New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-27
.EDlSON'S GREAT WORK.

With his invention of the telephone
and other electrical appliances Thomas
A. Edison has almost revolutionized
the social life of the middle classes,
and his concrete two-family house
promises to work an even greater re-
volution in the life Of the denizens of
the slums. His idea is to build the
mould of a house, pour the concrete in
and let it settle. The mould is taken
away and the house is complete except
for the woodwork. He believes that
these houses can be built for 81 900
each, and Henry Phipps, the steel
manufacturer who recently gave ST.,
600, 900 for the housing Of the poor in
New York, proposes to build a VIII ole
city of cement in the vicinity of New
York.
There is no better way in which
wealthy philanthropists can invest
their money than in providing decent
homes for people who have lived all
their lives in squalor and dirt: vice
and disease. Those who have visited
the slums of the large cities can tell Of
seeing whole family, sometimes more
than one family, living, sleeping and
eating in single apartment in condi
tions under which common decency
even is impossible. What better work
could be undertaken than to provide
homes for tEesepeople, where they can
live natural; healthy life?
In Britain the city governments have
taken up this work with the public
funds, and while they have not built
anything like enough houses to ac-
comnlod ate the poor, there are enough
to create a healthy competition with
the privately -owned houses. The city
of Glasgow was the first to undertake
this work in addition to it's other soci-
alistic schemes, and the result has
been not only to raise the standard of
living among the poor, but to dimin-
ish disease and crime, which are al
ways expensive to the city and the
state. Liverpool, London and some
of the other cities have followed suit
and with results almost as satisfac-
tory.
What greater service can man rem
der to MS fellow man than to enable
him to rise in the social scale, to give
him back his self-respect and inspire
him with ambition? The gift of a
thousand libraries would not effect a
1.-THE of the good done by a scheme
like this.-DetroitJ Journal.
In an address at Carnegie hall in
New York a few nights ago, Justice
David j. Brewer Of the United States
supreme court,in speaking Of the limi-
tations of the presidential term, took
the following rap at conditions as they
exist at present.: 1t may not be gem
orally known that the convention that
framed the constitution first prescribed
a presidential term of seven years
with a prohibition upon reelection,
and only as the. convention was near
ing it's inland SO far as the records
#shoW-Without any discussion or slg-
gestion or reason therefor, this was
changed to four years and without the
ineligibility. In the judgment Of some
men, among whom I am one, there was
a mistake in that change. In the light
of history, I think it would have been
better to have left the presidential
term Of seven years with an accom-
panying ineligibility. If that were the
provision, we should not now have the
spectacle of our strenuous president
playing a game Of h;de-and- with
the Americ an people. =
The Minnesota and Wisconsin foot
ball teams played a tie game Satur-
day afternoon, the score being II to
II. The Carlisle Indians by defeat
ing Chicago landed their third
straight game, Harvard and Mime
sofa having been the previous victims
OF their superior skill on the gridiron.