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Electric Age
Using water power. coal and oil
to develop electricity is the indus-
trial line of progress of this age.
Twenty-two billion kilowatt-hours
of electricity were consumed in the
industries of the United States in
1032 and more than sixty pcr cent.
of the energy used by three hundred
‘thousand manufacturing plants was
supplied through this great flow of
power. according to a recent survey
of industrial electrification.
It is estimated that the manufac~
turies of the country are equipped
to use more than 30. 000.000 horse
power. as compared with only 12
000. 000 in 1902 while the installed
rating of industrial electric motors
has increased from 1.000.000 horse
power in 1902 to approximately 19.-
000. 000 in 1922. a growth of‘1800
per cent in two decades.
Of the three natural forces that
have been harnessed by man. water
power, steam power and electric
power. the last and youngest has
already caught and passed the oth-
ers in point of service and bulk of
work done.
Do “Small Incomes" Escape?
(Senator Smoot.)
, They do not. They pay just as
surely as if they mailed their checks
to the income tax collector direct-
ly. The income tax and the corpora-
tion tax and all the various taxes of
the present system all are passed on
to the ultimate consumer. directly
‘ ~ or indirectly. in form or other. The
farmer or the laborer is o ring his
share in the price of everything he
' buys. The tax is added to the cots all
along the linens it passes from the
manufacturer to the wholemlw to
the retailer. It is cumulative. When
the farmer or laborer buys any-
thing. he pays this pyramidal! tax
in the price he planks down at the
counter of the store.
81,000 In 30 Prizes.
(Chicago News Competition.)
You may abolish war Just as you
may abolish evil. The way to anolish
evil is to be good. and the way to
abolish war is not to fight. This is
clearly seen by No. "2. It advises
that "all nations should make the 10
~ commandments a law. all nations
A should enforce the law. and there
would be no war." No. 82 suggests
an hour of prayer all over the world
on "prayer day." while No. 91 gets
at the root of the problem by re-
commending all nations “to abolish
suspicion of each other." In their
f'simplicity these seem better lhan
”No. It’s suggestion 6! “peace
'through experts: '
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or Splashes Automobile Wheel.
From Paris comes the news of a
. b1 pedestrians from being splashed
wheel designed to save the clothing
mud during wet weather. says
.. Mill? Science Monthly. The de-
vice consists merely of s. circular
.brush mounted on the axle of the
.wheel and extending nearly to its
,bdrcumference. The brush acts as a
d to receive the mud thrown to
‘ side by the tire. Owing to its
”‘Mstruction it is easily cleaned and
' is said to provide an efficient bul-
:wark against the flying drops that
run so many garments. This brush
3 the result of a thorough series of
morimcnts made not long ago in
Jam to determine the best meth-
ad of splash prevention.
‘ m manna
‘ louthern New England: Eastern
Row York: Fair and colder Monday:
Inaday fair with rising temperature
Omdltions: The weather chart of
assay showod a disturance of con-
fldsnble intensity over the Canadian
imam. provinces and relatively
‘ barometric pressure along the
Monday and Tuesday in the
on forecast district.
temperature will be lower
in the New England states.
has: North of Sandy Hook:
.. to fresh west and north-
Hook to Hatteras: Fresh
and northwest winds and yea.-
weather.
5‘ clear.
4 3 cloudy.
46 cloudy.
42 cloudy.
5 8 clear.
5 4 clear.
46 cloudy.
6 i clear.
7 4 clear._
5 4 clear.
5 3 clear.
56 clear.
4 i cloudy.
Clara
cloudy.
cloudy.
clear.
You never can tell. for there'- no
way to know it.
What sort of a garb hides the soul
of a post:
For not all the poems are written at
night
By the curious fellows whose Job is
to write.
And not all the poetry’a told us in
rhyme—
It’s something that's felt a good deal
of the time.
It flows of men in all manner of
M
In the houses they build and the
- gardens they raise.
In the books they are food of. the
pictures they keep.
Tht way that they look at their
babies asleep:
And I'm sure you would and. could
you get deep within him.
The poorest of men has some poetry
in him. .
He was planting some shrubs. and
he worked by the day——
The best he could earn was a labor-
er's pay-—
And I saw he had stepped from the
plan we'd made known:
An planted one bush to some whim
of his own.
He had disobeyed orders. I queso
tloned him why.
And stood back and waited to hear
his reply.
He couldn't find words' which he
wanted i?) use.
He leaned on his spade and he look-
ed at his shoes.
Then he said: “This one shrub was
so lovely and fair
I felt God would like to see it just
there!”
So I left that bush there. standing
out all alone.
For the soul of a poet had made it-
self known.
Constitution Days
Constitution day was observed in
the historic Faneuil Hall. Boston. on
Monday. September 17. 1923. under
the auspices of an organization
known as “The Sentinels of the Re-
public." It was a notable occasion
made particularly so by the presence
of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. Pre-
sident of Columbia University. the
principal speaker; who more than
anybody else of like scholarly dis-
tinction and ability is directing at-
tention to what the constitution is
and what is being done to it by
thoughtless agitation and emotional
reformers. says The New Haven
Journal-Courier. If we are not to
look to our great institutions of
learning for leadership in these mat—
ters—the halls of legislation failing
us—we may indeed despair of the
future. Dr. Butler's contribution to
the subject is marking him more and
more as a profound student of the
constitution and a brave defender
of American traditions and precepts.
A key to the thought which domi-
nated this meeting of "The Sentlncl‘s
of the Republic" was offered by Hon.
James Jackson. the treasurer and
receiver general of the common-
wealth of Massachusetts. Ho de-
clared: "We should throw legisla-
tive responsibilitics away from
Washington. get them back into the
states: away from the states back
into the cities and towns. or in the
hands of the people where they be-
long. And as soon as we get the re-
sponsibilities in the hands of the
people and away from \Vashington.
so much easier will it be to conduct
the government of this country along
the lines that our forefathers did."
This is a reassertion of the funda-
mental principle of local self gov-
ernment upon which our political
structure is reared. In reverse order.
it declares that the troubles from
which we are as a people suffering
flow from this abandonment of lo-
cal authority. in part. and. in pre-
texts notably under these of inter-
state commerce and revenue neces-
sity. claims which the supreme court
has found no way to resent.
Dr. Butler found this statement a
sympathetic introduction to his an-
alyzation of the constitution itself.
Declaring the constitution to be "a
distillation from human experience
of those fundamental principles of
government that will both protect
and advance human liberty " he
went on to say: "The moment that
a constitution attempts to be some-
thing more that a framework of
government. a declaration of indi-
vidual rights. which are civil liberty
and a series of limitations upon the
governmental power so created. that
moment it ceases to be a. true con-
stitution and reaches over into un-
charted fields of legislation where
the tide of sentiment. of feeling. of
conviction. ebbs and flows in chan -
ing form from generation to genera-
tion. The success of our constitu-
tion lies in the fact that as original-
ly drafted it minded its own busi-
ness." Again: "We erected a gov-
ernment under limitations in order
to carry on our great concerns. in
order to give formal and edeotive
voice to our noblest aspirations and
hopes: but it must let our individual
liberties alone." And still further:
"There is no progress in abandoning
liberty. The only hope of progress
is to make mankind more worthy of
liberty. more understanding of lib-
erty. more competent of liberty.
That way prograss lies and not in a
series of compulsion. limitations.
prohibitions. of one sort and another.
that put; the life of the individual
and society in a straight Jacket at
the behest of opinion."
These are thoughts and convic-
tions that should sink into the soul
of mankind. They are not advanced
by a man rookie- of his personal
opinions because he desires to con-
vert them into votes at the polls in
order that he may gratify s. political
ambition. Dr. Butler is the head of
a great university lmpreming in one
way or another thousands upon
thousands of young men and women
seeking a higher social and profes-
sional position. It is from such a.
man that ' these thoughts should
properly come because a man oc-
cupying his position of enormous re-
sponsibility is denied the right to
misinterpret history and misrepreo
seat human effort. It is a signifi-
cant {act too. that organisations of
flu character of ”me Sentinels of
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AT THE PLAY
With
Marjbrie Candee
"THE LULLABY"
Anyone who can play the roles of
a peasant girl of eighteen. a sophis-
ticated woman of twenty four. a
calculating woman of thirty. degrad-
ed street welker of forty three. and
a broken. bent woman of sixty-
three. all in the some play. with
equal case and realism. must be
admired. That is what F'orence
Reed does in "The Lullaby" now
playing at the Knickerbocker ihea~
ter. at Broadway and 38th street.
There are ten scenes in the play.
and a prologue and an epilogue.
With surprising celeriiy the scenery
is changed from a. Paris street at
midnight. 1923. to a xessani cot-
tage in 1860. to an open field in
Normandy. 1874. to the interior of
a peasant cottage 1874. to an at-
lic room in Paris 1875. to a garden
in Barbizon. a midsummer e‘euing.
1877, to a drawing room in l‘aris.
midwintcr. 1878. to a boudoir room
Paris. in June 1881 to a Parisian
restaurant to the Old “fall of the
City of Tunis Africa at sunset. 1903.
to a prison cell sunrise. at Tunis.
1928. and back again to the Paris
street at midnight.
The play has a central theme that
underlies every incident Edith
Wharton's phrase. “the hard com-
pulsion of the poor" might .upress
what the chief though is. or it ‘oigh'.
be "We pay for our sins."
All through the play it seemed
that the playwright was trying to
get the audience's sympathy for the
woman. I heard several people
around me weeping. and one u man
sobbod. "Oh. the poor. pitiful "hing."
It was true. it was a pitiful q ecia-
cle to see someone search so hard
for happienss' and it. and th ‘1; lose
it after a few brief moments. Several
times. you blame the woman. and
then a bit of superb enotiouai act-
ing and you sympathies would be all
for her. again. Her lov for her son
seems to be the dominating motive
of her life. Money. Jewels. clothes.
men came and went in rapid succes—
sion. but her mother love was on-
durable throughout.
The play does not. in any place.
mince matters. None of the charac-
ters hesitate tn call .I spa is a spade.
and a bad woman a had woman.
l‘e'haps the st.aig;nforv:nrl dialo-
gut and the can-Sm frank altitude
arc the best foaturer of the may.
Ilthough there were many char-
acters in the play. it was not at all
confusing to the audience. because
only the neutral ones remained
through the entire play. Each scene.
or episode started off calmly and
serenely. but invariably ended with
s. sudden. unexpected turn of af-
fairs. The woman sings. and sobs.
ache and sings the plaintive little
lullably expreslve of her 1ndying
love for her child. lIer levels. Jac-
ques. Freddie. Count Carlo. and
many more on first appearance gain
the sympathy of the audience by
their good looks. good runners. and
semblances of sincerity and deep de-
votion. But. one by one. they desert
her and she sinks lower and lower.
The onlookers are kept in sus-
pense wondering "what next” will
happen to the unfortunate woman.
Her friend. Rosalie, played by Grace
Perkins. remains true to her thl ough
out. and cares for the son until her
gusband gets into financial r'"'icul-
es.
’ To go back to Forence Reed.
again—for it is she who literally
“makes” the part. also not-only por-
trays the graffiti but sure decline»
of the woman's character. but her
features. her manners. her very
voice also changes accordingly:
out political life but to swing the
current of popular thought back to
the ideals. purposes and avowals of
the great hearted men who formed
the' republic and planted it as they
supposed forever upon at ”
of local self government
Just when the play begin: tr get
almost too heavy to endure. a light.
gay. rollicking scene-the one in
Maynard‘s garden. is introd ift‘d by
way of relief. Japanese lanterns are
strung across the lawn. trim tree
to tree. and on the veranda; a gold-
en moon is swinging gracefully from
a tall pine tree: and three merry
couples are seen dancing to the
tune played by an organ grinder.
The attic scene. where Madelon.
the heroine. and her dresmakcr
friends exist. is truly delightful.
Dainty gingham aprons. green. blue.
red. yellow. pink. brown checked—
dozens of them. swing from the
clothes line stretched across the
bare little room.
The sunset scene at Tunis. with
the city well in the foreground. and
natives carrying jars of water on
their heads. and vendors shouting
their wares. and solemn Arabs strol-
ling by. is extremely picturesque.
When Madeion kills her own son.
in a brawl supposedly. the emo‘mnai
climax of the play is "cached. and
the playwright very wisely ends it
soon after that.
For variety of emotion. action.
scenery. character. and )et nith all
a single effect "The Lullaby" is a
capital production.
Telling bits of dialogue were: “I'm
caught in a trap. That‘s all life is.
a trap." "You'd ruther' live. and ac-
cept the known evil. than to kill
yourself and plunge into the un—
known." "I‘d love to laugh -—if 1
could afford to." "Why must things
change. dear. when we were rm hap~
py?u
The molal'.’
moral to the play.
began. with the old woman . * .
told her tale to the )oung girl.
warning her to go and not do like
wise. And the girl replies in.- ‘most
natural. human reply. “Oh. but all
those horrid things could nevw- hap-
pen to me. I'm young and he swears
he loves me.
Oh yes. ther"e - a
and it ends as it
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,
Mellon's Plan.
The Mellon income *ax plan has.
swept the country like an invigorat.
ing breeze. says the N. 1'. li’rald.
Never has a financial program met
with more applause. Men and wo-
men in business. in the professions.
in the crowded ranks of the salary
and while earners—all are for the
proposed cuts in the income tax
rates. They want them and. new that
the Secretary of the Treasury has
shown that they are possible . they
intend to have them.
There" is no hemming or bowing
except from a few politicians in Con-
gress. The hesitation of these is
pitiful. Some stammer that they
have not studied the subject enough
to decide what their course will be.
Yet Mr. Mellon's latter made the.
case so clear that ten minutes' study
was enough for even (‘9 dullesi
mind. His plan calls for a cut of
43 or more per cent—almost one-
half—in the income taxes of nine-
tenths of the taxpayers. It calls for
an end of the injustice by, which
earned income istaxed as heavily as V ‘
unearned. It calls for a surtax re-
vision that will send profits into in-
dustrial expansion instead of into
tax exempt securities. .
Some other politicians. staggered
by the novelty of a propOsai which
will save the people‘s rmoney andy
stimulate business, timidly say the:
they would be for the Mellon plan dc. :
they were sure it would. work. No-
Treasury and doubt. the pmctt'eabilh
the! his «median. It. his the
backing of cold Arm-es and dread
omylu the monument
facts. noes
has preduoe'd a surplus which war-
rents the reduction of the income
tax. If Congres will permis scon- ,
omytogoouthetaxcanbe .‘9
That is all. Nohflncif
Congress fears that it would he “un-
wise to make an important fiscal
change in the session before a Presl-
dential election." But what will
members say to their constituents if
the Mellon program is not adopted
this coming winter? What would be
the effect in the 193‘ (tection on a
political party which prevented a cut
of almost one-half in the income
taxes of millions of voters?
The State of New York is the
greatest of the politically doubtful
States. It has 3.000.000 voters. On
million of these pay income taxes.
Thousands of the other are the
wives or daughters of the men who
make the income tax returns. It
takes no political genius to figure
out the fate of a party which would
snatch away from these voters the
tax reduction held out to them by
the Mellon plan: And what is true
of New York is true in all the States
to which the parties look eagerly on
election day;
Politicians find it easy to side—
step an issue when the people do not
understand it or are not stro igly for
it. The Mellon plan is under-stood
by everybody. Everybody who pays
an income tax islnfavor of it. if
comes forward at the right time—~01;
the eve of a session of Congress
which will be followed by a Presi-
dential election.
he Penseur.
From the Arkansas Gazette.
’W’hich of you. by taking thought.
can add one cuhlt to his stature?—
Matthew. vi.. :7.
I. too. once looked on life's affairs
With youth's clear scornful eycs.
I knew disdain of things improved.
Contempt of compromise:
And nothing but was wide was good.
And all good things were vise.
Now I have watched the years run
by—
Gray waste where beauty stood.
The thief within the temple doors.
The white Christ on the reed—-
And who am I. or any man.
To know the wise and good?
I leave the riddle all un guessed. . . .
I am content to see
The white stars wheeling down the
sky
Serene and solemnly:
To know that Truth. somewhere be-
yond.
Will be made clear to me.
C. ’1'. Davis.
\Vith A Trey.
One of the big cafeterias in New
York is to install a library. We sug-
gest as an appropriate book “Self
Help.”~—Waterbury Republican.
Your Autobiography
Probably you never expected to write 1. book
book you have already writ-
ten 9. chapter of your autobiography.
Frequent deposits with few withdrawals.
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over a period ofyears
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Regular deposits.
than yours a notable autobiography.
inscrutable are they: Doc Gasket
day. He has detractors here and
our." drearlly they drool: he
hasn't ed a thing. they swear.
since he emerged from school: but
little does Doc Casket care: he smil-
ea serene and cool. He has the
trick of lookilm who. upon his daily
round; he's silent where less prudent
guys fill all the air with sound; and
{it a patient lives or dies. the doc still
. view the doc with something like
disdain: his air of majesty l meek
and say it's all in vain; he hasn’t
sort of pain. But when I'm sick from
heels to head. and full of cal-king
fear. I say to those about my bed.
“Fetch old Doc Casket here; Y'il
soon shake off this olammy dread
when he is standing near.” In time
me o‘er. and sighs; and I shake off
my doubts and fears. he looks so
‘beastly wise.
StoriesostgicalRodsOldasnis-
fory. .
' Stories of magical rods are as old
as the history of the world. Moses
had such. a rod with which he pro-
duced water for his tarnished nation.
ries have been recorded. Scientists
have given a great deal of attention
to this subject. The sum of their op-
inion seems to have been that divin-
ing rod exhibitions were a diliberate
and clever hoax. As the principles
,of electro magnetism and gravity
came to be recognized. There ap-
peared numerous scientists in Euro-
pe and America who attributed the‘
action of divining rods to electrical
urrents transmitted from the ground
through the body and inducing mag-
netic attraction between the rod and
the ground. Systematic magnetic ob-
servations and a complete magnetic
servey of the earth have been carried
on under the direction of the Carn-
egie Institution of “'ashington with—
out disclosing the existence of any
indication of under ground condit-
ions.
\Vllson’s Speech.
The “voice out of the void.” as
one correspondent called the broad-
casted speech. embracing the coun-
try from Alaska to the Caribbean.
might have done much. A course of
action might have been outlined and
some practical plan could have been
proposed. Instead. what happened?
A few old phrases. a bit of feeble
abuse. not one constructive word.
and all was over. The voice had
spoken. ’
“Is your son-in-law industrious?"
asked an acquaintance.
"W‘eli. sorter." replied old man
Sockery of Clapboard Springs. "He‘ll
do 'most anything» but work."
Worry *
raps strength and nervous
energy! It destroys
working power and is an
Enemy to Success! Per-
haps the most frequent
cause of worry is the lack
of money.
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