THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE; ' OCTOBER 19,' 1919.
6 C
U.S. PROGRESS
REVELATION TO
THIS LONDONER
"My Eye! He Cried at
Sight of Factory Built
in Four Months
Here.
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By a ffptrlaf roirwpnndmt of Interna
tional Nwb 8arrlo and Lon
don Daily Expreaa.
Rochdale, Oct. 18. When Mr.
Samuel Turner told me today that
ne was "staggered" by the result of
liis visit to the United States I was
impressed by his use of the word,
because tie is a typical, coot, long
headed, far-sighted Lancashire man
who has built up the great asbestos
manufacturing concern of Turner
Bros., Ltd.
Was Staggered.
"I went to the United States," he
told me, "to find out what were the
prospect of this country and it
world trade in competition with the
United States under after-the-war
conditions. I spent two months in
the east and middle west investigat
ing industrial conditions, and I was
staggered by the result. I found
that in hardly any industry are we
able to compete with the United
States.
"I found coal of 14,000 British
thermal units a very high quality,
better than our average industrial
coal sold throughout the east at a
price not exceeding $1.92 to $2.40
per ton, pit-mouth price. ; I found
that pig iron could be produced at
26 a ton, against our $39, and steel
rails at $60 a ton, against $82, which
will be the price here when the new
'.ost of coal is added.
System in U. S.
"Looking into the question of fac
tory construction, I found that it is
now considerably cheaper in the
United States, particularly so if the
a-ell-known American standardized
lystem is adopted.
"Wages in the United States are
from 25 to SO per cent higher, the
rate varying with the locality. One
of the largest manufacturing con
cerns in Cincinnati pays unskilled la
bor 40 cents per hour and skilled la
bor, such as carpenters, 75 cents per
hour. .
Done in Four Months.
"If a man wishes to put up a new
factory in the United States he can
olace a contract, subject to penalty
if the time is exceeded, for construc
tion during the spring and summer,
in four months. Here a similar
building would take a year.
"I found evidence on every hand
that the United States is fully aware
of these advantages. Nationaliza
tion is out of the question there. No
one wants it or asks for it. ,
"As to finance, the position of
American firms is better than ever.
No firm which came within my no
tice was an exception to the rule.
They have practically unlimited
funds in their own treasuries. For
two years before they came into the
war they sold their output at auc
tion to the warring nations, making
profits beyond dreams. And now
they are using these funds for pur
poses of national aggression.
Claims Des Moines 'Want Ads'
Belie With Words 'Good Pay'
Des Moines, Oct. 18. Accord
ing to C W. Davis of the United
States employment bureau here, the
clause, "good pay," inserted in many
of the "help wanted" advertisements
brings men from alt parts of Iowa
to Des Moines, only to find the
"good pay" is far from sufficient to
cover the poorest living expenses.
League of Nations
Idea Suggested 49
Years Ago by Doctor
' By IataraaUoaal Nawa Barrlaa,
Harrisburg, Pa, Oct 18. The
idea of a league of nations is not a
new one, as a suggestion for a
league had been made 49 years ago
by an Erie physician,' a descendant,
of John Harris, founder of this city.
At a meeting of the State Medical
society in 1870, while the Franco
Prussian war was raging, Dr. Will
iam M. Wallace, president of the so
ciety, whose father was a Harrisburg
lawyer and whose mother was a
granddaughter of John Harris, in
his inaugural address said:
"To the assembly of men now be
fore me, set apart to relieve the
sufferings, heal tke diseases, and
lengthen the lives of men, 1 would
appeal. Must humanity forever be
chained down by murderous rulers
and methodized passions to the
rock of the barbarous custom that
the vulture of legal war may for
ever prey upon its vitals?
"Cannot the still small voice of
reason be heard in this center and
spread throughout the medical
world in still widening circles to
persuade men that war in any
shape and for any cause is really
madness and that it settles no
principle or right?
"Can we not add to our mission
this yet further benefit to humanity,
to teach men to settle national as
they do individual differences by
arbitrations and awards, by rules,
and principles?
Settle by Arbitration.
"It is a vork of time, difficult
and laborious, but the hundred
handed giant of medical ubiquity
can, by a persevering effort, unite
humanity and can force or draw to
its assistance the pulpits and the
forum, and Christendom may yet
learn, through the most unosten
tatious, investigating, rationalistic
physician, that he is not mad, but
speaks the words of truth and so
berness who declares his belief in
the realization of the angel's song:
'Peace on earth and universal good
will.'"
Apple Blossoms in N. Y.
. Rival Palm Beach Glories
, New York, Oct. 18. What's the
use of going to Palm Beach or the
tropics this winter? They're sprout
ing apple blossoms in New York this
fall.
, Just now, when blustery winds
should begin to moan through leaf
less trees, this section of the coun
try is enjoying real California
weather. Overcoats are among the
most useless articles in the world,
and even medium weight underwear
is uncomfortable.
And, to top things off, Jacob
Schulman of Orange county has
announced that his apple trees have
started to blossom anevy. To show
that his announcement is bona fide
he has sent a sprig, of blossoms to
one of the big morning newspapers
here.
Future British Husbands
Must Wash the Dishes
London, Oct. 18. There will be
fewer marriages in Great Britain
hereafter , unless men are prepared
to help wash dishes and aid in other
household, duties. That's the ver
dict of a newspaper symposium.
The issue was raised owing to the
scarcity of general servants. Eng
lishmen are trained from birth to
ignore housework they don't even
polish their own shoes and unless
there's a change, so that the British
housewife, hampered by all manner
cf inconveniences, can get some re
lief, it's going to bear the marrjage
mart.
Total silence still marks the male
side of the issue.
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Pacific Will Soon Surpass the
Atlantic In Commerce, Says
Admiral of British Navy
Building of Panama Canal Was Considered Only as
a Means to Increase Shipping, Not to Establish
Naval Prowess Growth of American Navy from
Natural Causes.
By SIR CYPRIAN A. G. BRIDGE,
G. C. B., K. C. B.
Famous Admiral of Brilinh ay and
Write? of 'aval Publications, Who
Wag on a Misnlon to America
During the War.
London, Oct. 18. We should do
well to devote attention to the con
ditions in the vast Pacific area and
the countries which form what may
be called its basin.
About a dozen years ago I called
attention to the important addition
that the completion of the Panama
canal would make to the naval power
of the United States. This was con
trasted with the relative naval in
significance of the Kiel canal.
The virtual increase of the Amer
ican navy was due to natural causes,
to the course of natural develop
ment, and was not and need not be
thought an indication of aggressive
designs. It is quite likely indeed,
it is almost certain that when the
American people decided to make
the Panama canaV not one in a
hundred thousand of them ever
thought of naval power at all.
What they had in view was the
expansion of sea-borne commerce,
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and especially reinforcement of land
lines of communications, crossing
the North American continent by
sea routes shortened through the
adoption of a maritime canal, so
that there might be such a reduc
tion of time and mileage of voy
ages as would render sea transport
capable of competing in the matter
of cost with transportation by land.
The world moved on while the
Panama canal was being made. As
regards traffic between Atlantic
ports, in either the old or the new
world, and Pacitic ports, the canal
is going to fulfill, if it is not already
fulfilling, expectations; but all the
traffic that it can accommodate or
even that other canals if made can
combine with it to accommodate
will be a mere trickle compared with
the immense maritime activity
which will originate and terminate in
the staports of the Pacific ocean.
t Science in Pacific.
It is a good thing to take note of
science vnen examining prooiems
of the Pacific. At one time the
word meant knowledge; and that is
just what we want anyhow; to
start with. When we have got hold
of the necessary facts we can let the
Dhilosephers have their way. It is
possible that they will have it with
out waiting until we have finished
the fact-collection operation.
No one would willingly say a word
in disparagement ot pnuosopners;
but it will be generally admitted
that, if they have a fault, it is that
of too often coming in after the
hunt. . When the practical man has
done the job they will explain how
it was that he did it.
Commercial Gravity Center.
Let anyone who is interested look
at a chart of the Pacific ocean, and
mark the point at which the 170th
degree of longitude west from
Greenwich cuts the 10th parallel of
north latitude. He will be getting
somewhere near the spot which
promises to be before many gener
ations have passed away, perhaps
before only one has passed away,
the commercial center of gravity of
the world as, dozen vears aeo. 1
thought it justifiable to designate it.
It we take half the population of
countries like the United States,
Mexico and Canada which have
both an Atlantic and a Pacific coast
and the whole of the populations
ot uermany, trance and Spain,
which have coasts on inland seas as
well as upon the ocean, we shall
find that whereas the Atlantic is
bordered north and south by coun
tries inhabited by about 325,000,000
of people, the Pacific ocean popu
lations being halved where neces
sary for proper comparison is bor
dered by countries with more than
630,000,000.
Connects Huge Masses. '
These huge masses of people face
an ocean which, as it were, invites
them to use in for lines of communi
cation. Among them are included
some of the most enterprising and
some of the most astutely commer
cial of mankind. What is more
the resources of the countries in
which they dwell have not been
nearly so thoroughly developed as
have the resources of the countries
which border on the Atlantic ocean.
The increase of intercourse be
tween the two sides of the Pacific
ocean, which some people now liv
ing are likely to see, will be such
that the whole trade of the Atlan
tic which will itself go on increas
ing will appear small in compari
son with it.
It may be some excuse for the
deep interest which I take in the
question ot the facihe that many
years of my life were spent in that
ocean, and that 1 am personally ac
quainted with it from Sitka to Tas
mania and from Kamchatka to Ti-
erra del Fuego
Poor Care of Orchards Is
Cause for Lack of Apples
Burlington, la., Oct. 18.-r-Because
there are none for the purpose, no
apples will be packed here this year.
Not many years ago many thousand
bushels of apples were shipped from
Burlington each year, and the work
of packing gave employment to con
siderable numbers of men for sev
eral weeks each fall and winter. One
reason there are no apples for pack
ing is said to be lack of care for the
orchards. Grimes and Jonathans
are being shipped here and sell at
$11 to $12 a barrel wholesale, but
farmers say that does not bring any
greater return than potatoes at 60
ffMts a bushel.
Invite Yank Engineers.
Stockholm, Oct. 18. The Swedish
Association oi Engineers has in
vited the engineers of America to
attend an engineering congress in
Stockholm next year. . Details of
the plan are now being worked out
with the aid of Americans residing
in Sweden.
NEBRASKA MAN
71 YEARS OLD IS
NOW At HARVARD
Col. Lyon of Nelson, Banker
and Cowboy, Chums
With 14-Year-0ld
Student.
By HERBERT CARYL.
International Newa Service Start Corre
spondent. Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 18. Youth
and old age are regular "buddies"
at Harvard university.
Fourteen-year-old Jacob Shank
man, a sedate little chap in "knick
ers," is often seen hustling along to
class beside Col. George E. Lyon,
jr., tall, gray-haired, 71 years young,
and a college boy. And often these
two intellectual marvels talk things
over in the colonel's rooms, which
were used by Washington back in
the Revolutionary war days.
Things in Common.
They have a good deal in common
these two extremes sf Harvard's
student body. Literature, history,
current events, and the whole range
of intellectual topics deeply interest
them both. It gives them a wide
field for discussion.
However, the remarkable part of
it is that the colonel is the one who
thinks and dreams and displays the
spirit of youth. The boy carries
with him an academic air. Colonel
Lyon is full of pep and ginger. The
"Crimson Infant," as Shankman is
called, appears to be always in deep
thought. "I'm on easy street and
have come back from Nebraska to
play again at being a student at my
old college," exclaims the colonel.
If Shankman engages in sports ne
has not revealed the fact. "Every
morning I go through a. set of exer
cises of from 600 to 1,000 movements
and in the afternoon I take a swim
in the gym tank and some more ex
ercise, exclaims the colonel. The
infant prodigy lives quietly at home.
Colonel Lyon has a big study aflame
with college banners and "prep"
school flags also a fine life-size sta
tue of Venus de Milo.
. Would Be Doctor.
The boy aspires to be a great doc
tor. But, mind you, before that,
coxswain of the Harvard crew. The
71-year-old student wants to be the
world's greatest expert on literature
and the finest orator. His coming
back to college is more of a "rest
for him Jthan anything else.
What of their lives these 'two
marvels? Young Shankman was
born in Chelsea, Mass. He is the
son of Isaac Shankman, one of the
leading Jewish communal workers
of Boston. At grammar school in
Chelsea the boy averaged 96 and 97
per cent in all his studies, leading
nis sections.
From Nelson, Neb.
Colonel Lyon is traveler, minis
ter, cowboy, Indian fighter, stage
manager, banker, politician, editor,
teacher, singer and author. He was
born in Ogdensburg, NV. He is
the oldest living graduate of Phil
lips Exeter academy, Exeter, N. H.
He was a classmate of President A.
Lawrence Lowell back in the 70s.
Colonel Lyon studied at Harvard
Divinity school. Later he was a
stage manager of an operatic pro
duction in New York. Then he went
west. And therein lies his great de
sire to be an expert in public speak
ing. The colonel is still interested in
the banking business, but as a stock
holder only. He has two large farms
near Nelson, Neb., well stocked with
horses, cattle and hogs. He is also
interested in the Nuckolls County
Herald, a weekly paper.
Iowa Veterinarian Would
Have-Federal Fowl Inspection
Des Moines, la., Oct. 18. Dr.
Robert Wall, state veterinarian, es
timates that 16 per cent of the hogs
and 8 per cent of the cattle in Iowa
have tuberculosis. That is consid
ered a comparatively low estimate.
Dr. Wall asserts that he is strongly
in favor of extending the govern
ment inspection now applied to beef,
pork and other meats, to poultry.
He says that chickens pick up tuber
culosis from human beings an -from
animals, but there is no inspection
in chicken packing establishments.
Andover Joins the ,
Drive Craze; Seeks
ion Endowment
Andover, Mass., Oct 18. Phillips
Andover academy, through the
agency of its alumni committee, has
begun a drive for $1,500,000 so that
its professors can meet the high cost
of living.
One million dollars of this fund
will go forward toward raising the
income of its professors, as it has
been discovered by the finance com
mittee of the academy that an ordi
nary carpenter gets a rate of wages
that nets him over $300 a year more
than the average professor at Ando
ver. The professor's income aver
ages $2,097.68 a year, while the car
penter's at $1 an hour for 300 worlcV
ing days of eight hours each is
$2,400.
It is estimated that with an en
dowment fund of $1,000,000, invested
at 5 per cent, the academy will be
able to increase the salaries of 36
members of the teaching staff $1,000
each, leaving $14,000 for increasing
the salaries of the principal and va
rious academy employes, and also
for offering inducements to secure
the best teachers available in see-.
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