The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-14
THE FARMER: JANUARY 14, 1911

promised td act as sponsor for her in getting her past the emigration au- thorities. However, when the officials at Ellis Island found she had but $25 in cash in her possession and the per sons she named as her friends here refused to be responsible for her, she was ordered deported. On learning of this decision at his apartments in the Waldorf-Astoria, Kousminsky be- came very excited and said many things about the United States vs Russia that were greatly to the dis paragement of the former.
 If Dr. B. Carney Brownell, of the Vanderbilt Hospital, had prophes1ed that the future women of New York would have no pearly teeth with which to enhance their melting ruby lips, and would become hipless, bust less, sword backed, raZor-jaWed, fish eyed type of humanity he could not have painted a more disfguring pie ture when he said yesterday that badness was threatening the sex de- lightful. If this time ever eventuates he says the blight can be traced to the use of "rats," 'puffs'' and arti- f1cial hair which are piled as high as a feather mattress on the cran1um and which he claims convert the top of the head into sweat-boxes for the
 
 germ. The tendency of New York women toward total badness as di- rect result of the employment of rats and puffs, he says, is already widely apparent, especially among women who spend much of their time indoors. ness, he adds, is the use of dyes which rot the hair. His prediction of the baleful consequences of contlnua- tion of these practices almost sent half a dozen of the members of the Rainy Day Club, composed of smart society women, into mysteries, when the physician repeated his warning to them at their regular semi-monthly meeting. At the close of the meet ing all but 8 relatively few of the members resolved to dispense with their make-believe hair in the future and to get down to cases.
 Now that the United States Courts have sustained young Bradley Martin, Jr., in his contention that he cannot be compelled to pay duty on personal effects brought to this country be- cause of his claim that he Is now & resident of London, although in bus1- ness in New York, Collector Loeb ex- poets the use of this excuse by a larges number of rich Americans who spend much of their time abroad each year. It is only a few weeks since Frank Gould, who after divorcing his first wife, married Edith Kelly, a chorus girl, claimed exemption on the ground that he is permanent resi- dent of the city of Paris. Since the Collector began to apply the screws to wealthy Americans who seek to get their foreign purchases through the Customs lines without payment of duty, the temptation to abjure Ann erican citizenship by those whose en- tire revenues are derived from the United States is stronger than at any time in half a century. The fact that it may seem a cheap thing for them to do to seek an asylum through the use of such an excuse, in view of the protection provided by the gov ernment for the enterprises in which their money is invested, does not seem to discourage the practice, which they are disposed to regard as clev- CT, however reprehensible it may ap- pear to their fellow citizens.
 are discussing with absorbing interest the scathing denunciation of the un- fair methods pursued by the Stock Ex- change and the predatory practices 1t conferences through the corpora tions listed on it made by Samuel Un- of the city's corporation lawyers. The phillipic was delivered at the qHarter- iy meeting of the New York County Lawyers Club at the Hotel Astor in the presence of distinguished com pany.
 'The arbitrary and uncontrolled power of the stock Exchange to strike stocks from the official list should be subject to judicial review he said. Immunity of the Stock Exchange and all of it's acts from legislative and judicial control is the anomaly of modern finance. It is a tribute to the power of concentrated wealth to escape regulation. Through years the Exchange has remained above and be- yond the law, with the privileges of a private club, free from all account ability for it's acts-a law unto itself. It exercises the most despotic, irres- ponsible powers of any body on earth. myer continued, "is a recent abomin- ation and one of the most prolific means of oppression. If you can get rid of it you will have abated the most serious of the corporate evils of the present day. It has wrought vestor than all the other corporate wrongs combined. The minority stockholder is at the mercy of the pur- chaser of bare majority of the shares.
 "The greatest frauds upon minority -SCOCknOlueTS tHIOuSh CAilS luOoluiii have been perpetrated by railroad and other public service corporations The remedy is simple. Forbid abso- lutely any corporation from holding any stock in another. If it wants to buy another company, make it buy ev- cry interest or none. But for the device of the holding company the great trusts that are afflicting the country could never have been born"
 Mabel Gilman, the songbird and danseuse that was, now Mrs. William Ellis Corey, second wife of the for mer head of the Steel Trust, has SCOT ed again. Ever since she married Corey she has been beseeching him to give up business and go junketing about the world with her. Welded to business as he was, and always a poor hand at society. he demurred. But his wife, for whom he gave up his old home, his boyhood sweetheart, the mother of his son and everything that most men cherish as they ap- proach the rubicon of life, kept at 1t everlastingly until he eventually gave in AS soon as he can cut away all his commercial bridges behind him, she and Corey will go abroad and spend four or five years travelling lei surely from place to place as their caprice suggests.
 s'Has Little Mabel Gilman got the cold, calculating, astute Corey on a string?" ask those who are incredu- 1ous.
 "You bet,'' is the succinct reply of those who know.