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Another Big Ship Trust-
Competition.
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Then, the Two Trusts Become One Trust. No Competition, But
Higher Prices. The Public Pays the Competition Bill—A Better
Plan Suggested.
Sir Owen Phillips, of England, has started a. new ship Irusl to
make extra money out of the boats that carry passengers between
Europe and Aineriea. and to compete with .1. I’. Morgan’s American
Ship Trust.
Sir Phillips starts modestly, with $113,500,000 of capital, for a
fleet of 416 ships.
Mr. Morgan, head and boss of the Ship Trust in America, knows
more than poor Sir Owen about finance.
Air. Morgan’s trust has $120,000,000 capital and only 126 ships
—57,000,000 more capital, and about, three hundred fewer ships
than the Englishman.
Now. we shall have for a little while some competition between
the two trusts.
The Cunard and other great lines will be in the new English
trust, and Mr. Morgan’s trust will continue the fight with the com
panies that he controls.
Perhaps for a while you will see prices reduced, almost to the
prices that prevailed liefore any trusts existed.
Each of the big combinations will try to get the business. One
will cut prices on freight, one on express matter, and both, perhaps,
on passengers.
The public will be happy, and say. “What a fine thing big
organizations WITH COMPETITION are.’’ Then will come the
usual end.
Mr. Morgan will say to Sir Owen when the latter begins to get
tired of competition, “What is the use of throwing your money
away? Yon are simply making things cheap for the public, and it
is a had thing for the owners.”
Sir Owen will hem and haw and say how much his lines are
worth, and how much they earn, or will earn, and how much he
ought to get for them.
Mr. Morgan, with a generous wave of the hand, will say : “ Your
price is too reasonable, and your estimate is too low. I’ll take all
you’ve got, take particular care of you and your friends, and I
will give yon $20,000,000 more than you ask.”
Sir Owen, simple Englishman, will say: “Dear me, dear me,
how can you do that? How can yon expect, to make a profit ?”
Mr. Morgan will explain it very simply by saying: “If one
hundred passengers at, let us say SIOO each, pay SI,OOO profit, then,
one hundred passengers at sllO each will pay $2,000 profit.
“And when the two Trusts become one Trust, and when we make
this very wise and beautiful deal, that which is now sold for SIOO
will be sold for sll0 —and more later on—and the profit which is
now SI,OOO will suddenly become $2,000.”
And Sir Owen will understand, and the deal will be accom
plished and the two big Ship Trusts will melt into one, as you occa
sionally see two clouds melt together in the skies, making one big
cloud.
After that the people ■will pay more.
Nothing will be DONE about this when it happens, because it
is not the custom to DO anything about combinations of that sort.
There will be TALK about it, of course. And after the organi
sation has been completed, and the properties are firmly in the hands
of one management, there may be a “dissolution,” after which the
prices will probably be higher, to make up for the “extra cost of
management,” and the property will be just as valuable, and noth
ing be gained.
How would it he if the government of the Tinted Stales, which
spends hundreds of millions each year for a navy, should decide
under the direction of a wise man, like Morgan or Rockefeller TO
MAKE THE NAVY PROFITABLE?
Rockefeller and Morgan must both be rather tired of making
money by this time. Taking tens of millions from the American
people must be a rather slow, dull game—about as exciting as tak
ing a stick of candy from a sick baby.
Those two men, able, with power and imagination, would prob
ably gladly undertake to make the American navy bigger than any
five navies in the world, AND AT THE SAME TIME PUT IT ON A
PAYING BARIS. They would do it.
Suppose we had our lines, owned by the United States navy,
running in Europe, manned by American sailors, thoroughly trained’
well paid, working eight hours a day for fair wages when at sea'
and getting extra pay for a few hours’ drill each week—is all that
any fighting sailor needs, and more.
Suppose these great government-owned ships left their guns
and their armor on shore in time of peace—which thev might
easily do.
And suppose, at high speed crossing from America to Europe,
they carried freight and passengers, at reasonable rates, paying the
government two or three per cent on the investment—the "price at
which the government can borrow money—and saving the govern
ment the present terrific loss on the navy.
Instead of the government having twenty or fifty big battle
ships. it could have a thousand, practically as good, once their guns
and their movable armor were taken aboard.
Those great ships could carry all the passengers and all the
V-Cighf. reduce the cost of ocean tonnage, help industry and com
merce. AND MAKE THIS NATION ABSOLUTELY SAFE
AGAINST AVAR.
Such a navy, with great fleets on the Pacific and on the Atlan
tic. covering the waters of lhe earth in all directions, ready at a
moment s notice to be changed to fighting vessels, owned by the
government, manned by government officers and sailors, honostlv
run and efficiently run. as is the work at Panama, would/inake this
country absolutely free even from the suggestion of war—and, at
the same time, enable us to have five, or ten, or fifty times the great
est navy in the world—without spending a dollar, in the way of
dead loss, but, on the contrary, making money.
What a pity such a man as Mr. Rockefeller, or Air. Morgan,
could not see this picture distinctly. Having all the money they
need, and having all lhe political influence necessary, they might
make an experiment that would show a great profit and advantage
to this nation, in place of-repeating the same old well-known games
for adding a few millions to lhe millions that are already too many
Our army and navy would PAY. The arinv building roads arid
canals, draining swamps, irrigating dry land' The navy carrying
passengers and freight.
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Top picture at left—Nuns of the Capuchin order at Mahaffa, who are nursing some of the wounded Turks.
Top picture at right—A Servian mother at the bedside of her wounded son in the hospital at Vranja. Servia.
Oval picture—Princess Helene, wife of Prince Nicholas of Greece, as director of the special train for Greek soldiers
at Larissa; she is talking to a wounded Greek soldier. Lower picture at right—Madame Ellka Tumberaski. a rich
Servian woman, who is devoting her wealth and energy to hospital organization.
How People Can Have Pure Food
AS a general thing, I care lit
tle for Thomas Carlyle’s writ
ings, but he was a great man,
and often he hit the nail on the
head with magnificent precision and
force. In reading Dr. Wiley's ex
posure of "glucose, the champion
adulterant,” in GOOD HOUSE
KEEPING for December. I vividly
recall some burning sentences in a
letter of Carlyle's written more
than forty years ago, but sounding
like the cry of an honest soul tor
mented by the frauds of the present
day.
"What a contrast,” exclaims Car
lyle. "between now and, say. only a
hundred years ago! At that latter
date, or still more conspicuously for
ages before that, all England
awoke to Its work with an invoca
tion to the Eternal Maker to bless
them in their day's labor, and help
them to do it well. Now all Eng
land—shopkeepers, workmen, all
manner of competing laborers—
awaken as If with an unspoken but
heartfelt prayer to Beelzebub, ‘Oh,
help us, thou great lord of. shoddy,
adulteration and malfeasance, to do
our work with a maximum_pf slim
ness, swiftness, profit and men
dacity. for the devil’s sake, Amen!’ ”
What Would Carlyle Say?
What would Carlyle say if he
lived In our time and read Dr. Wi
ley’s monthly contribution to the
living history of adulteration? I
am sure it is not a pleasure to Dr.
Wiley to write these things,‘any
more than It is. in the ordinary
sense, a pleasure for anybody to
read them, and yet one is both
pleased and amused by the expos
ures; pleased, as every honest per
son must be, to see fraud uncov
ered, and amused at the exhibition
of guileless innocence, not only on
the part of the public, but that of
public officials in permitting their
eyes to be blinded by transparent
deceptions.
But the thing has become too se
rious to be laughed at. When many
of the staples of life have been so
falsified by adulteration and sub
stitution that it is almost impossi
ble to procure them in a pure state,
and when the stuff offered in their
place is backed up by misrepresen
tation, overt or concealed, lying and
misleading labels, it is time to do
something very decided about it.
The people themselves are partly
to blame for the situation. When
the laws that they have made for
their protection are "queered” by
manufacturers of substitutes and
adulterants, the remedy lies in up
holding the hands of honest officers
who, as Dr. Wiley did until he was
forced out. try to enforce the laws
in their true spirit. But back of
this lies the need of education.
Every head of a family owes it to
himself and to those dependent
upon him to leant the facts. There
is no better way to do this than to
read Dr. Wiley’s articles.
You can protect yourself by
avoiding the u-< of prepared food
stuffs. When von want honev vou
want what tile nee has made in a
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1912.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
laboratory that honest science will
tell you it can not imitate. Bees,
the genuine bees of the fields, are
still at work, and you can get the
product of their honest labor if you
take pains to find it, although, as
Dr. Wiley says, ‘‘the bee growers
of the country came near being
ruined by the cutthroat competition
of adulterated honeys, glucose play-
I Ing the star role.’’
When you use syrup you want
the concentrated juice of the maple,
or some other sugar-producing
plant; you do not want a manufac
tured . conglomeration which in
some cases is not what it pretends
to be, it adopts an ap
parently outspoken name, and
which is pushed upon the market
because it is cheap to make and af
fords enormous profits.
When you give your children can
dy you want it to be made of gen
uine sugar, flavored with natural
extracts; but, says Dr. Wiley, “the
little child who buys a penny’s
worth of candy is not told that It
I'he Father of Waters
IT was November 20, 1541, that
DeSoto discovered the Missis
sippi. It was the first time, so
far as we know, that the great riv
er was ever seen by a white man.
The savage had often gazed with
half-intelligent eye upon the mighty
flood rolling from Itasca to the sea,
and the wild beasts had long been
familiar with the reflection of their
images upon its waters, as they
would come down to the shores to
drink, but not until the great Span
iard looked upon it did it become
the object of the intelligence that
was worthy of the grandeur.
It may be said in passing that
while DeSoto's followers found the
mouth of the great river in 1543. its
source remained a mystery until
1884. when it was discovered by
Captain Glazier and Julius Cham
bers. In other words, more than
three and a half centuries inter
vened between the discovery of its
outlet into the Gulf of Mexico and
the finding of its rise, nearly 3,000
miles northward, in the uplands of
Minnesota.
There is but one Mississippi.
There are other rivers as long and
as large—the Nile, the Amazon, the
Congo—-but we can say of our "Fa
ther of Waters” what can not be
said of any other river of its size,
that it is all our own. Not a drop
of its waters belongs to any other
people. From the spot where it
starts up out of the earth to the
spot where it mingles its floods with
the brine, it is purely and simply
American. For 3,000 miles it flows
through one country—the United
States of America. No foreign soil
mingles with its current From
start to finish it is American.
It is said that Just before the
outbreak of the Civil war a great
Southern statesman exclaimed,
sorrowfully, in a company of broth
er seei sslonlsts. 'Gentlemen, we
ate going to tight, and we ought to
,r. contains glucose, an insipid sub
stance with just enough sugar in
it to make it taste a bit sweet, and
plenty of dyestuffs to make it look
yellow, pink or green.”
Learn a Little Chemistry.
If you wish a crushing reply to
those who would persuade you that
j some of these manufactured stuffs
are even better for you to eat than
the genuine products that they are
driving out of the market, then
read these same exposures and
learn a little chemistry.
And, finally, if you would know
! how politics plays a part in this
war of greed, read the result of an
appeal to the president of the
United States in a battle for pure
food! But politics, dear people, is
your own field. YOU make presi
dents and other officials, and you
can control them IE YOU WILE.
We could have only pure foods
pure drugs in this country tomor
row if the united people WILLED
4* IT SO!
By REV, THOMAS B. GREGORY.
fight, but we are going to get licked.
The Mississippi flows in the wrong
direction. If it ran east and west
we’d win. but it happens to run
north and south, and our cake is all
dough.”
Mr. Lincoln appears to have had
a somewhat similar view of the
great stream, and of its paramount
importance as a national factor, for
was it not soon after the fall of
Vicksburg that the president said:
"Now the father of Waters flows
unvexed to the sea,” as though the
great man had the feeling that
such was the natural situation.
Students of not need
to be told of the influence that ge
ography has had upon events.
Mountains and rivets, especially,
have always had a great deal to do
with the making of history.
AH through our colonial days
and throughout the earlier years of
our national life the Mississippi
was the great overshadowing issue
between our statesmen and those
of France, Spain and Great Britain,
and the biggest thing that was ever
done by an American was when the
Father of Democracy. Thomas Jef
ferson, settled the Mississippi ques
tion at once and forever by the
Louisiana Purchase.
If there was ever a long-headed
man on earth it was Jefferson, and
because he was long-headed he
realized that our country could
never work out its great destiny
with the Mississippi belonging in
part to foreign nations.
The Southerner of the days of ’fill
was part right and part wrong the
Mississippi did flow in the “wrong
direction for the would-be dismem
berers of the nation, but it flowed
in just the right direction for those
who would keep the nation united,
to become, < ventually. the might
iest of world powers and the great
- st of force- for the intellectual and
moral uplift of iiuiiianit \.
THE HOME P\PER
DOROTHY DIN
Writes on
What Girls
Should Be
Taught
Vt n
Every One of Them
Should Be Trained So
That They Can Earn
an Honest Living.
Knowledge of Cook
in g , Dressmaking
and Millinery Val
uable to Any
Woman.
I HAVE said in this paper over
and over again, and I shall
say it a million times more, I
because it is a matter that can not
be impressed too deeply upon the
minds of girls and their parents,
that every girl in the world should
be taught some way by which she I
can make an honest living, if it I
becomes necessary for her to earn
her bread and butter.
It doesn't do for people to con
sole themselves with the thought
that a girl is sure to marry, be
cause there aren't enough hus
bands nowadays to go around, and
every year sees a decrease in the
number of men who are willing, or
financially able to support a family,
putting their necks in the matri
monial halter.
Forced to Turn Breadwinner.
And even if a girl does marry,
that doesn’t guarantee her cakes
and ale, and pretty clothes for the
balance of her life. Husbands die
and leave their wives without a
penny, and with a houseful of chil
dren to support. Men become in
valids and their wives have to take
care of them instead of being taken
care of by them. Husbands are
often mere drunken loafers, or no
account, spineless creatures who
were born too tired to work, and it
is a case of hustle or starve with
their wives.
When a woman is forced by cir
cumstances to become the bread
winner of a family, the tragedy of
it is because she has not been pre
pared for the emergency. She
knows nothing to do by which she
can turn a penny. If she had some
trade or profession that she could
fall back on in time of need, it
would rob the situation of its hor
rors. She would simply set back
her old job, and live happily ever
after, instead of having to go
through the torments of anxiety
and striving and dependence while
she begs her friends to find her
something to do. and has herself to
learn how to do it.
This being the case, it Is nothing
less than criminal for parents not
to have their girls taught some oc
cupation that will fit them to sup
port themselves. This applies to
the rich and well-to-do as well as
the poor, but the practical difficulty
in the way of doing this is that It
Is hard to get a girl to take up
seriously the study of a business or
a trade that she doesn't intend to
follow at the time, and the fact
that most girls of the well-to-do
class do marry.
Expert Cook Invaluable.
To my mind, the problem of
teaching a girl a good trade and
something that she will have use
for every day of her life, whether
she marries or not, and yet by
which she can support herself if
she ever needs to, is furnished bv
•f
the courses in domestic science that
are being taught to a limited de
gree in the public schools, and as a
profession in the colleges.
Here a girl may be taught to
be an expert cook. Not a three
dollar or five-dollar-a-w eek, igno
rant, bungling slinger of pots and
pans, but a chef, an artist, who
can ask and get the salary of a
bank president.
The girl who has mastered the
science of cookery has fitted her
self to become a wife who is h
Jewel above price. She knows how
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•' to preserve her husband’s stom
ach. and thereby render him as mild
’ as a suckling lamb, instead of mak
ing him as cross and grump as a
sore-headed bear with dyspepsia.
She knows how to save the family
pocketbook by judicious marketing.
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and how to conserve the health of
her children by giving them the
proper food.
To the making of a happy home
a woman can bring no more valua
i ble aid than the knowledge of how to
cook, and if she is ever thrown
upon her own resources she has got
at her fingers' ends the best trade
in the vv'orld far a Wipman to follow
if she has a family to support. In
any city or town she can open a
boarding house, and not only make
a living, but a fortune, if she
knows how to keep It right. The
hotel business of the world ought
to be in women's hands, and the
only reason it i-n't is because they
have never prepared themselves m
follow it.
But if a girl does not i are to spe
cialize on cooking, let her take up
dressmaking or millinery, and mas
ter the art of one or the other or
both of them. Whether she mar
ries or not, she will always have to
have clothes, and her ability to have
beautiful ones depends on hr
knowledge along this line.
Make Own Gowns, Save Money.
\\ hat makes a woman's hats and
gowns cost Is not the material. It s
tile making. A clover woman can
pick up bargains here and there in
lace and silk and velvet, and if she
knows how to put. them together
herself she can have toilets for a
few dollars that would have cost
her hundreds if she had bought
them of a fashionable shop.
The result is that whether a poor
woman looks like a perambulating
rag-bag or fashion plate depends
altogether on iter skill with the
needle. Certainly the dressmakers
that we go to. and who charge us
outrageous prices for our gowns, or
the milliners who bankrupt us for a
wisp of velvet and a few straggling
chicken feathers that they call a
“creation” have no more intelli
gence than the balance of us. They
simply know how to make a frock
or a hat. and we don’t, and we have
to pay for our ignorance. There's
no occult secret about it that any
clever woman can't master.
In being able to make her own
gowns and hats a woman has ana
that she can apply to her own
pleasure and adornment, and the
saving of her husband’s money. If
site needs, at any time, to make
money, she has only to hang out
her shingle as dressmaker or milli
ner, and other women will do the
rest. The poorest and the most in
competent dressmaker makes a liv
ing. The good ones roll up fe*
tunes. There are no better paid po
sitions' for women In business than
that of hat and dress designers,
and it Is significant that the teach
ers of domestic science get higher
salaries than the teachers of Greek.
Therefore, I urge all girls, when
in doubt about what to study, to
study cooking and dressmaking ai
millinery. The knowledge of how
to do the practical things of life i
what people are willing to pay f"
in a practical age, and wliat women
need to ku>>»
•I" to preserve her husband’s