Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — Page 3

Organized Labor, as Well as Capital, Must Be Regulated to Protect Public

President New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company

Jt lb trite to say that capital cannot get along without labor and that labor cannot get along without capital —and yet capital and labor both, at times, forget this all-important fact. Both also pay too little attention to the fact that neither of them can get along at all without brains brains to plan, brains to supervise, brains to direct, brains to be fair and 'brains to see that the great public interest in these large industrial corporations must be constantly considered. Capital has been~mobilized fn This country,'and in the main with great benefits to all. It has been constructive, not destructive, because innoother wav could it eafn~a return. It has psade its mistakes, because it has been directed by human lyings, who at times have failed to give due weight to the public good. As a result, public opinion was aroused, and this irresistible force decreed that organized capital or capital in a mass must subject itself to certain regulatory measures. A natural sequence to the organization of capital was the organization of labor; this in order to present in forcible and concrete form its views of the industrial situation and also to record the natural desire of every healthy man to improve the conditions surrounding himself and his family. But just as organized capital was forced to be controlled and regulated in the interest of the organized labor must be controlled and regulated. No one can object to organized labor unless its acts injure the general welfare of the public. It, too, must be constructive and not destructive. When it tries the strike in an effort to stop the wheels of progress, to be unfair in its demands, to be unwilling to have those demands considered calmly by unprejudiced people and to abide by the decision, then the naighty will of the people win he aroused and a means will be found to retain the good features of organized labor and eliminate the bad.

America Must Take Lead in Bringing Permanent Peace at End of World War

By REPRESENTATIVE DAVID A.

Permanent peace in the world, safeguarded by the common interests of mankind and international organizations strong enough to enforce universal justice ou the one hand or resultant world-wide chaos and war s desolation on the other must soon follow the close of the European conflict, now plainly approaching a crisis. • - ; . Exhaustion, starvation, or the superior force of one or the other group of belligerents must soon cause a cessation of the strife. The end draws near, and with it comes the certainty that America will be looked to as leader in the upbuilding processes of civilization, and il should be prepared for tremendous eventualities. Preparation, therefore, for peace is more essential to American interests than excessive army and navy preparations for war. Economic and humanitarian problems in a world of exhausted and wrecked commonwealths must inevitably rise superior to thoughts either of war or commercial rivalries. Isolation is no longer possible with any nation. America, world-renowned for the justness of its conceptions, has outgrown any fear of foreign entanglements. The simplicity and ideals of the Washington era are impossible in the twentieth century; the world must -he recognized as a friendly field of common endeavor for all nations, all creeds and all conditions of mankind. A better day dawns, notwithstanding the horrors and tragedies of the present.

Uniform Public Accounting System Is One of Greatest Needs of Every State

Local officers are elected or appointed for certain definite periods. They are frequently selected without experience in matters of public accounting. Quite naturally such persons cannot devise proper systems of accounting. By the time such officers become familiar with their duties and public accounting, they may be succeeded by others who are likewise without experience. An officer or private individual having business to transact in several fiscal units finds no embarrassment in doing so under a uniform evstem; when he is familiar with the method of transacting business in *> ' his own unit he finds the same business transacted in the same manner in other units. There can be no satisfactory private or local supervision of public fiscal affairs so as to attain uniformity. A system must be prescribed and enforced by a central head if uniformity is to be attained; in the very nature of things, there can be no uniformity throughout a state when a system of accounting and compliance thera»vitlr-arfi _left to officers whose jurisdictions are entirely local. There will not be uniformity m_ -examinations of fiscal bodies when public fiscal accounts are examined by private accountants. . Private accountants are not vested with authority to enforce their findings against public fiscal bodies. The general experience is that the Teport of a private accountant is filed and no suitable action taken thereon to enforce the findings thereof.

Average Child Earns Nine Dollars Each Day That It Spends in the Schoolroom

Every day spent in school the children earn $9. Uneducated laborers earn on the average SSOO a year for forty years, a total of $20,000. High-school graduates earn on an average SI,OOO per year for forty years, a total of $40,000. This education requires 12 years of school of 180 days each, a total of 2,160 days. If 2,160 days at school add $20,000 to the income for life, then each day at school adds $9.02. Forceful as this summarization of earnings is, it tells but one side of the story —the money side, Back of this can be seen improved standi ards of living and more intelligent communities..

By HOWARD ELLIOTT

By FRED O. BLUE

State Tar C-ommiaaioner ol Wert Vitfflaia

By C. P. CARY

State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wuconrin

HOLLINGSWORTH of Ohio

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND,

LARGEST DAM IN THE WORLD

Elephant Butte Will Reclaim 200,000 Acres in Rio Grande Valley. GREATEST PROJECT OF KIND ♦ Flood Waters of Rio Grande to Be Stored in Monster Lake—Force of Water May Be Used tor Furolahing Power. El Paso, Tex. —Elephant Butte dam, which will be formally dedicated by President Wilson October 14, Is the largest irrigation dam built under the direction qf the United States reclamation service and the largest mass of masonry in the world. It is 1,250 feet long, with a maximum width of 215 feet at the base, tapering to a width of 18 feet at the crest, which is 804.5 feet above bedrock. The crest is used as a roadway. The structure contains 610,000 cubic yards of stone and rubble concrete. The “lake” formed by the dam, which stores only the flood water of the Rio Grande, will be 45 miles Jong with an average width of six miles and an average depth of 66 feet. Storage Capacity. It will have 200 miles of shoreline and a storage capacity of 862,200,000,000 gallons, or enough to cover 2,642,292 acres of land to the depth of one foot —about twice the capacity of the lake behind the Roosevelt dam in Arizona, and four times the capacity of the storage reservoir behind the famous Irrigation dam at Assouan in Egypt. This would be enough water to cover the state of Delaware to the depth of two feet* or the state Of Connocticut to the depth of ten inches. The dam, wiiich will cost $10,000,000, is destined to reclaim nearly 200.000 acres of fertile land in the valley of the Rio Grande in New Mexico and Texas and 30,000 acres of land in old Mexico. Construction was begun in 1910 and completed so far as the laying of stone is concerned on March 1 of this year. The dressing of the structure and the clearing away of buildings and other impedimenta will ■be finished in time for the dedication by the president on October 14.

Destined to Furnish Power. There is a hope that the great force of the water flowing through the penstocks of the Elephant Butte dam may be converted into electrical energy which will be carried over transmission lines to El Paso and to the many mining camps within a radius of 200 operate countless plnnts of machinery. It is planned to build a power house at the base of the dam. The water, after turning turbines which will create 75,000 horse power of electrical energy will then pass into the irrigation ditches and do the work primarily intended. i__

Frogs' Noise Causes Suit.

Ottamwn, la. —Because the bullfrogs made such noises In a pond near his house that he and his family lost much sleep during the hot weather, Charles H. Barton, retired capitalist, has filed suit for $2,000 damages against L. H. Hughes, a Riverview grocer and postmaster. Barton charges that the pond ed by Hughes that he might fish from the rear step of his store.

Burglars Paid for Baths.

El Dorado, Kan. —El Dorado has fallen he’r to two seemingly honest housebreakers. Two El Dorado wont, en ■-returned home recently and found the bathtub smeared with oily dirt and on the bottom of the tub two quarters. Conditions of the window above the tub indicated that the men had entered that way and proceeded to clean up, leaving the 50 cents as payment.

Longitudinal View of Elephant Butte Dam.

PRAIRIE DOGS INVADE CITY

Mysterious Couple Take Up Life in Kansas City Business District and Make Friends. Kansas Cjty. —Without any visible means of support, and with only enough furniture and luggage to start light housekeeping, two Kansas prairie dogs took lodging under a wall here last spring. A shy, retiring couple, they seemed to shun society. They were never at home to callers. “But sometimes, on sunny afternoons, the employees of the printing company' next door could see the little animals emerge from their hole under the wall and play among the rubbish and fragments of old pavement in the yard. By'and by the prairie dogs learned the printers meant no term, and accepted small favors, such as bunches of sweet grass, -nuts and -apples, from them. No one knows where the prairie dogs came from. One man said they escaped from a circus menagerie. Another held the theory they had run away from someone who had tried to tame them and make them into household pets. At any rate, there they are, next door to Kansas City’s business district. The appearance of strangers on their doorstep Is a signal for retirement to the depths of their hole-in-the-wall. A photographer waited more than an hour to get a glimpse of the prairie dogs. Finally he was compelled to take the picture from the interior of the printshop, thrusting the camera through the window.

WED IN SLEEP; ASKS DIVORCE

Woman Says Husband Had Power of Putting Her in Trance, and That He Treated Her Cruelly. Reading, Pa. —Alleging that she was in a trance during her marriage ceremony, and that the wedding was not a voluntary act on her part, Mrs. Lottie -P: —Mead, —a- well-known Penn-—street store saleswoman, has brought suit in court here for divorce from Charles H. Mead, residence unknown, on the ground of cruel treatment. In her petition filed with the court Mrs. Mead says that she was married on August 8, 1915, at Stone Harbor, while “she was stupefied and was not aware of her existence.” <?• She alleges that her husband had the power of putting her into a trance. Mrs. Mead says that later her husband told her that he married her only for a joke, and to get possession of her inheritance, saying that he had already run through two, that of his mother and his daughter. Mrs. Mead says her husband told her that his first wife lasted only a year and his second wife only five years. The court granted a subpoena.

MEMORIAL TO LAFAYETTE

This bronze statue of Lafayette was unyelled in Fall River, Mass., during ■r recent celebration in memory of the great Frenchman.

PERSHING SAVES VETERAN MULE

Animal Seeks Sanctuary in Officers’ Row When Pursued , —. by Skinner. END OF THRILLING CHASE Ironical Brays and Picturesque Language Feature Exciting Incident With American Punitive Expedition in Mexico. -Headquarters-.—Amer+can Puuttiv® Expedition, Mexico.-—The army motor truck train is a highly efficient unit of the American army ami plays an important part in the life of this expedition. And the truck drivers, ns picturesque a set of pirates as ever scuttled a ehn of gasoline, bring a new type into the service that Is not without merit. There is something heroic about driving the immense cars across the. forbidding trails that try to Jerk the wheels from the drivers’ hands und send the motors slithering to destruction in some deep and rocky arroyo. But it is doubtful if the motors and their drivers will ever achieve the fame of the army mule and his master, the army mul* skinner. There is an intelligence behind mulish mischief that ;eannot be achieved by a disordered carburetor in the center of the desert. There is an element in the contest of mulish stubbornness and mule skinners’ language that is not rivaled when a motor settles down in the deepest rut and refuses to budge. Gabriel Takes to His Heels. This is the story of one of these contests: . ■ ■■— ■ - Gabriel, a wise old mule that has become a Veteran in the service, took advantage of his master’s carelessness at the picket line. He slipped a loose halter, edged toward the end of the line, and eTmoment later was galloping to freedom. A moment later, too, the mule skinner discovered Gabriel’s Bight and singed the atmosphere with conversation that would never pass the censor. “Oh, you double-dyed offspring of perdition,” he remarked when he grew calmer, “I sure will skin you alive for this.” Then he picked up a young log, about the size of a wagon tongue, and started in pursuit. Gabriel made a regular mule’s chase of it. He waited until the mule skinner was within striking distance. Then, with a gay fillip of his heels, he was off to a point a quarter of a mile distant. Here he paused long enough to bray irdnlcally. “May all the alfalfa you eat turn to barbed wire in your copper-riveted insides,” swore the mule skinner, as he trudged through the alkali dust in pursuit., By this time the whole camp was watching. Brother mule skinners were offering sarcastic advice to Gabriel’s master. Gabriel rolled lazily in the dust, waggled his ears, brayed some more and otherwise informed the world that he was having a splendid time. The chase lasted two hours. Even Gabriel seemed to tire.. As for the unite- skinner,~~te-wtrs -reduced- to air exhausted human, spurred on only by the desire to capture one slenderlegged mule and splinter the club he still carried between the two long ears. Gabriel loafed along toward officers’ row, with the mule skinner dogtrotting in pursuit.

Saved by Pershing. In front of General Pershing’s tent waves the red flag with a white star that symbolizes the commander’s quarters. Toward this flag (Gabriel ambled. There, with a meek'lißd innocent look in his eyes, Gabriel came to a dead stop and waited. To the spot the mule skinner crept, taking's fresh hold withjmth hands on his club. He waved it a couple of times testingly as he came. “Now, you sin-spotted brute,” he hissed. “Now, I’m going to beat your hard head ,lnto a pulp." And then General Pershing stepped for a moment from his tent and surveyed the scene. The mule skinner dropped his club. He approached Gabriel softly. He patted his neck tenderly. : ■ “Why do you act like this, Gabriel?” he asked. “Why can’t you be like the other nice mules?” Then he led Gabriel away. Gabriel, the yeteran, smiled a wise, mulish smile. ~

Piano That Was Heirloom.

St. Louis—A piano sixty years old, which orglnally cost $5,000, has been sold by Mrs. Steinrauf, wife of Dr. William Steinrauf of St. Charles. Mo., to Miss Ada Campbell of Chicago, whose father had thelnstrument built before the Civil war and who, after trying to locate It for ten years, finally found it in St. Charles. The piano has strings of solid gold wire, its key? are of solid pearl, and it is hand-painted throughout. Its history started when Miss Campbell’s fftthpr had >Jhe Instrument built in 1850. He suffered financial reverses end the piano was placed in storage in St. Louis. Years later the proprietor of the store put it In the window, and a Clerk, while the proprietor was away, sold it to Mrs. Steinrauf

BE SLOW TO ANGER

Righteous Indignation Justified, but Resentment of Injury Serves Little Purpose. “ITe is forbearing and of abundant* mercy,”—Exodus 35, 6, Forbear, forgive, forget Three little words thut help to build great happiness. Three little words that mean great victory. Three little words that prove us worthy of great privilege. The gr«*at happiness which these Simple words build is the happiness of pence. The victory they mean is victory over one’s self. And the great privilege which they gain for us Is the privilege of being through our conduct adjudged worthy sons and daughters of the Heavenly Father of us all.’ Hen anger us. We are human and therefore we resent. But every time we resent we lower ourselves to the level of him who offends us; we lose our own self-respect, which Is a valuable asset; we raise the offender to the opinion that he is worth noticing. W’hleh he may desire but which we are frequently unwilling to concede; we provoke by our act or word of resentment future or further offense, which will only mean more anger or resentment on our part; we fail to convince the offender that he has wronged us, and our failure to do so means possibly our mortification and certainly a loss of our nervous energy wasted upon one who Is not worthy of the expenditure. Like most human emotions, anger or resentment can be holy or unholy. It is holy when directed against wrong that perils life In serious directions. For such wrong may mean grave consequences. Righteous Anger Justified. There is such a thing as righteous anger. Witness the anger which directed the extermination of the Canaanite nations so persistently guilty of the grossest immoralities, which, under the guise of worship, meant man’s physical, mental and moral deterioration and death. But we speak of ordinary life as we ordinary human beings live it. We are too often angry and resentful unnecessarily and unrighteously. We are too quick to take offense. We resent angrily when a “soft answer” would “turn uskle the wrath,” and we thereby demonstrate that “anger resteth In the bosom of fools,” among whom there Is no need for us to be numbered. It all means our annoyance. Any annoyance, even when caused by a pin-prick, means a disturbance of our happiness. If we can overcome our pride, conquer our anger, subdue our resentment, it means that we gain a great victory over the less worthy self and that the more worthy self, the “better self” within us, is mightier. That will mean our peace of mind and therefore our happiness. After all, no man is infallible. And we are only men. Offense Is oft the child of our own fault —or folly. He Is a wise man that recognizes when he is foolish. He’s a wise man that applies to himself Job’s satire, “Wisdom will die with you!” and give credit to his offender for at least a little wisdom and possibly more right! Forbear, forgive and forget. Who has not felt all the better for doing so? Forbearance Always Well. And it is Just by forbearing, forgiving and forgetting that we prove ourselves worthy of high privilege, worthy of our privilege of being sons and daughters of the good father of all of us. For he is forbearing and forgiving and graciously forgets. If he finds that our faults, whereby we offend him, are just human weaknesses that we honestly try to correct; if he finds’ that we are sincerely trying for a “change of heart," he will forbear, forgive and forget. He only desires that we shall return to the right way. He takes no delight in punishing or inflicting penalty. “In our sorrows lie sorrows,” as the prophet teaches us * „ 4*Let us therefore try to lead those who offend us to a change of heart. Let us try to correct the causes of their offending ns. We can do so by tactful response, by soft answer, Instead of by angry word, or by angry tone, which is even worse! ~~ It Is only when troth, righteousness and honor are involved that our anger becomes righteous anger and- our resentment becomes excusable.

Human Responsibility.

In the earlier days of the war we heard many people asking why it was that God did not interfere to prevent this greatest calamity of all the ages. The question was asked with such an intensity of feeling that frequently it was little else than a blaming of the Almighty for the terrible evils which it seemed he might easily have prevented. But we do not hear the question asked so much today. It is certain that a new thought has come td many, a truer and more honest way of looking at things. In the terrible qsirock of the great struggle we have come to see that there are a great many things that men have been wont to lay at God’s door that ought to be In front of their own., A new sense of human responsibility has suddenly come upon us, and we are not saying “Why does not God prevent evil?” but rather “What may we do to destroy it and put something better in its place V And this sense of human responsibility for human failure and wrong and sitt ■ is one of th,e things that give us courage and hope for the future. —Montreal Herald. ————: