The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-21

of the diar1st who awoke one day to love
 and all its sweetness. Being a personal
 record or intended to appear like one Julie
 has hard time of 1t, upon the pathway of
 love; hence it's success as a book. Julie
 found her love and her love found Julie
 and but hold minute! Don't
 you wish to read one of the best love
 stories yet written? If so go and buy
 "Julie's Diary"-take this reviewers word
 for 1t, you will be delighted if you be-
 lieve in love. If you don't believe in
 love-then you don't count and never will,
 nor will'you ever add up much.
 Problems of Today" by Andrew Car
 negie. Doubleday, Page & Co) With MT. Carnegie retired and telling us
 how 1t all is; how we should do not as
 he has done, but as he tells us) how to
 be good and lovely and sweet, likewise Christianlike in our dealings with man
 kind. With MT. John D. Rockefeller fir
 ing the same kind of 16-inch shots at us
 through the pages of Worlds Work; ''The Difficult Art of Giving" for instance what can a poor man do?
 Not read the tommyrot? That is not
 bad idea when applied to MT. Rockefeller
 as to buying his truck. anyway. But in
 the case of MT. Carnegie, who is ever
 ready to write and talk upon any con
 eeivable subject from peace on earth, good will toward man, to the tariff, if you won't buy his effusions-has has the bulge on the public, in that he can simply dis tribute the edition of his books to the
 800, 100000 libraries, more or less, that he has
 presented around the globe. You cant
 lose MT. Carnegie. He used to skip out of the country to Scotland, so they say,
 when labor troubles in Pittsburg gave him
 pain, leaving other people to be shot and bunged up for carrying out his al-
 legged orders. But now he simply dashes off an effusion. Give him a subject-hell fix it for you in a jiffy, and with the left hand, too. True it is that some time ago some writer claimed, if this reviewer recalls the matter correctly, that a book having upon it's title page the name of l MT. Carnegie as author had never been written by him, but by the claimant-but whats the difference? Nothin gat all. In 10 chapters of his latest settlement Of | large questions, to-wit, Problems of the Day" MT. Carnegie has swept away, put | out of discussion the following easy-to him 1 problems, which have worried less bril- l liant minds: Wealth. labor, wages, thrift. l the land individualism versus socialism, | variety versus uniformity, family rea- l tions, the long march upward. and my | experience with railway rates and l bates.
 There could hardly be any better per l son to discuss the first four subjects, | wealth, labor, wages and thrift, than MT. 1 Carnegie, judging for instance by that l $S00. .000,0O0 or so of United States Steel | first mortgage bonds, the accumulation of | which employed all four.
 When 1t comes to the discussion of | socialism, the land and such questions, 1 this reviewer begs to be excused from ac- 1 cepting MT. Carnegie either leading | light or an arbiter in the premises, and | this decision Is made based solely on
 reading of Problems of the Day. In discussing Wealth" and advocating 1 to more or less extent the graduated | taxation upon estates at death of own- | CTS, MT. Carnegie evidently approves of | the fact that the state of Pennsylvania
 now takes Subject to some exceptions, 1 one-tenth of the property left by it's cit 1 izens." Then MT. Carnegie strengthens
 his approval by moving to New York | city.
 "Problems of the Day. is really interest | ing in more ways than MT Carnegie in- | tended 1t to be. Some parts of it are 1 really funny, and the quoted statistics.
 read as If they were authoritative, still 1 you never can tell
 | Mir. Carnegie and MT. Rockefeller and all that class of men who have gotten now all they seem to want out of the
 people of this country, who proceed now
 to educate us so to speak, should remem- ber what bright New Yorker wrote a friend the other day: "Pouter pigeons re- mind me of the sails of Q ship. They are not the only things 1t is steered by
 There are rudders. Pouter pigeons should wear larger size underwear and have a " put in the front and back, that would give the necessary room"-without writing a book about the swelling.
 Now really, as general proposition, do not the Carnegies, the Rockefellers Stokes, Hunters and so on. who are
 preaching to us, whenever we cease to be
 on the watch, give you an awful pain? As that New Yorker aforesaid put it-it
 might be used in some cases when MT
 Carnegie intends solving some problem right off the bat:
 ''The man who tersely has his say, And promptly goes upon his way, May live to see another day Of business"