MtrWgjP******** 1 ***y**" "*••■■ '■ •■"■*•' |U*' Wii mfr^"_w ->?j*_a_ir ß 44 PAGE FOUR tattma^vka^^^mot*et**et*************ot*****at********* -niini_irP-»^«M Office, Main 738, A 1733 ; :fernllHrhc,r< *u,atlon DeP*- Main 733, a 1733 I IIUI.LUEdItorUI Dept., Main 794, -L 1783 ; : '*'.;■ OFFICE— Commerce St. Story About a Father's Son ??- Although it was his 25th birthday anniversary, Irving W. Child-, of the New York City club, was right miserable a week or , Bo ago. He expected to be paid $700,000 but the courts Interfered. ?. You see, when William Henry Chllds died, he left, amongst other things, a son, Irving, and several millions of dollars. Irving had been born with a silver ladle In his mouth and had never had to do anything. He now went to doing things. First he married a beautiful young girl. Beautiful young girls . are about the first thing that rich young men So. Next, Irving, having received $400,000 of his father's money, went to doing things to $400,000. With her baby at her breast, Mrs. Irving went into court and sued for alimony, on the ground that Irving had seven chorus girls helping him do up that $400,000. It seems that when boys are born rich, raised rich and left rich about the only thing they can do success.fully is to spend money. I They haven't earned money and hence don't know its value and Often don't know what to do with it. Anyhow, in less than four years, Irving got rid of $400,000 to gather and save which old man Chllds had risked his soul, according to the Good Book. So, although It was his 25th birthday anniversary, this 23rd of March, 1911, Mr. Irving Chllds paced the rich floors of his New York" club in much perturbation of mind. He had not been reared to work. He had been reared to spend money. He had gambled ln wine, gambled in chorus girls, gambled in Wall street, stocks. He had "blown In" the $400,000 and lost his wife and child. What was he to do, if the $700,000 didn't come to him under his father's will on his 25th birthday? And it didn't! The courts tied it up,' so that his wife and baby might be provided for. Awful, wasn't It? But who do you think ls to blame? Do you blame the father who piled up the hundreds of thousands Or do you blame the son who didn't know any better? Or is the blame to be placed wholly on social and economic conditions which make such a situation possible and rather common? -,-,-a-a.n- mm ■_--._» _.-.-.-_-fc---.->->-.-t-t»-t-t-. | -.-.-.^ | -. | -.^^,-. ) - v - w^ The Dead Line of Forty-Five The "Antl-4 5 movement," to combat the prevalent notion that the age of 4 5 is a dead line for human activity, has been started by William P. Black and Edward Cecil of Chicago. One of them Is over 60, the other nearly 70. Both claim to be "strictly in it" and full of ginger. It is a good work and ought to be encouraged. Most men of 45 will decline to admit that they are not as good as ever. For one thing, they can't afford to admit it. They have ■imply got to keep going, whether they want to or not. For another thing, It is not a fact that a man Is normally un fitted tor good work at 45 or over. True, he ls not worth much for war, nor, perhaps, for the heaviest physical tasks in civil life, but for all other pursuits he should be not only as good, but better, than younger men. . Of course, you can't teach an old dog new trlclfs, and the new employments will naturally fall to the hands of the young. It Is the man past middle life who suffers by the introduction of labor saving machinery because it is difficult for him to adjust himself to anything but the old job, which is eliminated by the new ma y chine. The "Anti-45 movement" will do good by changing the thought of discouraged middle age, for everybody now admits that "as a man thinketh so is he"to a considerable extent, at any rate. It will accomplish something by bluffing employers Into seeing that "there's a lot of good in the old man yet," so that they will not let him go as readily as they might otherwise do. But the greatest field for usefulness on the part of the move • ment is in creating a sentiment in favor of policies of statemanship I that shall find profitable work for men who have passed the meri ■ dian, hut who must yet live and car© for those dependent upon them. y: There's room in the world for all, if we only knew It! i aoam*****a****a*at***amt*at*************** ***** a a***m******a**a&ami OBSERVATIONS DR. JOHN D. gI.VCKKMIOS, tho great mental suggestion ex pert, declares that cigarets render a woman "morally insecure." But, doctor, that won't bother a good many of the women who use 'em. £?'. EX-I'HOF. PECK of Columbia University Is suing Boston Post for $100,000 for accusing him of "muliebrity." Look this word up and you'll find It has nothing to do with four-legged mules. TAFT and LaFollette together at last! Both got pink-eye! First time they were ever in full accord on anything. QUITE a number of weak banks are going to tho wall In var ious parts of the country, but nobody says much about it. Fact Is, the fruit ls being thinned only that the parent tree in Wall street may be stronger and bear larger and more luscious fruit, Survival of the fittest, you know. JULIA WARD HOWE'S Greek play, written 50 years ago for Booth, has just been produced for the first time on any stage. So don't be discouraged If you can't market your play. It may get a start when you're dead. WE can't see any particular difference between the list of the new Mexican cabinet and the old. Both lists aro full of foreign names and both sound Spanish. LOS ANGELES socialist died and left an estate of $625,000. So you see not all socialists aro financial failures, sore at society because they can't win. THERE'S one thing about the socialist party in congress that the old parties must envy. He can hold a caucus any time without even getting out of bed and command a unanimous vote on any old vexed thing that may come before the house. EVERY time a New York bank busts it uncovers an odor that la smelt clear over the country to the Pacific coast. And always a lot of eminent financiers and office-holders are found with dirt on their garments. r , JUSTICE CORRIGAN says crime is rampant in New York in consequence of Gaynor policies. The mayor charges the justice With "sedition.". And the old town is sharply divided on the issue, with hot shot belching hourly from the two camps. "OSGAR und ADOLF" Diana Dillpickles Still on the Job By Condo u^njxJWOLf^)%j| - Jl _ (xriJ -^^ -,*i******i*i**-***** t *«»**« mmmmmmtm^a^h^mm^h^h^hm^ash^^mm^^mma Editorial Page of Cfic €acoma kitties «««w«»»»i«»ai»a«^ill>ww»i , The "Sisters Blazek" are'joined like the famous Siamese twins. I One of them was sued for breach of contract. She was arrested I and taken to jail. Naturally — inevitably, we may say —her sister went along. But there was no charge against the sister, who now sues for false Imprisonment. What is the poor judge to do? He can't uphold one of" the girls in breaking contracts, and ' he can't stand around and sco the other one imprisoned when no one has anything against her. , Really, it's embarrassing, and none the lees so from the fact . that one of the twins is married and has a baby two years old, while the other is a maiden lady of retiring disposition. Say, the complications of the "Sisters Blazek," legal and dom estic, are too much for us! We hope the Judge will decide it right. And we don't favor . his recall, whichever way he decides or dodges. i j Today's Good Short One Nat Goodwin made the statement in a Cincinnati hotel that no man could eat a quail a day for 30 consecutive days, because no human stomach could digest it. The friend who heard him make the statement bet him $100 that he was wrong. As it happened, they struck a hobo, who gladly accompanied them into the hotel Bar. Goodwin explained the bet, and asked: "Now, do you think you could eat one quail a day for 30 consecutive days?" "You betcher life!" replied the bum. "But say, pal, for good ness sake.make it a turkey."— Magazine. jW*^WM^^*wwa^^^w^waM^^^«iawv— — ***a^*****a^***********a^^a In the Editor* Mail j Everybody in Pierce county reads this column. Short : * letters from Times readers, of general interest and without ; '• personal malice, will be printed. Write about anything or any* ' body you wish, but do not have malice as your motive. Many ' letters are not printed because they are too long. Keep 'em short. ********************************m*************o^*o^j^j^^^^*a^^&&^t Editor Times:— ; Then the boisterous conduct of ' As a taxpayer, a Tacoma boost- the youth after school hours until ; er, standing for civic beauty, I closing time is deplorable. They protest against the appearance of are allowed to mako themselves ' the grounds at our City Library, obnoxious, disturbing readers who ' Passing recently I rioted the ter- expect to find quietude and even ; race overrun with children, one going so far, last week, as to knock boy literally tearing It up with a over an elderly lady causing her case knife, papers strewn every- to lose her eyeglasses. It Is time where; chalk marks scrawled over these conditions were changed, ; j the entrance and a general air, of protests in person and over the j untidiness. One would hesitate to phone not heeded, other measures ask tourists to visit under such should be taken. | conditions. ■ ■ TAXPAYER. ernor of Indiana he stirred the 1 state from one r end to the other i with graft prose cutions and things of that sort, forcing the resignation o f some state of ficers, and re covering thou sands of dollars to the state. He hates whiskey as he does pizen— he says they're both the same, anyway — and made the legisla ture put through a local option bill,under which whole slices of Injiany have ''--THE TACOMATIMES ofov grow Concrete motorboats of good speed, equipped with American en gines, are being manufactured in Holland. t IN Portugal you can't vote un less you can read and write. For Health. Hot. water for Internal use should never be drawn from the tank of the kitchen range, but should always be freshly boiled. A REALLY pompous rooster is almost as vain as a fresh college graduate. TROUBLE makers by the score come to ev'ry man's door. WE cannot all be preachers, but the ways open for us to do good are unaccountable. Racial Sins. Mexican: Manana. English: Dignity. French: Vanity. American: Money. German: Army. Russian: Autocracy. Austrian Aristocracy. SMILE in your enemy's face, but look out for a right hook. BEING forced away from one's ideal is pretty tough; but without the star in sight life isn't worth living. IT seems natural enough that old bachelors should be men of single ideas. LET'S be happy and gay; spring's here to stay. COUNT them by millions, those fool men who think they are wise. PRACTITIONERS of sharp practices usually cut themselves worst in the end. TEACHER: What is It that binds us together and makes us better than we are by nature? "Corsets, sir," piped a wise lit tle girl of eight. Did you ever see: A street car conductor who wouldn't fight when you tried to "slip him" a shining nickel? ' "Or, The girl who didn't walk faster when passing a cigar store than when ambling by a spring display window? Or, The married man who did not look 'round hurriedly when you asked him if marriage was a fail ure? Man's hair turns gray, on an average, five years earlier than woman's. Perhaps there's a rea son. There's not so much excitement at the Mcx frontier as there is here, notwithstanding that there is SOME —-as getting a seat In trolley car at 6 p. m. TODAY HISTORY April 4, 1864, Grand Ecore, La., flashed out a glorious but brief ex perience as the center of all at tention in the United States, although it turned out to be as big a bunco as the Juarez race track. Whatever Grand Ecore meant before that it has meant grand failure since, tor It was there that the union army un der Gen. Banks was joined that day by the union fleet under Ad miral Porter. While on the land, and habitable by an army, Grand Ecore faces the water—and If there was water enough, could en tertain a navy. But its river was about half out of water at that time and the fleet of gunboats had some difficulty in getting out again without having thel» noses scorched. The Red river expedi tion, of which Grand Ecore was the much-planned climax, is gen erally conceded to have been one of the most hopeless failures. t .1 aa***amet*mmam**mm*m*ammmotmaomammyamtomtmaoam at , " "-^.-, ' '.*"■>" *,■-;-,'*-. . ■■:'''r-.r'iw*'aat^a;'a,l'i>«a:.M.aM;--^ ' Entered at tlie poatof flee at Taeonia, Wail, hi * •eco-d-elaM natter TELEGRAPHIC '• SERVICE .-<•..nd-a1... vatte. TELEGRAPHIC SRttVICB Or UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUN. DAY MY THE TACOMA TIME* PUBLISHING .; COMPANY. kxyA-y *J^h*h*hjh*ho^*h+****ti*^>*^*h**t^i*^^hja*^*h+i*i^+i*h^*+if*+i^^***i*^a»i*t^a* W^^'^MerT/mEa Human nature appears to be just about the same, whether' of the highly civilized variety of the present day, or of the more prim itive type of 3,300 years ago. Man is easy to fool, enjoys being well fooled and never lets a chance go by to take in another fool. The cabinet makers of Thebes manufactured furniture etc. of cheap wood and applied a thin film of fine wood to the article by means of glue, just exactly as the great furniture factories make ma hogany tables and chairs by applying a thin veneer of the expensive wood. Same old trick. ', HO, HUM! HE'S HERE AGAIN Workers of the World BY PETER POWER. MARINE WORKERS' STRIKE IN TWO HEMISPHERES The great international strike of marine workers may be called on both sides of the Atlantic al most any day. The conference of representatives from various coun tries, which lias just adjourned at Brussels, Belgium, selected a com mission to study the situation, and voted full power to that body to order an international walkout when deemed feasible. The delegates from America, Great Britain, Denmark, Holland and Norway reported that the ma rine workers in their countries were prepared to begin the strug gle for the right to organize and recognition. ' Other countries are about to vote on the question. The main issue is union recog nition and the withdrawal of the shipping federation from their campaign of union disruption. HOW A RAILROAD 'COMPLIED WITH 9-HOUR LAW The brief dispatch from Wash ington, stating that the United States supreme court had ren dered a decision favorable to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail way on the technical plan of "complying" with the nine-hour law for telegraphers by dividing the working day into shifts, didn't tell the whole story. The.plain truth is that the su preme court's decision has made a farce of the national nine-hour Tuesday, April 4,1911 law, which was enacted four years ago to safeguard the public by prohibiting the railway corpora tions from working employes too long hours. The Santa Fe railway "com piled" with the law by compelling telegraphers to work six hours, then lay off three hours between trains and then work another three hours. Their work was spread over 12 hours In the day. And the courts say that is a nine hour day, thus leaving the nine hour day a dead letter on the statute books. WITHDRAW FROM THE CIVIC FEDERATION. The international association of machinists is the latest organi zation to become engaged ln an 1 internal struggle over th© ques tion of ordering officers of that union to withdraw from the Civic federation. President James O'Connell is ' aimed at, O'Connell. also third - vice president of the A. F. of L. I and stands next to John Mitchell -ln line of promotion, declares > that he is not an active but a ' passive member of the Civic fed ' eratlon. Nevertheless, the machinists : unions of New England are ml: -: tiatlng a referendum to place the issue squarely before the - membership of compelling O'Con ! Nell to choose between the union ' and the Belmont-Carnegie body. . ■ ••••••••••4 • • • POEM • • . • • •••••*»•••"- The wild-eyed fan has hushed his wail, Likewise has closed Ids mouth, : For big league stars have lilt the trail, And now are speeding south. a . ' For every spring it is the , same- Baseball must hold Its ' sway; We're nuts about the na a ■ tional game— -80 speed the opening day.' k> " -*"" A'A-l