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Says the Judge: “It Might
Mean Loss of Dollars”
M « M
The Socialists Will Probably Reply, ‘ Loss of Dollars Is No
More Important Than Loss of Ideas.”
Providence works mysteriously—and performs wonders. You
know that.
But could you believe ihal 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 the noon hour?
Providence puts the venomous tooth in the serpent which
probably caused primitive man to make a pair of shoes. The pair
of shoes made him a good walker, and so he spread over the earth.
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 (lord
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 Cordage Trust cared as little about the noon
hours of its employees as about the fourth dimension or the sweet
influences of Pleiades.
Suddenly a band of Socialist workers appeared among the
Cordage workers while the latter were eating their luncheon.
The Socialist workers invited the Cordage workers to throw oft'
their chains and be free. They also invited the Cordage workers to
taka in their own hands ‘‘the means of production.” This meant, in
plain English, that the Socialists were urging the Cordage workers
to strike for more money right away, and vote to take the Cordage
Trost and run it for their own profit as soon as possible.
Then came the wonderful change in the heart of the Cordage
Trost. 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 to dance—for the sake of
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 or the bunny
hug. They sent friends of man, tried and true, that could talk
louder than a brass band
For a long time the neighborhood was amused by the sight of
the Socialists, on the one side, yelling: “Rouse, ye slaves: throw off
your chains and be free!” and the Cordage 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 oourt was interesting. The judge granted
the injunction, because he said that oratory in a commercial dis
ti4ot blocking the streets ‘‘might mean a loss of thousands of
doll are. ”
The Socialists, of course, replied 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 country seemed
to consider ideas at least as important as dollars, since they adopted
a constitution that forbids interference with free speech
Smug prosperity has often shown itself silly in dealing with its
problems. Unusual 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 to drown it. Naturally, the workmen
thank the Socialists for the brass band.
Then the Cordage Trost 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 trebly
thankful. They are advertised industriously by almost every pros
perous idiot, in the United States.
she Model Husband
He does not smoke, drink, gamble, swear, play cards. He is
brave, generous, intelligent. Who is he" The husband of a Cin
cinnati wife the perfect man. the pride of Ohio.
Os the leu failings ascribed by a clever Frenchman as com
mon to the average man. he has not one His wife says so. and
there can be no better judge For a man who b a hero to his
wife must be a demi-god to his valet. After fifteen years the
lady applies to him the words of Goldsmith -‘ The pink of per
fect ion."
Familiarity does not always br< < d contempt, hut it alwavs
breeds an acquaintance with the foibles and weaknesses of erring
man. There is no gainsaying that some wives might weary of
Jiving with a paragon.
■k Alter all there is a good deal to be said for contrasts. A >kv
never a cloud tires tin eye with its samem-sx
In ordinary mortals a few failing h as are common to
jnost oi us do a good deal towaid cultivating charily in all of us.
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(HAVE many times insisted upon
the fact that the chief cause of
the variability of the weather
in successive seasons is to be.
sought, not upon the earth, but in
the sun. The meteorological vaga
ries of the past few years seem
clearly to bear out this hypothesis,
and strength u» lent to it by the
recent investigations showing that
variations occur in the output of
radiation from the in periods
of from a feu days to several
weeks or months. OccasionaJly the
difference amounts to as much as
five or six or even ten degrees. At
times the sun seems to experi
ence a kind of fainting tit, and the
earth, depending upon the sun for
its supply of surface heat, feels the
consequences.
Farmers Were Big Losers,
I'he past summer, beginning ear
ly with a burst of unseasonable
heat, changed suddenly in charac
ter. became cool and rainy, and
enormous losses were experienced
by farmers, mote in Europe per
haps than in America, although the
defect of solar radiation seems to
have been noticed, more or less,
everywhere. It 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 disentangle the effects. A
very interesting table has recently
been published in Europe by Pro
fessor Bruckner which seems to
show that the seasons undergo no
table variations in a period of from
30 to 35 teats, probably iti conse
quenee of changes which repeat
themselves In the sun
Records extending back over sev
eral centuries reveal this peculiar
ity but those beginning with the
nineteenth tentury are the most
convincing Three periods of cold,
wet summers and an equal number
of hot, dry ones have intervened.
From 1 sot; to 1826 the summers
were chilly, with frequent inunda
tions Tile same ftam. 18:16 to 1850,
and from IXTi to 1885. Between
these periods wa re three other pe
riods of hot summers with drouths,
viz from s.'l to !535. 1851 to
I 8 70 ami ISx . to I Mo"
I a kin g th* a v erag• , it <pp,- ar’
that, as fat ns Hump. . n tc ords
K" th, tot.i length of tin .vitr.g
is between in and .1. years, and
WEDNESDAY, ()(TOBER 2. 1912.
Hie Caprices of the Sun
By GABRtITT P. SERVISS
each phase lasts about 17 years.
\\ ith the 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 the future, however re
mote it may be. All the hopes of
humanity are now concentrated up
on the future development of the
race. We talk of the marvelous
effects that the science of eugenics
i. e.. of human improvement—is
to produce as the fruit of scientific
research, and the imagination is
stirred b\ the pictures drawn of
the perfected men and women of
coming centuries. Rut it must not
be forgotten that everything de
pends upon the continuance of the
earth in its present habitable and
productive state, which, in its turn,
depends upon the condition of the
sun
Astronomers have learned a great
deal about variable stars; the heav
ens ate full ~f thorn. Those whose
variations are extreme, like the star
Mira, probably r< present ;i state to
ward which the sun is tending. He
:: Two Girls ::
By WILLIAM F KIRK
'T'HERE was a girl 1 used to love.
i With hair as brown as Autumn leaves.
She caused sad sighs and misty eyes—
None but a losing lover grives.
She mocked me with her little way s
She spurned me. flouted me. and tied.
"What s love to me ! I whispered then.
Because I said my love was dead.
There was a girl I learned to love.
A girl with hair like sun-kissed wheat.
A girl with wealth and youth and health.
With twinkling eyes and twinkling feet.
\\ c two were wedded, and we loved.
But ( upid oftentimes deceives.
There was a maid with whom I strayed.
Her hair was brown as Xiitiiiiin leaves.
• 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 upflamings, with in
tense. but brief, outpours of heat
and light, followed immediately by
a rapid loss of energy . The end will
be the entire extinction of the sun,
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
critcal stages, when rapid develop
ments will take place. This is the
reason why the studies of the sun.
which are now being pursued by
astronomers with a diligence never
before shown, are of such universal
• interest.
THE HOME PAPER
Dorothy Dix
Writes on
Emotional
Complexities
Tt
The Lesson of the
Kansas Man
Who Couldn’t
Tell Which of
Three Women
He Loved Best.
HOW expansive is the human
heart? Has it room in it for
mote 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 the same
time has committed suicide because
he was unable to tell which of the
three 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 farfey,
and the girl that it would be good
hard 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 rvhat manner of
' oung women the three graces' weie
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. Tims:
No. I—A peach. Tall and wil
lowy, with a lissome figure, golden
hair, starry eyes, milk and ro-es
shin—the kind of a woman that
every man turns to look at on the
street, and whose face he sees in
the curling smoke of his cigar.
No. 2—No beauty, but pleasant
and wholesome looking. Blight,
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 tvhen he tvent off
to enjoy himself.
No. 3 —A household angel. A
pretty, demure little creature, with
sleekly-banded hair and dovelike
eyes, who could be safely counted
on to spend her life al he hus
band's feet burning incense before
him. and yvho would never sign for
any amusement more exciting than
darning stockings and rocking ba
bies to sleep. The kind of a woman
that a man pictures in his vision
of home, and who is irresistibly ap
pealing because she is the very
spirit and essence of femininity.
Hoty Is any man to choose be
tween these three? No wonder the
Kansas love committed suicide as
the easiest way out. Many another
man. so torn between conflicting
all-action’, would do the same
thing except that iso of the nom
en he is enamored of settle the
question sot him by flaunting him.
Not every man may pick and
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By DOROTHY DIX
’?• choose in the rosebud garden of
girls, and thereby many have the
, question of which one they shall
i 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 we 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 people of one Idea In
ote as there are people obsessed
".‘th onp idea In business. Occa
sionally. too. a man is fortunate
enough to find all the qualities he
a mires and desires embodied tn
one woman, or a woman discover’
a man who fills the measure of her
wants.
Unfortunately, however, very few
Os us are lucky enough to find the
one who can be all-ln-an to w ,
this is what makes it possible, and
even common, for us to love two
or more people at the same time
and for entirely different reasons
woman may love one man
cause he Is good to her. and an.
other because of his brilliance, and
still another because of his irre
pressible gayet.v that makes him
l.ke an eternal splrft of
her.
-an wII] love one woman for
her radiant young beauty, and an
other because she is no longer
•voting nor beautiful, but has grown
old and ugly i n her dPVot , on
him. and still a thlnJ because her
intellect makes her a fit compan
ion to him. which neither of the
other two women are.
It Explains. - -
I his 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 th*
heart is a Jekyll and Hyde affair
that requires a different phases of
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 as
he was going off with the wife to
try to lead a better life. It was
shown in the ease that the man
loved 4 both women, but that he
vibrated between them according lo
his mood. In his better moments,
he adored his wife and she had
great influence over him: hut when
his baser self was in the ascemi
ant. when lie wanted to drink and
carouse, he turned from the good
woman to the bad.
If further proof were want'd
that we can love more than one.
it is to be found in the remar
riages of wi4jj»v.« and widow < «.
who generally nick out for No. 2
somebody as unlike No, i as pee- •
hie. And on the «hob this 4 a
consoling thought, tn.it «« ran love
■ not fully often, but many There s
I always safety in numbers.
