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The New York herald., 1922-02-12

ing ro o0m attendants-should
have learned in the course of
things without any effort at OBJ
servation to serve meal exquis-
itely.
In appointments that are better than
have ever been elucidated in books NJ
etiquette, they have had their meals for
these many years and yet they have to go
to a specially instituted school to become
adept in the art of balancing a china plate
upon such fiat surface as the palm of
hand. On first thought it is strange! One
would think that perhaps the young women
reared and nurtured in the lap of the god
of convention are not as quick to learn as
their cousins of the plodding, working
world.
But that isn't it at all. The circum-
stances are utterly otherwise. 1t is just
that they will be for that day fish out of
water, so to speak. They will be out of
their element.
Different in Hotel
From Service at Home
Any one of them, of course, is capable
CT directing the serving Of a meal in a
manner which would overawe us poor
plebeian folk. But even we sometimes find
ourselves ensconced for the purposes of
nourishment in the luxurious atmosphere
Of our best hotel vitamine emporiums, and
1t is perfectly reasonable to suppose, just
for the sake of supposition, that the man.
ner of manipulating utensils in china and
silverware in hotels is not quite the same
as the manner of performing an identical
service in the old rose and blue velvet set.
tings where our aristocrats partake of the
staff of life. No matter how high its sta.
tion, hotel is a hotel anywhere in the
world.
To be more clear: No debutante who
has been "out" less than year could be
expected to know how to accept gracefully
might have economical by neglecting to
check his overcoat. And so the school is
instructing those who have volunteered for
duty in the dining rooms in the art of
accepting gratuities. That is an art.
The crafts, too, must be considered, and
skill of an acceptable sort must be attained
by those debutantes and matrons in trans
porting heavily laden chinaware recep-
tacles safely from the Biltmore kitchen to
the tables. They must learn to remove a
table cloth and redress the table with a
new one. They must become familiar with
the hotels established service character
istics. They must become imbued with the
ideals of speed, courtesy and accuracy
which are essential characteristics of all
good mattresses.
In a word, the retinue of mattresses,
flower girls. pages, ushers, program sellers
and cigarette venders must learn in a
very little while to do-for day-all those
things that have been done for them all
their lives.
hundred matrons, including practically
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w THEN society leaders by the thou
w sands begin to go to school to
learn to be mattresses, bellhops
and carriage starters it will look as If the
Utopian democracy has come, won't It?
But society personages of New York are
going to school right now to learn just
those duties, and no red flags are being
waved in celebration of the coming of a
new order of things.
On Monday, February 90 at 6 o'clock in
the morning fine ladies of the houses Of
Vanderbilt, Dawson, Sabin, Reid, Douglas,
Bliss and others of distinction as great will
put on the uniforms of service and will
take up new duties as the staff of the Hotel
Biltmore Three thousand of them will be
at their posts in the dining room, behind
the desks, at the doors and on the floors
of the hotel each ready to perform any
service for the sake of guests conven-
ience. Moreover, they will be members of
the uniformed army of the serving classes
and will have their hands out, palms itch
ing for gratuities, just like all wearers of
the civilian uniform the world over
1t is bound to be a great day at the Bilt-
more. For some it will be day of amuse-
ment, for others day of admiration for
the workers, for still others day of curios-
ity satisfed-but for the members of the
new servant staff of the Biltmore it will
be day of hard work in the interest of a
charitable cause.
The Biltmore will be turned over to the
society women for that one day, to run it as
they see fit. All proceeds of the days un-
dertakings-which are to be accomplished
on a very great scale-will be given to the
Society for the Prevention and Relief of
tuberculosis, Inc, an organization fostered
by many Of the female connections of New
York city's most socially prominent fami-
lies. and it is their idea and their under
taking to assume the functions of menials
for a day in order to so aid in filling the
exchequer of the society that it's work may
be continued and expanded
All Workers Are Volunteers
And All Socially Prominent
All the workers from among the high
and mighty are volunteers. The president
Of the organization is Miss Ruth Twombly,
the secretary, Mrs. Elihu Root, Jr.; the
vice-president, Mrs. James A. Burden, and
the treasurer is Mrs. Albert II. Harris.
Mrs. Arden Flood is chairman of the COM
mittee In charge of the Bitmore project.
1t is under her direction that the training
schools for the potential waitresses-the
debutantes and young matrons of New
York's upper crust"--are being main
tanned.
Why should they have to take lessons In
waiting? That is a question that does re-
uuire an answer. It would seem, wouldn't
II, that those young ladies who have lived
their lives in mansions in which veritable
courts are maintained--with servants by
the score and surfeit of buffers and din
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

ties ruSn1ng OrQerS OI SpludCh Gnu
rattling dishes in the dining
rooms: cigarette venders vying
with hotdog statesmen; vaudeville
professionals cutting up profes-
sional antics; flowers every
where!
All, ladies and gentlemen, all
under one roof and all for the
price of enthusiastically $3.50.
Step this way! But, it must be
explained, there will be no admis-
sion charge to enter the hotel, and
IL you want to free lance around
it will be at regular hotel prices.
Whatever may be your sup
pressed desire, it can be un-
leashed at the Biltmore on that
day. If you have always wanted
to have your dinner served by
some one of the social elite, then
you have your chance. 1t will be
served to you that evening under
the personal direction of one of
the country's society leaders, and,
perhaps the young lady who will
take your order will be no less
parsonage than Miss Muriel Van
derbilt herself.
If you should fail to draw her,
then you would draw another
equally popular member Of the
seasons debutantes. It's a lot
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morning. And they are going to have to
eschew the thought of bedtime until after
the last midnight stragglers complete their
rounds.
But, indeed, the only adequate means of
presenting an idea of what is going to
happen at the Biltmore on February 20
would be to tell of the plans which the
executive committee of the Society aor the
Prevention and Relief of tuberculosis
made. The reason for it all has been told,
but it might be said that when the idea
was evolved Mr.. John Nee. Bowman read
lily offered his hotel to the society, grant
ing 1t the entire receipts for the day
and night, and directing Nino Malnoti.
mditre dhoteI, to help in the organization
plans and to arrange for the instruction
OF the mattresses and attendants.
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every social leader in Amer
lea, will act as head-waitresses
and captains.
Now that it has been ex-
plained so well, it is readily
seen that serving a dinner for
some fifteen or twenty guests
in ones own home and serv-
ing breakfast, petit dejeuner,
luncheon, afternoon tea, din
ner and supper in a great
fashionable hotel are quite
apart from each other. That
is what these fashionable folk
are going to have to do, from
6 o'clock on Monday morn
ing not far away until the
last Tuesday morning wan
derer leaves the halls and
corridors to go to belated
sleep.
These representatives of
the leisurely, breakfast in
bed class are going to have to
discard their silken coverlets
no later than o'clock in the
dreary gloom of that Monday
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one such Princess becoming CtndeTeHu,
but certainly the widest of dreamers OF
stories could scarcely conceive of nearly
all of the lovely, wealthy, cultured ladies
voluntarily going into the servant bust
ness. You may never see such thing
again. 1t is a fact that you never have
seen such thing before.
Experiment Is Interesting
And Food for Much Thought
1t will be an interesting experiment, too
Some of the deep thinkers who will see
them will probably marvel at the phenom-
enon of lovely lady of high social rating
balancing bowl of soup with the ease and
the grace of genuine waitress. If 1t
proves out that these fine persons are adept
at work of this sort, some of us will decide
that the world is, after all, made up mostly
of regular, everyday folks.
Most of those who will attend the wants
of the Biltmore's diners have proved al
ready that they are capable of meeting
almost any emergency. There was war
once, and these ladies put their shoulders
to the wheel to do all they could in work
related to that war. They proved them
selves then, and there is no reason to doubt
that they will come through Monday, Feb
ruary 20, with great glory and much money
for the Golfers of the Society for the Pre-
vention and Relief of tuberculosis.
Some of the prominent women who are
absorbed in the affair are Mrs. Frank Gray
Griswold, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, Mrs Henry
H. Rogers, Mrs. George F. Baker, Jr.; Mrs.
w. X. Vanderbilt, I'd; Mrs. William B.
Bristow Mrs Williams Burden, Mrs.
Henry P. Dawson and Mrs. William Hark-
ness.
Oh, read the Social Register!
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money to create. good will Of the
workers that they spend in creating
the good will Of customers, discus
slons Of the subject Of keeping work.
ers contented would not be neces-
sary.
Earl B. Morgan, of the Curtis
Publishing company, said it was in
comprehensive to have an elaborate
reception hall tor customers and to
send applicants for Jobs around to
the back door.
Speaking on the economic aspects
of production, Earnest F. DuBrul
said that "the gospel Of production
and more production'," while abso-
1utely true within certain limits,
must be recognized AZ having those
limits. 1t is true only to the extent
that production or fabrication can
find a use or profitable market for
the goods. Beyond that point va sim
ply waste. effort and capital thht
should be devoted to producing
something else that some one wants
strongly enough to pay a profitable
price to get it. If we take this word
production to mean fabrication, re-
gardless of mraket conditions, we
may simply destroy wealth previous
ly Accumulated, and at one time held
in the form OF liquid assets.
The labor world., 1922-12-02
CAN'T COLLECT DAMAGES
FOR EASTlAhD CAPSIz|NG

Chicago, Nov. 30.-Damages to
relatives Of an Eastland victim have
been denied in a court in this eity.
The case was considered a test suit
whether relatives OF the other 500
victims could collect damages be-
cause of the capsizing of the steam
or In 1915.
The vessel was built for packet
freight. Later the boat was used for
excursion business after top works
had been placed on her upper dock.
Marine workers in this city warned
the authorities that the vessel was
liable to. roll over because she was
top heavy" but no action was
taken, On July "a, 1915. while 1900
excursionists were crowded on the
steamer, she rolled over while tied
to the dock. More than 500 lives
were lost.
On Feb. 1s. 1916, at Grand Rapids,
Mich, Federal Judge Sessions re-
fused to order the extradition of six
persons connected with the owner
ship of the Eastland. The court ruled
that the defendants could not be
blamed as tho vessel was considered
safe "by OWE Is, managers and nav
igators."
Since then numerous attempts
have been made to collect damages,
but they have proven unsuccessful.
The labor world., 1922-12-02
FARMER BEST COLoN|zER

The prosperous farmer is the best
immigration agent and colonizer, is
the position taken by the Alberta
Labor News in opposing the western
Canada colonization association.
If there is a real desire to have
settlers in western Canada says
this labor paper, "the first cosider-
alton should be to remedy conditions
of those already on the le l, instead
Of fastening a great interest-bearins
debt upon the farming industry. IT
the Labor News wer': to take the
selfish industriauft. viewpoint, it's at
titude would be let them all come
But the workers Of this country owe
it to their fellows in other lands to
warn them Il the delusions which
are the stock in trade OF the pro-
fessional colonizer, and to point out
that in coming to western Canada
without considerable capital the
prospective farmer is merely trans
ferring from one set-of chains to an
other equally as binding"
The labor world., 1922-12-02
NEW PARTY Sentiment
unknown IN.CAPITAL

Washington, Nov. S0.-There is no
"new-party" sentiment among pro-
gressive lawmakers who have re-
turned to Washington from their
homes to attend the special session
OF congress.
Many Of the progressives have a
suspicion that reaction would favor
a new party. rather than the present
non partisan plan of dealing blows
from the inside.
No prpgres ssive has declared for
a new party or intimated, since the
election. that such a plan is FEAST
BILE. These men are alert to the pow
er they now possess, They declare
they will show this power by de-
featiQs the ship subsidy bill and
debating the organizing Of the next
congress. They are not willing to
surrender this power By wandering
oH into minority party. The latter
policy would be acceptable to reac-
ton, which is fearful that the pro-
gressives will force special session
Of congress and rip the tax question,
the railroad question and other nerve
centers wide poem.
Senator La Toilette is quoted that
"a new party must be matter OF
evolution and can not be established
through meeting Of any group of
men and adopting resolutions
This seems to be the opinion of
~ io 1inA
with the nations political history.
The labor world., 1922-12-02
MERGE EVERY INDUSTRY

Gigantic trusts continue to be
formed, and the federal antitrust
laws arc given as much attention
by Wall street as the blue laws of
the 17th century, yet on the statute
books of some eastern states.
Mergers are everywhere. Every in
dustry can tell the same story of
proposals to control plants and then
capitalize them at figures vastly in
excess of their actual worth. The
leading mergers are found in chem
icals, sugar, cotton, copper, hard
ware, tobacco, coal and oil.
The Anaconda copper company.
the largest of its kind in the coun-
try. has absorbed the American brass
company, the largest Of it's kind.
Railroad and automobile mergers
have just started.
In the packing industry a merger
Of the Armour and Wilson interests
are discussed, despite denials.
Even though many Of these con-
Germs yet maintain a so-called lnde-
pendent status, competition has long
ings and ''gentlemen's agreements'
secretly arrived at. The United States
supreme court recently outlawed
price associations, which were
supposed to exchange information
and prices between members, but
in reality permitted central office
to send out figures that all members
accepted.
Astute lawyers are devising ways
to re-est ablish the open-price idea
in a form that will be acceptable to
tho supreme court. This may be
possible IT capitalists continue to
concentrate their resources, for pow
er is the one thing the supreme
court is alert to. This was shown ir
the steel trust case when the court
agreed that the trust violated thu
law, and that prices were set at it.
Gary dinners" But the court re-
fused to dissolve that such actor
might affect the nations foreign
trade.
The labor world., 1922-12-02

ITOul DdSe i
profit not yet distributed or disposed
Of to the stockholders; sum fully
adequate to build and equip four
first class railway lines from the At
lantic to the Pacific. and four other
lines reaching from Canada to the
Gulf of Mexico.
The "unadjusted credits consists
for the most part of "accrued depre-
ciation." And here we have q par
tial answer, at least hint, how cor
know, of the sums apparently paid
out for depreciation" already re-
ferred to. And still over and above
the amuont held as "corporate sur
plus and unadjusted credits" plus the
capital invested, the stock and the
"long term debts.' there remains
more than three billion dollars as
liabilities. And to whom does this
vast sum belong if not to the stock
holders? Does any intelligent indi-
vidual really believe that the rail-
road corporations of the United
States are owing to any person or
persons, other than the stockhold-
ers, such a tremendous sum as three
billion dollars? A fact finding COM
mission" would have no difficulty
in finding all the facts with refer
ence to these liabilities said to ag-
gregate more than $27,000,000,000.
The subject is not exhausted by
these necessarily brief comments but
time and space is limited if the SUBJ
ject isn't. More light on the same
subject later on. The false witnesses
are not all editorial writer's. Not
by any means.
The labor world., 1922-12-02
r. OF |. STATE why IT WILL ..
NOT JOIN HAGUE ANT|-WAR SPIEL
Objects TO Pledge ntenaona General Strike Against Wars
10 Safeguard Democracy and Wants TO Be Wide 0pen

1t has attempted from the earliest
days of its existence to promote that
cause. The American Federation Of
Labor, however, believes in peace
with freedom and it is not willing
to lay down any condition which will
make impossible tho resistance of
the aggressions OF tyranny. autoc-
racy. and of any other force which
may seek to undermine and destroy
freedom. We are of the opinion that
the cause Of freedom and Of demo-
cratic progress will not be advanced
by a congress held under such re-
strlctions as those which have been
laid upon the congress to be held
at The Hague.
THE American Federation of La
Dor will continue, as opportunity
offers, to do all that lies within its
power to promote in q constructive
manner the cause Of International
peace and the safety of the instruc-
tions of free peoples. We are Of the
opinion that an international CON-
gress devoted to the subject of in
ternational peace might be helpful
if 1t were not committed in advance
to proposals which are not only
lacking IN constructive character,
but which may easily be @ them
selves a most serious menace to the
cause Of freedom.
'While we appreciate the invita-
ton to participate in the congress
at The Hague, we have found it i'm
possible to do other than give frank
expression to our entire lack Of SYM
pathy with the project as outlined
in your invitation, in the agenda,
and in the resolution Of the con-
gress at Rome, which is to be the
basis of action at The Hague"
The labor world., 1922-12-02

The kind of deals q man makes
depends considerably on the kind
OF ideals he has. t--fs.& 4
The labor world., 1922-12-02
AMERICAN ! trade |
WITH CANADIANS.
Decrease Of $115,272,742
Takes Place During Past Year.

Expectations from the United
States to- Canada have decreased by
S115,272,742 during the ~ months
ended with Oct. 81 in comparison
with the corresponding period last
year. When the figures tor the period
just ended are compared with those
for the 12-month period ending on
oct. 81. 1870, q drop Of no less than
$33o,000.000 is shown.
The total imports from all coun-
tries during the period were s740,-
261,771, a decrease of $119,448,391,
under last years total. the decrease
being practically accounted for by
the falling Oft from the United States
From the United Kingdom a total
of $131,000,000 worth Of products
were imported. an increase of $2,-
100000.
Exports of domestic products from
Canada to all countries fell from
$926,654,122 in the IL months end
ing Oct. 81. 1921. to $s15,53o,51o
during the IL months just ended, a
decrease. 70 $11,l23,612. The de-
crease In value of exports from Can
ada to the United States when these
two periods are compared is shown
to be 363,700,S00. During the IL
months ending October 81, 1922, ex-
ports to the United States were to
the value of $S27.0s7,218. During
the previous IL month period they
totalled $s90.73s,01S. Exports to the
United Kingdom. on the other hand,
increased from $2s6,778,084 in the
IL months ending Oct. 81, 1921, to
$326,370,742 in the period just ended
The labor world., 1922-12-02
ENGINEERS TELL OF need FOR
SOUND ECONOMICS IN BUSINESS
Industrial 1eeheians Give AdVlc ce to Employers and Employees
to Stabilize and Make In dusthes More Efficient

There ia food tor reflection for
every worker In industry in the pro-
ceedings of the national convention
last month In New York Of the So
ciety Of Industrial Engineers when
industrial exacutives met to discuss
earnestly and at dkeat length the
need OF using sound economic prin-
otp1ea In business instead of playing
lunches as is now the prevailing
method.
Engineer, chemist and metallur-
glst are now a necessary part of
large-scale industry. Two generations
aso, said Professor Joseph w. Roe,
president of the society, executives
regarded them as they do econom-
lists today. Their value was an un-
known quantity. There is now grow
Ing recognition Of the value of
knowledge Of sound economies and
sociology as help In the reduction
OF large scale wastes. Society and
industry are 80 bound together that
neither can prosper at the expense
OF the other. Therefore industrial
equipment of management.
Professor Roe illustrated the work..
ing of economic principles by refer
ence to the labor problems of indus
trial executives. Economic studies,
ne said, show clearly that during
every period Of rising prices, pre-
ceding q boom. labor is aggressive,
wages rise. and unions increase in.
number, strength, and activity. The
boom bursts, he said, and with sthe
depression which follows, there is
inevitably a. series of defensive
strikes, in the main unsuccessful to
retain the high wages Of the boom,
with a. weakening Of unionism. This,
1t should be noted, has been less true
of the recent cycle than of former
cycles. Then there has always fol-
lowed a period Of SOCIAL experiments
turning to political nostrums. Atc.,
until with the rise Of the next Pc
riod Of prosperity, the round is start
ed all over again. The Industrial his
tory Of the United States since 1880
was outlined to illustrate the re-
current cycles.
Most Of the speakers of the con-
vention called attention to the se-
rtous attempts being made to incor-
porate sound economic principles in
the conduct of business. The recent
depression, said one speaker, devel-
oped a definite respect for econom-
les, HunCheS didn't work. 7<nowladpe
Of economics saved many businesses
from failure while others went to
teh wall. There is perhaps no sad
der comment to be made on the at
titude OF the present-day executive"
said DR.. Lee Galloway, Ronald Press,
New York. than that while modern
economic organization tas so ar
ranged and broadened its background
as to embrace the nation and the
world, the business man of today is
trying to formulate business policies
with a perspective not different from
that Of the ~.ncient Greeks and Ro-
MANS" =
The cost or economy record of a
manufacturing plant was advocated
by r.. B. Wolf, consulting engineer,
New York, as the most effective
means of enabling each individual in
the plant to be conscious of his re-
lationship to his fellow workmen and
to the plant as a whole. ~
M. Porosky, engineer Of Boston,
said that il companies spent half the