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Fa yabl e > vanes
A National Platform on
Poverty
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Some of the Problems Political Conventions Fail To Solve.
For two weeks this eouotry has listened to the talking' and
planning of the two great parties I hat pretend to provide na
tional welfare.
In Chicago and in Baltimore those supposed to know what
the country needs have met and fought ami intrigm-d and
‘•‘dickered. ’ ’
They have written their platforms and denounced what
they considered the great evils.
One set denounced the high tariff because it makes living
expensive.
And the other set denounced the suggestion of free trade
because it would destroy the workman’s opportunity to get good
wages.
Gigantic trusts, great organizations, monopolies, the modern
dinosaurs and mammoths, received attention.
One single state in this I nion could provide for the needs of
all the people in the country and for many more if the state
were cultivated properly and the products properly distributed.
The manufactured products of another great state in Amer
ica have increased in a short period FOIRTEEN 111 NI)R EI )
PER (‘ENT: the production of wealth of valuable needed manu
factured articles of that state has increased TEN TIMES AS
RAPIDLY AS THE POPI LATION.
That is the state of New York. Yet, while the production
of wealth has been ten times more rapid than the production of
human beings, the happiness of I hi 1 people has not increased.
Wealth multiplied by a percentage ten limes greater than
the increase of population should mean the multiplication by ten
of wellbeing and general happiness But that does not happen.
The added wealth goes to the accumulation of wealth, goes
(instantly to increase the store of those that have TOO MICH,
and little, if any. of it goes to make happier the lives of those
that carry the burden of TOO LITTLE.
This is the real problem of the world, the distribution of
.wealth and the increase of happiness. And it is the problem
about which, although they may talk of it ami think that they
plan to remedx it, the so-called big politicians and statesmen
feel not at all.
Their plans are for those that have enough. l’he\ try to pro
tect the man fairly well to do against the man very well Io do.
They are deeply interested in the mechanic who has five dollars
a day. and in the manufacturer who needs five millions to in
crease his business.
But not one of them thinks or plans sufficiently for the man
who has a dollar or a dollar ami a half a day. for the children
whose playground is the gutter, whose only knowledge of govern
ment is the policeman with his club telling them that lhe\ must
not play and must not be happy. <
We have a nation in -which men are kept down because wom
en compete with them in Hieir labor, glad to work for starvation
wages. And. each competing with the other, the men arc kept
too poor to marry, and the women are kept too poor for happi
ness and health.
And nobody jdans seriously to change that condition.
What shall be the tariff on steel and on lumber"
How shall w punish that combine to change five millions
of profits into fifty millions by freezing out competitors'’
What shall we do to the railroads that give better rates to
one company than another?
These are the questions that our conventions and onr stales
men” deal with.
But thev do not deal with these other questions. *
What shall we do to prevent Corti thousand children in one
year, IN ONE SINGLE CITY. being infected with the taint of
tuberculosis?
What shall we do to protect the health of children ami of
mothers that see the children die unnecessarily ?
What shall we do to arrange the distribution of the earth's
products so that a fair day’s work by those willing Io work will
give a decent living to a wife and her children?
What shall wo do to protect those that are herded in tone
ment houses, living without light or air ami dying unnecessar
ily?
What shall we do to make life worth while to the vast num
her of human beings to whom it is only a worry, a curse, a sorrow
and a discomfort ?
The few have TOO AH’(ffl. the main have TOO LITTLE
yet there is PLENTY for both, if it wore only distributed.
What party, what convent ion,-what gathering of wise mon
will work earnestly to solve that problem- THE INCREASED
DISTRIBUTION OF THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD, now
that the problem of PRODI ( TION ha-- been solved absolutely"
Slowly the problem will be solved, and tile dreadful contrast
become a thing of the past
But the change will eome vcr\ slowly. For it will eome
only as men are lifted up as a whole, not’ lifted in classes, as
one might lift the roof of a building and leave the foundation
low .
Education, intelligent voting from below, unselfish lotion
from above, the use of machinery as the slave of all the people,
and not merely as Hie orofit earner of a few. will settle the ones
tion in I ime A LONt 1 TIM E
All Hail the Army Mule
Attempts by sordid innovators to tear down one of the most
sacred institutions has failed, temporarily, at least The avari
cious hands of commerce have been slaved, ami those who love
the old-time idols of Hie Republic can sleep in peace
Colonel Getty, who has been making tests as to the eompara
live value of Hie automobile as compared with the good old
armv mule lias reported in favor of onr long-suffering four
footed friend. An exhaustive experiment has been made hv the
provisional regiment which Colonel Gettv commands, and his
finding is that it would be unwise and unsafe unsafe, mind von.
thereby meaning that the ver.v fabric of the L’nion would be in
danger to substitute benzine buggies for mules
Glory be I Let us hope that that faithful long suffering and
pi't iires'pte clement of armv life will remain with us lorever
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These are the days that we d like to go There's something nice in unlimited ice
I p in Ihe snow with Hie Eskimo. And the dripping seal has a cool appeal.
But business calls Irorn the skyscraper walls
Leaving the heal ol the baking street, That the Eskimo has his pile of snow.
Dusty under the shutting feet. . But we must bustle a pile of dough.
Phe New Fashion of Smiling in Face of Ad
versity-Growth ot Feminine Optimism
Beatrice* Fairfax Thinks We Are Becoming Nation of Optimists and
Learning to Look on Bright Side of Things
Ry BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
I tlhd • nrth not but insv. \\ ( »i ■»> becoming a nation of op- till tomorrow" It will passed
Heaven not grim but tair of hut . timists. and I claim that this is a\\a\.
11 p’u tk 11 twsy. largely due to the growing influ- That is Donl act rashly to-
l>n I stiind and stare? Alt's blue day. Wait till tomorrow, and with
enee of woman. Always the one to v. . o
-Brownlne tomorrow always comes wisdom.
find tbe bright side in her home. , .
If not. then wait till another to
ys the world becoming more her influence has spread beyond morrow
1 philosophical'.’ Tears are no h ,... r „ t|l . „ a! , s sl>e jF Ih ,„ There onee lived a Woman who
longer a daily sight, and 1 'e- who finds when there is financial had a great sorrow. The day be-
I'use to credit their flx-mee to in- w i-.-ck that there is enough of tin- fore that sot for her wedding day
difference. debris for a new beginning. ber ,over was kllle(L
There was a time when preacher Women Have Acquired 'J' 6 th, ' oUS ’" ~
- I always said everv morning,
and player alike hail an easv tune , _ ... _
An Optimistic Feeling. she once told a friend, ■•that mv
reducing an audience to tears In „ . , ,
H , She is the one who. when her friends had ‘'oubles which I must
these days, the tear is seen as little consider before my own. 'I will
. . .. husband pornos noinp with a brok-
In the church as tn the theater go to them and help them.' 1 would
The'- may be a choking of th- ' ” lml '- aiattful ’hit >t i->i t gay, 'and when tomorrow comes 1
* tbfoat. a feeling as if tip teats k ShP ' alwavs looking „.f|t give wav to my own grief"
must come, but they are sup- for po-tes when she -loops. And so sbe | jvec) her davs t)]l
lir , and for the blue in the -kv when thev became weeks and months
-'it’ stands and stares. and years, always devoting TO-
H is nn longer in as great evl- ... , . . ...
Ibis optimism was not always* HAY to the sorrows of others and
dence at, funerals, md is -eldom natural to het She acquired it putting off the giving way to he.
s'i n it weddings, though there w hen confronted with the task of own sorrow till TOMORROW
was a day when tradition and cheering up father, husband and Tomorrow never came! And her
custom demanded that tbe mother son. | jr ,. was sp e nt ln a devotion Io
Os tin bt'ldi cry .lining the ore- H is a good habit. It is a good others that was far better than a
tnonv habit Io get cailv devotion to her grief.
Misfortune and Sorrow x " ns 1 " "ot”’ x ot n ba d idea, was it? it is
Faced More Bravely. I '' '" ' ", 1 ' ” n! ' kind Os procrastination of
, , Z " ,,n ' ' ° uth mu,b iR smnet ’ mef ’ which the gods approve: A pm-
It wus th* compliment the world , ti t , • ■ , h . lt i,.,.
n i.i'-.itx that would not na\’ crastin:ition of tears
expected her to pav tic- departing con|c |(1 . hi)l| |hp | r| h( , cn i(
11 ls a piot-iastination the whn|f
w omun , , .
Whatevc, the orc.Mon there , , world is acquiring For the smile
I<HL Hit.’ is Cowper gives His! two lines I
< growing deposition to meet it \ a newer ‘ ,ine ’ nobler, braver
giowing <u. i i nun nt ii want younger gills io remember:
with a -Smile, Disaster, sickness, , ls desperate steps; the fashion
sorrow, disappointment, and death darkest div want mv girls whose troubles
itself are all met more bravelv , , . seem gteat to try this new sash-
• ' 11 o ...... laved till tomorrow will have
than a few generations ago. pissed away " "' n
Wo have become vvlsci, ami that '’ ommlt these lines tn mento’y Urges Downcast OIICS
''■ms tilt w • have |>»min< more -I.| act upon them No om- loro O Pllt Off TfirH’S.
cheerful tell a girl who-.- trouble is great Look for the posies when you
I'o we -’oop’" It i- pot to find that she has no t-ouble. or that it stoop, and for blue when you stand
a thorn, tint a posy ~. not a« great as she thinks. and stare —''
I’o W. stand md ■’. e t t i- alone io. the There may b» nim'h tn w<>ep
”" 1 *" ’ -'H' l "f > sin m but io I ri-it m ’nil Ivi that. |t .>u about, mu let's put off the tears
t’oi. I 1 "' blue tha' i- tefi in the -k- | prove that if i i.-mii.i. n in eu 'C tomorrow.
A SUMMER DREAM
By HAL COFFMAN.
MONDAY. .ILLY 8. 1912.
THE HOME PAPER
The Strongest Man on
Like Socrates, Luther, Wesley, Lincoln and
Other Great Men in History, It Is He Who
Has the Courage to Stand Alone
HOW often it goes unexplained
why it was that Athens kill
ed Socrates.
It really is no wonder why they
killed him; that flat-nosed, awk
ward. barefooted inquisitor, forever
poking his flat nose into other peo
ple's affairs, showing them that the
wisdom they claimed to have was
but foolishness.
Yet a Socrates is indispensable,
to every community—a man who
will force you to understand your
self, to examine your own thought,
and see that your wisdom is fool
ishness. We think that we are
thinking, but even a Socrates is
needed to show us where we stand.
We have today a Socrates with
us. The dramatist Henrik Ibsen
is a direct descendant of Socrates,
and has inherited his right to make
us think of the foundations of our
knowledge.
Ibsen never claimed to be more than
an interrogation point; he has no
philosophy or views of his own to
systematize. His work is to make
you think of the truth or falsity of
your own thoughts. And of all his
plays, the one of which he him
self is the hero is the most strong,
simple and direct, the drama “An
Enemy of the People.”
The Secret ■ $ d
Os Strength.
The hero, Doctor Stockmann, the
man who has been so ready to tell
the people of his town wherein they
are wrong, when defeated in his
purposes, boycotted, and even be
sieged in his home, comes at last
to the declaration that he made to
his wife. "I have discovered that I
am the strongest man on the earth
-the man who stands most alone.”
"Trust thyself." says Emerson,
“every heart vibrates to that iron
string.” So then, that is the se
cret of the foundation of strength.
The great men of the ages who
have stood most alone are the men
of whom we are now The most
proud. Luther stands for the geat
institution of Protestantism. Fox
for Quakerism. Wesley for Method
ism. and Lincoln fur the great na
tion which he saved.
In the case of Lincoln, in par
ticular. it is impossible to account
for his greatness unless we remem
ber that he did stand alone. After
he had reached the age of 49 he
had absolutely nothing in his life
that had been successful, but he
.-food: so that when he was called
to the highest office that the peo
ple could give he was ready to take
it and make that power which was
given to him the power that should
save the nation.
<.'outage and Faith are the foun
dations of the victory. The hedge
hog secs a movement an inch from
A Valuable Possession
By EDWARD LUCIEN LARKIN.
TAKE a bar of hard steel, mag
netize it. and the adjacent
space will be in a very pe
culiar state; and this space is called
a magnetic field of force; for short,
magnetic field. And tbe energy is
supposed to exist in lines, or flow
in lines from the north pole of the
magnet backward through the
neutral line, the equator, to the
south pole, and thii= eoinplete the
circuit. The flow of energy Is sup
posed to be ver.v rapid.
To magnetize the bar, it must be
touched by another magnet—or by
lodestone, the magnet made by na
ture.
We imagine that gold and dia
monds are valuable, but a mag
netic field is at present the most
valuable possession of man. Thus
three great standard fundamentals
—heat, light and power—can be.
and are, incessantly* taken out of it.
And several billion dollars are now
invested in one little apparently
trivial act. namely, that of mov
ing masses of metal in this most
wonderful field. No moving metal
must touch another, the motion is
in spare without contact: the mov
ing molecules of metal must cut or
pass through the invisible lines of
force.
Lay a straight bar magnet on a
table with end projecting over.
Take a wire, hold it at right an
gles to the end of the bar. you have
*wo nieces of me’al apparently
useles". .Move the wire, and on®
of the most extraordinary events
within the entire range of hitman
Earth
Bv Dr. C. F. Aked.
the end of his nose and cries that
the world is coming to an end
There are these hedgehogs in ev.
ery line of life.
The Man Who
Stands Alone.
Lord Acton, when asfked what ths
greatest single event of the century
was, answered that it was the sink
ing of the trial steamer of Fulton in
the Seine, for its perfection under
the government of Napoleon would
have changed the history of th»
world. And the hedgehog peopls
in New York stood on the deck and
declared “it will never go,” but it
did go, and Fulton’s stand alone
was gloriously justified.
In the church, the charge 1 8 mads
that evangelicalism is dead. It is
not even dying. It can never die.
for it is founded on the living faith.
The world is waiting for a new
incarnation, a religion that shall be
as good for the polling place as
for the prayer meeting; as good
for swapping horses as for savins
prayers; as good for the primaries
as for the presbytery. The gospel
of today is a gospel of service. We
may be thankful for the promise of
mansions on high, but what we
need is more decent homes on earth
and more decent people In them.
Religion Is not a thing of the stars;
it Is a thing of the streets.
In the drama referred to the here
declares that in a democracy the
majority rule; that the majority of
the people are fools; therefore, ’he
democracy Is ruled by fools.
How far can we go fn this*
Where is the fallacy?
In this: The majority does no*
rule; it never did and never will.
The minority rules; Ideas govern.
It is your strong men who stand
alone whose strength Is fn brain
and heart. These sit on the thrones
of the ages, and sway the majori
ties to their will.
It is your Wesleys, your Luthers,
your Cromwells and your Lincoln?
who make and mold the mighty
forces with which empires havi» had
to deal.
Then, the majority Is not
given to foolishness after all. In
the long run you can trust the in
nate sanity of human nature. De
mos is not a child of Chaos, it i?
a child of God and the outgrow th o<
the Christian spirit. Democracy '?
the expression of the highest of ’he
teaching of Christ.
What is the manifest destiny of
the American people in the growth
of this democracy? America ha?
years of glory behind her; she
young and daring. What is her mi?
sion ?
It is this: To build up Ilf*' on
truer. Juster foundations that the
Old World ever laid; to evolve a
nobler manhood and womanhood.
This is the destiny of America
experience will occur—electrlcit"
will appear In the wire. The liner
of magnetism being cut by th*
atoms of the metal generate elec
tricity.
Move the wire up and down *a *•
er, it will begin to develop warmth,
faster still, it will become red hot.
white hot and melt.
Instead'of allowing tbe wire to be
destroyed, connect the end; b'
means of another wire; then a new
event appears—a flow of electrlcit''
is set up within. Move the wire up
and the electricity will flow in ,i ne
direction; move down, the flow w! 1
stop during a minute instant of
time and at once flow in the oppo
site direction. The name of the ap
paratus is magneto.
Look closely into this .matter ««
have a straight bar of steel whose
atoms are saturated or endowed
with magnetism, totally unknown
to us. A short piece of thick wir-'.
whose ends are connected by a third
wire to complete a path or circuit
for electricity; motion, and a sor’i”
of rapid changes in direction ?
motion.
An additional name may now ne
added -“alternating current mag
neto.’’ fin the face of this matte',
the word alternating Is superfluous
because alt magnetos set up or ?*'
erate alternating currents, or mo
mentary impulses succeeding
other. To secure- direct curreni’
ail flowing tn th® same direc’ior.
external devices called commu'S
tors must be added.