The Omaha morning bee., 1924-11-14
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One More Wild Day.
Lady Astor Wrong, Once.
Some Rockefeller
Houses.
Cunning a Necessity.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.

By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Are you 'in the stock market"
these days? If so, you had an
other exciting time yesterday. Wall
street sold and bought about $780,
600 shares and, "Oh, joy, oh, rap
turep You could borrow at per
cent "call money" with which to do
your specializing.
Are you "out of the stock mar
ket?" You are missing excitement
just now. But later, you may miss
most terrific financial headache.
There are worse things than being
out of the stock market for the
man who likes peace of mind.
Lady Astor, charming American
born woman-sitting in Britain's
parliament, says the United States
will enter the league of nations
and soon" She is mistaken. The
United States will not enter the
league of nations at all.
The same charming young wo-
man says she prefers foreign wars
to class conflict" A sound choice,
for the wife of man worth many
millions. Class conflict interferes
sometimes with fortunes and COM
fort at home-look at Russia. For
eign wars only burn up the little
people.
Ancient kings, even wiser than
Lady Astor, started foreign wars
to keep down unrest and "class
conflict" within their own borders.
members of the Rockefeller
family plan large model tenements
for workingmen in New York City,
the rents to be low
That is useful work, but not in
the regular philanthropic line of
John D. Rockefeller. Mr.. Rookie
feller believes in working, not to
cure temporary evils, but to elimi-
nate the possibility of evil in the
future. John D., jr., for instance,
says that his father is interested
not so much in curing one man or
a thousand men of yellow fever
or malaria, but rather in ridding
the earth and freeing all men of
malaria and yellow fever for all
time to come.
Some financial Colossus of the
future, whose income would enable
him to buy all the Rockefellers once
every year, will perhaps undertake
to wipe out poverty, for all time, as
the Rockefellers of today seek to
wipe out the worst diseases.
Just as surely as diphtheria,
smallpox and typhoid fever have
been conquered by vaccination,
just SO surely will human intelli-
gence and justice abolish poverty
and all the evils-hatre3, anxiety,
superstition, drunkenness and bru
tality, born of poverty.
Are you amazed at the sugges-
ton that the future will develop
men richer than Rockefeller? Don't
be. Industrial feudalsm, with its
dollar asmies, is only starting. The
Alexanders, Caesars and Napoleons
of money are still to come.
Ownership of a public necessity
in this nation is worth while, If
you are a good manager. Mr.. Trax,
head accountant of big telephone
company, says his concern has
built up reserve of about $780,
100000. That's just in case of
emergencies.
1t would be interesting to know
how much real property Judge
Gary, the wonderfully careful
financial housekeeper of the big
steel company, has stored up for
that corporation. =.
Not even Judge Gary himself
could guess the future value of the
vast coal lands, ore lands and other
properties accumulated for stock
holders.
Real estate pays if you buy the
right kind at the right time. The
edge of the North river on Man.
haitian Island was worth nothing
once, just a muddy bank over
which Indians dragged their canoes.
Years ago one of the Dutch Rhine
landers got hold of a little piece
when it was still cheap and held it.
His heirs sold it yesterday to the
Eastern Steamship company for
$1,000, 900. There are in this coun-
try many muddy banks to be
bought for next to nothing that
will one day be worth millions.
The problem is to pick them out.
Mr.. Mary Walker cared little
about fashion, but the latest news
from Paris would interest her.
1.-THE new dress" is to be more
like trousers than dress, a sort of
slit skirt. Politics, athletics and
common sense will finally do away
with the cumbersome skirt. That
impediment was all right In the
harem, where it was born. It's all
wrong on the public street, collect
ing germs, preventing free move
ment.
Ernest Sturm, beginning as of
flee boy, is president Of three in
surance companies. That is not
surprising. If his father had
started him as president of one in
surance company, he might be
somebody's Office boy now. 1t is
no calamity to be compelled to
work for what you get. And, for
the majority, an early start in life