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The New York herald., 1921-05-29
By WILLIS STEEL.
AMUEL~ MATTHEW'S

- AMUEL~ MATTHEW'S VAUGHAN
has the courage of his predictions.
As he is the president of the Bald
win Locomotive Works of Philadelphia,
the largest plant of this kind in the world,
according to his statement, and as he Is
well known in big business" the predic-
tions uttered on his Goth birthday and just
The other day are likely to receive re-
spectful attention. Particularly as they
are rose colored.
"There is no reason for this country to
worry about anything. 1t is vastly rich
and growing richer every day. 1t is adj
their business. 1t has and deserves to have
the confidence Of the world. and confidence
is everything in its own and its world
affairs.
AT this moment. this May day, when
the Baldwin Locomotive Works is doing
nothing and other big plants are similarly
.dle or working on half time, see nothing
to worry about i predict an era of great
prosperity for the country beginning next
November or December. Then everything
will start up with rush Then every
thing will 20 booming, and what will be
necessary will be to keep our heads so as
not to be spoiled by prosperity. Then the
difficulty will be that industrial plants will
be bidding against one another for ma
teral and for labor, then capital and labor
will, like the Biblical lion and lamb. lie
down together; then the safety valve will
have to be put on overproduction.
"This splendid period, the dawn of which
see, will equal If 1t shall not exceed the
busy days for certain manufacturers when
the country went into the war. Some OF
the i'll effects of high prices and high
wages which prevailed then. was natu-
raj and against which there could be taken
no precautions, will have to be guarded
against. but they will be. We have learned
q Lesson recently, too recently to forget Ii.
and besides there will be no excuse for
not practising 1t.
confidence in each other confidence in
other nations. other peoples, that is the
magic which Is to renew us and the world"
"Why. you are an optimist with a 100
point O." said the surprised and delighted
listener to the words of this sober and
strong minded prophet who gravely ac-
cepted the description as one suited to his
frame of mind. Mr.. Vaucain then passed
from generaities TO particulars, basing his
answers to certain questions that are now
interesting the public on his own business
experience.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
He Credits the Colleges
With Doing Invaluable Work

Perhaps it was to be supposed that such
q superman or supermechanic would have
but little sympathy in the discussion now
so general over the worth of the colleges
i'm fitting boys for success in life. The
contrary is true. for he holds the faith that
colleges. when they rightly develop indi-
viduals along their personal lines, are doing
an immensely valuable work.
'I had myself planned a college course"
said he, but at the time / was about to
embark on 1t / received a promotion in
the shop in Altoona, where 1 was working.
Knowing that | would have to work very
hard to pay my way through college, be-
sides interrupting what looked like prom
isng beginning, / decided against college
for myself and determined to keep at
work and educate myself privately as we'll
as | might / took my decision to my
mother, who was always my adviser. She
heard my arguments in favor of the shop
and agreed with me. Her opinion always
settled things for me, and / have not re-
gretted that early decision.
Coming back to the point how to deter
mine what men to employ. I will tell you
my secret 1t is to find out what kind of
a mother "A hoy has. ! pay no attention to
the father-he may he 'Souse' or incom-
petent In business, poor provider.'
ne'er-do-well. | take no account of this.
The father doesn't matter.
"But If find that the mother of the boy
who is asking for n job here is careful,
prudent. far-seeing woman; If | find that
she keens her house and her children
clean, feeding them properly and doing 1t
all on 50 or so week. then that boy gets
Il chance here every time. It's a simple
rule. but II has worked admirably all these
years. | find out about the mother and let
the father slide"
As Mr. Nauclain seemed so earnest in
the expression of his secret" II was in
teresting to find out by asking II he really
thought that man child taking all his traits
of character, or his best traits, from the
dlstaff side was universal law. He
didn't hedge little bit but stoutly de-
clared that In n long business life he had
found no exceptions
when women are not shiftess or In
competent" said he. "they deal In funda-
mentals and they have minds equal to the
emergency of the moment My own mother
was of this sort. Once when moving into
n new home in bad weather when stove
had to be put up and got to work right
away the men who were moving us said
they couldn't do the job because the stove
The New York herald., 1921-05-29

Also: rich country that. rich IN an kinds
of products, but richest in its intelligent
population We sell them locomotives and
take our pay in oil TO the question some
times raised about the ability Of these
peoples to govern themselves answer,
from study Of them, that they are emf
nenty fitted t. do 50.
with the Poles. with the Rumanians,
with every people and civilized race Il Is
simple to deal II you deal simply and
honestly That Ia my judgment, is the
way to live this life. Let yourself 70. give
credit 10 others for decent feeling and fair
dealing II Is the way IL live at home. too.
The man who confides Ia the truth that
human nature Is not base VIII find that
most persons have good in them AMI
speaking. Of course Of business dealing
hut | might safely extend It to any inter
course. For the man who doubts and goes
about cynically expecting ~ be done has
fair chance Of meeting with this kind ~
treatment. We yet what we invite.
People come IN here and offer 50 much
bonus &c. for every day we can save ON
deliveries II would be an easy matter %
accept this and find nm excuse IL We failed
but we don't do business that way. There
are factors that must be considered IN
every delivery date set, materials 10 be
found labor 10 be hired, an sorts Of things
not always subject to control enter into
the problem Bui to promise delivery
date here means that in human probabil.
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have made mistake you can never cor
rect it. Demoting a man kills him, takes
the heart out of him. He can never get
over it and the wisest thing is to let him
CO.
Mr.. vaucain is Philadelphia product.
He was born in Port Richmond, suburb
of the city, 65 years ago. He has passed
his life in two Pennsylvania cities, Phila-
delphia and Altoona. To the latter place
he was taken when child and there he
received IA public school education. While
i'm the railway shops he later developed
his mechanical ability, an endowment of
birth.
The look of this big man indicates
strength of body and of mind and his
hands seem capable of doing anything a
machine could. Grave in manner and
somewhat formal of speech, enthusiastic
apparently on but two subjects-the
future growing greatness of his country
and the locomotive, describing the latter
device as having conferred on humanity
its greatest mechanical benefit is con-
clusion to be drawn from these indica-
tions that he Is what he would care most
to be, supermechanic A simple remark
of his, made without boasting, but in sup
port of his theory that business prosperity
is rooted in the mutual confidence of en-
ployer and employed. helps to confirm this
impression, which was borne out in other
ways This remark was Every man here
knows that the commander in chief is able
to do that particular mans piece of work"
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nomic law. ana by their association They
give enormous Importance to the common
moralties and the regard for the other
fellows rights that are the life of them
All, the sap that feeds the roots and keeps
the national tree alive and healthy.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Noted Business Man and Locomotive Builder Breathes Optimism
About the Future Striking Interview That Started Over Edisons
QUESTIONABLE for College Men and Merged Into aBrlantSum

is opinion
wv Of the
- primary purpose the
YORK HERALD Magazine Section
Vauclan the discussed Edison
college
disposed of quickly and his renchant Mr. aun passed
he future of he n particular.
presented
politics. leading
embracing
ethical
value
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Believes in Letting the Boy
Follow His Natural Trend

at does not follow that men who have
taken the degree of civil engineer, eectri-
cal or mechanical engineer should know
these things intutively. or If they don't
that books or college will teach them. Men
will doubtless be improved by study in col
leges, but when they come out with their
'sheepskins' they will be as individuals
fundamentally, / mean-just what they
were when they went IN. l come back to
the great truth as [ recognize it; all de
pends on what the mother was.
I'm our business, you see, you have tc
know things on the instant to meet an
emergency, and you can't get the kind Of
thing / mean out of books. / believe in
the value of the dissemina ton of general
knowledge. and this is to be had in the
colleges. But their best results come from
training the young man in the way nature
intended him to develop. Fond parents
therefore make a grave error in trying to
make a lawyer or a doctor out of a boy
who ought to be an engineer, and they
make as big n mistake when they aspire
to create an engineer out of n boy who is
always at the foot of his class In mathe-
matics.
him a great man or an ordinary citizen.
What were the beginnings of the so-called
big men of New York? Three-fourths of
them went to the city first in their bare
feet.
ITO be useful in life, I told the embryo
engineers Of Lehgh. you must be careful
whom you rub up against. for nothing i
more certain than that you'll always rub
something off. The mothers always are able
to tell where the boys have been. When
was counting ] did 1t surreptitiousy, but
my mother knew. One day she asked me
where the -four came from that made a
kind Of gray on my shoulder | pretended
to he surprised. but she told me right away
that I had taken to seeing my best girl
II was true, and I tell ii to imply how
sharp are a mothers eyes where her sons
are concerned.
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TDISONS questionnaire is not worth any
consideration whatever. i try to hnd
out what sort of mother the applicant
has; the father doesn't count.
Confidence, with another, nation
with nation, that is what the world needs
This country would do well to learn that
there other people good as-and some
of them better than-we are.
The United States has nothing to worry
about, neither in it's present nor in its future,
nor in the persons who control the Govern
ment.
The way to resume business is to resume
work. Everybody go to work. If we don't
put FIRE in the box the engine will stand still.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
WORLDS GREATEST NEED"
Magical Renewal From Faith Coming SaysS Nj .Vauclain

study o characteristic of the slnih
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pipe was too long. My mother took
hatchet and cut off section of the pipe
without arguing with them. There had to
be fire and the edge of the hatchet could
be sharpened again. The recollection of
that little incident has always remained
with me and confirmed my judgment of
men,"
Fundamentals and confidence" are
words Mr.. Vauclain uses frequently in dis
cussing anything; they bulk large in his
philosophy which is of this world without
any mystic element and for every day. In
talk which he was invited to give before
the graduating students of the engineer
ing classes of Lehigh University he built
his advice around them. Trusting i'm
plictly to the force bestowed by "A know
tions Of these students:
How many cents are there in a dollar?
How many feet are there in mile?
How many square feet are there in an
acre?
Il put these questions in order to en-
force upon men going out as engineers
the necessity of knowing the basis of
their job said he. II doubt if one man
in thousand can tell how many feet are
in mile or in an acre, but these funda-
mentals are vital to the success of engi-
neering students as well as to any young
mechanic sense of finance distance
and surface measurements cannot be
gained from tables in books; it is necessary
to get that sense by using what senses
nature endows us with.
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The Washington times., 1921-03-01
TRIALS
0FPROF|TEERS
Supreme Court Rules Lever Aci
InvaIid--Prosecutions
Wiped Oft Dockets.

Prosecutions Ter profiteerina
pending in courts all over the covn-
try will be stopped, - result Of
ths Supreme Courts dAcixion Mold
ing the LeSer lsw Unconstitutional.
Attorney General Pslmsr in con-
ference with his associates, today
arranged as one Of the final acts Of
his administration to direct Federal
district attorneys to drop the hun
dreds of cases in which appeals have
been taken by litigants.
PROBES WILL END.
Orders will be sent also to bring an
end to Investigations which have been
under way among q number of cor
porate enterprises, with a view to
prosecution in the event the Lever
law had been upheld.
Attorney General Palmer today
awaited a certified copy OF the Su-
preme Courts decision before issuing
q statement upon its far-reaching ef-
feet and outlining in detail the groups
OF cases which will be wiped OH the
calendar.
Indictments brought against indi-
viduals in the clothing, sugar, pack
ing and coal industries chiefly, and
against smaller dealers throughout
the United States, who resisted the
actions of the Department of Justice
and noted appeals to higher courts
are to be cancelled.
officials at the Department-o Jus
tice today declared that q careful
study of the dockets would be neccs-
sary to determine the number OF
cases affected by the decision. Off-
cials recalled that in many of the
prosecutions started by the depart
ment many offending individuals and
concerns were charged both with vio-
lating the Lever law and the Sher-
man antitrust law. The status OF
such cases can only be known after a
close examination of the records, off,
cials said.
PACKERS CASES AFFECTED.
Among the more conspicuous cases
brought by the Government under the
Lever law were those against the
American Sugar and Refining Com
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The Washington times., 1921-03-01
CHAMP CLARKL0W,
DOCTOR LOSES HOPE
Spent Bad Night and Is In Com
atose condition-Death
Due Any Time. u

Little hope for the recovery of
Champ Clark, veteran Democratic
leader, who is critically i'll in his
apartment at the Congress Hall Hotel,
was held today by his physician, DR..
Jesse Shoup.
"Mr. Clark may live the day out
and he may live tomorrow" said DR..
Shoup, after he had made a thorough
examination Of the former Speaker OF
the House. although he is in q
comatose condition. he recovered con-
sciousnes for brief intervals this
morning" ,..a
Mr.. Clark spent "a very bad night"
IL was announced at the, hotel. Late
yesterday he suffered sinking spell
and although for a time II appeared
that he was rallying, his condition
gradually grew worse during the
night. Colleagues OF the veteran ex-
pressed the fear that the end may
come at any time.
The Washington times., 1921-03-01
STRONG ARMY
VITAL
1 BAKER
u, s. Must Have Military Ma.
chine Capable of Rapid Exten-
sion, Says War Secretary.
BY HARRY L. ROGERS,
International News Service.

tCopyrfght, l9zl.)
Newton d. Baker, who as Secre-
tary of war during the recent world
conflict commanded the greatest
army ever raised In America, be-
lieves there is no answer to the
much-mooted question. Who won
the war;" ...,
Speaking on that subject today in
an interview which covered many
phases of his work as head OF the
War Department, the Secretary
said:
at is perfectly idle to talk about
who won the war. Many nations
bent their united efforts to accom-
plish it, but Ammerica's effort is
one in which all Americans can take
PRIDE"
u. s. STIMULATES ALLIES.
The entrance of America into the
war. the Secretary said, stimulated
the morale of our allies. who were
worn and weary with years of con-
tinuous fighting; 1t sustained the
financial situation, and the ideals OF
America were powerful in breaking
the morale of the enemy.
In addition to this" he continued.
"the actual military operations con-
Quoted by the American army were
on scale far beyond the worst fears
OF our enemies and far above the
highest hopes OF our friends, and in
the final battles from July. 1918, to
the end. the American army fought
it's way with brilliant success and
tributed equally with the other
armies to the military victory"
Although Secretary Baker has
never advocated a huge standing
army in peace time. the experiences
of. the world war have convinced him
of the fallacy of the implication con-
tained in the assertion that America
can spring into arms overnight He
has great faith in the courage. eff
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That the District Commissioners op-
pose censorship or a board OF censors
has been established as a certainty. IT
also appears equally certain that the
Commi ssioners intend to formulate
further regulations with regard to
movies.
No move has been made to date to
formulate any regulations and II Is
not believed any steps will be taken
until after March 4. After this date
IL will be definitely known who will
be members of the District Commits
sion.
WANT WIDE POWERS.
Any regulations that may be for
mu,ated and adopted by the District
Commissioners will not be drastic.
They will, however, give the Commits
sioners very wide powers with regard
10 the eiimination of certain scenes.
The question Of the phraseology OF
the new. regulation Is the. most DIFF
f,cult problem confronting the Com
missioners After the Commissioners
have decided among themselves what
scenes should be eliminated, Frank II.
stephens, District Corporation Coun-
sci, will be asked to draw tsntstive
regulations. A.
The Commissioners will ind II most
diffcult In setting hard and fast
rules which will give them power to
eliminate f,lms with plots they con-
slider objectionable. This difficulty
probably will delay any new regula-
tions for several months.
II. was understood today that the
Commissioners are In favor Of rem
The Washington times., 1921-03-01
BARUCH AND RYAN ARE
CLEARED BY WILSON

President Wilson today came to the
defense OF Bernard NJ. Baruch and
John ID. Ryan. against whom charges
have been made In the House of
Representatives that while serving
the Government they made large
profits from copper transactions dur
ing the war.
to Representative II. J. Garrett. OF
Tennessee, stating that the charges
which were made against the two men
have been enthusiastically answered"
but in view of the fact that "irrespon-
sible gossip" stiil continues. he de-
sIres TO say that neither Baruch nor
Ryan had anything to do with the
hxIng OF the price Of copper during
the var.
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edying partially the present condi-
tions they object to by conferences
with the movie men. This probably
will be done. However, there will be
regulations, .
GRIFFITH At HEARING.
In the name of liberty and free
speech, David Ward Griffith. pro-
ducer of way Down East" Birth
OF a Nation" and other famous
photoplays, yesterday asked the Dis
trict Commissioners not to attempt
censor OF motion pictures, declar-
Ing II a step toward the ruinaticn
of the industry and a furtherance of
the unrest In the country.
Griffith was one of many who
crowded the board room of. the Dis
trict Building and made vigorous
protest to proposed regulations for
moving pictures. His speech voiced
the sentiments of District movie
exhibitors and of the movie world
at large.
1T is a most dangerous step you
PROPOSE" Griffith said TT requires
most, careful consideration. II was
censorship that kept Germany an
autocratic country for SO many
years. " was censorship that held
the Russian people In ignorance. and
II was censorship that caused the
bloodshed of the recent war
Censorship is n step toward un-
rest. II you begin oensorins movies.
there is no telling what will follow.
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The Washington times., 1921-03-01
NIGHT Of Terror IN
k;SN|PERS BUSY
Kings Troops Attacked, Rout
Out Residents-Masked Men
Kill Railway Worker.

DUBLIN, March with feeling
running high over the execution OF
six youthful Sim Feiners yesterday
morning, the city of Cork spent a
night of terror. with the sound OF
bombs and sniping rolling through the
streets
Charles DAILY. a railway employe
was taken from his office at Cork this
morning and shot to death In rail-
way tunnel. The killing was done by
three men, all masked and heavily
armed.
The shooting and bombing at Cork
broke out In the burned area of the
city Mt o'clock, A number OF
youths suddenly drew revolvers and
began Hrine point blank upon Brit
ish soldiers, who we're on duty there
Heavy forces OF troops were rush
cd to the scene and a house, to -houss
search was begun. Residents of ths
houses ned In terror and took refuge
wherever they could md ~. AL
lights In shops were turned out earl,
In the evening. f
The Washington times., 1921-03-01
MUST SUBMIT FACTS
!. OR FACE CONTEMPT
CHARGES, IS REPORT. I:

The Senate Judiciary Committee today decided to make
it mandatory" upon Secretary Of the Treasury David
S. Houston to produce all official documents and othel
papers bearing upon foreign loans.
motion offered by Senator Reed, Democrat OF
Missouri directing instead of requesting" the Secre
tary produce the papers in question: adopted unan
mously by the committee in executive session.
COLBY HAS RECORDS.
The committee action resulted from that of Secretary
Houston turning the papers to Secretary OF Sta
Colby to determine whether it would be Incompatible with
the public interest to make them public
In response to request from the committee for the
papers, Houston had previously promised to furnish the
committee with them.
PAPERS NOW "DENANDED."
Under the motion adopted by the committee today,
Houston is longer requested" to produce the papers,
but Is required" to do S ~ .gkests sa. So
If Re refnses to comply with .mandate, Of
ttce of Congress- explained lie could be adjudged
in contempt and could be hailed before the thar Of the
Senate in contempt proceedings. fsS
The Washington times., 1921-03-01
'PlAN T0CURB
ELECTION COST
Senate Probers See Danger
Signal in Ten Millions Spent
BY Two Big Parties.
BY J. BART CAMPBELL,
InteruatiSnal News Service.

The two great political parties
Republican and Democratic-spen'
in the Presidential campaign OF
1920 "a sum In excess of ten and 9
quarter million dollars" II was
stated in a report submitted to the
Senate today by Senator William g.
Kenyon, Republican. Of Iowa. as
chairman Of the Senate COMMITTEES
which investigated last years cam
paign receipts and expenditures.
G. o. r. SPENT OVER s MILLIONS
The amount was specineA rs $40.
s3s, sos. o., and was divided as follows
Republican party. $500. 1921; Demo
cratic party, ,2.23L77o.7L
These figures do not by any means
represent the entire amount of money
expended in the campaign" 1t wal
stated in Senator Kenyon's report
"The funds collected, Of course. were
not used exclusively in the Presiden-
tial campaign. They we're used like
wise In the election OF Senators and
Congressmen and State officials"
lue ~ NAAS AsSbe1
lican national committee from the
time of the Chicago convention until
the close Of the campaign were given
as totaiing S6,319, ,729-32: those of the
Democratic national committee
a ,3I6, ,274.O2. n AZ
The Republican Congressional COM
mittee was credtted with An expendt-
ture of s375,9S9Os; ffhe Democratic
Congressional commfttee, 324, 4BS.0S:
the Republican Senatorial committee.
$326,os0.29: the Democratic Senatorial
committee, $8,675.
LOANS REPAID IN FULL.
1t was stated there was also a loan
Of $3O6, 233.b0 to the Republican Con-
gressional committee, a major portion
of which was paid back; and another
10 the Republican Senatorial commit
tee, which was repaid in full.
The fifteen men who In the pre-
convention campaign were the. prin-
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