The Quinlan Mirror. (Quinlan, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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Idleness
a Curse
Young Men of
America Ruined by
Loafing
By HON. THOMAS N. HART,
Former Mayor of Bo.tfon.
Onr idle young men constitute one of the couo
try's greatest (lungers.
They are a menace to society. They should go
to work. Idleness is dangerous at all times, and
among the rich young men of this country to-day it
is specially dangerous, because they have the means
and the inclination to make mischief. The college*
turn out hundreds of young men every year who hav«
no aim in life, no occupation and no desire to work.
Their fathers worked to earn the money they spend.
Work makes character. Idleness destroys charac-
ter. Character makes c nation strong; lack of it makes a nation weak.
We must find some way to employ our idle rich young men if we are to
remain a strong people.
The unemployed young men of wealth must find out what they can
do, and then do it, if they would make good citizens. Let them live on
what they earn, and within their incomes as they earn them. When they
have learned the necessity for work it will be time enough for them to
nee their wealth, for they can then perhaps employ it for some useful
purpose.
Smoke
Killed
American
By FRANCIS DOWL1NO, M. D„
Cincinnati.
American boys are smoking too much.
In fact, they are smoking themselves to
death. I stood at a street corner and counts
ed a hundred young men, out of whom 35
had cigars in their mouths—and many of
these 38 were dyspeptic, wan, tired-look-
ing persons, who seemed to be in need of
sleep rather than in need of a smoke.
^ I recently examined 20 selected cases of
hard smokers, aged between 35 and 68—
ages most apt to show the affliction of to-
bacco blindness. Six were found that man-
ifested more or less symptoms of tobacco
blindness, technically called tobacco am-
blyopia. It is an interesting scientific fact that the colored race is im-
mune from this affliction. Out of 30 who were examined none was found
to have the trouble. The women, 1 speak of whites, up to the present
time, seem to be practically exempt from this trouble. Out of 50 exam-
ined in a Cincinnati tobacco factory 6ome time ago only one'was found
to possess the tobacco blindness, to a slight degree. She was an old-time
Vmplove in the stripping department, and was probably a user of tobacco.
How they will fare in the future in this respect, with the introduction of
cigarette-smoking, highball-drinking and the numerous other fads aping
in the direction of masculinity now in vogue among the fashionable set,
tnme can only tell. Once I found a young man of 19, an inveretate
.jjmoker, who suffered from tobacco blindness. Usually only the older men
suffer.
J. Thfere is almost aiways a gradual, but progressive, failure of vision
in both eyes. Luminous objects dazzle the sight, and a bright light is
worse for reading than a subdued one. These patients are better in the
evening than in the middle of the day. In addition to this, patients often
complain of a glimmering mist that covers all objects in a bright light.
Nicotine in the tobacco causes the affliction. The oily, colorless fluid
diffuses itself into the blood with as much rapidity as prussic acid, and a
poisonous dose has been known to kill an adult in three minutes. The
cheaper grades of tobacco contain more nicotine than the expensive ones,
consequently are more injurious to the consumers. This is probably why
tobacco blindness is more common among the poor than among the rich.
Chewing tobacco is usually very rich in nicotine. X'icotine exerts a
marked influence on the blood corpuscles. To cure the disease of tobacco
blindness the use of tobacco and alcoholic drinks must be stopped.
Liber-
alism
in
lion
By RABBI j. LEONARD LEVY, D. D..
Piltiburg.
The progress of liberalism in religion
is of the greatest possible interest to me.
Nothing has more tended to retard the
progress of mankind than the tolerance
manifested toward ideas which have long
since been recognized as dead among men
who are always looking for the advent of
Rl^liHinn greater light on the real issues of life. Re-
■ spcct for the hoary head is an excellent vir-
tue, and that which has lived to become
aged is entitled to due regard and esteem.
But it ceases to be a virtue to worship that
which h* only age to recommend it. Re-
ligion is a conservative influence, but, like
all matters which really conserve, it is at the same time the most radical
of all human influences, because it presumes to deal with truth than
which there is nothing more radical, nothing which so surely goes to the
root of things. My interest in the liberal view of religion is based upon
the belief that with a more lively appreciation of the work of to-day, and
Ihe revelations which humanity is receiving in the twentieth century, the
idolatries which still keep men enslaved will the more surely disappear,
lor I belie\e that God still speaks to men here and now; and maniftit*
himself in this land and age as in times past and in oriental lands. Pala-
tine, I think, is not the only holy land, and Sinai is not the only mountain
of revelation.
Hand in hand with a liberal view of religion is bound up the real
v nce of humanity. So long as men hold to ideas which were appropri&v
to ages when the Ptolemaic theory prevailed; or when men believed thai
disease was caused by "the evil eve," or by some devil entering the systeitj,
or when people were in momentary dread of the early end of the world;
so long men cannot hope to establish peace and harmony among their fal-
lows. When it is made clear, as 1 think it some day will be, that the aii«
God created all men; that His manifest will and pur-
pose is the union of his children in working for the
common good; that he is best served by holiness and
morality, by mercy and justice, by deeds rather than
by creeds; then there will be an advance all along the
line and men will adopt a new and better standard in
measuring the worth of their fellows than by party af-
filiations and creedal denominations. It is true, as the
German philosopher put it, "Man kann nicht in Frie-
den leben mit denen die man verdammt glaubt,"
("You cannot live in pea«e with those you beluve
damned.")
Gleanings of Gotham
Interesting hits of News from
the Great Metropolis.
M
NEW YORK—Mrs. Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt Is to gain absolute di-
vorce from her husband If the recom
mendatlon of Referee David McClure
Is carried out by Justice O'Gorman.
After weeks of delay Mr. McClure
has completed his report and ftirned
it over to Lewis Cass Ledyard, Jr., of
the law Arm of Carter, Ledyard & Mil-
burn, 54 Wall street. The report is
being held by the attorneys for the
plaintiff until a cable message Is re-
ceived from Mr. Ledyard Sr., repre-
senting Mrs. Vanderbilt, and the jun-
ior member of Anderson & Anderson,
representing the defendant. Both at-
torneys are now In London trying to
bring about a money settlement of the
case.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, according to the
best information, has not asked that
Alfred Gwynne settle any money oil
her, but she wants not less than $10,-
Money Delays Vanderbilt Divorce Decree
I —, 000,000 set aside for their child.
Filing the report with Justice O'Gor-
man depends upon word from London.
As attorney for the plaintiff, Mr. Led-
yard can keep the report of the referee
a reasonable time, then file it with the
court, praying it be granted.
That this move has not been made
is due only to the money considera-
tion. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt does
not want to set aside $10,000,000 of hia
fortune for the use of his son at this
date, because it would materially af-
fect his income. During the laat year
his income has been reduced to less
than $800,000 a year. He has borrowed
heavily, it is said, and as a result has
tied up many* of his securities for the
next ten years.
At the request of the attorneys for
both plaintiff and defendant Referee
McClure delayed his report for more
than three weeks. Then, too, Mrs.
Vanderbilt, Sr., mother of Alfred, in-
sisted she could bring about an under-
standing between the young couple if
she had a chance. Mrs. Vanderbilt
sailed for Europe, and after a number
of conferences with her son wired her
daughter-in-law that the case should
be rushed to conclusion as she had
failed hi her mission.
Thousands of Actors Are Facing Hunger
depression. For this reason thousands
of actors who got positions were
forced to be satisfied with short sea-
sons and were unable to lay by the
amount required to keep them through
the summer.
The Actors" Fund, the great charity
of the theatrical profession, is not in
a position to carry on the work which
it will be asked to do, for at the an-
nual meeting held a few days ago a
deficiency of more than $20,000 on the
year's work was reported.
The question of living through the
summer is a serious one to hundreds
of players. Coney Island and similar
resorts are overrun with members of
the profession whq are seeking work
of any sort that will provide food for
the summer. In spite of the efforts
of managers aud others to do all in
their power to assist those out of
employment and money, it is certain
there will be suffering among mem-
bers of the profession during the
coming months.
Luncheons for Men Are Now Popular
as easy for a woman to organize a
luncheon on weekdays and have men
as well as women as it used to be to
collect only women.
Consequently there has been a de-
cline in the popularity of the lunch-
eons for only women. They are pos-
sible now for young women only
when there is bridge to follow. Other-
wise there is an undoubted lack of
some of the necessary spirit. It is no
longer considered ungracious to in-
quire on receiving the invitation if
men are to be present.
One result of the presence of the
men is to make luncheons somewhat
shorter than on those less popular oc-
casions on which women alone are
present. There are few hostesses able
to summon to a weekday lunch only
men who do not have to work. Some
consideration must be had for those
who have to get back to their offices.
There are often enough able to re-
main to make one or two tables of
bridge, and there are women who con-
fess honestly that they never enjoy
the game so much as' when after
luncheon there are enough men to
play for an hour or two.
Makes a Business of Escorting Women
man looked surprised. Later he
learned that the young man was all
right. That night he earned his $25.
Then the old gentleman introduced
the young man to a friend, and the
next night he was the escort of his
wife. One by one his clients kept on
increasing until he found all his time
taken up. New York to the visitor
isn't only the theater, Fifth avenue or
hotel.
Some people want to see the bizarre,
out-of-the-way corners that they have
read about; they want to see China-
town, the Bowery, the Eastside and
the strange shops. This the young fel-
low soon found oht, and he spent some
time looking up odd restaurants and
places of amusement until he has
made of himself the most companion-
able person in town.
National
Economy
Must Be Observed
With Reference to
Natural Resources
By ANDREW CARNEGIE.
THE coming summer gives promise of
being the severest one In years for
members of the theatrical profession.
It has been a long time since there has
been as disastrous a season theatrical-
ly as the one just closed and there is
no prospect of any better times for the
actor fop many months, in fact, until
after tne election next fall. In the
height of the season it was estimated
that more than 2,000 actors and ac-
tresses were out of work in New
York, the largest number of unem-
ployed in the profession in years.
Several hundred companies that
Started in the season with every pros-
pect of success were forced to close
soon after the coming of the financial
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ONE of the forms of entertainment
that lingered longest this spring
was scarcely known until the winter
lust passed. This was the luncheon to
which men were invited. Only a few
years ago men at a weekday luncheon
were unheard of. But then there was
less business uptown.
It is the increase in the number of
men at work above Twenty-third
street that has 'brought into existence
this form of entertainment. There are
architects and brokers scattered along
Fifth avenue almost to Central Park.
Then the number of men who are able
to do nothing is much larger than it
was a decade ago. Another source of
supply for these midweek gatherings
is the foreigners, who pow come to
New York in such numbers that a cer
tain representation from them may al-
wavs be counted on. It is now almost
THERE is a young man in New York
who has built up perhaps the
most artificial business that the city
has yet produced. He is professional
escort to rich and unattended ladies
who long for the sights of gay New
York. Their husbands and fathers,
here on business, weary and worn out
when uight rolls around, pay this
young man to escort them to theaters,
restaurants and to see the sights while
they are with business friends.
The young man has built up a busi-
ness in less than two years that is
surprisingly paying and so successful
that he seldom has an afternoon qr
evening free". He stumbled into the
"familiar friend" profession, as he
calls it, purely by accident.
One day he was seated in the Wal-
dorf corridor when an old gentleman,
who was In the next chair, asked him
what was the best show in town. The
young man named several. The old
gentleman thanked him, and told him
that he had to take his wife and
daughter to the theater.
"But I'd rather be licked than go,"
said he. Til take the job for $25."
■aid the young man. The old gentle-
Scientists at a Standstill.
An important correction in regard
to the reported solidification of helium
is made by Prof. Dewar, who first com-
municated the supposed result of Prof.
Kamberlingh Onnes' Leiden experi-
ments. It now appears that the hel-
ium operated upon had become acci-
dentally mixed with a small percent-
age of hydrogen, to the presence of
which the transient solidification was
due. As Prof. Dewar adds in his letter
to the London Times, the net result
is that we are as far as ever from
the liquefic&tion or jolldification of
helium even as a momentary phe-
nomenon.
No practical man can study our mineral sup-
plies without seeing that they are melting away un-
der our national growth at a geometrically increas-
ing rate, and without realizing that unless the loss
is checked his descendants must suffer; nor can he
consider ways of preserving the supply without
realizing the Deed of wider and deeper knowledge
than we now possess. It was not resources alone that
gave this country its prosperity, but inventive skill
and industrial enterprise applied to its resources. Jn-
dividually we have been both forehanded and fore-
minded; nationally we have been forehanded chiefly
through the accident of discovery by John Smith and Walter Raleigh,,
but nationally we are not yet foreminded. So far as our mineral wealth
is concerned, the need of the day is prudent foresight, coupled with
ceaseless research in order that new minerals may be discovered, new1
alloys produced, new compounds of common substances made available,,
new power-producing 'devices developed. The most careful inventory
of the family patrimony should be made. I plead for economy, that the
next generation and the next may be saved from want—but especially I
urge research into and mastery over Nature, in order that two blades
may be made to grow where one grew before, that the golden grain may be
made to replace woody grass, that crude rocks may be made to yield
fine metals.
Our duty is plain.
First, conservation of forests, for no forests, no long navigable rivers *y
no rivers, no cheap transportation.
Second, to systematize our water transportation, putting the whole
work in the hands of the reclamation service, which has already proved
itself highly capable by its admirable work. Cheap water transportation
for heavy freights brings many advantages' and means great saving of
our ore supplies. Railroads require much steel, water does not.
Third, conservation of soil. More than a thousand millions of tons
of our richest soil are swept into the sea every year, clogging the rivere
on its way and filling our harbors. Less sod, less crops; less commerce,
less wealth.
Jokes
Serve
a Real
Good
By DR. PAUL CARUS.
Humor is a rare treasure which we
need not hesitate to prize most highly
among the best things of life. It is none
of the ponderous gifts of heaven such as
the serious religious ideals; it is not a vir-
tue in the narrow sense of the word; it ie
not a sister of that noble trio, Faith, Hope
and Charity; it is not sublime and lofty
nor is it grand and noble; it does not keep
aloof from the common people in the hum-
ble walks of life; on the contrary, it min-
gles freely with all and in its democratic
judgment even seems to prefer the asso-
ciations of the lowly. And yet the roote
of humor go down into the most secret recesses of the human heart and
are nourished by thoughts of a broad and profound comprehension of
life.
The more we investigate the nature of humor the more shall we
understand that this, its substratum—we may call it the philosophy of
humor, or, if you prefer, the religion of humor, or the serious back-
ground which unnoticeably gives humor its setting—is an indispensable
part of it.
Humor as a rule appears frivolous and flippant to the narrow minded
bigot who glories in vinegar and scowls at the silver ring of a laugh
as an impious demonstration, but experience will teach us that humor
is the child of grave, often of sad, experience; that it originates it
through the wholesome reaction of a strong heart against the sorrows and
cares of life, which, vampirelike, suck from out our souls all vitality and
the joy of life, and would leave us moral Wrecks sicklied over with mel-
ancholia, pessimism and misanthropy.
Humor has a great task to perform, for to humor we owe the silver of
the clouds of life. Humor offers us the invigorating tonic that restores
our spirits and buoys us up when fatigue threatens to overcome us. But
in order to be effective humor should be the expression of a conviction;
it ought to reflect the world conception of a thinker; it must be backed
by moral purpose.
Humor comes to us as a liberator. When we meet
with reverses or are perplexed by untoward circum-
stances we are annoyed and suffer bitterly. It is as
if a poisonous infection had gained entrance into our
psychical system, but we are cured as soon as we can
laugh at our own faults and follies. Our laughter
proves that humor comes only to the man who can
rise above himself. Humor is the reward of a philo-
sophical attitude in life. Yea, we might say it is the
triumph of a moral victory we have won. W-A40L CARD
Divorce
and
Race
Suicide
America must put a check on the di
vorce evil.
Families in the United States must
he larger.
I have watched and studied the divorce
problem in America with a good deal of
interest, and the time has come for all re-
ligious bodies to tinite upon this subject.
It has been a gueat pleasure to me to note
that the ministers of all the sects are united
in preaching against it. It is not entirely
a matter of religion. The welfare of the
state demands that something should be
done in this country to check this evil. •
A continuation of the divorce evil means the degradation,of the race.
Another evil has been referred to a number of times by your president.
It appears that the families in America are not as large as they should
be. There is no excuse for this, for this is not a poor country. This
matter of small families is directly opposed to the welfare and glory of the
United States.
By CARDINAL L0GUE.
of IrtUnd, Now Vltilinf Id America.
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