Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-14
NO MORE EMPIRE BUILDINGS
HASKIN DECLARES TODAY
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

WASHINGTON, July 14:-Every
parent in the world Is anxious "
raise his child with the advantages
which will best equip MN 10 cope
with the competitions or Ire anu 70
pave his way to fortune. n "or1o
IS undergoing remarkable changes
in this age-greater in scope tnan
probably ever have been crowded
into a relatively brief epoch betore'
With these changes in the times has
come the necessity for a change IN
the plans to be made for coping with
the sings and arrows OF outrageous
fortune.
A child born about the time of the
Civil War could not be prepared bet
ter for the battle Of life than by a
good school education, the develop
ment of a mechanical trait and a
grasp of the fundamentals of bust
ness.
The age of his maturity was an
age of unexampled opportunity in
the business world. With a new
idea, a new invention, or with al
most any kind of native business
ability he could not fail to get on
in the world, particularly if<he were
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railroads were being built, it was the
age of new mechanical inventions
and their exploitation. Commerce
vas reaching out into new worlds
and fortune was not difficult to find.
What was of the most importance,
the whole fabric of government and
society was leagued to protect the
property which such a man acquir-
ed. The Sherman antitrust law was
just being thought of and the day
of thorough Government regulation
of railroads and all other kinds of
public utilities was as yet undreamed.
Property was sacred.
The next generation began to see
a change. Competition had become
keener and the trusts We're making
the way more difficult for the ad-
%venturous beginner. The natural re-
sources were being gobbled up and
wealth was concentrating in the
hands of great corporations. This
multiplied opportunity in a small
way and probably gave more chances
to more people but there were not
so many big chances. The empires
of steel and railroads were built.
Preparation for this age was or
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trade and banking, craftiness in the
law. These would find more sure
employment than the half-visionary
equipment which the empire-build-
ing pioneers required. 1t was the
age Of rapidly growing Government
control. We are now in the last
stage of this age and beginning a
new one.
a New Age Coming
How soon this new age Will DC
frIIv unon us depends very largely
On nolitical and social developments
some of he more radical politicians
saw II lust around the corner i
nroha hlv is not. 1t is more likely
is from fifty to a hundred years DIS
tant and there may intervene SOM
| enochs to be described and define
In ways not yet revealed. PROBABLY
we NAV be as much treasured a!
! the man at the astronomical lecture
The lecturer had declared thai tn
sun was growing cold and that II
a hundred million years the eartf
no longer would be habitable. what
that?" said the listener excitedly. =
said that in a hundred million years
the earth would become uninhabit
able" the lecturer repeated. oh,
said his listener. with obvious re
lief, IT thought you said a million
years" .,
The important change that will
come sooner or later in the organic
alton of society is that the only mai
sure of preferment and fortune viii
be the man with marked individual
istic abilities chiefly of an artistic
nature.
All over the world there has beer
for centuries a gradual movemen
toward a more socialistic organiza
ton of society. The masses of tn
people have been demanding an
obtaining more and more. At tn.
time this country won its indepent
ence from Great Britain, the upris
ing of the American patriots wa
regarded as a radical popular NOV
of unprecedented intensity. 1t up
set all the old iedas. This was jus
a step. Peoples all over the worl,
have been following the same grad
ual trend toward wider liberties.
The Russian debacle has been tn
most intense climax of modern time
and has plunged millions in bloc
and Reorganization. Property ha
been taken away from every on
there and, In other countries, ther
lhaye been signs Of the conascatio