- fea, and we still have the 5-vent loaf, | Suwar is 6 cents @ pound, milk 11 }eonts a quart, the best butter 40 cents ja pound, and fresh eggs 40 cents a dozen. Shoes are going up, and a man must pay $7 or $8 for a good pair, We are much agitated about our shoe profiteers!" (So is New York, but not because we pay @ mere $8 per pair). “We have Uttle poverty,” continued Mr. Sheldon cheerfully, “although naturally there alw will be a few improvident. We have old age pen- sions, you know. Out of a population of 5,000,000 men, women and children, 2,600,000 have savings banks accounts and the average amount of money per individual (this means the entire 6,- 000,000) 1s more than $100, “Naturally enough, we have no underworld in our efties and no opt- demics of crime sweep them. Our po- lice are excellent, and when a robbery occurs there is a general popular out- cry. “We do not have prohibition, GOINGDOWN! Copyrish Press Publishing Oo, ka Now York Bresing Worl) DEAR NEIGHBORS: There 4s something innately repulsive to Americans in the thought of an individual or a nation think~ ing himself or itself SUPERIOR to another person or nation. Our wide democracy ways “Thou shalt not be superior to the other fellow.” This causes more friction than any one thing in our life to-day, We see it in the in- dustrial situation. We see it in the feeling against peoples in the old country. We see it in the hatred of individuals who, we imagine, think themselves bet- ter than us, the ordinary every- Aay citizen, What in the name of Samuel Hill is “social equality” any- way? The war levelled us, but we don't seem to want to stay levelled. Our spirit seems to may, “Don't let the other fellow Every woman in Australia can vote, |Every woman who will treat a ser- |vant decently can find one, Most of \our poys and girls marry young, since economic conditions make that pos- jsib » Every man can work fifty-two weeks in the year, and every fleld is open to him. We are the greatest democracy in the world—more so than you are,” Mr, Sheldon added, with a smile of courteous apology for the implied criticism, “I have been in the United States before," he added, “and in England and other parts of the world, and it 1s my hon- est opinion that nowhere does the everyday man or woman get so much out of life as in Australia, In the words of the immortal A. B, ¥,, “let's GO!" SUS SHOULD SAY SO. ness box, describing the way Over Seventy and Still on the Job! America’s Leading “Young” Old Men Include Ex-President Eliot of Harvard, and win) a " fntatsoatat Chauncey M. Depew, Who Are Both 85; Lyman Abbott, Who Is 84; John Burroughs, _ | | the Naturalist, and William Dean Howells, Both 82; Everett P. Wheeler, the Lawyer, Who Is 79, and Elihu Root, Former Member of Two Presidents’ Cabinets, Who Is 74. PONT a Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Cx, (The Now York Hvening World), HO says that old men should W retire from public life? It is an opinion that belongs in the eighteenth century along with old fashioned ideas that women, to be ladylike, must be useless; that read- ing, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic were the only true essentials of a sound edu- cation, or that Uttle girls should wear long dresses and work all day doing | fine stitches on patchwork or sam- plers, ‘This is an age of activity, and no activity ts more greatly apprect- ated than the services of a group of young old men, all more than seven- ty-four, several over eighty years of age, who are still holding positions of prominence before the public eye. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, age eighty- five, President Emeritus of Harvard University, 8 not old, although he has lived # long and active life, Be- cause of his broad experiences and views he has been chosen by Presi- dent Wilson as one of the twenty- two men to represent the public at the national conference on labor now holding its sessions in Washington. It 1s an honor that many younger men may envy, one for which a really old man could not have been chosen. Dr. Eliot has been much before the public for many years, He was Pres- ident of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, ‘As a recognition of special tmport- ance, he was awarded the first gold) medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1916, Another young old man who fs still on the job and has no thought of retiring {8 Chauncey M, Depew, who, at the age of eighty-five, finds no «if- ficulty in holding his own among men who have not reached his age, but who are no younger than he is, He maintains his record as a@ distin- guished after dinner speaker and an able railroad attorney, Lyman Abbott is not quite as old, being only eighty-four. He holds a record for @ long and active life dur- | ing which he has been a lawyer, A STONEMASON was in the wit- in which he had been as- saulted by the defendant. “He walked right into my yard and slammed mo up against one of my tombstones,” the witness said. d he ‘hurt you?” inquired the Court. “Hurt me!" roared the witness. “Why, I’ve got ‘Sacred to the Memory ot stamped all down my back!"— Galveston Nowa. pe clergyman, editor, He is editor in| chief of the Outlook and ts one of tie | youngest men on the job; any one of | them would say the same, | Among the most prominent is John Burroughs, whose long experience | enables him to hold without diMculty Inis place as the leading naturalist cf the world, He has written many books on the subject, with which most ios CTS RWALIA CA). nteresting of the world’s famous men, Another man who ts eighty-two years old and who holds an enviable position in the literary world. is Will- jam Dean Howells, well known eu- thor, ®ome men might be content to have achieved success, but he could never be satisfied unless strenuously conuinuing the work he has chosen. Everett P, Wheeler, young and sprightly at e@eventy-nine, wouldn't know what to do if he were not prac- ticing law as usual or giving his at- tention to his literary work. “BUl" Sewell used to be woodsman and guide to the late Col. Roosevelt. He ts thoroughly familiar with the woods of Maine and takes long hikes in either winter or summer, eome- times as long as forty miles. How many young men would want to at- tempt it? He is seventy-four years old and never felt younger. On one occasion when he went to attend a meeting of the Roosevelt Memorial Association on the twenty-ninth floor of the Metropolitan Tower, he found that most of the elevators were not running on account of @ strike, and would have walked up the twenty- nine flights if friends had not asked “The Strenuous Life.” y is easier to race up a@ hill than to stroll up. Momentum mini- mizes obstructions, Broad- jumpers take a long running start Other things being equal, the offen- sive army sweeps forward irresist!- bly, the shock of its impetus being worth thousands of troops. Brave retreats are brave exploits, but bat- tos ure won by attacks, Uppereuts, forward passes, right- crosses, flying tackles, double steals and home runs are offensive plays. ‘Teams and individuals of champioa- ship and topnotch calibre special ze and concentrate on offensive rather than defensive tactics, ADVERTISING is the greatest con- quering weapon of big business and ADV ISING 18 AN OFFENSIVE WEAPON, Every problem that has ever been solved—business, professional, mathe- matical, mechanical, ethical, moral, what not—was solved by men who were on the offensive, who attacked and attacked—again and again--at- tacked till they were rewarded for their pains, persons are familiar, He is eighty- l¢we years old and one of the most ‘There i» Mttle satisfaction and less TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bening World.) remuneration for the man who lives on the defensive, who wishes for things and fishes for things. There is much pleasure and more treasure for the fellow who lives on the OF PENSIVE, who fights for things and accomplishes things. The chap who is continually on the alert, who is forever itching to spring something new, who |s aggressive and progressive always gets most out of life, After all, the race to Success ts a short sprint against evenly matched competitors, and the fellow who 1s off with the pistol'’s flash, who gets the jump on the pack and fights to keep his lead has the race sewed up. The rest are beaten at the start. When Roosevelt died all mankind united in its estimate of the man who preached and practised “not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doc- trine of THE STRENUOUS LIFE; the life of toll and effort, of labor and strife;* who thundered that “the highest form of success comes only to the man who does not shrink from cobyricier wy S., wutnqoce buNEENWOOD. Bone” him to ride tn the one elevator that was running. Old age has none of its old-time disadvantages for him be- cause he doesn’t know old age and never intends to make its acquaint- ance, Who ever thinks of Etfha Root being seventy-four years old? He is one of the most energetic of the United States ex-Senators, whom everyone recognizes us a young man. He takes @ leading place in national political life, tg well informed on al) economic questions and is skilled in the prac- tice of law, He bitterly denounces the Boston police strike. He was Now York's representative in the Senate. He was a member of the Cabinet under Presidents McKinley a1d Roose- velit, and was once Secretary of State. Also there le a group of compara- tive boys a whole year under seventy. For instance there ts Samuel Gom- pers, aged sixty-nine, President of the American Federation of Labor: No one believes him to be old. He is facing the biggest job of all of the young old men, that of adjusting labor difficulties at the present time, Hie was one of the founders of the American Federation of Labor and has beep an advocate of the rights of labor since he was fifteen years old. Another who is sixty-nine years old and who is most prominent in public life 1s Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa- chusetts, one of the dominating forces of the Senate, He has been a Senator since 1593, Oscar 8 Straus, who was recently appointed a representative cf the Fuir Price Committee to confer with wholesale meat dealers to de- |termine what prices should be es- tablished as fair, is sixty-oine years vid. Isn't that task enough for any young man? He was formerly Am- bassador Extraordinary and Ministe Plenipotentiary for the United stat He has been @ member of Roosevelt's Cabinet, of the New York Public Ser- vice Commission and is ex-Presideat of the New York Board of Trade and Vice President of the National Civic Federation, a AN EASY WAY TO RENOVATE OLD OIL PINTINGS., HEN old oil paintings have become dark and cracked they may b@ made to look the color becomes more fresh. Cau- tion 1s absolutely necessary as the danger, from hardship or from bitter toll and who from these wins the ulti- ae | triumph,” cinch ie paint may become so soft as to run together, thus epoiling the wi like new by the following process, says the Illustrated World: Pour alcohol in a dish and put the picture over it, face downward, The fumes| of the alcohol dissolve the paint of the picture, the cracks close up and Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ETTING a seat in a Broad- way theatre is easy this season—easy like getting & seat In the subway. It’s standing room onty at the show sbops, same as tn the bars. Gitting room now costs as much at the theatre as « citting room ina fat. Only @ifference is, you get it for « month in a flat and a night ma playhouse. But the price is the same Seats go on sale eight weeks tn advance only for the bum shows. Beats for the big hits are eight DOLLARS in advance. Box office Price for a theatre seat has as much to do with the selling price as the par value has to do with Standard Oil. Specs grab the 00d eats and sell ‘em to the public. Public pays the box office price, the specs’ premium and the war tax That's why a seat’s as cheap as a trip to Japan. Box office is the place they tell you they’re all sold oat. It’s the last place a wise guy goes for seats, Only one seat in the box office, and that’s the one the ticket boy sits on. Way to see a g00d show is through @ pair of spece—and you have to pay the specs’ prices. Going to the box office for seats is like asking for ginger ale at a roadhouse, What you get is a smile Beat in the Stock Exchange ts & bargain side of # theatre seat. Stockings and blondes come a lot higher than stocks and bonds this season—that’'s why. Lambs in Wall Street get a trimming, but the Lambs on Broadway are cleaning up Broadway Lambs are actors. In the days when “Ten Nights tn a Barroom”™ made sense, bald beads and deadheads filled the theatres. To-day the deadheads have been cut off, but the bald heads are still with us, And they look lke the same old heads. Free list ts now suspended, Like the free lunch, and the only place you can get a pass is in a crap game. ‘The war may be over, but the war tax is still going strong. You still pay 10 per cent. amusement tax to see the villain still pursue Ms her. Even pay 10 per cent. extra to guess the murderer in the mystery shows, Justice triumphed tickets would make any town mad. Now costs as much to ran ® theatre party as ft does to run any other kind of a party—G. O. P. included. And it's just as easy for the G. O. P—or any G. 0.0 F. —to get four seats in Congress as to get four good ones in the seo- ond row. One reason’s that Con- ress ain't got the original caste Once upon a time a “two-dollar show” meant something big. You could get a front row seat for two dollars. You oan still get a front row ticket for two dollars, ‘but it’s the front row in the gal- lery, Orchestra seat is worth its weight in beefsteak and onions. Call ‘em orchestra seats because the speos play ‘em. Lotta middle-aged folks can re- member when ten-twenty-thirty cents was the price of admission. ‘Ten-twenty-thirty pays the war tax to-day. On the cheaper seats. Costs $1.10 to stand up at & g00d show now. Just shows how much we'll stand for. There's - tax on all seats too, but, thank heavings, you don’t have to sit on the tax. First night mob pays the heav- fest prices. Management gets as much for opening a show as a yees gets for opening a safe. But lots of times the yeeg has @ longer run after his opening than a show has. Average New Yorker considers it's bad form to hit a miss or miss a hit. That's why he's always a first-nighter. 60 ‘many guys tell you they see pre- mieres, you wonder who goes on the second night. So long as the brokers keep selling tickets, though, theyll be plenty of guys that will want to get in on the ground floor. And that'll fill the orchestra. And just eo long will Broadway and the subway be the same—standing room only. “Buffalo Bill.” 'N Buffalo Bill we lost a national character, A part of and belong- ing to an Amertoa without @ hyphen, the haven that was not yet & melting pot, he was, etcond to no man, typical of America. In him was personified the spirit of the great ‘West, of continent builders, of the pioneers who breathed America tn all her grandeur, lived America and may be sald to have made America, And & part of this picture ts the name that fitted Wiliam Cody as he fitted the West. For in how it started Nes the) whole picturesque story of “Buffalo Bin.” WI Cody was an infallible shot. And with buffalo roaming the Plaine | tm large herds # was not unusual for | him to kill twenty or thirty in one hunt. As buffalo meat was not only | edible but very palatable, this proved | to be @ lucrative source of income. | One day he was offered « contract for | the princety sum of $500 a month to} supply all the meat for the employees of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. This | meant a guarantee of delivering, twelve buffalo @ day to the railroad— | “nothing” for Will Cody; as he ex- pressed it, “just using up @ little am- munition.” One day the buffalo wagon came into camp without the famous hunter. | “Well,” asked one of the section! hands, “where's Buffalo Bill?" | “Buffalo Bill?” came the query. “yes, Buffalo Bill,” he replied; “didn't you hear my poem? It goes like this: \ Buffalo BM, Buffalo Bill, Never missed and never will; | Always alms and shoots to kill, And the comp'ny pays his buffalo bill! And the name has lived to tm- mortalize the man whose deeds earned it. | **Adam’s Apple.” | © all “have it in” for Adam for shutting to our faces the gates of the Garden of Eden, But many of us, though they may | not know it, bear @ particular re- semblance to this common ancestor that puts another chip on their |shoukler, For it is generally con- ceded that an “Adacn's apple" is no aid to beauty. And besides making of apoenntaree our Paradise « cold, bare work, it { HOW IT STARTED | Garry about on our persons unmistake ee Hermine leustadtl is Adam who inflicted upon us thts additional burden. ‘When our common progenitor took the fatal bite that forever doomed the rest of us to existence by the sweat of our brows, a piece of the fruit ts supposed to have lodged in his throat and stuck there tn his children's children unto the nth generation, And that ts why the slight protuber. ance that some people have at the front of the throat is called “Adam's apple!” Speaking of ancestry, some of us able proof of our ancient iineage. = = = Here’s a Good Test of Your Mental Alertness. 4 { Starting at the opening indicated by the arrow at the top, see how quickty you can find your way through the maze, with a pencil, ta the opening at the bottom, Ones half minute allowed, ma