NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE WORLD was shocked and thrilled last week when the news came that Captain Robert F. Scott, British explorer of the Antarctic, and his party of four, perished in a hHzzard...
...For over all and above all and greater than all, and expressing the supreme sovereignty of all, are the peo-pie.—Senator La Follette to the Wisconsin Legislature at close of session, 1910...
...I refer to the literacy test" "The New Freedom" For the first time in the history of the country a president-elect has issued in book form just prior to his inauguration a compilation of his political views...
...La Follette is the originator of all except the last mentioned of these measures, and as to that he is an ardent advocate...
...The administration, and even the life of President Madero, is seriously threatened...
...Whether the indicated change of policy is to result in a positive change of Republican leadership in the Senate remains, of course, to be developed...
...Please, ma'am," replied the shaking boy, "me father says they wuz too hard for him, an' would you mind giving me a few easier ones to do...
...In this latest revolution is seen still further manipulation for control and power by great financial interests...
...We mean that business in this land shall be released, emancipated...
...Woman's Home Companion...
...Some of the biggest men in the United States in the field of commerce and manufacture are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something...
...Taft, Vetoes Immigration Bill President Taft vetoed the immigration bill on the 14th...
...inquired the teacher, in a sharp voice...
...Already, however, some are willing to concede that La Follette, who maintained his regularity in the last campaign, with all its complications, will be recognized as leader if it appears general good will result thereby to the party...
...They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocking, so complete, so persuasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it...
...It now will be in order to keep close watch to see if the Republican Senators as a whole are sincere, and if they are the significance of it all is likely to be found shortly in recognition of a new progressive leadership, looking toward resumption of party control in the not distant future...
...one which may be prolfie of important consequences in connection with the Republican reorganization plans that have excited interest since the last national election...
...Congress Passes Liquor Bill On the 10th the Senate passed the Webb bill (which was substituted for the Kenyon-Shepard bill) designed to prevent the shipment of intoxicating liquors into prohibition states...
...What we have to discuss is, not wrongs which individuals intentionally do—I do not belteve there are a great many of those—but the wrongs of a system...
...In the first chapter, entitled "The Old Order Changeth," Mr...
...According to this estimate, New York City pays every week into the box office three-quarters of a million dollars...
...News Worth Remembering THE WORLD was shocked and thrilled last week when the news came that Captain Robert F. Scott, British explorer of the Antarctic, and his party of four, perished in a hHzzard on March 29, 1912, upon their return journey from the South Pole...
...He hesitated almost to the last moment of the time allowed him and it was thought that failure on his part to send a veto message within the specified time might enable the measure to become a law without his signature...
...It is the object of the congress to bring together men and women interested in the health of school children and to assemble a scientific exhibit representative of the most notable achievements in school hygiene...
...He condemns those who from "misplaced sentimentality or lazy self interest" would cast the Filipinos upon the world in a state helplessness before they had acquired the full benefits of American civilization...
...The bill to create a tariff commission, which the committee on finance was ordered to report at once...
...Nothing less than the adoption by the Republican Senators in conference of the complete legislative program which the Wisconsin Senator espouses is the accomplishment suddenly wrought up by the man who less than eight years ago was hazed when he arose to address the body of which he is now a member...
...It was predicted that the legislature would pass it...
...stand, on the proposition that private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable...
...A plea for the continued occupation of the Philippines by the United States until the Filipinos are completely equipped for selfgovernment is a feature of the annual report of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson...
...And to make supervision possible, it required bakers to take out a license issued by the commissioner of health and revocable by the mayor...
...The bill aims to assist prohibition states in really prohibiting the sale of liquor by making it a federal offense to ship into such state any intoxicating liquor which it is intended to sell or to use "either in the original package or otherwise" in violation of any law of that state...
...And there I will fight my battle...
...The President says, "I do this with great reluctance * * * but I cannot make up my mind to sign a bill which in its chief provision violates a principle that ought, in my opinion, to be upfield in dealing with our immigrants...
...In 1907 an ordinance was passed in Chicago establishing standards for bakeries that if enforced would have meant the end of most of the bakeshops below the street level...
...After planting the British flag by the side of the Norwegian flag planted at the goal by Amundsen, they set out...
...There was a time when corporations played a very minor part of our business affairs, but now they play the chief part and most men are the servants of corporations...
...News Notes —Direct election of United States Senators was endorsed by the Illinois legislature last week when it ratified the amendment to the United States Constitution...
...We mean that those shall be places where the people of the United States shall come and be represented, in order that everything may be done in the general interest and not in the interest of particular groups of persons who already dominate the industries and the industrial development of this country...
...Madero declares that he will die before he will resign...
...The United States will be the meeting place of the Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene...
...The lack of dressing rooms and decent washing facilities and toilet accommodations prevailed almost everywhere...
...A trust does not bring efficiency to the aid of business...
...To say that the adoption of this legislative program—something that would have been impossible a year ago —created surprise is to state it mildly...
...Old Gnard" Passing With the appointment of Senators La Follette and Cummins upon the Republican "steering committee" in the Senate came significant recognition of the tact that publie opinion— the great rank and file of the party of Lincoln—is forcing a reorganization of party leadership...
...Illinois is the seventeenth state to ratify this constitutional amendment to place the election of Senators into the hands of the people...
...Amundsen was in Madison, Wisconsin, when the news of Scott's fate reached him...
...The measure to regulate the hours of employment of women in the District of Columbia...
...Home Work "Willie, why couldn't you find the result of these examples you took home...
...I am for big business...
...George M. Price, who made a report on bakeries for the Factory Investigating Commission, found that most of the 2,489 bakeries in Greater New York are in cellars...
...A bill is being prepared, he said, modeled after the Wisconsin system, which provides for the second choice...
...they have been put together, not by natural processes, but by the will, the deliberate, planning will, of men who were more powerful than their neighbors in the business world and who wished to make their power secure...
...A Tale of Two Cities and a Loaf of Bread Unsanitary cellar bakeries in Chicago have received a body blow from the Supreme Court of Illinois...
...The Sun Never Sets on Equal Suffrage The following paragraph is taken from a story by Justus Miles Forman in the Woman's Home Companion: "The women of New Zealand have had full suffrage since 1893, of Australia since 1902, of Finland since 1906...
...On the following day by a viva voce vote the House re-passed the Webb bill as it passed the Senate, prohibiting the inter-state shipment of intoxicating liquors into dry states...
...Because, no matter how wise these gentlemen may he, no matter how patriotic, no matter how singularly they may be gifted with the power to divine the right course of business, there isn't any group of men in the United States or any other country who are wise enough to have the destinies of a great people put into their bands as trustees...
...To-day the committee submitted the following program, which was indorsed by the Republicans as a whole—five bills, of which La Follette is the author of four: The bil authorizing the physical valuation of railroads engaged in in-ter-state commerce...
...On February 15, the following Washington dispatch appeared in the Chicago Rocord-BertUd: "Senator La Follette of Wisconsin made a great leap to-day toward the goal of leadership that he has coveted...
...He made an inspection of 485, and of these 479 were underground...
...CONSTITUTIONS, statutes, and all of the complex details of government, are but instruments to carry out the will of the people...
...New Revolution in Mexico "War has broken out again in Mexico...
...Wilson says that The singular fact is that nothing is done in the country as it was done twenty years ago...
...The measure providing for a legislative drafting bureau and to establish a legislative reference bureau, according to the plan already in vogue in Wisconsin...
...Chicago pays three nundred thousand dollars: Boston pays one hundred thousand dollars...
...Missouri suffragists celebrated a victory last week when both the Senate and House committees cut short the arguments of the equal suffrage advocates and voted to report favorably the amendment...
...The laws of this country do not prevent the strong from crushing the weak, and because the strong have crushed the weak, the strong dominate the industry and the economic life of this country...
...Thirty-six are necessary to make it a part of the Constitution...
...in Norway three hundred thousand of them have full parliamentary suffrage, and that it is expected to be made universal in that country within a year or two...
...but I am against the trusts...
...upon the return journey, but within eleven miles of food and safety, weakened by hunger, all perished in a terrific hHzzard...
...It is unfortunate that this story of progress in the second city of the United States," says The Survey "cannot be told also of the first city...
...The committee consisted of Senators Oliver of Pennsylvania, Root of New York, Smoot of Utah, La Follette of Wisconsin and Cummins of Iowa...
...As five-sixths of the total theatre attendance is upon the cheaper entertainments, calling for a ticket fee of not more than fifty cents, and as the majority of this is at the lowest figure, or five cents, we shall be safe in estimating the average price paid per seat at 25 cents...
...Writing of trusts, the President-elect says: "They have been artificially created...
...And there is no law designed to bring them out...
...Enactment into law of all or any of the matters may not be achieved, but if the Republicans make an honest effort in that direction there will be established a basis on which the progressives in the party can build with respect to a labor appeal for support from the country...
...In "The New Freedom," Woodrow Wilson presents "a discussion of a number of very vital subjects...
...The lowest price, at the moving picture shows, is five cents...
...The 1913 congress will be held at Buffalo, N. Y., August 25-30...
...And I know how to light it...
...We do not propose that special interests shall any longer camp in the rooms of the committee on ways and means of the House and the finance committee of the Senate...
...Wholesale desertions from the federal army have weakened Madero's armed forces and strengthened the force of General Diaz, nephew of former President Diaz, who is leading the revolt...
...Madison pays seven thousand dollars a week...
...Some observers, speaking cynically and otherwise, remarked on learning of the conference result to-day that 'La Follette has succeeded at last in swallowing the whole Republican party...
...And when they fail,—when constitutions and statutes and all of the agencies employed to execute constitutions and statutes, fail, they must be changed to make them carry out and express the judgment, the well-formulated and mature judgment of the people...
...The Wisonsin income tax law, which was upheld by the State Supreme Court, was appealed last week in the Supreme Court of the United States...
...President Taft held several emergency sessions of the Cabinet to discuss the situation, and while talk of intervention to protect American lives and property is deprecated, still the chief executive has ordered the army and navy of the United States to be placed in readiness for instant service and has dispatched war ships to Mexican ports to be used if necessary as a refuge for American citizens who may be threatened with danger during hostilities...
...it buys efficiency out of business...
...The 'Old Guard' would dispute this, but the significant fact remains that there is a thoroughly apparent disposition to turn from the old course and start out for renewed confidence with the people on lines that once would have been repudiated...
...In Denmark, as in Ireland, women vote for all officers except members of parliament, and they have municipal suffrage in any quantity of places...
...In all the cellars investigated, the ceilings were found to be very low, the average height being about 7 1/2 feet...
...The preceding congresses have all been held abroad, the first at Nuremberg in 1904, the second at London, 1907, and the third at Paris, 1910...
...At the close of the chapter on the tariff the President-elect says: "What we are interested in first of all with regard to the tariff is getting the grip of special interests off the throat of Congress...
...against competition...
...Scott reached the South Pole January 18, 1912...
...As a consequence, the bakery products are not properly handled, very little effort is made to keep them clean, and the danger of disseminating disease in this manner is increased many fold...
...Not many days ago the Republican conference of Senators appointed a committee on legislation to prepare a list of bills which should be pressed for action before the expiration of the present Congress...
...He was deeply moved, not only by the tragedy but...
...The attempt will be made to have the law nullified on the ground that it conflicts with the fourteenth article of the Constitution...
...Governor Woodrow Wilson announced last week that he was in favor of a radical change in the primary laws of New Jersey...
...It is believed that the present widespread public interest in health education will make the exhibit a particularly attractive feature of the congress...
...They found that Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had reached there first...
...This was done to remove a parliamentary construction which threatened to delay final action until another session of Congress...
...The scene of the battles that have occurred during the past week is laid right at the door of the capitol at Mexico City...
...It is uncertain whether the bill may be passed over the President's veto...
...ASSUMING that in cities of 25,000 inhabitants and over the total population of the city represents the total weekly attendance at public amusements during forty weeks of the year, we secure some interesting figures on the cost of entertainment The highest normal price for theatre tickets is $2.00...
...They know that America is not a place of which it can be said, as it used to be, that a man may choose bis own calling and pursue it just as far as his ability enables him to pursue it, because today if he enters certain fields there are organizations which will use means against him that will prevent his building up a business which they do not want to have built up, organizations that will see to it that the ground is cut from under him and the markets shut against him...
...In most cases there was an insufficient supply of hot water, so that not only is it practically impossible for the workman to keep his hands clean, but proper cleansing of the utensils is out of the question...
...by the sincerity shown by Scott in recording in his notes that Amundsen's flag and tent were found at the South Pole...
...The books in a fair sized public library could be bought Tor what the people of a town spend in a month at the theatre...
...I take my stand absolutely, where every progressive ought to take his Notes on the Present State of the Theatre By THOMAS H. DICKINSON II...
...Mr...
...He suggests improvement in the army tactical methods, declares the present reserve law is inadequate, urges the need of citizenship for the Porto Ricans, suggests the conservation of national water powers in navigable streams and the advisability of amending the Panama Canal tolls act so as to reimburse tolls on American coast wise shipping leaving the waterway...
...The Republicans now are pledged—although it was understood the program is subject to amend- ment—to an effort to force action on all these matters, while they still have a nominal control in the upper branch of Congress...
...The anti-injunction measure, now pending before the judiciary committee...
...A municipal court declared the ordinance invalid, but now the Supreme Court, having the case before it on an appeal, has upheld the ordinance at every point That means that the work begun in 1907, when there were only 750 bakeries above ground, and carried on until there were 1,300 above ground and only 244 in cellars, will now go on to its logical conclusion...
Vol. 5 • February 1913 • No. 8
