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PHILADELPHIA. WEDNESDAY, Dt CTMI1EH M, 1915.
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one rich.
made any
MILLIONS FOR CHRISTMAS
PHILADELPHIA'S Christmas stocking
will hold about $10,000,000 more than last
year. Tho estimated total Is $31,200,000, and
It Includes tho amount spent on tho prepara
tions for tho Christmas dinner, as well as tho
value ot tho gifts. This means about $21 for
each man, woman and child within tho city
limits. Last year tho averago was only $15.
The dlfforotice of $G measures tho amount
of prosperity that has come within a. year,
and Is moro directly traceable to tho war
than to any other single cause, l'ccauso of
the suffering In Europe, many llttlo children
will get presents who were forgotten last
Christmas, such Is the Irony of llfo.
Tho most gratifying feature In this show
ing s that tho profits in tho manufacture)
of munitions aro widely distributed. Tho
speculators in "war brides" aro not tho only
persons who havo benefited by tho fillip to
Industry. Men who were out ot work a
year ago aro earning good wages, and their
families aro so comfortable that they feel
llko celebrating n real Christmas. Pros
perity has diffused Itself through all Indus
tries and nil trades, and when your neigh
bor pays you tho compliments of the season
you feel llko responding In tho same spirit
of good cheer.
THE GREAT CLINIC
IT MUST be dllllcult for American sur
geons to resist tho temptation to go abroad
and attend the greatest surgical clinic over
organized. Some of thorn havo not resisted,
and they nro working In tho army hospitals.
Doctor Harte, who Is to go In January, is
not the laBt but only tho latest Philadelphia
surgeon to respond to the call.
Surgery will bo a now sclonco nfter tho
war, because of what has already been
learned of Its possibilities and what will bo
learned In tho coming months. What tho
army surgeons learned In our own Civil "War
benefited tho whole nation In tho succeeding
yean, for thero was not a considerable com
munity which did not contain ono or moro
men who had learned moro In treating tho
wounded soldiers than thoj- ever knew bo
fore. The amount ot suffering that they re
lieved when they returned to privato prac
tice can never bo told.
The great war Is giving to surgeons tho
opportunity to try operations that they
would not havo dared to attempt in time ot
peace, oven if they had cases demanding
heroic treatment. Already they havo per
formed wonders In reconstructing shattered
human beings, remaking whole faces, graft
ing bones Into broken limbs and demon
strating tlmo after tlmo that It is prac
tically possible to do what has been dis
cussed heretoforo as only theoretically
feasible. The whole world will benefit by
the new knowledge that will como out of
the horrors of the hospitals.
DISAPPEARING GRAFT
WHEN Director Cooke told a New York
audience that public business Is the
business of tho public, ho laid clown a prin
ciple which tho politicians In any largo city
were unwilling to admit a generation ago.
"When he said that thero was a tlmo hero
when no documents would be advanced from
one clerk to another In a public office unless
tho man Interested In the matter handed out
a cigar, ho described the custom that pre
vailed almost everywhere. Tho wonder Is
that any business was done under such cir
cumstances. Conditions have Improved, but they are
still far from Ideal. But there Is hope. It
used to be said that the Introduction of tho
merit system in the making of appointments
was impossible. But It Is here. The time Is
bound to come when there will bo as little
graft In a public office as In a private count
ing room and business will move with the
precision of an organization seeking only ef
ficiency, FACING THE FACTS
I wonder If It Is too late too late, the
fatal words of this war. Unless wa quicken
our movements damnation will befall the
great cause for which so much blood has
been shed. David Lloyd-George to the House
of Commons.
THE cheerless words quoted above were not
addressed to parliamentarians but to the
men of England. They were followed by a
presentation of facts which could Justify the
most pesaimiatlo view of England's part In
the war. The tremendous; activity In build
ing munition factories which engrossed Eng
land has been so far wasted.
Factories, with the most Improved ma
chinery, are standing Idle, because 80,000
skilled men cannot be found to turn tho ready
wheels round. While Germany was turning
out J50.000 high explosive shells a day Ens
ton4 was manufacturing exactly l per cent.
Si that amount, and the futile September
drive of the Allies used up as many shells
ia England could supply in aroonth. Condi
tion jtro only sllf htly better now.
The. embracing conscriptions of Lord Derby
fcava not filled the factories and workshops,
jssiceessrul ay tby scorn to have been in the
EeU. Iiafcor, to which Enf land was so indlf
ftrsiit ia ter year of blind prosperity, the
stone which those builders of Empire- re
jected, has becomo tho foundation stone of
tho houso which must bo built on n, rock.
That Is ono lesson, at least, which England
has learned from Germany.
Sho has learned another thing:, more vital
still to her present Interest. That Is to faco
tho facts. In tho now spirit, which dares to
say that It may bo too late, and dares to
swear that It must not bo too lato, lies her
greatest hope. For munitions are unavail
ing against tho spirit which can create.
NERVOUSNESS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
THE possibilities In tho Gary dinner of
Friday night havo not escaped the friends
of Mr. Wilson, Republicans and Democrnts
and Roosovelt gathered at tho samo table
and talked. Tho guests Included repre
sentatives of grent business enterprises, tho
prosperity of which Is affected by tho poli
cies of tho Government. Secretary MeAdoo
has been telephoning to his friends In Wall
street to discover what they think of tho
meaning of tho dinner. Secretary Tumulty
has been making Inquiries about It, nnd Paul
M. Warburg hastened from Washington to
Now York, nnd gossip says that ho was ask
ing his Democratic friends why they wero
Judgo Gary's guests under tho circum
stances. These men havo not forgotten political his
tory. Thoy know that tho business Inter
ests of New York, headed by William C.
Whitney, forced tho nomination of Grover
Clovolnnd tho third tlmo when ho defeated
Harrison. Cleveland was snfo and sane at a
time when tho Democratic party was honey
combed with tho freo silver heresy. Harri
son's political Indiscretions had made his own
ro-clcctlon Impossible, and it was Important
that the Democratic candidate should bo a
man whom tho country could trust.
Four years Inter, when Bryanlsm was
rampant, tho business Interests milled behind
McKInley nnd elected him as they had
elected Cleveland. Tho Republicans re
mained In power until 1012. Taft alienated
both tho business men nnd tho politicians.
Ho lost the support ot tho politicians because
ho lacked political Instinct, and ho was un
popular with business because ho was a closet
statesman without any comprehension of tho
obligations of Government to Industry. Ho
was defeated before ho was renominated.
Tho next President will be a man supported
by tho samo forces which defeated Taft and
elected McKInley and Clovelnnd. When the
business leaders begin to confer without tak
ing Mr. Wilson Into their confldonco thero Is
good reason for nervousness In tho Whito
House.
AMERICANS ONLY ON GUARD
Wo cannot havo Mr. Roosevelt with us al
ways, so tho noxt best thing Is to get an
attenuate army nnd navy. Philadelphia
EvnNi.vo LEnntSR. Well, but who's to com
mand them? .Veto York Evening Telegram.
THEY will bo commanded by Americans
who hnvo no divided nllcgianco and lssuo
their orders from headquarters In tho United
Stutcs.
POLITICAL SENSE FROM AUSTRALIA
THE Interest which attaches to tho re
marks of Reprcsentntlvo Warren Worth
Bailey on preparedness Is far greater than
their Importance. Ho means well, but ho
seems to have no adequate conception of tho
naturo of modern democracy. Theso words
from his address at tho Clark University
conference on war problems disclose his point
of vlow:
Let no one believe that tho program
which lias been outlined Is tlio end. It Is
merely tho beginning. All history tells tho
story of Rlmllar beginnings and of how tho
courxa lias run from tho army that
no one paused to consider to tho army
which seized tho reins of power and with
tho bajonet pinned liberty to tho earth.
Over against this view It Is woith while
sotting tho opinion of a labor leader. John
C. Watson, who has been Premlqr of South
Australia, as tho representative of tho Labor
party, was In Philadelphia last summer, and
when an Evening Lcnonn reporter asked
him about tho peril in compulsory military
training, such as Mr. Watson was Influential
In Introducing In his country, the sturdy ad
vocate of tho rule of tho people said:
We havo a democratic government and
we are not afraid of arming ourstlves. You
know that tyranny cannot resist an armed
peoplo very long. When every man had
lila bow and arrow the kings had to grant
tlio demands of tho people. And the tamo
rule will hold when every man has his
rifle.
Mr. Watson has not had so many oppor
tunities as Mr. Bailey to learn tho lesson of
history, but ho has made good uso of such as
ho has had. He knows that In America, as
well as In Australia, no tyrnnt can set up In
business until tho people have proved unfit
to govern themselves, and that when they
become unfit nothing can prevent a strong
man from doing tho governing of them for
his own profit. His task will be no easier
with a largo army than with a small one.
Of tho 1000 men surrendered by Villa it Is
not reported how many are women.
Yesterday was the shortest day In tho year,
Fow shoppers could have stood it any longer.
"Bill" Hollenback's novel Is expected to
bo more successful than the University foot
ball team.
While grip Is about Is no time for kissing,
yet, as the poet wrote on the subject of
germs, Adam had 'em,
Judging from the London Globe's attaoks
on Mrs. Asqulth, It Is published In tho wrong
place. It ought to be Isrued from Berlin.
Private shipyards have set a new ship
building record. Better not start bragging
about it, or the Administration will put the
whole bunch in Jail.
This Is the first day of winter, but only
the disgruntled are falling to say that the
winter of their discontent la made glorious
summer by the sun of the holiday season.
Ormsby McHarv gets Into the limelight
agal.i by saying that Roosevelt is an active
candidate for the Presidency, The Colonel,
however, Is capable of making his own an
nouncements. Editor McClure, who was also among those
who sailed on the Dreadnought of Peace,
says, "I came on board a pacifist, but I am
now converted to militarism," Yes, there
are men so devoted to peace that they are
ready to fight for it.
It Is announced that the Army-Navy game
will be played here next year 'whether a
stadium has been built pr not. If this city
Is too poor to build one, and thus assure
having the games here, every year, perhaps
the Navy can be persuaded to build ono of
it own at League Island,
Tom Daly's Column
nosA's ovnwBtTT.
My Irani, you. like tor buy a hatf
rinc, grccna sllka wan I oat,
Wccth red an' whlta feather cenj
So stylecsh hat you nevva secnl
llht Xot Too badl for ccf you do,
I sal eet prctta cheap to you.
Where deed 1 gatt Wal, cef you please
I tal to you. Ues Ilka decs:
My liosadat's my plrl, you knoio
She alta time ces tease me so
An' aika decs an' dat, for try
An' guess w'at present I am ouy
Por gecve to her on Ohrccs'mas Day
Hut alia time I laugh an' say:
"Xol 2?ol eet ees su'prlse for you,
An' cct ces gona please you, too.
I have eet bought an' put away
ror keep for you tecll Ohrccs'mas Day."
She stamp her foot an' say: "Ol my,
You tease me so you mak' me cry,
Von arc so mean as you can be
liaycause you toccll not tal to met"
My frand, she coax so Ilka dat
At las' I say: "Vet ces a hatl"
Ol den, my frand, for sure she cry
An' look so sad an' say "Ol why,
You tat me w'at eet gonna hot
1 want cct bo su'prlse for me
Uaysldcs I thought cct was a rccng,
Vcf you gon' buy me anythecng."
Hal wat you theenk of dat, my frandt
Dcsc glrlt ces hard for ondrastand.
So, Quccck I say: "I speak not true;
1 host was makln' Joke wecth you."
So now, you see, I muttn gat
A rccng censtead for decsa hat:
An' den how mooch she coax and tease
I wccll no tal her to'at eet ees.
Hut here ces slccll da hall Ol please,
My frand, ccf cct should he you meet
Som'body walkln' on da street
Dat took for buy da stylccsh hat
1 have da cheap wan ha can gat.
Soino weeks ago on tho occasion of our
visit to Dickinson College, Mrs, J. II. Morgan,
tho wife of that Institution's genial proxy,
told how her faith had once been put to tho
test by an Amlsh girl who hnd como to
tho Morgan homo to nurso n caso of typhoid
fever, or soma such seilous malady. This
nurso had Just come from nnothcr houso in
Carlisle, whero sho had been attending a
child with scarlet fever. Mrs. Morgan was
very particular to Inqniro it tho nurso had
fumigated all her belongings. Of com so, tho
nurso said sho wns always careful about
that. "But," persisted Mrs. Morgan, "nro
you suro jou fumigated everything?" "Yes,"
tho nurso said, "everything but my Bible.
Surely you do not believe it necessary to
fumigate tho Word of God!"
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Trom "Hill's Manual of Social anil nulnos forms."
Cop) right, Thos U. Hill. Chkago, ISSJ
Knowledge la well; It Is of great importance:
but a person may bo ery wise and yot lack
Inllueneo because wanting In readiness of
speech. One difllculty, that of embarrassment,
which affects some people upon public appear
ance. Is overcome by practice. Tho speaker
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Bashfulneas
'Iho aboe Illustrations
represent tho effect of
practice ami culture
While Speaker No J, by
Ills unpolished manner
ami ililllltnce. Is nn oli
Jtct of pity or rlillcula
and without Inllueneo us
Self-possession
n public speaker, No. S,
reprmtntlnir J o li n II
Gough, ns he apoitro
phlzeH a Klnss ot water,
entrances tils audience by
Ills self-possession, his
earnestness und his nat
uralness. should bo able to think methodically, being
able to decompose his thoughts into partw, to
analyze these nnd to reeomposo, regather and
concentrate theso ogaln in a matter ibuch as
will clearly Illustrate the Idea sought to be
conveyed. He should freely mingle In socloty,
interchanging Ideas' and seeking every oppor
tunity for the practice of cuemporo speaking.
Alas and Alack!
The mistletoe abovo tho door
Expectant swains wero viewing.
A maid passed through, but sho was more
Than thirty. Nothing dolngl
Guess What Town He Means
"Speaking of gossips," writes Commuter, "do
you know that my experience has proved that
our male gossips In our small towns are far
more malignant, deadly and venomoua than the
spinsters and the married women? The com
pulsory virtue of a small town Is based solely
on tho moral terror of being slandered by men.
This may explain to the editor of the Topelta
Capital why tho rulo of conduct In a email
town Is more rigid than that of nny penal In
stitution. The undying malignity of the spy
ing village meddler keeps the villagers In a
state of moral panic from Monday morning
to Saturday night. Going and coming from
the postolllce or the grocery store requires mich
an exertion of nerves nnd moral courage that
hundreds of thousands of women and men
In our small towns evado the lllage or small
town streets from one week end to another,
until they becomo house nervous. They feel
that behind the majority of the window cur
tains and store doors are men who for mere
diabolical amusement make It a practice of
spying on the persons who are passing from
morning to night for no other object In the
world than to form and express malignant opin
ions of the passersby. This Ead knowledge
keeps thousands of women prisoners In their
own homes and adds to the bitterness of hun
dreds of human Uvea"
Now comes the season of Christmas cards
and one of the first to arrive Is thla from the
Charlie Leedys of Youngstown, Ohio;
OOOD WISHES
If you could reckon on a strlnr
Tho measure of our kind regards.
Straightway you'd want to rise and line:
"Geo whUI it's eeven million yardr
It isn't becoming of us to brag about our
share in this, but the public has been as
sured that thero will be less of the Great
Big Poor and the Medium-sized Poor and
more of the plain poor at tho nest free con
cert of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
And, by the way, here's a back-handed slam
at our best musical Institution. A circular ad
vertising a hotel in Asheville (N. C), says
among other things: "We have the finest
orchestra outside of New York and. Boston."
Pa Speaks
you needn't wink and whisper so,
My darling wife, my precious pet!
You can't deceive me, dear; I know
What I will get.
Thi children tell their plans to you
And haro with you their hopes and thrlUi,
But I. I knpw that when thyr du
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"JIM HAM" AND
HIS AIDS TO FAME
What If He Shouldn't Bring the
Famous Pink Whiskers to Town
Tonight? Illinois Senator's
Personality
Tho fnmnut "pink whiskers" nro cone. Freijiicne
rrjiort front Washington, Clilcupo, etc.
THERE Is nothing uninteresting about
anything "Jim Ham" Lewis nays or does,
or tho way ho looks. "Jim Ham" wo used
to call him, and do still, for that matter,
but ho nindo nn attempt a whllo ago to got
his name on tho congressional records as
"Ham 11 ton Lowi3"
without tho "James." J?
Was ho snrlmis iihnnt (f
It? Not he. Tho Beau
Brummell of tho Sen
ate Is n humorist. Ho
worries not about his
nicknames, neither
docs he enro what peo
plo may say about tho
famous "pink whisk
ers." Ho once mndo
a complaint, It is truo,
ns follows: "It nny
ono is a llttlo unllko
tho mass of peoplo
whom ho meets In the
strcot. either In np
pearanco or demeanor,
he Is supposed to bo a
SUNATOR LUW IS.
quack, a showman or a fioak. I do not com
plain about nowspaper men. Thoy nro flno
fellows. But to read them ono would thlnl:
that my personality Is all o. tho surface
that I am mostly bows, smiles, spats, canes
and whiskers." Behind tho whiskers, what?
As wo havo said, n humorist and a very ablo
man.
A mnn of good humor, nlso. A year or so
ago tho resplendent Senator was in Paris,
much In need of treatment for an aching
tooth. A friend directed him to a famous
American dentist. Tho latter had no sooner
got his patient In tho chnlr and told him to
open his mouth and bo rubber-dammed
than tho Senator discovered but wait a
moment. "Ho hurt mo like Satan," said tho
Senator afterward, "but I smiled all during
tho operation, as well as I could under tho
distressing circumstances." And the dis
covery? The dentist was tho man who many
years beforo had given an impecunious
youth by tho namo of James Hamilton Lewis
two bits, ono quarter, for shoveling a ton
of coal back in Seattle.
When "Ham" Presides
The sunny Senator of tho sun-kissed
whiskers Is a rattling good dobator, but, oh!
when ho presides pro temporo over tho de
liberations of tho august upper houso It is
quite as good as seeing John Drew acting
tho part of n courteous beau. Tho heavy
air of tho Senato chamber becomes electri
fied by his activities of mind and body; the
gallery wakes up also the Senate. Press
correspondents leave their cushioned arm
chairs In their privato lobby and hasten
to the hard benches of their olllclal box.
There is a chango in all things nnlmato, as
In a crowd when a brass band suddenly
switches from "Massa's In the Cold, Cold
Ground" to "It's a Long Way to Tlpperary."
Tho Senator from Vermont arises and in
quires, "Will the Senator from Georgia
yield?" Does the presiding officer sleepily
mutter half tho formal question and resume
a disturbed nap? Not J, Hamilton! With
animation, vivacity, his supple hands out
stretched almost appeallngly toward Geor
gia, he Inquires, with intense eagerness, as
If tho formula wero new and surprising,
"Will the Junior Senator from Georgia yield
to the senior Senator from Vermont?" turn
ing and bowing slightly toward the Green
Mountains. Will ho? Why, tho Junior Sena
tor from Georgia would as soon think of
resisting an appeal so fetchlngly Interpreted
as to rofuse candy to a child. He says, "I
yleldl" And the presiding officer rewards
him with a brilliant smile, conveys the Im
portant Information with a graceful wave
of his speaking hands toward Vermont and
leans forward with lips quivering Jn their
eagerness to drink in so to speak tho
stream of eloquenco ho feels sure is to flow
from Vermont.
"Ham" Lowls Indubitably has a, manner and
also a voice. He has studied vocalization in
Europe as well as America. And when ho
talks he always has something to say, Often
it's very surprising, and furnishes delight to
the paragraphers, but when he was only a
boy he made up hla mind he would do his
share of the world's talking-, and bo, In order
to have something in his bead worth talk
ing about! he became an omnivorous reader
of books. He reads bloka like a house afire,
and has written a few himself, mostly for
lawyers'. He's a lecturer on law at North
western University, and at one time was
president of a law school In Chicago, But
to return to his surprising, not to say ntar
tllng utterances, on political topics national
nnd International. Last year ho discovered
back of tho canal tolls settlement a terrible
conspiracy on tho part of Japan, China, Rus
sia and Germany against tho poaco and ter
ritorial integrity of tho United Stutcs, nnd
John Temple Graves quoted htm on this sub
ject ns "tho Democratic whip In tho Senate"
nnd "tho real voice ot tho Administration"
In that samo body. But lot that pass. Ho
probably was moro serious when ho Joined in
booming Governor Brumbaugh for tho Presi
dency, or, as second choice, tho Vlco Presi
dency. Senator Lowls Isn't quite 50 years old, ns
ho comes to Philadelphia tonight to deliver
his first public address In tho Quaker City.
His career Is about as Interesting ns his per
sonality, though tho two aro somewhere near
tho samo thing. 'It presents n story of ro
noureofulncss, Imagination nnd ability. Ho
ran away from his homo In Virginia when ho
was a lad, went to Savannah nnd becamo n
drug clork, and, after ho'd been thero n time,
three gentlemen of tho town enmo to llko him
so much that thoy clubbed together and
.sent him to tho University of Virginia. As n
youth ho struck out for tho West, arriving
at Tacoma with about $40 In his pocket. Ho
had a series of cheerful hard luck adventures
on tho coast beforo ho Jumped on the bumper
of a freight car and got a Job as checker-up
of longshoremen In Scattlo. His boss didn't
llko his red (or pink) whiskers and made fun
of them, so "Jim Ham" took oft his coat and
whipped tho boss and began to practico law.
Ho had studied law somowhero and now ho
began his rapid rlso to fumo. Ho was elected
to tho Territorial Lcglslaturo of Washington,
declined a fow nominations, and nccopted a
few others to various high ofllces, and In 1S97
was elected Congressman. A year later ho
was serving on tho staft of General Frederick
D. Grant In tho Spanlsh-Amctican War.
In the National Limelight
In tho national capital ho quickly becamo
ono of tho most notablo of tho many coiners
of phrases who havo como and gono In that
city of solons. "Tnssclatcd military satraps
and glided society sapheads" was an Inven
tion of his that had a wide popularity 10 or
15 years ago. Ho quotes Scripture, too, llko
other Washington boarders, and when ho at
tacked Representative Qulgg's speech on tho
trusts, ho said, with oratorical grace, "Tho
ox knoweth his master nnd tho nss his mas
ter's crib," and thoroby laid another brick
upon tho Lowls Tomplo ot Fame. Now ho'H
been Senator from Illinois for two years.
Custom cannot stulo his Infinlto variety.
Let It bo hoped that when "Jim Ham"
comes to Philadelphia tonight tho report that
tho strawberry whiskers havo been shaved
off will be disproved.
DON'T BE DOWNHEARTED
This Is liow n French uoldler on tlio western
front proved to hla homo follta that thoy Bhoulil
be of i:ood cheer:
"In our present llfo there are always the two al
ternatives: and experlenco shows that In neither
caso should one bo downhearted ami this Is
why. From camp, for example, cither you aro
sent to tho front or you aro sent to tho rear.
If you go to tho rear, your caso is clear. If
you go to tho front, you liav again tho two al
ternativeseither you get Into the shell-flro zone
or you do not. In the latter case, It's quite clear
again. If you aro under shell lire, here aro tho
two alternatives onco wore either tho bombs
burst or they do not. If not, you havo only to
laugh. If they burst, there are still the two
alternatives either you aro hit or you aro not.
If not, thoro Is no reason to be downhearted
just because you have had a little emotion, If
you nro hit, two alternatives you're wounded
rrlevously or lightly. If lightly, you apply your
sanitary dressing and aro not downhearted nt
all. If tho wound Is bad, there aro even then
the two alternatives you die or you don't die,
If you die, It's clear you are not downhearted
and If you don't die, two alternatives again
they'll amputate ou or clso they won't. If
you're amputated, then you'll be retired from
service, and needn't worry further. And In both
cases you'll bo brought to a hospital where
nice little ladle3 will take catvj of you and you'll
be less downhearted than ever. Dut in the sec
ond case (If they don't amputate), behold th
alternatives once more: When you'ro healed,
you will be sent back to camp or else to con
valescence. If you become a convalescent, you
Bet a good time and don't worry. But If you
bo back to camp, then the two alternatives as
before either you are sent to the front or you
are sent to tho rear and you begin all over
again!"
And this Is how one "pollu" reasoned with
the woman who was worrying about him, tu
keep her from being downhearted. New York
Evening Post,
RICH MEN AND WORLD PROBLEMS
As the richest man Jn Detroit Henry Ford
might meditate upon the fita of the richest
man In Brussels, Mr, Solyay, "the Carnegie of
Belgium," who has lust "been sent to prison
for Insulting a German officer. The Carnegie
of Belgium can have little Illusion as to what
sM individual millionaire can to do to settle
world problems. Sprlngileld Republican.
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