The Washington herald., 1922-11-25
FINANCE
- AND
|RUSINESS
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] would like to suggest .
pubS,a debate between Judge
Gary an John d. Rockefeller,
Y, on -, the Twelve-Hour
Day Justifabless"
Young RockAfeller's ideas
are gathered som this latest
declaration Of fr> concerning
unsatisfactory labor O, editions,
including the twelve-hon., day
in the steel industry: mo msss-
ter how difficult it may be to
abolish Objectionable methods
that have long prevailed, it can
be done, it should be done, and
must be done. Public opinion
should be educated until it
should become irresistible. y
Judge Gary, as head of the
steel industry in America,
could doubtless bring forth
various arguments in defense
Of maintaining twelve-hour
shifts.
Which debater, do you
think, would win the majority
Of votes of the audience?
The repeated reports that J.
Ogden Armour is i'll in New
York arises from the fact that
he is at the moment troubled
with lumbago. Otherwise he
il quite fit. But, as Mr.. Ar
mour remarked to me, "Sher-
mans definition of war could
very fittingly be applied to
lumbago."
Americans are travelling
lot. General Manager T. 4.
Rossbottom, of the United
States lines, tells me that good
IS passenger business has been
during 1922, advance bookings
indicate that it will be even
better next year.
This will interest you: There
Is among, Americans a grow
ing demand for passage on what
are called cabin ships, that is,
ships that do not have a first
and second class, but only one
class Of saloon passengers. Mr..
Rossbottom says a great and
growing number of Americans
do not relish the idea of travel
ing on a ship where distinc-
lions and barriers are raised
between them ard other passen-
gers on the same ship. The
typical American doesn't like
to come to a little gate bear
ing a warning that he must
not go beyond it, as the rest of
the space is reserved for first
class passengers.
Mr.. Rossbottom also confided
that the class of passengers at
tracted to these "cabin ships"
Is particularly fine-finer, in
many ways, than those who
spend large sums to travel in
great state on ships having
first and second classes. A lot
Of the latter are purse-proud,
ostentatious and disposed to be
domineering.
/ can synpathize with this
widespread objection to travel
ing second class. for l once had
an experience along this line.
Circumstances delayed me in Eu-
rope, and instead of being able
TO return first class by the
modest ship l had crossed on,
I had to take a much faster
vessel, the Olympic. I hadn't
money enough left to buy a
first-class ticket, as the second
class fare was more than the
frst-class rate on t he modest
ship.
But I had not been an hour on
the second class deck when I saw
IN the first class section of the
ship such men as Eugene Meyer,
jr.. Vice President Gardin, of the
National City Bank, and several
other banking and business
friends. somesof whom have since
died. I think it was not so much
a matter of pride as business
considerations that caused me to
go to the purser and get quarters
in the first class. He, careful
official, made me pay the cost of
a wireless message to my bank
IN New York to find whether it
would guarantee my check. I
reasoned that it would not help
me to get closer to these men.
we're | compelled to talk to them
from the far side of gate. but
that it would be good business
for me to have an opportunity
rs a voyage affords for min
Cling freely and talking inti-
nnately.
But at that. perhaps pride did
have something to do with 1t.
Anyway, I rather admire the
spirit Of democracy which is
bringing about this growing de-
mand for passage on ships that
do not have distinctions between
first and second class passengers,
grouping them all together as sa-
loon passengers.
I dropped in one day this week
to see George F. Baker, New
York's eighty-two-year-old bank
Inc pianf and Uoo told fh,1 L.