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H 2 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY. f
H those who have long waited, May fcol assured
H that the reign of peace on earth may bo looked
B forward to with a hope of fulfillment.
m English Railway Management
H A LITTLE more than a year ago Mrs. Henry
H North Thornton, an American railroad man,
M was called to England to take the place of gen-
H eral manager of the Great Eastern Railway of
m England.
H He made good from the first. He recently
B gave a correspondent some most interesting facts
H touching English railways from which the fol-
M lowing are condensed:
m Soon after his arrival the great war burst upon
1 England like a peal of thunder from a clear sky.
m The railway managers of England were called
H upon to report to the war secretary, Lord Kitch-
H ener. vFrom him they received an order that
H within sixty hours they must devise means to
H move with the utmost dispatch the soldiers and
H war material of the government to Southamp-
H ton. In forty-eight hours they reported to the
H war secretary that they were ready. During the
H first few days of the war eighty trains per day
H reached Southampton, bringing soidlers and war
H material from all parts of the United Kingdom
H those from Ireland being sent by sea to Liverpool
H or Fishguard, and picked up there by the trains.
H The trains pulled into Southampton twelve mln-
Hj utes apart. Within three days the roads delivered
H into Southampton more than 150,000 men and not
H one of the three hundred and fifty-trains was a
H minute late or suffered accident. In the mean-
H time the regular business trains did their accus-
H tomed work. Mr. Thornton declares that the
H management of railways in England has been re-
H duced to almost an exact science. He added:
H "We have some trains on our line that have not
H been reported late for years; the total number of
H passengers carried on our system annually is es-
H timatcd at 145,000,000."
H From G a. m. to 9:30 a. m. there are 278 trains
H arriving at the Liverpool street station, and the
M number of passengers who arrive in that time
B average 76,000. During the twenty-four hours
H about 700 trains arrive at and depart from that
1 station.
M He says also that American passengers have
. more comforts on the roads in this country than
m Englishmen have on theirs. An American has his
H' seat in the Pullman, also in the dining car, also
i in the smoker and observation car. These last
1 two are denied him in England.
H He concludes by saying; "It is not difficult to
H do business with English people if one under-
H stands them."
H The region traversed by his line is about the
H size of the state of Connecticut. What will our
H country be when it becomes as thickly settled as
H is England?
H Japan And China
JAPAN has taken advantage of the war in Eu
rope, to begin the assimilation and absorption
Hi of China. She has obtained concessions of such
Hjj resources of China as can be swiftly made most
Hit profitable. She has acquired the practical control
I of China's ocean trade; it is clear that she in
tends to make places for thousands of Chinese to
work and to absorb the profits of their labor.
J; She will be able all the time, to, to say to the
Hjj United States and all other powers: "Why, cer-
K; tainly, we favor the open door for the nations to
H trade with China," and then laugh in her sleeve
Hj I as she sees how she has estopped that trade
H against the world.
Hi , She will fill China with factories and rolling-
Hi mills, they will all be under Japanese direction,
H J while the work will be done by the Chinese.
Hj She will have control of the Chinese coal
Hi j mines; they will supply noal to all ships that
I come, but her own ship., will obtain it at half
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the cost of foreign ships; it will be impossible for
the ships of any other country to compete with
Japanese ships in the China trade.
But Japan's population is as but one to ten
of those of China. At home all Japanese male
children are trained in school to become soldiers.
Will Japan extend this education to China? If she
does, what will happen not at once, but a genera
tion hence? The Chinese are a race of much
stronger character than the Japs. The latter
have a subtile, scheeming, dishonest instinct, but
not half the character of the Chinese.
It is not hard to imagine that with the Chinese
educated in the handling of arms, that twenty-five
or fifty years hence, some Chinaman may rise
up, explain to his countrymen their position as
really subjects of Japan, and call upon his coun
trymen to rid themselves of their oppressors.
Stranger things than that have happened.
In the meantime, as the finances of the world
are at present adjusted, it looks to us like a vain
hope to try to compete with Japan in the ocean
commerce of the Orient. The east will buy noth
ing except what it cannot produce and as ex
changes are, it will continue to sell what it has to
sell at a discount of GO per cent measured in the
outside world's money.
That our "statesmen" cannot see this and what
it is swiftly leading to is one of those mysteries
which are past finding out. Because of it we have
lost what was rightfully ours, the control or
China's ocean trade, and are now threatened with
the destruction of some of our chiefest industries
in the unequal competition of Japan. For in
stance, Japan can unload steel rails and steel blt
tels made in China in San Francisco cheaper
than the same can possibly be manufactured in
Pittsburg.
It can only be explained on the theory that
our "great" financiers reason that were justice to
be done, the result might eventually reduce the
interest that the money changers are now able to
exact from the great ho'st of interest payers.
That Point Of View
HP HE tone of the German press in discussing
the last note from the TJnited States is most
regretable. It is different in wording but not in
spirit from that used by Sisyphus in justification
for appropriating his neighbor's beeves. Stripped
of ambiruities it really says. "We are intent
upon victory and to be victorious will be justifica
tion for all we may do." It regrets that the
United States cannot understand, the German
point of view. It Is not hard to understand. It
had its birth in the stone ago when one man cov
eted the cave of another, because of its superior
accommodations, and reasoned that his desire
was sufficient justification for treading down the
grain field of another man which field was on the
way to the desired cave. Some points of view
will have to be modified.
The Chicago Tragedy
IT is to be hoped that the calamity of a week
ago in Chicago river, will cause steamer in
spectors to cut off the roof-garden decks with
which those excursion steamers are supplied.
Many of them, when we last saw them, only re
quired a rush of passengers to one side, or a
sudden squall out on the lake to capsize them
and no ordinary amount of ballast could save
them under such circumstances. The authorities
and press are loud against the officers: the in
spectors are the men most to blame.
The boats that ply between Chicago and Mil
waukee tempt providence on every voyage.
HP HE necessities of the great war have caused
copper to advance to nineteen cents per
pound in New York.
The necessities of the great world would cause
silver to advance in a week to one dollar per
ounce if our government had but the sense of jus
tice to recognize it at that price.
The necessities of the great war will pass,
after a little the necessities of the great world
after the war shall have passed would maintain
the price of silver and it would be a blessing to
all the millions of the poor in the world.
I T was told that once at a great banquet in Lon-
don, the Duke of Wellington was asked to give
those present a brief description of the- battle of
Waterloo.
He arose and looking over those present for a
moment said: "It, it, it was a h 1 of a fight,"
and sat down. When the Wizard of the Wasatch
returned to his cavern in the mountains on Sun
day last and by Mrs. Wizard was asked what kind
of a time he had, he replied: "It was a h 1 of
a time."
WHEN YOU CAN'T JUDGE AN ACTOR.
By Lamb .Montague Glass, Author of Potash
and Perlmutter"
A contribution to the Souvenir Album of the
Lambs All Star Gambol, 1915.
"Did you hear it that Max Tuchman has got
a son by the name of Ralph Tuchman which is
now working as an actor?" Louis Gurin, the
real estater asked as he sat opposite B. Rash
kind in the Regal Vienna Restaurant and Cafe.
"Sure I hear it," Rashklnd answered, "and I
ain't got no sympathy with Max neither, Gurin, I
because if a feller calls his son by such a name J
Ralph, y'understand, the best he could expect '
is that a feller should turn out to be an actor !
or something."
"Seemingly you don't think very high of act
ors," Gurin commented.
"I think just so high from actors as anybody
does, Gurin," Rashkind declared, "which I don't
know nothing about 'em, Gurin, because I ain't
got no actors in my family, Gott sei dank."
"Why Gott sei dank?" Gurin asked. "So far
as I found out up to date, Rashkind, you ain't
got no rabonim in your family neither, which if
you could claim for a relation such an actor
like David Warfield Oder a concern like Mont
gomery & Stone, y' understand, you wouldn't got
no kick coming, believe me."
"David Warfield is another good actor, only
in a different way," Gurin continued. Warfield
owns tenement property, otherwise he is just as
good as Montgomery & Stone, y' understand, and
some says even better by a couple of hundred
dollars."
"Is that so!" Rashkind cried.
Furthermore George M. Kohn is also good for a
half a million dollars at the very least," Gurin
went on, "and still another very good actor is a
feller by the name Corse Paylon, which he owns
property in Brooklyn, although of course, Gurin,
none of these here actors is as good as they
used to be, Gurin, on account of the way real
estate is so dead nowadays, especially in Brook
lyn." Rashkind wagged his head from side to side
and made incoherent sounds through his nose
indicating surprise too acute for verbal expres
sion. "So you see, Rashkind, you should be -very
careful what you say about actors," Gurin con
cluded, "because you never could judge if an
actor is good or not just from seeing him on
the stage."
The appointment of Miss Mary Full Stomach, !
an Indian maiden, to a position in the Interior
Department at Washington is evidence of the
fact that the supply of hungry Democrats is prac
tically exhausted. El Paso Times.