Show A MAGNIFICENT l GESTURE ONE very encouraging instance of or applied altruism In business is that furnished recently by the Edgar Thomson mills of the Carnegie Steel company at Braddock Pa where men have been given jobs to tide them over Christmas These men have been taken back although no new orders for steel have been produced The plan will cost ost the steel company in excess excess ex ex- cess of at it is said said but but the workers will not face Christmas with empty pockets In the long run probably the company will not suffer by this action Nevertheless it is a gamble and the officials who put it into effect deserve high praise Christmas around Braddock this year will be a good deal brighter than would be the case If tr they had not had the courage to do the unusual |