Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-04
NEW TRUST BUSTERS
Government Enlists Services OF
College Young Men For
Work OF Reform
NOVEL PLAN HAS BEEN EVOLVED
Commissioner of Corporations Encour-
ages Youngsters to Enter Govern
ment Service in Executive Positions
Government to Probe European
Vice.

Especial Washington Correspondence
Washington, June 4..-Trust busting
is the newest profession for the col
lege young man.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, and himself one of the
youngest men in responsible connec-
ton with the executive department of
the government, is credited with dis
covering the possibilities of utilizing
the intellectual skill of the young col
lege man, without having to pay the
Large salaries that older men would
demand for the service.
Mr.. Smith has been developing
theory that more college men ought to
go into government service. Not into
politics. that is, but into administrat-
i've and executive positions, where they
would get training especially adapt
ing them for the work of government.
Mr. Smiths bureau requires, year
by year, the services of large num-
Der of men competent to do research
work of various kinds. 1t is constantly
being turned loose by congress to in
fairly appraise social values. who will
enter their work with the right atti-
tude of mind to learn. who have not
acquired prejudices and predictions,
and who have no reason for misrepre-
senting what they discover. After
good deal of experimentation. the bu-
reau has developed a theory that young
men just out of college, postgraduate
students, youths between the junior
and senior years, young professors
who have themselves but recently left
college, are the ones on the whole best
fitted for the work he wants done.
Recently Mr.. Smith appeared before
group of young men at the Nebras-
ka university at Lincoln, and dis
cussed with them the question of doing
some work for his department. He
talked of the possibilities of the gov
eminent service, and as result Sc
cured several of them to engage in the
service Most of them are undergrad
yates who expect to return for further
studies in the university. About the
same time he enlisted number of
young men from the university of
Pennsylvania, who were anxious to
earn some money toward paying ex-
penses, and incidentally to acquire
some experience. These young men are
now gathering up facts about the lum-
Der business of the country.
According to Mr.. Smith, who has
- &l,:-
for some time, there is no better class
of workers for this kind of business
than the young college men. He has
been hiring preferably those who have
been paying their own way thru col
lege. Because the chap with DISPOSE
ton to pay his way thru college is
pretty certain to have something in
him worth getting out" is Mr.
Smiths explanation.
In the effort to get to the bottom OF
the traffic in vice between Europe and
this country, the government has de-
cided, for the first time, to send IL
woman to Europe to investigate the
trade in girls who are brought here for
immoral purposes.
Government officials, while admit
ting that this arrangement has been
made. decline positively to give tho
name of the woman who is to make
this unprecedented investigation. 1t is
explained that such an announcement
in advance would make it practically
impossible for her to succeed in the
task she is undertaking.
That there is regular, organized,
in, or hntwnar
continental countries and American
cities, has long been we'll known. In
some of the European cities indeed
there is reason to believe that the bus
mess is carried on under the protec-
ton of officialism. The United States
government has long made especial ct
forts to keep out women brought In for
immoral purposes, but it has been in
creasingly difficult to do this without
imposing unnecessarily hard condl-
tions on all women who are presented
at American ports.
A number of Investigations of this
traffic have been made by men, but
the results have not been entirely sat
isfactory. Consequently the determlna-
ton to send woman. Her business
will be to get into the confidence, II
possible of the people who are con-
Quoting the traffic, and to learn as
MANY of it's secrets as may be.
1t is known to the government that
there is some sort of central intelli-
gence in this country which directs this
traffic, and which is closely in touch
with the European countries. Young
women are induced in all kinds of ways
to submit themselves to the approaches
of the agencies of the wholesale vice
establishments. Some are peasant
girls. coming in the expectation of en-
ployment at high salaries: others are
already adopts in the ways of the half
world. But most of them are dupes In
one degree or another of the agents of
the vice system: and all are regarded
as undesirable immigrants. whom I'M
Gle Sam is determined to exclude if!
possible.
A Lesson in Health
Healthy kidneys filter the impurities
from the blood and unless they do this
GOOD baalth is uposSjble FoleV'S Kid