Show b y W R 10 H T A PA T T E R 5 0 N released by western newspaper unto union SENATOR ALDRICH AND THE NATIONAL WEALTH SOME YEARS AGO the then senator aar Aldric aldrich hof ot rhode island said to me in his office in washington people would be best served it if all the wealth of the nation might be controlled by say a dozen men these men would realize their responsibility and see to it that no one might go hungry or cold yes senator I 1 replied that possibly might prove true it you picked the right 12 men I 1 presume you believe you should be one of them I 1 believe I 1 should be an and d the man who is sweeping pennsylvania avenue will agree with your premise il if he too Is to be one of the 12 11 with a smile spreading over his usually dignified countenance he said my statement was a foolish one lets forget it that it was foolish Is evidenced by the constantly Inc increasing reasin 19 amount of national wealth and its ev ever erin er in ln creasing equalization among people of the nation when that statement was made only a limited few could own owa an automobile to today there is a car tor for every four people in america THE CALLED SO RICH MAN Is merely the custodian of wealth he cannot take his accumulation with him either to heaven or to hell lie he must leave it to be divided among posterity the old adage of three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves still works ONE OF THE ROLES OF A KING DAVID LLOYD GEORGE told me an interesting story to in london in the fall fail of 1918 1 I had offered con granulations on his having settled the welsh miners strike and getting the men to go back to work with their the r grievances to be settled when the war ended but I 1 did not do that job said lloyd george 1 I thought I 1 could tor for those miners are my people but I 1 tried and failed it was his majesty who accomplished what I 1 could not lie he went alone to wales he went to the miners meetings called on many of them in their h homes omes pled with them as one englishman to another to forget thelt their grievances until the war was won they went back to the mines for the king not for me it gave me a new idea as to what king george meant to the english people and his influence with them VON LUCKNER IT IS REPORTED that count felix von luckner Is in command of a german sea raider operating in the pacific in the first world war count von luckner commanded the Se eadler cadler I 1 knew him in this country after the war he was proud of what he had accomplished for or his bis native country but especially proud of not having caused the death of a single individual during all of his operations he said he did not believe the killing of non combatants helped in any way in winning a war if I 1 had to be captured by a german raider I 1 should hope it might be commanded by count felix von luckner WHEN prospectors MADE FORTUNES AND CAREERS IN THE EARLY YEARS of 0 this century jack hamill and percy ro b bins were partners prospecting in th the e canadian northland tor for gold later robbins a trained mining engineer became the managing director of one of the big gold mines mine s a at t timmins ontario when we entered ne the first world war he as an american citizen returned to chicago and joined the army after the war he went to south africa as the managing director of the de beers diamond mines at the time of his death some two years ago robbins was operating big dredges on a placer gold field at candle alaska on the shores of the arctic oc ocean C an jack hamill has been in the millionaire lion lio alre class a dozen times and has been broke equally as many times today he controls big copper mines es in the northwest canadian territories and Is mining pitch blend and extracting radium at great bear lake beyond the arctic circle in canada this represents a couple of intensely interesting careers of men who have done things thing sin in the wide open spaces men who have added to the wealth of the world they are and were of a type that is worth knowing FRIENDLY AMERICA STRANGER there is no such individual aI in any small city or town of rural america in these places all are friends on my first day in a town I 1 had never visited before each person I 1 passed gave me a cheerful friendly greeting the little children told tola me their names and their parents names I 1 was not a stranger in a strange place I 1 was surrounded by friends in a place strange to me it was waa the friendliness of rural america amerl ca |