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WILLIAM VINCENT ALLEN.
A vivid reminder of a most interesting epoch of
Nebraska's political history is the announcement of
the death of William Vincent Allen, former United
.States senator and district judge at the time of his
demise. He had been in low health for a long time,
and his death did not come altogether unexpectedly.
William Vincent Allen had made for himself
something of a name and standing before the popu
list wave swept over Nebraska. When be was chosen
to succeed Algernon Sidney Paddock as senator from
this state, in 1893, there was some dispute as to
i ..e w,.s a bonafide populist, or a free silver
republican. This point was never pressed to a con
clusion, but the senator was listed as one of the pop
ulist group that contained PotTer of Kansas, Taube
neck of Illinois and Kyle of South Dakota. This was
high tide for the populist party. In 18‘>6 its decline
was rapidly merging into fall, and the McKinley vic
tory that year changed the course of destiny so far
as this party was concerned.
Allen was a vigorous champion of his views both
in the senate and elsewhere. His famous single
handed filibuster won for him a certain quality of
note that really obsoured his more serviceable ac
complishments. Many of the ideas he held .and
changes he advocated have been taken up by others,
and some have found expression in a modified form.
His great thought, never carried out, was to secure
legislation that would give the federal government
control of all securities issued. Something of this
nature is found in the present day blue sky laws of
the several states and federal regulation of railroad
■ issue*.
Mr. Allen’s second term in the senate, but three
months long, was uneventful, save as it served to
definitely mark the line of the factional divergence
among Nebraska democrats. Retiring to the practice
* of law, the senator was soon sought out by the voters
• of his district and elevated to the bench, where he
ended his days in useful activity.
As a representative of the group of protest of his
ilay, Senator Allen showed both dignity and capacity
and made a deep impression on the senators, who
ame to understand him as a man of genuine ability
and not a mere political freak. He fairly won a
place in the history of his state, if not of the nation,
. as a man of sound reasoning judgment, a fearless
» advocate and a staunch friend. *
BIG STICK AFTER BAD PEOPLE.
One of the elements of vice control too fre
luently overlooked is what becomes of the undesir
ibles driven out of the community that is being
eformed? At the moment New York is entering
mild protest that Philadelphia should insist on dump
l ing its social refuse on Manhattan island- The
press of Gotham contends, and with some force, that
the big town has its full quota of the powers that
prey and their satellites.
Not so very many years ago the chief of police of
Pittsburgh, at the behest of a group of earnest per
sons, suddenly swooped down upon and closed a num
- ber of evil resorts in the dead of winter. Out oJ.
that came a procession cf some 300 odd women
storming at the doors of the churches for shelter
San 1 rancisco had a somewhat similar experience
and Omaha found that the closing of a proscribe<
district served only to scatter the denizens through
out the city.
Another phase, familiar enough to the officers,
is that spasms of reform effect a change of person
alities, rather than a real improvement in conditions
complained of. Evil forces are extremely mobile,
and transfer from one community to another sel
dom interferes with the actual vice.
What is accomplished by such movements as now
going op in Philadelphia is that vice becomes less
rampant, less flamboyant, and consequently Ipss of
fensive on the surface. It is unwise, though, to rest
on this. Reform, to be permanent and serviceable,
must be deeper. Driving gamblers and loose women
out of their haunts does not eradicate the evil ten
dencies of human nature that make such callings
profitable.
Holding all sympathy with every movement that
tends to improve the character, of society, we still
believe that true reform is not achieved by spectacu
* Iar methods. Law should strike hard and cut clean,
but lasting results will come only through the pa
tient application of patient training of the hoys and
girls who are to become mtn and women.
HIGH ADVENTURE OF YOUTH.
An 18-year-old hoy from Iowa has just learned
Ids first sad lesson in life in Omaha. He ran away
from home, acting on the impulse that surges strong
in the breast of every youth whoever amounts to
anything in the world. No boy worth a tinker’s dam
ever escaped the urge to go adventuring. “The
world is mine oyBter” is a motto for youth. But the
world is a tougher proposition to open than any oys
ter proposition, no matter how tender and juicy it
may be on the inside.
This boy landed in Omaha with a little money
and high hopes. He wandered about the streets on
a cold night, and met another about his own age,
who confessed that he was down and out, broke and
with no place to sleep. The adventuring youth right
there met his Waterloo. Generous and full of sym
pathy, he took his chance acquaintance to the room
he had secured at a hotel, und fell into the sleep of
healthy boyhood, to awaken and find he had been
robbed of clothing, money and watch. It may have
been disappointing, hut it was good fortune for
him, that when he applied to the police for assistance
he learned they were looking for him fo send him
home.
Wc hope his experience merely makes him a
little more prudent, Hiid does not dam his flow of
•ympathy for the unfortunate. Generosity and good
judgment go hand in hand in this world, and much
good comes from their partnership. The real victim
of this talc is fSe one who stole from his benefactor.
He shows himself lost to any sense of gratitude or
obligation. Probably he is supported by the sophistry
that thieves indulge in, but he may be sure in the
end it will recoil on him.
The one lad will be ii> n good home a little
longer, and when he leaves will be better equipped
to protect himself. The other may in time see the
error he is pursuing, but probably not until he has
had some time to reflect behind prison doors.
PRESBYTERIANS ASK FOR LIBERTY.
Heresy hunting has been rather on the decline
in the Presbyterian church for several years, until
Mr. Bryan gave it a fillip in the convention at Fort
Wayne last summer. Out of that incident grows
another which is likely to have some definite bear
ing on the future of the great denomination. With
out especial ceremony last week publicity was given
to a declaration of independence signed by 150 of
the pastors of the principal Presbyterian congrega
tions of> the country.
These men profess adherence to the Westminster
confession, which includes the virgin birth, but as
sert that nowhere in the Westminster confession is
a minister required to “assent to the very words of
the confession.” The declaration, or affirmation,
as it is termed, was prepared by a committee named
in June, 1923, made up of Rev. Murray S. Howland,
D. D., of Buffalo, chairman; Rev. Robert Hastings
Nichols, L). D., of Auburn. N. Y., secretary; R°v.
Philip S. Bird of Utica, N. Y., treasurer; Rev. Robert
B. Beattie, D. D., of East Orange, N. J.; Rev. Janies
C. Clarke, D. D., of Nashville, Tenn; Rev. John J.
Lawrence, D. D., of Binghamton, N. Y.; Rev. Alex
ander MacColl, D. D., of Philadelphia; Rev. William
P. Merrill, D. I)., of New York city;'Rev. William
L. Sawtelle, D. D., of Scranton, Pa., and Rev. George
B. Stewart, D. D., of Auburn, N. Y.
Among those who signed it is Edwin Hart Jenks
of the First Presbyterian church, Omaha. The fifth
paragraph of the affirmation sets out:
“We do not desire liberty to go beyond the
teachings of evangelical Christianity. But we main
tain that it is our constitutional right and Christian
duly within these limits to exercise liberty of
thought and teaching, that we may nwre effectively
preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the
world."
T. Dewitt Talmage said, many years ago, when
the Westminster confession was being debated: “I
do not believe in the nineteenth century sitting at
the feet of the fifteenth.” Ministers of today are
insisting that the bonds of creed be loosened, that
the message of the Master may be made plainer and
more convincing. They do not ask that the one
great fundamental be modified, but they do hold
that religious leaching should keep track with man’s
increasing hold on truth in other matters.
VINEYARDS AND BANK ACCOUNTS.
VV. J. Bryan used to entertain delighted audiences
with his discourse on the tale of Naboth’s vineyard,
only the lesson he drew was somewhat different
from that which will be derived from contemplation
of reports made by the Council Bluffs Chamber of
Commerce.
These have to do with experience of the Potta
wattamie county grape growers. People who drive
around the hills back of Council Bluffs in the sum
mer time, up Mosquito creek^ for example, know
that grapes grow in profusion. Some even express
surprise that such luxuriant and well kept vineyards
can exist in these post-Volstead days. According to
the figures given out, the reason is very apparent.
Grapes paid their growers at the rate of $327.75
per acre for the last two years. Very few acres in
this vicinity can show a larger average return, no
matter what is grown on them. Uses for these grapes
are not confined to the making of wine. It is un
questionably true that large quantities are used by
home vintners, who produce a more or less delectable
drink from them. But the bulk goes into jellies,
marmalade and other delicacies that are preserved
for winter consumption.
Many a good housekeeper has learned the trick
of expressing the juice fend bottling it, turning it
into jelly from time to time during the winter, as
occasion requires. Other ways of getting the good
out of the luscious fruit are known and practiced.
What is really worth while taking note of it that
the Pottawattamie county grape growers are making
heir business pay. It should be extended. The
outhern-exposed hills of Nebraska will do as well as
hose of Iowa on which to raise the grapes. Why
i not extend the culture?
Israel Zangwill boasts that he is offered drinks
| everywhere he goes in America. Before we agree
that the offers are tributes to Mr. Zangwill’s popular
I ity we would know the brand. Ulterior motives may
j lurk behind some of those offers.
“Every car pays for itself,” says Mr. Brisbane,
discussing the automobile industry. Must be an
oversight somewhere; we know the exact location of
one that has overlooked its obligation.
Mr. McAdoo is ungrateful. It was the two-thirds
rule that resulted in the nomination of Wilson, made
McAdoo secretary of the treasury, and later the son
in-law of a president.
Wish that either the warring theologians or con
gress would subside for a while. It is awfully diffi
cult to keep from mixing the headlines.
Bootleggers in Kansas are using postholes for
liquor cache purposes. Their victims use holes of a
different shape and quite a bit deeper.
It remains to be seen whether General Butler's
push is strong enough to overcome political pull in
Philadelphia.
Harry Sinclair has Waved aside the proffer of
the Albanian crown, probably because he already hHS
plenty of trouble on his dome.
A Chicago man convicted of intoxication was
paroled to his wife for life. But why punish the
innocent.
The ideal tax reduction plan is the one that will
reduce our taxes and make the other fellows pay
more.
The announcement that it was smoke, not fog,
cleared up everything but the atmosphere.
Mrs. Bassett refuses to play her side of/the
Bassett-I’utnam-Bassett triangle.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha’* Own PoM—
Robert Worthington Davie
G. R! G. R.l
That'* who you are!
They've heard your voire In Heaven and Bordeaux
They've heard It In the walla of Jeth-hn—
Whore Knquhiunix In ahlv'rtng Northland so
Where eamlN of the Haharn elft and blow—
And mottled native* of the Houthland low
Myth-mingled wonderment you throw
Itynnmlr musle, *nd they know
It eonieth from a wonderland nf.n
It ahlorlh on the Slh'nca of a etui
Ai. it: tt. it.:
Thfil a who you ure'
“The People’s
Voice”
Editorials from readers of The Morning
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nviteo to use this column freely for
expression on matters of public
: interest.
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Thumbs Down on Movie Queens.
Missouri Valley, la.—To the Editor
of The Omaha Bee: J see In the ‘‘Peo
ple's Voice" that our good friend Ma
guire is all worked up over the latest
little hub-hub In movieland. Come
on. Maguire, and cool off. It sure is
a poor man who will not defend a
woman, but when they monkey around
and get their foot in the hot soup you
can't do much for them. Forget your
oratory for a minute or two and try
to put two and two together.
You ought to know, if you don't,
that the papers are not going to put
out anything like this dope unless it
is true. Newspapers and agencies
have been busted in suits over slander
that would not hold a candle to this.
They've got the dope, old man. Don't
worry about that. Can you prove
that it Is not true? It does not make
any difference to me or to you wheth
er it is so or not.
I do not see where Mabel Normand
or any other actor has set the North
river afire. They amuse us. and en
tertain us, and get the "jack” for it.
It lakes an artist, It is Hue, to do the
stuff, but they get paid well for it.
When easy money and high living
causes them to make jackasses of
themselves they are not any better
than anyone else.
Your grandchildren and mine will
never even know who Mabel. Fatty.
Bill or Mary ever were. They are not
making history nr helping humanity
out of any trouble. They're doing
their part to make living a little hap
pier and more pleasant, hut don't get
it into your head that the newspapers
are breaking tip any world monuments
in making news items out of some of
their damn foolishness. The way some
of the stars act when In a mess sure
hears nut the adage that publicity
makes or wrecks a genius.
There's enough of our movie friends
in the scrap heap now to prove that.
The newspapers don't give us enough
of this, for if they did there would be
a whole lot more of the people In big
places watching their step. Where
there's smoke there's fire, and If you
monkey around long enough you're
going to get scorched. It's alright to
stick up for your friends, but keep
your shirt on. It's a good thing to
hold off for the cold hard facts before
we let ottr sympathies get away with
ns. Bet's shake, Maguire, and let BUI
Mavs fix her up
I. T. DUZZENMATTER.
For Home-Grown Art.
Omaha—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: It is rather amusing to
note the criticisms relative to Bakst,
the painter of the Willa father por
trait; amusing because it seems to
have been brought home to a good
many folks that we do not necessarily
have to go across the ocean for real
artists. Ullla father Is a Nebraska
product. Wouldn't It seem that right
here In old Nebraska, or a* least
withlnln the confines of the old U. 8.
A . that an artist could be found
capable of painting her portrait in a
real creditable way?
But no; we as Americans seem to
think that n foreigner rr/ust be de
pended upon for our real art—that we
must go to lands across the seas for
the things that please, whether It be
literature or art, or even In wedding
gowns. We happen to know a news
paper illustrator who has achieved
national distinction but who sometime
ago changed thp ending of his name
so as to give it foreign color. He said
he was advised to do this because It
would give him greater distinction.
We are patriotic enough to believe
that the good old U. 8. A. has men
of every profession who do not need
to take a hack seat for men in some
foreign country, and we wonder if a
little relinnce upon our own folks
wouldn't he an excellent plan when
we want real work achieved.
H. H. B.
Against the Bonus.
Lincoln—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: If Milton II Frank's
plea for a bonus for the soldiers Is
based only on "the difference between
the man that stayed at home and the
man who went into the service," then
the soldiers have nothing coming. The
average wage earner at home during
the war did not make enougli to keep
half way even. It Is true some trades
received very high wages, commen
surate with the Increased cost of liv
ing, but they were very much in the
minority. No one promised the sol
diers a bonus when they went to war.
We all thought they went to war as
a patriotic move. M. T. M'SHANE.
Center Shots
The Chicago News' headline, "No
Life, Water, Heat, Air or Hope on
Moon," suggest* that the professional
reformers made a particularly
thorough Job of It up there.—Spring
field Union.
And so we spend more for chewing
gum than foi books. Well, well; it's
so much easier to exercise the chin
than the mind—Wooster Heeord.
Congress Is not easily discouraged.
It keeps on passing law* In an effort
to find some that will work.—Trlnl
ibid Picket Wire.
The first part of January ahould
lie a good time for the publishers to
sell those hooks on will power.—Port
Arthur News.
Modernists may take away part of
the creed, but they will leave the good
old collection plate.—Jersey City
Journal.
The check hoy may seem a pirate,
hut Just think what it will cost those
whose hats are In the ring.—Wen
ateheo World
It Is all very well to trust to the
right hut a left Is much more after
five when properly developed. - El
Paso Herald
Jtarkbone I* most Impressive when
a little of it Is concentrated m the
knot at the top Chattanooga Times.
Marly Mperil
It was the day before the derby,
and nn liuiulsitlve fan who bail been
looking over a few of flu entries
came upon a likely mile roan groom
ed by an old darky
''Good horse," commented the fan
"There ain't none hettali, sur,"
said Hie darkey.
"Who was lie sired by?"
"Well, anh." replied the darkey
aware that the pedigree of his little
horse was anrnewhat shady, "nobody
knows that. This colt Is so fast he
run away from linnis he ton h evah
he'd heard Ills pap's timin'" I In
par’s Magazine,
A New Year's llcsolullon.
One of out New Year's resolution*
Is to he that we shall cease to "pan''
Senator Magnus. \\should cer
talnly hale to eiep ,1., ntivlhlng that
might elect Magnus to he the presl
deni of flies,. 1'nlled Stale-, a od that
Is what all this publicity of one soil
and another mil" teed I-' In the long
I uni— l ted wood (Mlnnt tiara tie
Where the Tail Corn
Grows
The Algeria Upper Oes Moines Re
publican—a cognomen calculated to
cover quite u bit of territory—opine*
that McAdoo will be easy picking for
the O. O. P.
"When a man tells yon that he in
going to add to the expenses and yet
reduce the expenses, just put him
down as a plain liar,” advises the
Charter Oak Times.
Admitting that there may be some
promotion work about the flood of
letters and telegrams uif ng tax re
duction, the Sioux City Tribune warns
congressmen not to construe the de
mand as bogus, lest they find that
they assumed too much.
"When we remember what Mr. Wil
son thinks of the people it is strange
that his son-in-law, Mr. McAdoo,
should want to be president," chortles
the Humboldt Republican.
"If these are hard times, what did
our forefathers who came Into the
wilderness go through with?" asks
the Rolfe Republican.
Senator Borah introduced a resolu
tion outlawing all war and making It
a public crime. "Evidently Borah 1m
missing himself from the front pages,"
chuckles the Marshalltown Times Re
publican.
"We ought to leave some problems
for future generations to worry about"
suggests the lies Moines Capital.
The Waterloo Tribune asserts that
only a cheap politician could conceive
of the president trading his support
of Ford's Muscle Bhoals proposition
for Ford's political support. "Only
a cheap politician,” continues the
Tribune, “could conceive of Henry
Ford making such a deal."
The Cedar Rapids Gazette expresses
ple.'istiia at Mr. Ford's decision to sup
port Coolidgo instead of being a can
dldate himself. "Republicans and
democrats alike,” says the Gazette,
"will he more cheerful, because Mr.
Ford would have drawn large nutn
hers of votes from both parties."
Senator Lodge does not agree with
Secretary Hughe* about a world court.
"The senator Is always In step, and
everyone else out." sarcastically re
marks the Davenport Democrat.
Noting the rapidity with which the
mercurv has been flopping up and
down, the Sioux City Journal Is now
convinced that Mercury has winged
feet.
The Montlcello Express haa’counted
the hands of all those working by the
month who are in favor of the 13
month year, and reports all hands up.
The Clinton Herald admits that
deafness is at times a Messing, cne
of the times being when a dull and
uninteresting speaker is about to con
sume an hour or two of time at
the banquet.
"We wonder, don't vou,” queries the
Oehvein Register, "if the government
is guaranteeing the railroads 5 3 4 per
cent on their Investments, how it
comes that some railroads go Into the
hands of receivers, broke?”
The Webster City Freeman Tribune
opines that farm organizations would
help the farmers more by spending
their time devising plan* to Increase
the value of a bushel of grain instead
of devising methods of producing more
bushels to the acre.
In the opinion of the Marshalltown
Times-Republican, "the fact is that
the inmates of the prisons do not work
as hard as those who stay out and
make a respectable living. No occa
sion to pity the man who is making
shirts and aprons indoors while an
Other Is shoveling snow or driving a
delivery car where it hasn't been shov
eled."
Spencer New-* Herald; Even' refus
al to pay the bonus will extend the
controversy. The bonus, like the poor,
we will have with us always unless
we pay it. Therefore let s pay it like
men and take it out of politics for
ever and in the future. If we don't
like bonuses and don't want to pay
them, let s not promise them.
The Knoxville Journal fall* lo grasp
the Rrookhart theory that Wall street
Is to blame for cheap hog* and wheat.
“Why pay a high price for lamb* and
steal the hogs?" queries the Journal.
The Sjnce oj Life j
Professor (In zoo class)—Wa will
now name all of the lower animals
In their order: beginning with Mr.
Jones—Dartmouth Jack OXantern.
"You (to to a great deal of pains to
teach your children to be polite."
"Yes, air," answered Mr. Chuggina.
"polite, gentle and obedient. It’ll be
easier to learn from me than later on
from the motor cops."—Washington
Star.
Tlhbs—That barber Is a rare bird.
Jetts—Why throw the spotlight on
him?
Tlhbs—Whenever he shaves himself
he can't stop until he talks himself
Into a hair cut and a shanvpoo.—De
trolt News.
Th«r Youth—But, dearest why need
we wait till October? The Cinema
.• tar—Well, old thing. I'm rather keep
on October. You eee, I've never been
married In the autumn before —
Punch,
A chap was arrested for assault
and battery and brought liefore the
Judge
Judge to prisoner)—What Is your
name, yotir occupation and w hat a re
you charged with?
Prisoner—My name Is Sparks, I am
an electrician, and I am charged with
battery.
Judge—Officer, put this guy In adry
cel!—The Inland Merchant.
I don’t know whether that chorus
girl was stringing me or not."
Huh?”
"But she spent an hour telling nm
hmv (Irmly She believes In Santa
Claus." Louisville Courier-Journal.
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W. M. QUIVI1V.
(Seal) Notary Public
“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other News/ntpers—_
Grandstand Playing on Income Taxes.
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
When there is a free-for-all joust in
the Munchausen business, the most
monumental fib is alw'ays told by the
last prevaricator who gets into the
competition. Things work out in po
litics sometimes very much in that
way. A case in point is the political
competition on tax revision that has
been going on in Washington since
Secretary Mellon put forth his plan
for a general reduction all along the
line.
It was a foregone conclusion that
the democratic minority would scan
the Mellon plan, item by item, and
make substitute proposals with an eye
to the voting business in the coming
campaign. It also was a foregone con
gone conclusion that, if the democrats
(aine second in the conipf: 40b h the
insurgent republicans, as t*«»* third
group of contenders, would sluice oft
the denx>cratic proposals on the lower
|rungs of the income tax ladder, and
blow up the items on the higher
rungs. This, of course. Is precisely
what has happened. The insurgents
are hound that the maximum surtaxes
shall remain as they are—50 per cent,
and they make this percentage apply
on Incomes in excess of $200,000.
If the insurgents are right in their
general position regarding surtaxes
on the higher incomes, they should
not have ls?en content with having the
[maximum stand as it is today. They
should have insisted on going back
to the original rate which, if we re
call, was 6$ per cent: or perhaps they
should have gone even higher. The
fact that they do not go the whole
distance may be interpreted as a tacit
[confession on their part that there is
something in the assertion of Secre
tary Mellon that surtaxes can be so
levied as to defeat their own purpose
— the exaction of heavy levies on the
higher incomes
Secretary Mellon formulated his
plan on a basis which he believed to
be scientific in the light of actual ex
perience in the working of the “higher
brackets.” His procedure was akin
to that of the actuarial practices »*f
the insurance companies. Does the
democratic minority so predicate its
proposals? If ho, is it reasonable to
think that those outside the Treasury
fleparment arc as competent as those
within the Treasury department to
sav what the revenue probabilities are
under a given schedule of rates'*
The Treasury department has made
long detailed and careful study of the
operation of the income schedule of
today as compared with the operation
of the fornr*r schedule. It has had im
mediately at hand all the data possi
hie to collect. It ought to he letter
equipped than any group of officials
or citizens not so fortified with the
facts to devise a safe. sound and rea
sonnble revision, and by that kind of
revision is meant a revision that co-,
ordinates incomes to necessary ex
penditure and tends to the least dis
couragement of the investment of
capital in productive enterprise.
On its face the democratic proposal |
may sound better to the casual think
or among taxpayers than the Mellon
proposal, and the Insurgent republl
can proposition even better than that
of the democratic minority. The fal
lacy of this sort of comparison lleB in
the fact that there is an Indirect as
veil as a direct burden of taxes on
the people as a whole.
Fellowship in Industry.
From the Christian 8clence Monitor.
There is convincing logic In the con
elusion advanced recently by Mr.
Sherwood Eddy, associate general
secretary of the foreign division of
the V M C. A, that whereas man
kind has made great progress in mas
tering so-called physical forces, there
exists the need of a more complete
"mastery of the moral forces." In
an address delivered Itefore the Bos
ton Chamber of Commerce. Mi. Eddy
made it quite plain just what he
meant by this observation. He re
turned to tlie United States from a
survey of Industrial conditions in 22
countries of Europe and Asia. There
he found what he regards as un
mistakable evidences unrest, due
chiefly to the oppiession of laimr by
selfish, profiteering en/ployers. Ue
says there is cause for the dissatisfac
tion whit It results in 4.000 Industrial
strikes annually in Japan. India and
China, where the workers toll for a
mere pittance, and where, in some
cases, the factory owners average an
annua! profit of 100 per cent on their
Investment.
It was not intimated that mankind
has not realized that a way has been
found to overcome this menacing tin
rest. The way has been found. All
that remains Is to put Into practice
the unselfish methods which, by a>
tual proof, have been shown to be ef
fectlve as well as practical. For many
years, in some of the principal Indus
trial plants >X the United States, eru
ployors have, under the name of wel
fare or fellowship rrv vements. sought
to apply the Golden Rule to industry.]
Recently attention was rather unos
tentatfously called to the annua!
"Fellowship" meeting held by the em
ployers and employes of the Com
monwealth Steel company of Bt.
Eouis. Mo., at Its great plant In Gran
ite City. HI. Some 85n , workers,
classified under the heading “5-8-10.
12 15-18 and 20-year men ' attended
the meeting, with their families The
terms of service of some of those
longest employed co-ordinate the
perirsl during which President How
ard and other officials of the corn
pany have unceasingly sought to ap
ply. in all departments of their busi
ness. the true fellowship idea.
There is more than mere welfare
in the fellowship rule In industry.
Genuine fellowship embraces a shar
ing of opportunity and a division of
responsibility, and consequently a
fair division of tke rewards which]
certainly follow Fellowship embraces
welfare, unquestioningly. but welfare,
as that theory Is sometimes adapted
to Industry, does not necessarily com
prehend actual fellowship.
The Golden Rule can be applied to]
business and industry. Conspicuous
Abe Martin
"What sort o'clientelle have you
got,” atked a show pgent o’ Man
ager Craw o' the Melodeon Hall
t'day. “N'ot any, th’ town won't
support one,” he replied. Joe Moon
wuz raided t’day before he'd hardly
tapped his resources.
(Copyright. 1124)
proof of this fact has been given. The
stumbling block in the way of many
really unselfish employers Is the lack
of moral courage to declare their ad
herence to an old-fashioned rule If
all that Mr. Sherwood Eddy tells us
is true, there is serious need of real
ization of the necessity of establish
ing closer and better relationships
between those who work and tboef^
who pay The unrest In Industry
now so apparent will become more
marked, more aggrasated. as undeni
able Inequalities are realized and mag
nified.
Just lake Reggie.
"Father named his new foxhound
after you. Reggie."
I wonder what put that idea in
his head.”
"He says the dog doesn't know
enough to keep a scent when he s
got it."—Boston Transcript
The Latest Creation.
Caller—So the angels have brought
you a new bahv sister.
Elsie idisgustedlyl—To see the fu*s
nurse makes over her you'd think she
came from Paris—Boston Transcript.
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