GEORGE E. SCOTT
George E. Scott THE death of Senator George E. Scott brings to thousands of people in Wisconsin a deep sense of personal loss. It leaves with me a lasting sorrow. Elected three times to the...
...Such are the comments on the law made by charles F. Weller, of the Playground and Recreation Association of America...
...Let the good people of that state enter in...
...I believe that women will be found on the side of those governmental policies which make for a wider humanitarianism, better conditions, a more temperate life...
...But the world is a decidedly hardened old sinner, and as for sudden regenerations, either in men or in societies—there aren't any...
...With the working people, again, it is not so well...
...Modest, unassuming, industrious, able, conscientious, unafraid, he commanded the respect and won the affectionate regard of all men who knew him...
...with a spark of the divinity, what thou callest an immortal soul, in him...
...The record of his public service is an enduring monument to his memory...
...Ohio's legislature has provided the key...
...That claim will be reversed some day when the public utility corporations will be taken over as the property of the people...
...Rates at the Suez have been repeatedly reduced, but the canal is a big money maker.—Louisville Evening Post...
...The negro has found to his sorrow that after being given his freedom he still has to earn it...
...Alice Duer Miller in the New York Tribune...
...People Belong to Corporations...
...and no one should expect it...
...They told us it would smirch, degrade And coarsen women's souls...
...Elected three times to the Assembly and twice to the Senate during the period when "Wisconsin was re-constructing its government, Senator Scott built the best years of his mature life into the best years of the civic life of this state...
...Ohio's good sense in this matter should be contagious...
...The Seamen's Act protects sailors against peonage, slavery and abuse and offers greater safety for those who travel on the sea...
...THE first year's operations at the Panama Canal show collections from tolls amounting to $4,343,000 or $230,000 more than expenses of operation...
...In this article appear the following well considered paragraphs: "I do not look to woman suffrage, when it comes, as likely to make any miraculous changes in public life, or even to affect much immediate improvement in ancient and deep-rooted evils...
...But in the long run, as the influence of women grows in political affairs, I believe it will be greatly beneficial to the nation...
...Application for such use may be made by any responsible organization or by a group of seven or more citizens...
...the expenses by a special tax of not more than two-tenths of a mill...
...Robert M. La Follette...
...Neither will suffrage immediately emancipate all women, or make them politically astute, or greatly change the policies of the nation...
...Some idealists thought that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation really abolished slavery: it did, indeed, change a legal name for a condition, but how could any document, however formidable with red seals and glorification, immediately change that ignorance, backwardness of development, inherited habit of dependence, which are the essence of slavery...
...His grasp of public questions, his sound business judgment, his mastery of the details of state finance, his remarkable capacity for work, enabled him to carry legislative burdens for the most important work of every session, which early in his public career raised him to the eminence of leadership...
...Here is a clarion call to high service when Congress meets...
...struggling with vision or with blindness for his infinite kingdom (this life which he has got, once only, in the middle of eternities...
...Unlucky...
...The collections during the first full year at the Suez canal totalled $1,031,000...
...THE ACTIVITY of Vesuvius and Etna makes one wonder if they, too, have been affected by the prevailing insanity and have declared war.—Indianapolis News...
...A Clarion Call IN a recent speech, Congressman William Kent declared: "I will never stand for the repeal of the Seamen's Act...
...We found it quite the opposite And want to tell you now That men are nicer people Than the antis will allow...
...Every unit of these masses is a miraculous man, even as thou thyself art...
...He was a trusted leader, true to the highest ideals, a constant friend who never betrayed a confidence or compromised a principle...
...Ohio's New Opportunity OHIO has set out to put her school houses really at work...
...Boards of Education are authorized to employ leaders to conduct the Centers and to give lectures and instruction, and to provide for...
...When we are first thrilled by a new ideal we have moments when we believe that if only that glittering ideal could be realized, the world would be suddenly and miraculously made over...
...Beneficial to the Nation RAY STANNARD BAKER, the brilliant journalist, recently contributed an article to the American Magazine giving excellent reasons why he has decided to cast his vote in favor of giving votes to women...
...This is considered a good showing, considering the interference the European war makes with ocean travel...
...There seemed no limits to his capacity or his endurance...
...stands covered there with his own skin, and if you prick him he will bleed...
...His end came in the fullness of his strength and power...
...if indeed it be not rather the sole point and problem of government, and all other points mere accidental crotches, superficialities, and beatings of the wind...
...THE Manufacturers News, which is always a staunch supporter of the claims of public utility corporations, editorially comments on the recent ruling of the Public Utilities Commission regarding jitney busses, as follows: "The jitney motor car vehicle was definitely and finally disposed of in Illinois when the Public Utilities Commission assumed jurisdiction...
...It may be necessary for us to have a merchant marine, but I would rather see the American flag floating over a raft out in the ocean than to have a merchant marine of great magnitude where the men employed are treated like slaves...
...The jitney is no longer possessed of letters of marque to prey upon the legitimate passengers of regular transportation lines...
...made, to all appearance, by God, whose earth this is declared to be...
...He literally gave his life to the people of this commonwealth...
...Whom, however, we lump together into a kind of dim compendious unity * * * , as 'the masses.' Masses indeed: and yet, singular to say, the masses consist all of units, * * * , every unit of whom has his own heart and sorrows...
...For there are from twenty to twenty-five millions of them...
...Does not that fact alone constitute an indictment of economic conditions, which the plutocratic trustees of the University are endeavoring to defend?—The Public...
...The crop of presidential candidates and all-around good citizens should soon show marked advance in quality and quantity...
...It will be noted that this amounts practically to a declaration of ownership of passengers, holding that the people belong to the "regular transportation lines" (which of course means the big public utility corporations), in other words that the people are the property of the corporations...
...Highwater mark at Suez was in 1912, when $26,585,000 was taken in...
...Her new Social Center law permits the use of "all school grounds and buildings, as well as all other buildings under the supervision and control of the state, or buildings maintained by taxation under the law of Ohio * * * for the education and entertainment of the people, including the adult and youthful population, and for the discussion of all topics tending to the development of personal character and civic welfare...
...That is the answer of a fearless, public-serving Representative to those powerful interests in his own state and elsewhere that have been flooding the country with threats, pleas, falsehoods and buncombe...
...Song of the Watchers THEY told us it ivas dangerous For women at the polls...
...For let charter-chests, use and wont, law common and special say what they will, the masses count to so many millions of units...
...Clearly a difficult 'point' for government, that of dealing with these masses...
...Ohio's experiences will be watched everywhere with the keenest interest...
...Education, discussion, community getting-together, are essential to the working out of democratic self-government...
...The Social Center is the key to better and more efficient citizenship...
...The Plates Indict Themselves WHOEVER Scott Nearing's successor may be, he has warning of his fate should he fail to withhold from his classes instruction concerning certain economic truths...
...So the lid, heavily weighted and moss encumbered in many communities, is off in Ohio...
...The Working People" IN the "Walsh" report of the Industrial Rela-* tions Commission is the following quotation from Carlyle, the Scotch historian, which, it asserts, "contains in a few eloquent sentences the very heart of the situation in American industry...
Vol. 7 • November 1915 • No. 11
