Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-31
FROM THE BATTLE-GROUND OF THOUGHT

! further Improvement need to bc
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 the
| paths which have been tried again
and again only to find the sign mo
| thoroughfare" posted at the end.
There ought to be a large field for
| the employment of railway officers
Of experience and Initiative in such
| consulting engineering work.--En-
! gineering News
Rise OF Most of our very wealthy
Morgan men started in small ways.
Dynasty. Carnegie was a messenger
boy, Rockefeller tramped
| the streets 10 get n petty clerical Job,
II. II. Rogers and Russell Sage were
grocer's clerks. Hartman was bro
kcr's office boy. james J. Hill was y
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
Washingtons army, proceeded to lay
the fortune or the house. 1t did no,
take him long to rise to the control or
the chief transportation lines in Con-
necticut. They were nothing but STAGE
lines. but they were worth controlling
Just the same. Later on he figured as
one of the capitalists of the Aetna Fire
Insurance company of Hartford. His
grandson Is j. Picrpont Morgan. senior.
and Young j. p" Is of course his
great-grandson. OF all the multimil-
lionnires of our day, Morgan the cider
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 the
newspaper and magazine men. Morgan
has never thawcd out. His personality
is as far removed from public scrutiny
now as 1t was when he was the center
of the whirlw1nd contest with Jay
Gould forty years ago.-Currcnt Litcra-
ture (Dccembcr).
Odd Jobs The best single reason for
For Law direct election of Senators
Makers. Is one often overlooked 1t
Is that electnS Senator's
Is demoraliZing, often q corrupting
business. The legislature that has n
big Senatorial contest on hand is of
little use for legislation When it spends
half n session choosing a Senator, It
does little besides.
There will be a notable series of SEN
atorlal fights III Legislatures this win
Ter, and at an unfortunate time. The
state Legislature, as an institution, Is
on trial. in public opinion, for its life
it has been inefficient and expensive
ana to It's failures must be attributed
largely tho growing demand for more
Capitalization at Washington. Tho
pubic expects real work from Lcgis-
latnres this winter. It wants them to
ratiiy the income tax amendment to
the Constitutions; 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
snare toward regulation of carriers,
trusts and corporate capitalization, and
GENERALLY to get into touch with the
march Of national progress Tho Orc
Eon plan of select IL Senators ought to
DC adopted In n dozen States this COM
ing winter. and report Is that initiative
ana referendum measures will hnve II
good chance in half as many.-From
Success Magazine"