Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-09

SAlC0 1htO TIC A6hSih6 az
tivities of the war by President Will
son and asked to supply thousands
OF airplanes for the army?
manufacturers are to make the ma
chimes. Mr.. Ryan, for the govern
ment, is to see that the machines are
produced in large numbers and pro-
dueed quickly. The aircraft program
OF the United States, men are saying
on the floors of Congress and else
where, has not been success. Mr..
Ryan is to reorganize, reconstruct and
energize that unfortunate program.
Can he do it? A plausible answer
can be found in the story of what he
already has accomplished. He has
amassed a fortune which some esti-
mates bulk high as s100.0oo,000. No
inventory is appended. however, to the
total SO found and declared.
Fifty million would prove all that
10 the credit of Mr.. Ryan as a man of
whatever the sum, it is all clean
money gained. by processes that are
worthy.
Rich men are no longer viewed with
alarm and hatred in Washington. The
: demagogues who formerly ranted
against men of honest property now
are made dumb by the fear that their
Evolutionary tricks of former days, il
1epeated at this juncture, would be
called treachery. Even the Peter
Funks of politics do not want to be
known as Huns and barbarians.
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So Mr.. Ryan's money, in the ora
liked opinions of the most violent,
does not unfit him for patriotic serv-
ice to his country. He was drafted
by the President in July of last year
to act on the War Council of the
American Red Cross. Edward N.
Hurley. Irish by blood, Catholic in
religion and democrat in politics.
as is Mr.. Ryan, under the three heads
here mentioned, had been sent to the
shipping board as its chairman and
reorganizer
Into the vacancy came Mr.. Ryan,
from his Office in the Wall street dis
trict. to associate himself with SUCH
men as Henry P. Dawson of j. P.
Morgan & Co., Charles D. Norton, the
New York banker, and Cornelius NJ
Bliss, jr., the merchant and manu-
facIurer. It was understood then by
the government. il not by the CALLER
les. that men competent to conduct
large civil enterprises could be trust
ed to manage certain branches of the
military establishment.
1t ought to be stated in this con-
Epection that the social revolutionists-
Ind all-wrongers, rampant and ora
appeared, now that serious business
is being done by the American peo-
pie. Every man is trying to save
the country. which shows that the
country. in the view Of all. Is worth
saving, and that by itself is a reas-
surfing discovery.
If Mr.. Ryan had been a philosopher
or prophet. President Wilson would
not have asked him into the grave
councils and vital work of the ma
ton. II ever there was a materialist,
MI. Ryan Is the man. But a material
list can be as much of an idealist as
ANY one else. and here agn Mr.. Ryan
has proved his merit and the fact.
or pictured with colors. A tunnel is
poetry under river or through a
hill. A locomotive is completed
poem. each part and improvement be-
ing line or verse. Mr.. Ryan's
poetical insight and poetical tech
nique did not create book or a
statue or park. Instead, 1t brought
all the fragments and elements to-
gethcr into what became and now is
the greatest and the richest copper
mining property on earth.
Can Mr.. Ryan make enough aero
planes to fight and bomb an open
load to Berlin? The Anaconda Cop
Yer Company, until the task is
achieved or given up, must be the
teply. 1t employs 10000 men in its
mines and 10000 other men besides.
Eighty-two per cent of the min
frs," Mr.. Ryan says, can read, write
nd understand the English language,
nd since 1907 we have had a sliding
gale OF wages. SO that as the price
bf copper increases our wages in
y
The company owns mines in the
United States. Mexico and South
America. And refineries. railroads,
Jaw mills, brick yards, foundries.
rolley lines, electric light and water
plants. stores and hotels; also a
million acres Of timber land. 1t pro-
luces copper. gold, silver, coal, zinc,
cad, lumber and ferro-manganese.
It's authorized capital is $4,000, 900.
The president of the company is
ohm D. Ryan. One of the directors
William Rockefeller. Last year
he gross earnings Of the corporation
we're .$156, 100000. The surplus in
fome was ss4.sss.ooo. More than
100000 pounds of copper were
81 900 ounces Of silver. Ore from
he Anaconda mine yields an average
eturn Of IS pounds of copper to the
on, from two and one-half to three
unces of silver and and IS cents
vorth Of gold. The mine was OPEN