Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
SHARPS AND FLATS

In our great congested centers, womer
who toll for bread are in an unspeakablt
danger-of a new sort, even in this modern
age. On the one hand, there hang about
entrances to theatres, churches and the
great department stores, human vuItures
ready with their cowardly effrontery; on
the other ha."l if she resents their insult,
there is sc.' cal monging press ready to
place her naine before gossiping public.
Could a hunan being be more utterly
helpless? No wonder recent pubica-
ton, somewhat ''yellow" itself, calls this
modern situation "the bulwark OF vice. 4"
Special privileges to none, equal privi-
leges to all-that's sound doctrine. And
yet, because some men have not the
ability to use all their privileges, they
pass, to another. There can be no waste
in this realm. Are you, because of ones
sheer incapacity, going to condemn an
other because he happens to have more
than his fellow? You might make an
equal division of all the worlds gold and
in while there would still be million
aires? 1t isn't question of loot and
piracy everytime. More often is it the
capacity of the one and the incapacity of
the other to handle Natures equally dis
tributed gifts! Do you see?
There come days hard and depressing,
because everything seems to couspire to
make ones anxieties heavy. But when
you get home and your children gather
round you, then the JOY of life steals back
and you feel new once more. They
freshen up man as no other tonic can
The sight of happy children tugging at
the skirts of an affectionate wife who
waits to greet tired husband is the most
inspiring thing in life; that is, if you are
the fortunate man.
The "tenderloin" stories of millionaire
life are now coming into the lime light
by way of the famous mErder-trial now
on in New York City. Don't heap your
on journalism that SIM
ply caters to the postate taste of world
wide constituency. First you condemn
the erstwhile saint who snspends her
piety while she wades through these
and sensuous bogs. While
this remarkable case is uneoyering "The
Cave Dwellers" among the rich, it is at
the same time bringing to the front the
real thing that satisfies the craving and
NAV of the reading public.
This is the golden age for the young
man. And it is an age whose every call
is specially" awaiting fitness and COM
potency. This country never saw the
time when she was so deeply plunged in
such volumes of Industrial expansion.
The natural results-a shortage of men.
Oh, yes; the world has more men in it
that's true But the number of compe-
tent men has not kept pace with the
ver-enIarging field of industrial oppor-
tunity. A senator recently declared that
the tie-up of traffic all over the country is
not due SO much to car-shortage as to the
lack of competent men to handle trains.
The standing army is short of men until
there are three guns to the man. A great
cry of shortage is heard from the navy.
The postal department is facing serious
problems. Man-shortage is new disease
in the industrial world. 1t marks an era
of unparalleled prosperity. 1t is the clarion
call to get ready. 1t stamps the man as
worse than a fool who says that in this
age the young man has no chance. Tie
trouble is there are more chances than
there are men.