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A derby should be made heavy enough to withstand a reasonable amount of hard usage beyond this, weight adds nothing to the quality and frequently represents inferior material. Wearers of of Knapp-Felt derbies do not carry an ounce of unnecessary the weight. Owing to superb quality and the close texture of Knapp-Felt the derbies are lighter and durable than hats of any other make. more Knapp - Felt DeLuxe, the best hats made, are Six Dollars-Knapp-Felt, the next best, are Four Dollars, everywhere. "The Hatman," showing the proper shapes for Fall and with much interesting hat-information, will be sent upon request. THE CROFUT & KNAPP CO. 842 Broadway, New York even PLAIN TALK HE TWO-CENT FARE LAWS passed by the recent Leg- the public health and welfare arising from what is termed islatures have had, as a rule, all the characteristics, "the social evil," though "anti-social evil" would be a more including the lack of logic, of "punitive expeditions. truly descriptive term. With the single exception of tubercuThey were passed in the spirit that the railroads are losis, there is no form of transmissible disease comparable in pretty wicked, so let's take a whack at them. There its widespread danger to that which accompanies this evil. wasn't much debate, as a rule; and such as there was abounded The worst feature of it is that the innocent may suffer as more in fiery rhodomontade than in statistics to terribly as prove that the guilty, "unto the third and fourth genconditions of traffic and population would permit a reduction eration." Education is the basic requirement for the successin fares. Legislation passed in this spirit is properly described ful restriction of any transmissible disease; and education is as unintelligent; and is, of course, thoroughly unwise. From nowhere so vitally needed and so sparsely provided as in this those whose spirit moves them to hit a railroad, but whose class of infections. For this distasteful, thankless, and selfminds demand a reasonable juxtaposition of cause and effect, sacrificing work, the Chicago Society of Social Hygiene has Mr. HARRIMAN'S Southern Pacific invites attention. The combeen organized, with headquarters at 100 State Street, Chicago, mon stock of that road, which had never paid a. dividend, where the literature of its propaganda may be obtained upon was placed a year ago, under circumstances which yet rever- request of any reputable person. The officers and members of berate, upon a five per cent basis, to the very the society include men of the highest standing, great profit of Mr. HARRIMAN. A few weeks ago not only in the medical profession, but in other the dividend was raised to six per cent, and fields. No satisfaction for morbid or prurient Mr. HARRIMAN, presumably, was not absent when the melon curiosity is to be found in the society's publications; just the was cut. Consider now the sources of those dividends, which plain, ugly, essential facts, and the warning that inheres in are, ultimately, the purses of every person who ever eats a them. Fathers of growing sons and mothers of young daughters Riverside orange or a Santa Clara prune. The Southern Pacific have thus an opportunity of imparting that knowledge which, has, roughly, the highest freight rate in the United States- to quote from the annual report of the society's secretary, 1.014 cents per ton per mile compared with an average of .780 "their children will certainly acquire at an early age, either cent per ton per mile for all the railroads in the United in the street or at home-the parents must decide from which States. Moreover, except in Mr. HARRIMAN'S domain, freight source." Plain talk is necessary for the protection of the rates in the United States have steadily decreased during the public, as well as of the individual's health, moral and physical; past ten years; Mr. HARRIMAN in that period has raised his. and the plainer it is the more private must it be. The Society Mounting freight rates and sudden dividends go. not well together. Specific examples like this are the cause for such sweeping and hysterical anti-railroad statutes as injure the innocent with the guilty. Might it not be profitable for Wall Street itself to take a hand in singling out its own black sheep? MELONS AND THE HE FINE OF $29,240,000 imposed by Judge LANDIS upon the Standard Oil Company of Indiana may or may not have been justified by the evidence. There may have been extenuating circumstances in this particular case which make the fine excessive. We shall know all about those points when the Supreme Court passes upon them. But there is good reason to believe that Judge LANDIS has hit upon the right weapon to put the fear of the law into the hearts of arrogant corporations. It is fashionable to say that the way to make the law respected is to put some of its eminent violators into jail. The logic of that view, is MOUNTAIN FINE irrefutable, but the trouble comes in carrying out THE KENESAW the principle in practise. When it comes actually to the point of imprisoning a good fellow whom. public opinion refuses to regard as a member of the criminal classes, somebody-prosecutor, judge, or juryman-is pretty sure to weaken. When it looked as if justice might put a striped suit. on a member of the President's Cabinet even the spear that knew no brother faltered. But a gigantic fine arouses no sentimental qualms and hits just the right spot. Corporations violate laws matter of cold business policy, and when that policy is made, unprofitable they will stop. In the transition period some hardships may be inflicted. "Pity our sorrows!" cry their organs. "If we break the law several thousand times our fines will bankrupt us. To which the easy response is: "Don't break it." as a WITH CERTAIN SUBJECTS of vital general importance, it is probably an unfortunate conventionality that a lay paper must deal guardedly, if at all. That this is so is the main reason of Social Hygiene, together with the New York Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, and similar societies in Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, and Baltimore, has undertaken a work for which, unless a false and baneful modesty on the part of the public nullifies it, the present generation, and, even more, future generations, will owe it a debt of gratitude. FOR THE RECORD of Massachusetts as a pioneer in sane legislation, and for the reason thereof, let some historian speak. Sufficient for the chronicler of passing events it is to note that the machinery for supplying life insurance to wageearners through savings banks is rapidly getting under way in that State. A happy selection for chairman of the Board of Trustees is Judge WARREN A. REED of Brockton, because he has been chairman of the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, and is an official of the People's Savings Bank in the great shoe-manufacturing community of Brockton. In both positions he has had opportunity to acquire the acquaintance and confidence of trade-unionists and wage-earners, for whose benefit mainly the new institution was conceived, and who will be able, through it, to save half the present cost of their life insurance. Ex-Governor DOUGLAS, too, has a record of intimate and satisfactory relations with trade-unions which will help to give momentum to the new institution. now There are two practical suggestions: for the local trade-unions in Massachusetts to advise and ceaselessly urge their members to stop paying premiums to such companies as the Metropolitan and Prudential, and get their insurance through the savings banks; and for friends everywhere of sound departures in legislation to watch the Massachusetts experiment and imitate it. One passing reflection concerns Mr. LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, the busy lawyer who conceived this scheme of wage-earners' insurance, and, with tireless patience, wrought it into being. are Probably there WAGE-EARNERS' many as he, quiet achievers of carefully thought out betterment, and certainly through them the world gets forward more such for the prevailing lamentable ignorance, among those who have the greatest need to know, regarding the peril to surely than by the vague, house-top radicalism of those who for their own advancement beat the air for the dawn of the better day. AS S A MAN AND BROTHER, TOM, we like you. You are more generous and more amusing, have more the light and wonder of the circus and the stage, than any one else who plays with us. For the exuberances of your likable personality, upon any subject from China to Peru, this paper has an engulfing welcome. It's only when you approach us weaving masks of flying ticker-tape that we have misgivings. Of course we knew, when you asked to jab pens with us, that you were going to revel in the chance to tell our readers about the wonder of your tips on the market. THE TACTICS And when we were guileless enough to practise OF THOMAS that trite evasion of "pressure on our space,' of course, you knew we meant that we didn't like the role of introducing you to a good many thousands of depositors in savings banks. Equally, of course, you knew that an appeal to fairness was the weapon for the opening we left. There won't be any bill for the advertising, Toм; on the contrary, you shall have a check at something more than our usual rates. But we hope the glamour of your personality won't daze our readers, nor your Anaconda eloquence lead them into the very quicksands out of which you promise, some day, with that mysterious "Remedy," to lead them. T THE CONVENTION OF ELKS in Philadelphia some weeks AT ago one Judge MELVIN made a losing fight to rescue that VANDALISM Order from its part in the threatened extinction of the animal whose name the Order bears. A speech by Judge MELVIN, according to the New York "American's" account, was interrupted by a delegate who expressed himself thus: "Oh, what's the difference-elks are wild animals anyhow, and don't do us any good." This slogan proved more popular than the plea of Judge MELVIN, and a resolution to discourage the slaughter of elk was cried down. Apparently, the very considerable body of men who compose this Order do not possess within themselves either that degree of public spirit which would save an animal from wanton extinction or that sensitiveness to the pressure of outside public opinion which would cause them to take action even against their wills. A to help the 'Tribune' LION, "who is doing all he can babies," rode downtown in the rear seat of an automobile in Chicago the other day, personally "to invite the little children of the tenements to come out to the White City and see him on the 'Tribune's' Babies' Day." Two or three fragile chains attached him to the seat, his mane was as luxuriant as that of any king of beasts, and he glowered magnificently, but "Mr. MUNDY, his owner, had no trouble in convincing the police that he was thoroughly tame and harmless.' On the same day Miss ANNA L. CLARKE, chairman of the Civil Service Committee for the General Federation of Women's Clubs, announced the "husband's hour." "I have always," said this prominent clubwoman, "liked LONGFELLOW's idea of the children's hour, but a 'husband's hour is an absolute necessity. Have your husband's slippers ready when he gets HUS- home, give him a good dinner, and then take. him to one side for a cozy chat. Tell him just A huswhat you want politically and you can get anything. band's hour is as good as equal suffrage, and you don't have to wait a lifetime to get results. Needless to add that the "St. Louis clubs promised to take her advice and make husbands of the clubwomen the best-fed and best-petted in the land." And why speculate about "results"? Some prefer force, coercion, what the Imperialists are fond of calling "punitive expeditions." Others, like the distinguished chairman, prefer indirection, moral suasion, the steel hidden beneath the velvet. The result must be the same. Like the bison, man disappears. Frost nips the tender herbage, the shark swallows the weakfish, the Saxon erases the Pawnee. Nature is cruel, though logical. Already, except in a few trifling, purely physical funcas a meal-ticket, a caddy-man is eliminated. All the THE tions sublime fields of activity are usurped by the superior race. So feed him well, pet him kindly. Give the horse his oats, the Indian his allotment of land, the husband his hour. After all, we owe them much. Who can view these two little happenings of the day without connecting them in a vivid prophetic picture? Again the Again the automobile rolls downtown, a few brief years hence. And who is this we see on the back seat-who but a male man, once the lord of creation! A certain nobility sits on his brow, a lingering look of fierceness, half clouded o'er. But fear him not. He's a kindly old prisoner, going down to invite the little children of the tenements to come and see him on Babies' Day." The police have given the necessary permit, "his owner, Mrs. MUNDY, having no trouble. in convincing them that he was perfectly tame and harmless." THE HE ETERNAL MASCULINE, meanwhile, will go on in its fond, foolish, self-immolating way, adoring the stronger conquering sex, cutting all sorts of capers to win a smile or a kind word, even putting absurd guns to its head and blowing its thistledown brains out when jealous and desperate. And here, indeed, and not in futile force or protest, lies his hope and salvation. For there's always the chance-you remember, in "Percy's Reliques," how Cupid once came to the aid of the shepherd, who was vainly making love to a contemptuous nymph, by exchanging her arrows for his. She shot the shepherd, which, of course, only made matters worse, and in despair she thrust the darts into her own breast: "She runs not now, she shoots no more, BACK TO NATURE one of The God of Love sat on a tree, And laughed that pleasant sight to see." Back to nature. Not the hopeless struggle, steel meeting steel, intellectual Pelion piled on intellectual Ossa, but the old, simple, human ways. There man's road lies. Mountains may not melt, but there's the chance. The HOW SAVINGS ARE LOST AMONG THOSE OBSCURE but prosperous masters of the pen, who compose the "Why Stay Poor?" school of literature, the poet-laureate without peer is at present in the employ of the New Jersey Mineral Company, and the masterpiece of literary mendacity is entitled "How Fortunes Are Made.' names of LAWSON, ROCKEFELLER, CARNEGIE, and JAY GOULD, and the story of the ten talents in St. Matthew, all are conscripted to adorn the single moral: buy shares in Our company and Get Rich Quick. But upon any tone of light sarcasm in dealing with such deceits as this, there obtrudes the spectacle of the poor and guileless stripped of their money and hurt in their faith. The author of "How Fortunes Are Made" is an artist, a master of implication; never does he make a promise that $25 invested will return $48 a year perpetually, but there stand the figures. in the blackest type in the booklet, and those to whom the prospectus is sent are not skilled in shades of meaning. Less artful in words, but much more plain in meaning, is the State Geologist of New Jersey, who in his annual report for 1906 makes this statement: "It is no part of the work of the It Survey to offer advice to prospective purchasers. seems necessary, however, to call attention here to the recent prospectus of a company promoting a zinc-mining proposition near Franklin Furnace, for the reason that the work of the State Geologist is cited in such a way as to make it appear that this department endorses the claims set forth in the circular. The Geological Survey most emphatically does not do this." NOT THE MOST EARNEST WISH, nor the most diligent industry, can compass all the florid names, or all the devices which the unscrupulous practise to beguile the wage-earner of his petty savings. Warnings and remedies must be general. Probably among all who can do something to thwart the get |