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from their homes to the schools English
language teachers trained foreign workers.
over I 900 houses were erected In one com
munity alone and rented for Ia per cent.
Of the cost Of construction. Many attractive
school buildings were built Innumerable
clubs. lunch rooms churches Fairgrounds
swimming pools drinking fountains. water
piping systems and emergency stations were
provided, and the company regularly en-
ploys hundreds Of doctors nurses safety
inspectors &c. and $4,000 employees have
received instruction i'm first aid. For all
these purposes and for relief for injured
workmen and families pension funds, and
cost of employees stock subscription plan
the company has expended over s7l 600 600
a million dollars annually is spent on safety
devices alone. Many thousands Of acres
have been given over for gardening pur-
poses rent free and prizes offered, mostly
10 the children who do such work
Tables are given showing that accidental
deaths per million tons produced are much
loss than In England, Scotland or Wales
or than the average i'm this country And
the number Of tons OF coal produced per
death by the company is more than double
tho production in the countries named, or In
the United states as a whole
The investors viewpoint Is dealt with,
showing that 5000 900 900 has been expended
out of earnings on new pants ct lHpIoNt-
ments sum equal to a moderate estimate
Of the original properties at organization
the equivalent Of sl59 on every share Of
common stock Nor does this include $lOS.-
600 600 spent for war material plants and
written off In addition 100000, 900 has been
appropriated for depreciation, sinking funds
and repairs. making total charges paid out
Of earnings OF practically a billion and
half Taking Judge Gary's estimate Of pres
ent value. s2,2o0.0 900 900. every share Of steel
common has back of II about $3.50 In assets
lin Helping Uncle Sam to Win the War
we have another amazing exhibit The cor
poration did not go into the manufacture Of
munitions directly. But II furnished six
million tons Of steel for war purposes TO the
Allies before America entered; and expended
from the beginning Of tho war, In 1914, for
all war purposes more than 5000 900.
The corporation shipped more tnan 1S,Oo0,-
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countries combined while in 1917 the United
States produced two-thirds OF the world out
put. a total OF $4,000, 900 tons compared
with 10000, 900 tons only twenty years ago.
While the United States Steel Corporation
produced nearly per cent. of Americas
output when first organized its live and let
live policy has since enabled the combined
independent output to total over so per cent.
OF the whole.
When the corporation was organized with
a billion and a half capitalization IL con-
tanned n considerable amount of good will
and water. But the enormous earning
capacity and wise management produced
such colossal earnings that all water has
long since been squeezed out and replaced
by nine hundred millions spent on new CON
structlon. plants and properties or total
increase in capacity in basic lines OF 1856 per
cent Judge Gary testified before the Senate
Committee in Washington In 1918 that the
company's properties were then worth
$4,000. 600, and could not be replaced for
that sum The corporation now makes the
marvellous showing of having in nineteen
years duplicated the original plant existing
at organization and more, so we have to-day
a steel corporation consisting Of plants and
properties two and third times the size
and capacity Of those It started with! And
It has in addition reduced it's capitalization
and its fixed charges by some millions
Consumers have benefited by steadily de
creaslng prices for steel products And
labor, which received $1,000 900 In 1902
received last year the vast sum of $3.50. .000.-
OOO The annual wage per man was $9O5
in 1914. and In 1920 was s2.173, the highest
on record. The company has always In
creased and never decreased wages. and
since 1901 the average workers wage has
increased 237 per cent.
Put n tho cha nter CuIIod tIur,arg.fo. -,
dustry we have such record of achieve
ment for the workmen as should be spread
before the world In 1906 began a campaign
in safety, sanitation and welfare Com
munity work was established. including all
forms of athletics. libraries and hospitals
ono hospital alone cost million. some
schools even in small communities cost
hundreds OF thousands. Free motor trans
portation was provided for school children
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keeps the readers attention clnched upon
the tale and It's meaning
Ir the same measure that the title or the
finds Ii recital III political conditions as
they exist In scores of American cities
sufficiently large in territory and popula-
tion 10 be- called cities. II Is a story Of the
WAYS or political organizations and leaders,
The hidden wires are laid bare and the
pull is disclosed
Amateur and professional boxing are
brought In and described with the accuracy
OF one who thoroughly understands the game
and who speaks intelligihly 70 both the
average man and the expert
The characters are self deineated in
touches and conversations that spur the
mind to pleasant activity The author
pays a real compliment TO his readers in
Cffsring them pregnant conversations instead
~ wordy descriptions
a spirit OF romance pervadcs the book
ard lends proper charm to the story
CaoaEon But above all, a character Il
created that VIII live because sound and
manly and deserving 70 live one sees the
development III body. mind and heart Of the
Young man that meets obstacles. face front,
with courage. directness and truthfuness.
Cadagon IS always true As the magnetic
needle 70 the invisible draw Of fair play.
The book Is 4 tonic After YOU read II you
viii have q better feeling for humanity,
and will enjoy looking about for The
Little Back Room and the Cadagon-or
near Cada agons'-of your own town
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fice had to make a deal with German cap'-
talists for the development OF "the Happy
valley" a rich tract of East Africa In the
stumbled while British official II ~
German territory apparently, but Sir Harry
seems to feel that II might have been con
verted To the British flag. but for the scan
dial over Mrs. Baines's failure to be killed
with her husband and the intrigues Of q
vce-consul's adventures wife To boost hers
cver the head of tho diseoverer
The picture Of the German colony Is most
pleasing: the officials are humane ami
sympathetic. There is an ogre, Stolen
berg. who Is known to the natives as the
Great Terror" but Providence itself takes
him In hand with the aid Of volcano, and
then Sir Willoughby Patterne acquires the
title of the Little Terror so honors In
cruelty are easy For years the British
manager Srentham and his German col
leagues get along together in idylic fashion
and the natives are made happy. OF course,
the stupid Imperial Government finally
blunders In. but that would take us into too
much detail.
How In the end the great war prngs
about Sir Harry's ideal and Brentham's
utmost hope must he CLEANED from the
book The effort win repay There Is
iourncying. love making adventuring Of all
sorts II is all amusing and all instruc.
tive--queer combination of history. guide
book and problem novel, a book of a kind
CT It's own, not at all like other books.
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to indicate that about as honest an effort
Is being made as men equal to in this
stage of their development. The one pur-
pose appears to be to secure simultaneously
justice to employer and employee and
interrupted production Of the things the
public needs. Here is instance of the
workers side. one legged railroad en-
ployee-he was tender of a turntable-"tes-
titled that he worked seven days a week
and when he came home at night he would
help his wife do the washing which they
solicited in order to keep starvation away.
Upon close questioning he told some other
startling facts. 1t was not unusual, he said
for him to take home large part Of his room
day lunch that his wife put up for him. and
to put II back surreptitiously with the other
food at night so that the children might
have enough. And then he would start in
at nightfal and help get out washing"
His wages were raised 80 per cent. The
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Story Of the steel industry gorfes national genius

900 tons of steel 2s,OOO, 900 gallons OF benzol,
21,000000 pounds OF ammonia sulphate,
erected plants to produce many millions of
shells and built many ships. II gave leave
to more than two hundred of it's officials
and its service flag contained 34407 stars
At the end OF the war it's treasury held
s97 900. 900 of bonds OF the first four loans
carried s24000000 for account OF Its en-
ployees, it's allotment Of the Victory loan
was $4,000, 900 and II purchased 1852, ,000,
600 OF United States Treasury certificates
II subscribed more than $1,000 900 to Red
Cross and other funds and declared a spe-
cial dividend of s5,O0O.O00 for aiding stock
holders TO contribute 10 the Red Cross
Mr.. Cotter deals with the acquisition Of
Tennessee Coal and Iron, with the Govern
ment's suit finally giving clean bill Of
health and with the world markets deye-
oped. with thirty foreign offices and 1876
distributors located in thirty-four foreign
countries. Incidentally. the corporation
owns railroad system which would stretch
from coast TO coast and numerous fleets Of
ocean steamers
only the perspective Of future generations
will adequately measure this achievement.
II would truly seem that the genius Of
America has gone into the industrial field
the genius Of Italy howered In the
glorious art Of the Renaissance 70 lift Eu-
rope out of the gloom Of the dark ages.
Each Of these movements set new current
Of ideas flowing. like the Gulf Stream. TO
nourish and enrich tho shores of humanity.
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AMERICAN FOOTPRINTS IN PARIS. Com
piled by Francois Boucher. Translated. re-
vised and edited by Frances Wilson Huard
George H. Doran Company.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Reviewed by WADE CHANCE.

TIME tabled lamp of Aladdin surely
a modest rush light compared with
the glow of a Bessemer converter at
Pittsburgh" small sized vesuvius in ac-
tlon, a volcano tanned and chained by man."
as the author calls It, And all the tales of
Monte Cristo and Kublai Khan the wealth
of all the Cars and Caesars pale beside this
story of modern necromancy In steel Mr.
Cotter has painted on a huge canvas in a
mastery manner the greatest material
achievement Of man And that mighty
structure could easily have become ma
tional Frankenstein Of sinister power had
the industrial giants who we're it's archi-
tects been men of different temper
Engrossing as fiction, with many dra-
matte chapters. the book deals with the
birth of the company its early history and
growth its colossal achievements, and with
the personalities of the men who made It a
reality Every one OF them seemed to appear
al the precise moment when such a man
Indispensable and lacking any Of them
the complete chain might never have been
forged. Carnegie, the pioneer, built up an
infant industry to maturity: Gary first con-
ceived a nationwide expansion into It's pres
ent form, and Morgan alone could knit the
new structure together. since he commanded
the confidence of all. When the country
needed steel Carnegie made IT, when rival
ries threatened the industry Morgan and
Gary saved Il from disaster and provided
fair share OF business for ALL and when
world expansion became inevitable. last
came Farrell TO establish its products in
every cline and continent from Iceland to
Patagonia from China to Australia.
This is truly the age Of steel. In 1867
Great Britain supplied the worlds steel In
1900 the steel production of this country
equalled that Of Great Britain and Germany.
In 1918 we produced more than these two
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BY Sir Harry Johnston. The Macmillan
Company.
q CIR HARRY JOHNSTON is becoming
hardy annual in the gardens of fic
ton. In his latest romance" he
abandons the style, of which he is inventor,
of writing not exactly sequels but corol-
laries to famous books by other authors;
instead he launches out ION his own" The
result is not very different. The new book
is of piece with The Gay -Dombeys" and
Mrs. Warrens Daughter" Only Sir Harry
himself shows some signs of strain. His
pictures are trifle less vivid, his charac-
ters are not quite so full of animal spirits
his temper is worse-much worse. What
was grim irony in the exposure of F. o.
and c. o. abuses and injustices has degen-
Grated into something like queruous
potation of individual grievances
Perhaps the worst outcome of the dis
tingushed authors need for rest and ton
ing up is a tendency to personal attack
which, at least in one instance, passes the
bounds of literary decorum. Under a name
which does not even thinly veil the identity
of woman still living. whose beauty and
brilliancy have long held a charm for two
continents, there is an exudation of ultra
Juvenalian satire for which there can be
justification on the ground of public
cessity and excuse in the amenities of
civilized life The advance of years is un-
feelingly abused; there are sneers at toilet
ntimacies But let us not dwell the mat
ter; the mistake will carry it's own punish
ment with all readers of good nature and
correct feeling
Sir Harry tells. of course, a lively story;
he is born story teller and cannot help ii.
He has lively group of puppets. too, and
he pulls the strings deftly. 1t is true his
hero, Roger Brentham. is Eugene Morven
all over again--that is to say. Sir Harry
himself. we imagine-but the heroine Lucy
Josling- -Baines- Brentham; her missionary
first husband, Sibyl Lady Chichester and
sundry minor characters, are brand new and
all interesting, vivid types The scene varies
from the South of England to East Africa
and back again with almost the facility of
a moving picture film. Wherever ii may lie,
it is rich in natural color and almost weari-
somely mosaicked with natural detail
The man, Brentham, actually did the
right thing on more than one occasion and
in more than one field though he often
said the wrong one with unnecessary tact
lessness. The author seems to think there
should be no penalty in life for rudeness to
superiors and rejection of kindly ap.
proaches But, on the whole. in spite OF
himself, Brentham prospered 1t paid to
do the right thing, and his active career
proved to be one of progressive personal
good fortune-only not just along the line
he would have preferred.
For Brentham when he queered himself
at the Foreign Office and the Colonial Of
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brotherhoods had done nothing for him or
for a large class of similar railroad en-
ployees. The case is complicated by the
existence of the Federal Wage Board. which
however has since given ruling not far
from the Kansas one. Another case:
The Kansas miners sometimes have 10
have money between the semi monthly pay
days. They borrow money from the com
panies. out of wages already due them. The
average period for these loans Is one week
For this service which is quite generally
utilized the companies have charged 10 per
cent. or at the rate of $40 per cent year.
The union officials had never tried to do
away with this gouge. The Industrial Court
wiped il out in eighteen minutes without
formal trial
AT Goodland. the home Of some Of the
Rock Island shops. there are car sheds that
had stood thirteen years without being en-
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Englandin Africa

THE MAN WHO DID THE RIGHT THING
BY Sir Harry Johnston. The Macmillan
Company
CIR HARRY JOHNSTON is becoming a
hardy annual in the gardens of fic-
~ ton. In his latest romance" he
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Reviewed by ROBERT J. COLE.

r ANSAS is one of the greatest
~ pertinent stations on earth There
the whole nation watched the prog
ress of local over slavery and some of
the results of that observation were seen in
the greater war of '61-'65.
In Kansas prohibition and woman suffrage
had preliminary tryouts Along with these
measures now adopted by the nation a crop
Of small expedients have been worked awhile
and discarded.
Kansas is In earnest but she has a sense
Of humor. She will tolerate a certain amount
of experimental foolishness. Then Bill
White snaps out in the Emporia Gazette his
immortal question, What's the matter with
Kansas" And the State laughs and throws
overheard a few tons of junk
Whatever is good bad there comes OUT
like judgment day indictment. 1t must.
For the great product of the centre State
of the union is newspapers. She believes
in EN-, she looks TO EN-, swears by and at
en-. few years ago she elected one of her
chief newspaper owners Governor and To
polka picked the same papers column con
ductor for mayor. He good one. too.
WIN New York ever have sense enough TO
put F, II. A., c. NJ or D. M in the City Hall?
It's doubtful
Well, here comes Gov. Allen with a simple
story of the Industrial Relations Court.
What is it? Nothing but a strike against
strikes by 'the party of the third part.
otherwise known the ultimate consumer,
the man in the street the public Says the
author:
Government recognized the factor Of
economic leverage in one form when it en-
acted antitrust laws and similar measures
10 curb the power of raw capitalistic organ
ization. More than score Of years ago
the battle of human rights against economic
pressure suddenly took the form of drive
against the newly erected bulwarks of trusts
and mergers. 1t has recently begun TO dawn
on the people that economic pressure may
also come from the direction of labor, in
spite Of the fact that labor is invested with
a justifiable sentimental value that never
can attach to capital. The Kansas court
proposes to relieve the pressure from both
directions.
When Government stepped in and began
10 regulate capital. the capitalists protested
that their liberty was being restricted The
same protest is heard when Government
proposes to regulate industrial disputes
Labor leaders protest their liberty is being
restricted Both elements must come 10
recognize the eternal fact that liberty is only
a relative term. The liberty exercised by one
man may constitute his tyranny over an
other man. No man lveth to himself The
only perfect liberty is found on a desert
island As men become more civilized they
find it necessary to surrender part Of their
liberties in exchange for the advantage OF
complex relationships"
The book Is argument, supported by facts,
illustrations drawn from a years working
of the law. And the examples offered seem
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Light
BY E. c. n. de FESTETIcS.

Like molten fire the dawn wells up
And fills the earth as a green jade cup.
Then overfowing in gold dew bright,
1t showers the earth with quivering
light.
The cool, dark night now flows away
For earth is a cup brim filed with day.
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Uncle Sans Paris

AMERICAN FOOTPRINTS IN PARIS. Com
piled by Francois Boucher. Translated. re-
vised and edited by Frances Wilson Huard.
George H. Doran Company.
this time when favorite indoor
II sport Of American and European
alike is the location of common in
te-ests and points of contact between the
old world and the new, this guide book Of
historical data pertaining TO Americans in
The French capital from the earliest days
10 the present times" is particularly apro-
pos. The book, a compact volume Of less
tnan two hundred pages, devotes three
fourths Of its contents to Paris and the sub
urbs The streets of Paris are considered
in alphabetical order beginning with Ameot
(Rue) where John Howard Payne resided
about the year 1922 through Vosges (Place
des), where at No. 6 Musee Victor Hugo is
located and where among the many souve-
rirs Of Hugo is to be found a drawing OF
his inspired by the John Brown episode, and
ending-approprately enough-with Wash
ington (Rue), 50 named in 1879
In addition to Paris, Versailles and sub
urbs of Paris. space is given to american
Consuls at Paris" American Writers in
Paris" (rather a misnomer, as the list in
cludes as well a pianist numerous artists,
sculptors). Charitable America in Paris"
and Table Of References"
The book is well written. readable. inter-
est.ng and will appeal to Americans. both
to those who wish 10 use il as an actual
guidebook and to others who prefer to have
Paris brought to them.
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Upstate fiction
THE LITTLE BACK ROOM BY E. $.
Chamberayne. Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany
Reviewed BY THOMAS F. FANNELL,
First Deputy Attorney General of New
York Stare.

STRANGER standing in the Sistine
a Chapel at Rome. transfxed by the
awful splendor Of The Last Judg
ment' by Michael Angelo, Observed
How magnifcently Angelo shielded the
mechanics Of his art"
This recognition Of one OF Angeles great
est qualities may seem inapropos a pref
ace to criticism of a novel dealing with
the ways and means Of politics and polit
clans in an American city, but II aptly
describes one Of the authors most engaging
qualities. F. 5. Chamberlayne covers up his
art very, very adroitly.
The reader Of The Little Back Room"
will find his attention fixed upon the narra-
tive and not deviating now and then 10 the
authors art or psychology. Like the
stranger in the Sistine he finds himself
forced to make the same observation. The
development Of their characters, their intro
duction into the story. the part they play
after introduction. suggests the natural and
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UNITED STATES STEEL: CORPORA
Doubleday, Page & Co
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THE PARTY OF THE THIRD PART. B!
Henry j. Allen, Governor Of the State o
Kansas. Harper G. Brothers
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-28

reading a history of the Presbytery OF
indianapolis, compiled by DR.. Green, and
saw that during the Civil War rarely
man or boy old enough to serve in the
Union armies remained at home. This
ideal this church has held consistently
through these three score and ten years"
Att the vesper services DR.. Kistler en-
phasized the fact that even the disciples
of Christ had no privileges for which He
did not demand an answering manifesto
ton in their own lives.
Character of a church is recognizable
only when that character expresses itself
in the rarely human terms Of human life
in all Of its relationships" ne said. ITO
be worthy to serve best and then to live
the unselfsh, Christly life daily is the
ideal of this church. This has been a day
Of vision for us, but below in the valley,
always remains the worlds Woe"
A special musical program was one Of
the features of the program at the vesper
services.