Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-31

further Improvement need to be
studied by real efficiency engineers:
but they should be men who are prac-
tically experienced in actual railway
operations: who know what can be
done and what has been done; who
know the directions In which. improve
ment Is possible. and who know tho
paths which have been tried again
and again only to find the sign mo
thoroughfare" posted at the end.
There ought to be large field for
the employment of railway officers
consultino engineering work.-En-
gineering News.
Rise OF Most of our very wealthy
Morgan men started in small ways.
Dynasty. Carnegie was messenger
boy. Rockefeller trampcd
the streets to get q petty clerical JOB.
II. Fl. Rogers and Russell Sage were
grocer's clerks. Hartman was bro
ker's office boy. James J. Hill was q
section hand, or something like that
But four generations of the Morgans
have been born In the purple, so to
speak. The Morgan dynasty runs back
to the days of the American rcvolu-
ton. Joseph Morgan. after fighting In
Washington's army proceeded to lay
the fortune Of the house. 1t did not
the chief transportation lines In Con-
necticut. They were nothing but stage
lines, but they were worth controlling
lust tho same. Later on he figured as
one of the capitalists of tho Aetna Flre
Insurance company of Hartford. HIS
grandson Is j. Pierpont Morgan, senior,
and young j. p" Is OF course his
grcat-grandson or nll the multimil-
lionalres of our day, Morgan the elder
remains the most inscrutable. All the
others, Rockefeller, Hartman, Rogers
and the rest have at one time or an
other thawed out In the presence of tho
newspaper and magazine men. Morgan
has never thawed out. His personality
Is ms far removed from public scrutiny
now as it was when he was the center
of the whlrlwtnd contest with Jay
Gould forty years ago.--Currcnt Litera-
ture (December).
Odd Jobs The best single reason for
For Law direct election of Senators
Makers. Is one Often overlooked. 1t
Is that electing Senator's
Is a demoraliZing. often n corruptins
business. Tho legislature that has a
little use for legislation. When 1t spends
half a session choosing Senator, 1t
does little besides
There will be n notable series OF SEN
ntorial fights in Legislatures this win
ter, and at an unfortunate time. Tho
State Legislature, as an institution. Is
on trial. In public opinion, for It's life.
1t has been inefficient and expensive,
and to It's failures must be attributed
largely tho growing demand for moro
Capitalization at Washington. Tho
public expects real work from Legls-
latures this winter. 1t wants them to
ratify tho income tax amendment to
the Constitution; to pass enabling acts
under which cities may generally adopt
tho commission plan OF government; to
| place more rigorous restrictions on
/ public service corporations; to do their
share toward regulation of carriers,
trusts and corporate capitalization. and
generally to get into touch with tho
march Of national progress. Tho Ore
gon plan OF select az Senators ought to
be adopted in u dozen States this com
Ing winter, and report is that initiative
and referendum measures will have n
good chance In half as many-From
"ESucccss Magazine"