The daily sentinel., 1910-10-29

home has become acute with us. Half
the German people have no homes
worthy of the name. In every Ger
man city of more than 100, 900 inhab
itants so per cent of the people live
in flats of one or two rooms. The
city of Berlin numbers many more
people than beds. Even in time of
sickness two and three children must
sleep in the same bed. This is
dreadful condition and one to which
we have not the solution of private
philanthropy that your country pro-
vides. The rich with us have notst the
sense of responsibility that exists in
your wealthy class. We have prac-
tically no hospitals founded by pri-
vate individuals, no great libraries
like those founded by Carnegie.
'Of course, we have not the rich
men that you have. With US the man
who has 900 year is rich. If he
has quarter of million dollars he
is very rich. For the poor the state
must do practically everything.
'In his youth the German worker
with five children is just as well off
as the unmarried man, and in his old
age he is better off, so that his fam
lily pays dividends in the long run
Not to be outdone by the utilitar-
ian scheme of Germany for the prop
| ogation of the race, Mrs. Jean Nor
| ton, in charge of the New Thought
movement founded by Julia Veaton
| Sears, comes out with a plea for the
establishment of a state bounty for
| families based on the number of
children they contribute to the ma
tion's population.
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result from such measure" she
says, "and that eventually the babies
| who had been assisted would more
| than repay their debt to the state and
| to the taxpayers. They would grow
up to be useful citizens, and then per-
haps as much money would be saved
| on state charitable institutions for
! the care of paupers as had been ex-
| pended in helping the mothers to
| bring them up. Such bounty might
| go far toward abolishing pauperism
altogether.
| IF poor mothers were relieved of
the narrowing problems of food and
clothes they would be better able to
care for their children spiritually and
mentally. The mute. inglorious Mil
tons of the poor might be developed
to glory and to song. Every mother
should have always before her the
vision of the perfect child. She
should identify her own child with
| 1t. The other day | heard mother
in the park talking to her baby. Ev-
cry few minutes she would exclaim,
You naughty, naughty child" Her
thoughts, her words. all suggested
naughtiness to the baby. AS a mat
ter of fact. the naughtiness of the
child springs from the parent. Con-
troll yourself, think about beauty and
perfection. and the baby will give
you no trouble"
Have you thought about the men
who would sit back and loaf while
their wives drew baby bounty from
the state?" she was asked.
"Oh, yes; l can see all sides Of the
question. 1t is very big one," Mrs.
| Norton conceded. But mothers and
| children are the future of the race
not the men. They should be con-
sidered first, and considering them" Z"
| Mrs. Norton smiled sweetly, but with
unmistakable firmness. Il favor the
baby bounty. / cast nv vote for it. !"
| Wow, Wow, Wow, OF all the
slambang, slapdoodle scorings ad-
/
alities, treacheries, and double cross
ing of the lambs who venture that
way in search of fodder, the one
handed out the other day by former
Judge Dittenhoefer, for fifty years
counsel and adviser to some of the
biggest corporations in the city, has
l ring about it that is calculated to
make the wolves of the street." as
Arthur Stillwell, president of the
| Kansas City Railroad refers to them,
sit up and take notice.
wall street." he said, lis the
graveyard of ruined hopes, ruined
fortunes, ruined lives and suicides.
Dante's inscription over the gates of
hell should be emblazoned over the
entrance to Wall street: Leave Hope
Behind, all ye who enter here!
1.-The public is lured into Wall
street with the bait of fake sales.
One good law prohibiting wash sales
will save the fortunes and lives of
hundreds of men and absolutely ELI
inmate the watering of stocks. Sixty
per cent of the sales that are record
ed on the ticker every day are match
ed orders-wash sales.
Il have watched the operations OF
that gambling hell for more than
fifty years, and l have fought ii
whenever | had the opportunity. The
city should erect an arch opposite
Trinity Church. and emblazon there
Dante's inscription over the gates of
the Internal region"
The eccentric New York million
aire Hiram Lamporte. who died in
1907, left a will, bequeathing prac-
tically his entire fortune to Miss
Clementine Smedley, who had been
his constant friend, companion and
nurse for six years. During the lat
ter years of his life, Mr.. Lamporte
gave Miss Smedley securities valued
at from $4,000 to $50,000. Albert
lG. Lamporte, who is a half brother
and the administrator of the estate,