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ISays the Judge: “It Might*
Mean Loss of Dollars” !
The Socialists Will Probably Reply, “Loss of Dollars Is No |
More Important Than Loss of Ideas.” |
Providence works mysteriously—and perforins wonders. You
know that.
But could yon believe that the mysterious workings of Provi
dence could actually compel such an institution as the ( ordage
Trust to provide brass bands and turkey trot music for its employ
ees at Ihe noon hour .’
Providence puts the venomous tooth in the serpent—which
probably caused primitive man Io make a pair of shoes. The pair
of shoes made him a good walker, and so he spread over the mirth.
Providence made man a vain, monkey-like creature, and as a
result he went north for walrus teeth, south for diamonds, east for
rubies. He dug into every hillside for gold, and went down to the
sea’s bottom for pearls. Vanity put man in all of the earth.
The latest news is that Socialism has actually helped the I'ord
age Trust to display a touching interest in the welfare of its em
ployees while the latter are eating lunch out of tin buckets or news
paper packages at noon.
Originally the I'ordage Trust cared as little about the noon
hours of its employees as about the fourth dimension or the sweet
influences of Pleiades.
Suddenly a hand of Socialist workers appeared among Ilie
Cordage workers while the latter wore eating their luncheon.
The Socialist workers invited the Cordage workers to throw off I
their chains and be free They also invited the Cordage workers to
take in their own hands “the means of production.” This meant, in
plain English, thatdhe Socialists were urging the Cordage workers
to strike for more money right away, and vole to lake the ('ordage
Trust anil run it for I heir own profit as soon as possible.
Then c.ame the wonderful change in the heart of the ( ordage
Trust. It decided that the Socialists must not have a monopoly in
the amusing of working men and women at the noon hour.
The Cordage Trust actually hired brass bands to delight its ’
workers at noon and to drown the voices of the Socialist orators.
The trust even went so far as to provide turkey trot and other pro
fane music and to encourage its employees Io dance for the sal cos
their digestion-—from twelve to one.
But the Socialists went right on. offering arguments queerer
and more fascinating than any step in the turkey trot qr the bunny i
hug. They sent friends of man. tried and true, that could talk
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louder than a brass band.
For a long time the neighborhood was amused by the sight ol
the Socialists, on the one side, yelling: “Rouse, ye slaves; throw off
your chains and be free!” and the ('ordage Trust, on the other
side, yelling; “Come, now. be good employees, and dance the tur
key trot at our expense, and don't listen to the Socialists''
The workers of the trust, rather intelligently, persisted in en
couraging the Socialist talkers for they owed to those talkers more
fun than they had enjoyed in a long time.
At last the Cordage Trust dragged the Socialists into court, de
manding an injunction to keep the Socialists from talking to the
workmen at noon
The action of court, when it comes, will be interesting. The
judge is expected to grant the injunction, because he said that ora
tore in a commercial district blocking the streets “might mean a
loss of thousands of dollars.’’
The Socialists, of course, will reply that shutting them up
might mean a loss of thousands of ideas, that the noon hour is the
hour for ideas anyhow, and that the founders of this count ry seemed
t.o consider ideas at least as important as dollars, since I hex adopted
a constitution that forbids interference with free speech
Smug prosperity has often shown itself silly in dealing with its
problems. I’nusual is the silliness that financial prosperity shows in
dealing with the Socialism that it apparently dreads so much.
Socialist orators arrive on the scene, and the trust that hates
Socialism hires a brass band Io drown it. Naturally, the workmen
thank the Socialists for the brass band.
Then the Cordage Trust goes to court and tries to find a judge
that will forbid workmen to talk to other workmen in their own
noon hour of leisure—-of course, workmen acquainted with the dis
honest record of the Cordage Trust and the undesirable character
of its birth and breeding will be particularly eager to hear the
things that such a trust wants suppressed
.Many a man and many a cause have had reason to be thankful
for their enemies The Socialists ought to be doubly and treblv
thankful. They are advertised industriously by almost every pros
perous idiot in the I’nited States,
' The Model Hiisband
He does not smoke, drink, gamble, swear, pint card-- lie is
brave, generous, intelligent. Who s he’ The husband of a Cin
einnati wife the perfect man. tin pride of Ohio
Os the ten failing' ascribed by a elever Frenchman as com- I
mon to the average man. he has not one His wife savs so. and
there c. H |>e no better judge For a man who is a hero to his
w.'o i! usl be a 1< aii a.Hi to nis valet. \tjer title n years the
applies io him the word' of Coldsin th “The pink of per
feel ion
I-anp; arjt \ does'not always breed contempt, lint it always
breeds an e.-qim niam-e with the foibh ' and weaknesses of erring {
man. There s no gainsaying ’that some wives might weary of i
living with a paragon
Alnrall there sa good deal to be 'aid for A sky
with never a cloud tiro ih, , y t . with iis 'i-iu t;. "
In ordinary mortals a lew fail ngs 'iteli n» .-i > - .million i >
most ot us do a good deal toward cultivating charity in all of u>.
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The Capi 'ices of the Sun
By GARRETT P. SERVTSS
IHAVE many tilths insisted upon
th<> fact that the chief cause of
Hie varialrility of the weather
in successive seasons is to he
sought, not upon the earth, but in
the sun. Th. meteorological x.iga
ries of the past few years seem
< learly to bear out this hypothesis,
and strength is lent to it by the
recent investigations showing that
variations occur in the output of
radiation from tin sun in periods
of from a few days to several
weeks or months, tier isionally the
difference anmunjs to as much as
five or six o<- even ten degrees. At
times thr 1 stm seems to experi
ence a kind of fainting lit. and the
earth, depending upon the snn for
its supply of surface heat, feels the
consequences.
Farmers Were Big Losers.
The past summer, beginning ear
ly with a lmr-t of unseasonable
heat, changed suddenly in charac
ter, became cool and rainy, and
enormous losses wire expei i.-need
by farmers more in Europe per
haps than In America, although the
detect of solai 'adiation seems to
have b» en notic' d, more or less,
everywhere. I( is a significant fact
that the sun is now in a minimum
period of spottedness, and there
seems to be no question that its
condition in that respect is reflect
ed in the general character of the
weather.
But the phenomenon is a com
plicated one. and several minor
periods appear to be superposed
upon one another, rendering it diffi
cult to di'cntangle the effects. A
very interesting table has recently
been published in Europe by Pro
fessor Bruckner whi< h seems to
show that the seasons undergo no
table xariatioli' in a period of from
30 to yeats. probably in conse
quence of changes which repeat
themselves in the sun.
It. ( ord.' extending back ox er 'W
■ tai centuries reveal tlii' p.a ulia’
itv, but those biginning with the
nan te< nth i entury ar the most
eonx ill. mg., Thre< period' of cold.
number
of not. dry it . - have intervened
l-ron ism; to lx .'** the summers
Were .hilly, with frequent inunda
tion.' Th sum- fr.m IX3G to 1' 0.
and Hom IX7I to ts.V. Betwaen
Hit', period' Were thl..' other pe
riods of hot summers with drouths,
viz from ts.'l to IS:l.’>. ISM tn
1 x,"«» ano tsxs to llitltl
Taking th- ax. rag., it appear'
WLDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1912.
' each phase lasts about 17 y< at s.
With tile year 1900 a new period
of cold and wet summers began,
with an occasional interruption, as
last year, which does not arrest
the general tendency. .According
to these figures, those of us who
were born near the middle of the
last century can not expect to see
a renewal of the genial seasons to
which we were accustomed in our
youth before 1916 or 1917.
The philosophic mind loves to
look toward tlm future, however re
mote it Unix be. All th' hopes of
hnmani.y are mux cone ntrated up
on th" future development of Hie
rh o. We talk of the marvelous
• fl> < t that the scii nee of eng. nice
—i. e.. of human improvement—is
to product as Hie fruit of scientific
res. arch, and the imagination is
stirred by the pictures drawn of
the perfected men ami women of
coming centuries. But it must not
b. i .rgotten that everything de
pends upon the continuance of the
earth in its present habitable and
productive state which, in its turn,
depends upon Hie condition of the
sun
Astronomers have learned a great
dealabout variable stars; theheav
ells ar.- full ot' them. Those xx hose
variations are extreme. like the star
Mira, probably r. pr sent a state to
waid which the sun is tending, ih
:: Two Girls ::
By WILLIAM F KIRK
vv;is :i oi|-] | used to love.
* \\ iilt hair as brown as Autumn leaves.
She caused sad sigdis ami misty eyes—
None hut a losing' lover grives.
''he mocked me with her little ways-
She spurned me. flouted inc. and tied.
“What s love to ine.'“ I whispered then,
I'ecatise I said my love was dead.
There was a girl 1 learned to love.
A girl w ith hair like sun-kissed wheat.
A girl with wealth and youth and health.
With twinkling eyes and twinkling feet.
We I u o were wedded, and we loved.
But t upid oftentimes deceives.
I hem ng' a maid with w hom I stray ed,
lb i‘ hair was Iq-own as Autumn |ea\ es.
•r is not yet in a very serious condi
tion of variability, but the phenom
ena of stars which have gone on
much further than he has done in
the process of decay’ show clearly
to what he is approaching.
The Period of Universal Death.
The time will come when the so
lar radiation will be reduced one
half. and then three-quarters, and
finally be completely extinguished.
In the meanwhile there will be vio
lent changes, like those of a dying
fire; sudden uptlaniings. with in
tense. bul brief, outpours of heat
and light, followed immediately by
a rapid loss of energy. The end will
be the entire extinction of the sun.
1 and then the earth will be buried
in cold and darkness, the atmos
phere will be solidified and descend
upon the surface of the whole globe
like a blanket of snow, and univer
sal death will reign over this now
beautiful planet.
Fortunately for us, these changes
are slow—at least, we have reason
to think they are slow. But. in
reality, we know little about them,
and they may unexpectedly reach
eritcal stages, when rapid develop
ments will take place. This is the
reason wlty the studies of the sun,
which are now being pursued by
astronomers with a diligence never
before shown, are of such universal
•j« interest.
THE HOME PAPER
Dorothy D i x
Writes on
Emotional
Complexities W7
The Lesson of the
Kansas Man i -
Who Couldn’t '
Tell Which ol
Three Women x i
He Loved Best. /
HOW expan.-ive is the human
heart? Has it room in it for
moie than one occupant at
a time? How many can we love
at the same moment?
A Kansas man who was in love
with three women at tlye same
time has committed suicide because
he was unable to tell which of the
thr e he loved best.
This is going the poet, who said
that he could be happy with
either dear charmer were t’other
dear charmer away, one better in
the matter of ability to love, but it
does not come any nearer settling
the problem, and leaves the ques
tion of the number and variety of
heart throbs to which a man may
be simultaneously subject still up
in the air.
No Cause to Scoff.
There is no cause to scoff at the
predicament of this poor Kansas
martyr’s susceptibility to feminine
charm. Any man who is what the
old English novelists used to call,
"a man of sentiment,” must have
been in pretty much the same
quandary, and spent many a sleep
less night while he contrasted
Maude, and Gwendolyn, and Jane,
the girl who came up to his ideal
with the girl who fired his fancy,
and the girl that it would be good
bard horse sense to marry, and
tried to decide which one of them
made his heart go most pit-a-pat.
The reports of the Kansas trag
edy do not state what manner of
5 oung* women the three graces were
between whom the Western lover
found it impossible to decide, but it
does not take much imagination to
supply the missing details and get
a. living picture of them. Thus:
No. I—A peach. Tall and wil
lowy, with a lissome figure, golden
hair, starry eyes, milk and roses
skin —the kind of a woman that
every man turns to look at on the
stieet. and whose face he sees in
the curling smoke of his cigar.
No. 2—No beauty, but pleasant
and wholesome looking. Bright,
entertaining, a good-fellow girl,
who plays golf and fishes, and rides,
and reads, and makes a cheery, en
tertaining companion of whom one
would never tire. Would make the
sort of a wife a man wouldn't want
to leave at home when he went off
to enjoy himself.
No. 3—A household angel. A
pretty, demure little creature, with
sleekly-banded hair and dovelike
e.v es, who could be safely counted
on to spend her life at her hus
band's feet burning incense before
him. and who would never sigh foi
any amusement more exciting than
darning stockings and rocking ba
bies to sleep. The kind of a woman
that a man picture.' in liis vision
of home, and who is irresistiblx ap
pealing because she is the very
spirit and essence of femininity.
How is any man to choose be
tween these three? No wonder the
Kansas low committed suicide as
the easiest way out. Many another
man. so torn between conflicting
attractions, would do the same
thing except that two of th ff wom
en he is enamored of settle th”
question tor him hx flaunting him.
Not every man max pick and
By DOROTHY DIX
•p choose in the rosebud garden >f
girls, and thereby’ many have th
question of which one they shall
pluck decided for them.
The Old Idea.
Os course, to the ultra-romantic
the idea of a man loving in
bunches, so to speak, is sacrilege.
They are strong for the theory
that in real love there must be
an ONLY ONE. the ONE man or
woman In the whole wide world for
that particular lover. Also xxe all
subscribe to this theory as regards
the feeling that another of the op
posite sex entertains for us.
No doubt sometimes this Is true.
There are penpie of one idea in
love as there are people obsessed
with one Idea 1n business. Occa
sionally, too, a man is fortunate
enough to find all the qualities h e
admires and desires embodied In
one woman, or a woman discovers
a man who tills the measure of her
wants.
I nfortunately. however, verx- few
Os us are lucky enough to find the
one who can be all-in-all to us. and
this Is what makes ft possible, and
even common, for „„ t 0 love twn
or more people at the same time,
and for entirely different reasons
A woman may love one man be
cause he Is good to her. and an
other because of his brilliance, and
still another because of his Irre
pressible gayety that makes him
like an eternal spirit of joy about
her.
A man will love one woman for
her radiant young beauty, and an
other because she 1s no longer
mung nor beautiful, but has grown
old and ugly In her devotion to
hint, and still a third because her
intellect makes her a fl t compan
ion to him, which neither of the
other two women are.
It Explains.
This does not excuse, but It ex
plains. the fact that many men who
lead the double life display the
greatest devotion In their care of
their wives and their generosity to
them. Women intuitively sense this
strange phenomenon of life, and
It Is what makes It possible for
many a wife to forgive her faith
less husband because she knows
that In spite of his vagaries he
loves her still.
Indeed, it is hardly too much to
say’ that with many people the
heart is a Jekyll and Hyde affair
that requires a different phases "t
emotion. This view of the cast was
most startlingly brought out in the
testimony in a celebrated murder
case in this city a few years ago.
A man married to a beautiful
and noble woman of high ideals
was shot and killed by a squalid
little girl of the gutters just is
he was going off with the wife to
try to lead a better life. It was
shoxyn in the case that the man
loved both women, but that be
vibrated between them according to
his mood. In his better inu.i ev’-"
he adored hi.® wife and sin- I
gii-at infiuenee over him: but wh* .
his basset self -va - in th.- as. - .. -
ant. when he wanted to drink and
carouse, lie turned from the good
woman to the bad.
If further proof were wanted
that we can love more then or’
it is to be found in the remar
riages of widows and widowers.
«ho generally pic k out for
- as unlike No. 1 ns pos' •
bio. And on the whole this is '
eon.-oling thought, that wo ■ .in ’
not only often, but many There s
always safety in numbers.
